How does sleep affect chess and performance
Concentration and good night sleep are essential for chess
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Pix from New Jersey Open 2013
During the final round of the New Jersey Open, I took these pictures.
View Article13th Young Masters Zug – Two IM norms for Swiss players
The 13th Young Masters Chess Tournament was held from 27th August to 4th September, 2013, at the well known hotel Ochsen on Kolinplatz in Zug, Switzerland. The tournament format was 10-player round...
View ArticleUSCF Welcomes Jean Hoffman, New Executive Director
The USCF is pleased to announce Jean Hoffman as the next Executive Director. Jean, the co-founder of 9 Queens, is an experienced fundraiser and has spent her adulthood serving the game of chess.
View ArticleA ChessLecture Update
After many years of not changing very much, ChessLecture.com is really starting to try some new ideas this year, and I think it’s a great thing. They are releasing many of the older series of lectures...
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BCC: FALL SEMESTER BEGINS // QUADS // PLATFORM FOR EXPERIMENTATION //...
THIS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH 2013 GAME 60 QUADS: CHECK THE FACTS Three reasons why you should play BCC Quads: 1. a chance to try out improvements to your games from the NE Open last week; 2. you can...
View ArticleLabor Day Madness Part II: From New York to California
Our round-up of Labor Day weekend tournaments includes the New York State, where 11-year-old Nicholas Checa (pictured) became the youngest champ and a report by Randy Hough on the Southern California...
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FIDE Trainers' Commission Trainers' Surveys
The FIDE Trainers' Commission (TRG) continues with regular publishing of high quality chess training materials (in pdf format in English language) in the form of Trainers' Surveys, targeted at...
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84th FIDE Congress Agenda
FIDE is publishing the Agenda and Annexes for the 84th FIDE Congress scheduled from 30th September to 10th October 2013 in Tallinn, Estonia.Download the Agenda.Download the Emergency GA...
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Losing is not an option
If World #1 Magnus Carlsen Gets Bored Of Chess, He'll Try To Master Something Else Gus Lubin Sep. 5, 2013, 7:44 PM Magnus Carlsen is the highest-rated chess player in history, and he's only 22 years...
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Back to St. Louis from the World Cup
I am finally back in St. Louis after a long journey home from Norway. Below are the links to all the photos I have posted so far for the World Cup.Over 40 photos from the Closing Ceremony and Final...
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2014 Candidates Matches Announcement
Following the success of the 2013 London Candidates Tournament, FIDE and its commercial partner, AGON are actively discussing potential venues for the 2014 Candidates which will take place from 12th...
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Assiduously avoided duplicating
[If you've come here as a result of seeing Private Eye, yesterday's piece is a good place to start - ejh]This post is largely courtesy of a reader's comment on our post last Fridaywhich comment, as you...
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Sharp eyes chess tactic
White to move. How should white proceed?Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
View ArticleA Special Chess Set
Many years ago during one of my first trips to India I bought my dad a chess set. While at home for
View ArticleJames A. Berlin and William Riley Parker's occasionally competing, sometimes...
Imagine these two essays posed, in pas de deux, chess, or cocktail discussion. With eyes closed the
View ArticleChess Cafe "En Passant"
Jacques La Brasserie is open for chess lovers on tuesdays & saturdays from 3pm to 8pm
View ArticleCordingley puzzle 156 #chess
White to play and win Solution Relatively straight forward. I fir
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Review: Best Play
Some of you might remember my review of Viktor Moskalenko’s controversial book Revolutionize your chess!. Already back then, some readers pointed out a similar method for ‘discovering the strongest...
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