Big Hearts Fit Nowhere
P: no matter how fucked up usa maybe, other countries are even more fucked up P: unless u go to monaco of course ;) P: or australia or scandinavia J: I don't care J: Everything everywhere is fucked up...
View ArticleThe Survival Guide to 4 v 3
Black to playKeith Arkell v JMGB, Penarth (4) 2013Time (for me if not EJH) to say cheerio to Penarth. Hard to believe it was a month and a half ago already. Time seems to fly past ever faster these...
View ArticleFIDE Women's World Chess Championship Match
FIDE Women's World Chess Championship starts on 10th of September 2013. Women's World Chess Championship Match 2013 between the current World Champion Anna Ushenina of Ukraine and her challenger, Hou...
View ArticleSinquefield Chess Cup 2013 LIVE!
The 2013 Sinquefield Cup will take place 9th to 15th of September in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. The tournament, which features GMs Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian (top two in the World) and GMs...
View ArticleAsa Hoffmann to Lecture at Marshall CC
The Marshall Chess Club together with Jeremy Graham presentsFM Asa Hoffmann“My Favorite Lines Against the French Defense”FIDE Master Asa Hoffmann is one of the great legends of American chess. Having...
View ArticleGM Yaroslav Zinchenko clear first in Amantea
The 11th International Chess Festival “Città di Amantea” was held on 1-8th September at the Hotel La Tonnara in Amantea, Italy. The Festival consisted of three events: Master Open (for players rated...
View ArticleLinares LIVE!
Live chess broadcast powered by ChessBomb and ChessdomChess Daily News from Susan Polgar
View ArticleSinquefield Cup Schedule
Round 1 – September 09 2013, 13:00h (St. Louis time) Carlsen, Magnus 2862 - Kamsky, Gata 2741Nakamura, Hikaru 2772 - Aronian, Levon 2813 Round 2 – September 10 2013, 13:00h Aronian, Levon 2813 -...
View ArticleEuropean Chess Club Cup 2013 – Lineups
The Organizing Committee is publishing the team line-ups of the European Club Cup 2013 (Open & Women). Data is still being processed and is subject to corrections. All clubs are kindly requested to...
View ArticleSinquefield Cup LIVE!
Live chess broadcast powered by ChessBomb and ChessdomChess Daily News from Susan Polgar
View ArticleOrganisers to set aside tickets for young players
World Chess Championship match: Organisers to set aside tickets for young playersDC | S Sujatha | 16 hours 14 min agoUp and coming chess players and chess enthusiasts who can’t afford to buy tickets...
View ArticleCarlsen, Nakamura take early lead in St Louis
Round 1 resultsCarlsen, Magnus 2862 1-0 Kamsky, Gata 2741Nakamura, Hikaru 2772 1-0 Aronian, Levon 2813Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
View ArticleProphylaxis and Flexibility
In the comments to my latest post there was some interesting discussion of the “lost art of the post-mortem.” However, I was fortunate enough this weekend to have a delayed postmortem of two of my...
View Article#LooseChapters: Gambit
The first pawn to leave the board gets the best view of the skirmish. Cheers!
View ArticleWelcome to QGA
Hello everyone! Welcome to Queen’s Gambit Accepted! I can’t thank you enough for stoppin
View ArticleLabor Day Weekend
Well, another three-day weekend is past. What was usually a very busy weekend for me passed with rel
View ArticleDeadline for motions for ICU AGM
Just a reminder that with the ICU AGM taking place in Dublin on 29th September, motions and nominati
View ArticleSeven Good Things That Happened at the 2013 Oregon Open
One of two posts about the Oregon Open chess tournament from August 31-September 2, 2013 in Portland
View ArticleSinquefield Cup Opens With Pair of Wins
Any risk of the four grandmasters playing it safe to open the first-ever Sinquefield Cup turned out to be unfounded.Tags: Sinquefield
View ArticleLet's Make a Deal
Last week we had quite a time for ourselves here at the blog. Monday we reached 2000 posts, Wednesday we found ourselves in Private Eye (again) and if that weren't enough to fill our cup of joy to...
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