I Love/Hate Speed Chess…
… and the reason I love it is that speed chess is ridiculously entertaining. … and the reason I hate it is that speed chess magnifies all of my worst tendencies. Both of these reason were on full...
View ArticleMakedonia Palace Grand Prix – Round 1 Photos
The 4th tournament of FIDE Grand Prix Series 2012-2013 started today in Makedonia Palace Hotel in Thessaloniki, Greece. The ceremonial first move was made by tournament sponsor Ivan Savvidis in the...
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Paragua takes sole lead of Asian Continental after 5
Official website: http://chess-results.com/tnr101373.aspxChess Daily News from Susan Polgar
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Thessaloniki GP round 1 results
Official website: http://thessaloniki2013.fide.comChess Daily News from Susan Polgar
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GP Thessaloniki starts; wins for Kamsky, Svidler, Kasimdzhanov
The 4th FIDE Grand Prix tournament started today in Thessaloniki, Greece. The participants are Etienne Bacrot, Fabiano Caruana, Leinier Dominguez, Alexander Grischuk, Vassily Ivanchuk, Gata Kamsky,...
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Svidler, Kamsky, and Kasimdzhanov Win
Official website: http://thessaloniki2013.fide.comThe first round of the fourth stage of FIDE Grand Prix tournament in Thessaloniki got under way on 22nd May, with the Greek-Russian businessman Ivan...
View Article2013 MOTCF Teams
First team to register for MOTCF was the group with Charles D, John B, John H and James W. Thanks! (Apologies ahead of time if name was misspelled) Team Name: (yet to be finalized) Charles Diebert,...
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Brooklyn Castle Review
I got a nice email from the people who were promoting the movie Brooklyn Castle asking me if I would like a free review copy. One of my newsletter subscribers had given him my name. I work for the...
View ArticleATH 1900 Fide estimated
In about 11 months my FIDE estimated rating at CT has risen from 1844 to 1900 today. Most of this has been realized the past 7 months, when I started with my new method of making diagrams and...
View ArticleGuyana Chess Fellowship Visits New Guyana School
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View ArticleQueen's College visits The Bishops' High School!
Yesterday The Bishops’ High School Chess Club was pleased to have members of the Queen’s
View ArticleRadjabov-Svidler, a poisonous tactic
This post is fairly (for which read 'very') trivial. Today is the last round of the Norweg
View ArticleA lucky escape
Most of the round 2 games are still going on, boards 3 and 4 are over though. Valentine Kalinins had
View ArticleEnnis Open round 3
Some very interesting games in the Open in the last round. Valentine Kalinins is the only player sti
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Fide Grand Prix Thessaloniki 2013
21 May - 4 June 2013 Official site Live Live Video pgn THESSALONIKI FIDE GRAND PRIX TOURNAMENT Organizer(s) : FIDE, GREEK CHESS FEDERATION Tournament Director : IO Theodoros Tsorbatsoglou (GRE)...
View ArticleNi Hua keeps a perfect score after three rounds in Danzhou
Rating favorites Bu Xiangzhi and Ding Liren are sharing second place with 2.5/3
View ArticleSo, Who Discovered Australia?
What does "discovered" mean? Was the land "discovered" by the prehistoric human arrivals, who came 60,000 to 40,000 years ago (with some disputed evidence claiming a date of 120,000 plus years ago...)...
View ArticleWhen Were Clothes Invented?
An interesting question, and one I've wondered about myself from time to time. Archaeologist Becky Wragg Sykes (@LeMoustier), a postdoctoral researcher working on Neanderthal archaeology, responds in...
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Report on restructuring and amending Handbook
Report on restructuring and amending Handbook Last year the General Assembly amended the Statutes and Electoral Regulations. Now it is time to deal with the rest of the Handbook. There is confusion in...
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