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View ArticleChess Book Review: The Amateur's Mind by Jeremy Silman
Chess Book Review: The Amateur’s Mind – Turning Chess Misconceptions Into Chess Mastery
View ArticleInteresting finish to the Tal memorial in sight
The Tal memorial finishes on Monday and Boris Gelfand with a 2900+ performance so far leads, though
View Article8th Tal Memorial 2013 - Babak 8: Kalahkan Nakamura, Carlsen Naik ke Posisi 2
Magnus Carlsen naik ke posisi runner-up klasemen sementara 8Tal Memorial 2013, setelah di babak ke-8
View ArticleHow To Know When You’re Getting Old
Everything hurts, and what doesn’t hurt, doesn’t work. The gleam in your eye is from the sun
View ArticleNorm Bonanza in New York
Tamaz Gelashvili won clear first at the New York International, while young players earned plenty of norms including GM norms for Mac Molner and 15-year-old Michael Bodek.
View ArticleUkrainian Championship Produces 210-Move Win
The Ukrainian Chess Championship is strong -- this year's round-robin features notables like Ruslan Ponomariov and Pavel Eljanov, among others -- but it's not "super-tournament" strong, which explains...
View Article700,000 Year Old Horse's DNA Sequenced
A horse is still recognized as a horse, from DNA 700,000 years old. From Scientific American Online: Horse Fossil Yields Astonishingly Old Genome—Are Similarly Ancient Human Genomes Next? By Kate Wong...
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Ray plagiarises Kasparov: Private Eye chips in
Private Eye, issue 1343, 25 June 2013, page 29PredecessorsPlagiarism: what happened nextPredecessors II[Thanks to Jonathan][Ray Keene index][Ray Keene plagiarism index]
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Idnani - West Analyzed by Fournier
At Contre Gambit Philidor, Frederic Fournier analyzes my drawn game as Black against Taran Idnani.
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Carlsen to play rapid match with Predojevic in Lillehammer
On Friday and Saturday Magnus Carlsen will play a four-game rapid match with Borki Predojevic of Bosnia & Herzegovina. The friendly match is organized by the Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue in...
View ArticleKrikor Sevag Mekhitarian convincing in Varna Open
Brazilian Grandmaster Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian convincingly won the open tournament in Varna, Bulgaria, after concluding the event with 7,5 points from nine games, leaving the chasing pack a full point...
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Working meeting of FIDE President
FIDE President met with Mayor of Xiamen city of China Mr. Liu Keqing. At the meeting also present was Ms. Tsai Guiju, Chairman of Association of Chinese businessmen in Russia. An agreement with Gaonan...
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Clear first for Mekhitarian in Varna
Krikor Mekhitarian finished clear first at the 7th Varna Open. The Brazilian grandmaster scored 7.5/9 (a 2627 performance), which was a full point more than a group of nine players. The tournament took...
View ArticleWestern Tilt in U.S. Junior
As many readers probably know, 17-year-old Daniel Naroditsky won the U.S. Junior Championship last weekend in St. Louis, with a score of 6½-2½ (four wins and five draws). Daniel was the only player to...
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This Saturday - BCF Legends of Chess: EMANUEL LASKER!
BCF’s Legends of Chess is a long-running series of Swiss tournaments honoring some of the greats of chess history. This Saturday, June 29th, at 10:00 AM, we remember one of the game’s absolute...
View ArticleAshley & Browne in Vegas [VIDEO]
Our final video installment from the National Open includes GM Ashley on the state of chess in American, GM Browne on a game he invented, Finesse Adithya Balasubramanian on how chess helped him appeal...
View ArticleInternational Chess Tournament of Forni di Sopra Concluded
The 3rd International Chess Tournament of Forni di Sopra took place on 15-22nd June, 2013, in Forni di Sopra, part of the Friulian Dolomites Natural Park and one of the jewels of the Italian Alps. The...
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Geneva: Mamedyarov, Bacrot, Nakamura reach semi-finals
On the second day at the Geneva Chess Masters, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Etienne Bacrot and Hikaru Nakamura have qualified for Saturday's semi-finals. Mamedyarov tops the A group with 6 "tiebreak points",...
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Koneru Humpy wins Dilijan Women's Grand Prix
Humpy Koneru won the Grand Prix in Dilijan, Armenia. The Indian Grandmaster scored 8/11 and finished a full point ahead of Anna Muzychuk and Nana Dzagnidze. Official websiteCross-tablesStandingsPhoto...
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