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  • Disasters in the Dragons Den

     No, its nothing to do with spilling a cappucino all over Duncan Bannatyne just before asking him for a £100,000 investment in your SafeSac coffee cup company, but rather this article will concentrate on some of the horrors which can befall a ... | Read More

  • I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud

    The_Rooky (1657) – Salander (1604), Chess.com, Aug. 2011 All notes in quotes with the initials TMS (The Mighty Salander) are, obviously, Salander’s. 1.e4 e5 2.a3 This looks like the move of an imbecile, but there’s actually some sense to ... | Read More

  • How to Beat a Much Stronger Opponent

    Most chess players face this problem pretty frequently: what should I do against a much stronger opponent?  And here when we say "a much stronger opponent" , we talk about somebody who is at least 300-400 rating points higher. Let's start from ma... | Read More

  • Robert Byrne Sacs the Poisoned Pawn and a Bishop as Evans Takes the Gambit

    Robert Byrne was born April 20, 1928 in New York City. He won the United States Championship in 1972, won seven medals representing the US nine times in the Olympiads from 1952-1976, played in three Interzonals placing as high as third (1973), and... | Read More

  • Correspondence Chess - A History

    A correspondence chess game was thought to be played between the Emperor Nicephorus and the Caliph of Baghdad, Harun al-Rashid (763-809), in the 9th century. A correspondence chess game was thought to be played in 1119 by King Henry I (1068-1135) ... | Read More