Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Wed Sep 2, 2009 4:05am.
“The Scientist”In the Vienna 1873 chess tournament Steinitz unveiled a new "positional" style of play which was to become the basis of modern chess! Forget those wild attacks. Prepare a position and follow it through, using the logic of the po... Read more »
2835 reads | 22 comments | 5 votes:
Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:40am.
Both rivals are dreaming of White’s victory!
(An affectionate picture of Tal and his daughter)
It was the summer of 1970 and I, a sixteen –year-old lad was fascinated by the royal game and eager to see chess books. My f... Read more »
1953 reads | 25 comments | 1 vote:
Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:19am.
Recent discussion on various forums of this site has raised a fundamental issue: How to learn from great masters. A number of players try to follow their own idol and copy his style with poor results. This is the case with Tal fans, for example. T... Read more »
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Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:44pm.
The great tournament at Moscow 1967 had eighteen strong players, including four world champions. Tal and Smyslov were former champions who tied for places 2-5. Spassky, who would become the next champion tied for places 6-8. The world champion at ... Read more »
961 reads | 13 comments | 2 votes:
Submitted by
Whipster on Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:35am.
The 'Mad Queen' rules (before these Bishops were capable of only moving two squares diagonally, and the Queen one square diagonally) were introduced to chess during the Renaissance, in Italy, and it was there that one of the first masters was born... Read more »
1358 reads | 11 comments | 1 vote:
Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:49am.
Part 1: The Austrian MorphyWilhelm Steinitz, born in Prague on May 14, 17 or 18, 1835 or 1836! (the date has never been ascertained) was the last of thirteen children in a very poor family and the first acknowledged World Champion of chess. He was... Read more »
2780 reads | 30 comments | 3 votes:
Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:29pm.
Machgielis (Max) Euwe was born May 20, 1901 and died November 26, 1981. He was the fifth world champion in 1935 after beating Alexander Alekhine 15.5-14.5, a score that would have been 16-14 if Euwe had not given Alekhine a draw in the last game w... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:10pm.
Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872-1906) was a chess genius! At age 22, he won Hasting 1895 one of the strongest tournaments of all time and the most important of the 19th century, since it assembled the entire cream of world chess! His illness and earl... Read more »
2352 reads | 22 comments | 1 vote:
Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:09pm.
David Bronstein (1924-2006) was among the world's great grandmasters. In 1951, he missed becoming world champion by one half of a point when he scored 12-12 against Botvinnik. His game was known for beauty, opening ideas, and complications. His ch... Read more »
1154 reads | 8 comments | 1 vote:
Submitted by
billwall on Fri Aug 14, 2009 5:57pm.
On November 26, 1892, future world chess champion (from 1894 to 1921) Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941), age 23, gave a simultaneous exhibiton in Quebec, Canada. There were 18 players. He won 15 games, drew 2 games, and lost one game to Nicholas Ma... Read more »
1667 reads | 13 comments | 4 votes:
Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:29am.
Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944), was born in New York City, and lived in Montreal, Canada from ages 8 to 19. His father taught him chess when he was eight years old. During the period from 1904 to 1909, Marshall won fou... Read more »
3409 reads | 33 comments | 4 votes:
Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat Aug 8, 2009 2:36pm.
David Bronstein was born February 19, 1924 in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine and died December 5, 2006 in Minsk, Belarus. He earned the Soviet Master title at age 16 for his second place result in the 1940 Ukrainian Championship. He believed he was the you... Read more »
1196 reads | 15 comments | 2 votes:
Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat Aug 1, 2009 11:57am.
Siegbert Tarrasch was born March 5, 1862 and died February 17, 1934. He was close to the best player in the world around 1890. His match with Mikhail Chigorin, a contender for the world championship, resulted in 9 wins for each after 22 games in ... Read more »
933 reads | 8 comments | 2 votes:
Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:36am.
Fire on Board:
Part II:1997-2004
By Alexie Shirov
Softback Edition:197 pages
EveryManChess.2005
Tuesday, 26th December, 2000.The FIDE World Championship Match was drawing... Read more »
856 reads | 0 comments | 2 votes:
Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:49pm.
Moral Victories: The Story of Savielly Tartakower
An Historical Novel by David Lovejoy
Publisher:Echo Publications,2008
Edition:Paperback
Pages 285
The life of Savielly Tartakower was marked by paradox.He was a passionate man who fought fo... Read more »
851 reads | 3 comments | 0 votes:
Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:33pm.
Rudolf Spielmann (1883-1942) "The Master of Attack" and "The Last Knight of the King's Gambit"! He was a lawyer but never worked as one! He learned to play chess while still a boy and was exhibited in public as a prodigy. He loved complex position... Read more »
2248 reads | 33 comments | 3 votes:
Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:30am.
GARRY KASPAROV'S GREATEST CHESS GAMES, Volume 2
By Igor Stohl
Hardback, 352 pages
Gambit Publications. 2006
The public wants Garry back. No, not for playing an exhibition match with old buddy Karpov as reported a few days ago.It wants the ma... Read more »
1551 reads | 7 comments | 0 votes:
Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:17pm.
Today we will see one of the most beautiful Dutch defence games ever played. The winner Savielly Tartakower (1887-1956) was born at Rostov-on-Don in 1887. His native language was Russian, but he was a subject of Austria-Hungary, and in World War I... Read more »
3255 reads | 27 comments | 5 votes:
Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:23pm.
Soviet Chess:A Western Expert Reviews Soviet Triumphs
by R.G.Wade
Descriptive notation
Paperback, 296 pages
Hardinge Simpole Classics.2002
http://www.hardingesimpole.co.uk/
Bobby Fischer was preparing for his 1972 World Championship Ma... Read more »
1122 reads | 7 comments | 0 votes:
Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Fri Jul 3, 2009 3:48am.
In his illustrious career Korchnoi has played a number of memorable games. For this review I have chosen his game against Kasparov from the DVD.Garry also annotated this game in brief for the Informant. I have made use of his comments as well.... Read more »
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Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Fri Jun 26, 2009 3:41am.
Review:My life for chess Vol.1 & 2 (DVD)
by Viktor Korchnoi
ChessBase.2004
“On a cold autumn day in the hungry Leningrad of 1944, a thirteen-ye... Read more »
584 reads | 2 comments | 0 votes:
Submitted by
billwall on Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:27am.
Here is a list of strong chess players and their spouses, usually another strong player.
Agrest, Evgenij (1968- ) Grandmaster living in Sweden. His peak FIDE rating was 2616. He is married to Woman International Master (WIM) Svetlana Agrest... Read more »
1755 reads | 11 comments | 0 votes:
Submitted by
IM IMCheap on Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:50pm.
If only they were married: GM Kasparov (2851) - GM Polgar (2735) = 5586
WGM Natalia Pogonina and Peter Zhdanov (they married on June, 5) decided to compile a list of the strongest chess couples in the world who could become members of the honor... Read more »
1368 reads | 11 comments | 5 votes:
Submitted by
Triple_A on Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:35pm.
Bobby Fischer’s real name is Robert James Fischer and he was a famous chess player. He represented the United States and Iceland in all of his chess matches. Fischer was born on March 4, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois and he died on January 17, 2... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM Julio_Becerra on Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:19am.
When I was writing my last article about brilliancy prizes, I remembered the observation made by Alekhine about his two best games. “I consider this (Reti-Alekhine, Baden-Baden 1925) and the game against Bogoljubow at Hastings, 1922, the mos... Read more »
3459 reads | 32 comments | 3 votes: