Submitted by
FM FM_Eric_Schiller on Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:03pm.
As Andrew Martin has the week off, let me pay a little tribute by presenting one of his games in the Sicilian Grand Prix Attack, the variation he helped establish as a major weapon in the 1980s. Here he plays a popular line against a defensive pla... Read more »
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Submitted by
harriet on Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:14pm.
Player Profile - Wesley So
Top Philippines player and currently world's youngest Grandmaster
Wesley So, the World’s Youngest Grandmaster (at 14 years 1 month) and the No. 1 ranked player in the Philippines, was born on 9 October 1993 in Cavite... Read more »
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Submitted by
mcrotolo on Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:32am.
As promised in the previous article, today I bring a very curious game.
Undoubtedly, two strategists face to face. And besides, two Argentines. Miguel Najdorf, although born in Poland, but developed his most important chess race in my country. S... Read more »
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Submitted by
mcrotolo on Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:56pm.
I bring to share with you some of my fellow countryman Miguel Najdorf, the greatest chess player in my country (as I understand it). Miguel Najdorf (born Mendel (Mieczysław) Najdorf in Grodzisk Mazowiecki near Warsaw, Poland, April 15, 1910 – d... Read more »
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Submitted by
Sir_Gawain on Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:56am.
When mankind has wanted to make predictions, he (and she) has (have), over time, turned to the stars, the sun, crystal balls, philosophers, religious prophets and gurus, scriptural writings, and a sundry of other devices, not to ignore history, i... Read more »
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Submitted by
Blunderprone on Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:25am.
I’ll begin this series with the eleventh place finisher ( last) Dawid Janowski, the representative from France who was 56 at the time of this event. He’s a good cross-over point from the Hasting’s 1895 event where he finished 13th ( top ... Read more »
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Submitted by
ADK on Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:38am.
In this game, Robert Fischer battles Robert Byrne in the U.S. Championship of 1963. They played the King's Indian defence: Finachetto Variation. A notable SAC in this game is 15. Nxf2, played by Fischer! To Byrne, it looked like a tasty treat. To ... Read more »
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Submitted by
davidbrown914 on Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:00am.
At the end of the first half of this double-round tournament, Capablanca stood a point and a half ahead of his closest rivals, Lasker and Tarrasch. When he met Lasker again in the seventh of the final ten rounds, even a draw would virtually assure... Read more »
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Submitted by
avishka on Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:14pm.
hou yifan, the 14-year-old chinese chess prodigy, has recently been awarded the grandmaster title by FIDE. in doing so,she has broken the rscord setby judit polgar in 1991 to become the youngest female grandmaster in the history of chess. Read more »
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Submitted by
billwall on Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:04am.
Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872-1906) was one of the strongest chess players in the world and known for his blindfold chess play and mental feats of memorization. He suffered from tertiary syphilis which may have led to mental illness. Before he ... Read more »
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Submitted by
benws on Tue Dec 9, 2008 12:22pm.
Josef Cukierman is a virtually unknown chess player (to some people), but he had some brilliant games in his lifetime. One of them is this one. He breaks out of the gate with a kingside attack, and never looks back. Tartakower is unable to conjure... Read more »
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Submitted by
bigmiggy on Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:03pm.
“All I want to do, ever,” Fischer once said, “is play chess.” One might think that there was no room in Fischer’s life for anything else. Yet few know that religion sometimes took precedence over chess for Fischer. In a match wit... Read more »
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Submitted by
Gonnosuke on Fri Nov 7, 2008 11:05pm.
Amid the endless debate over who should or shouldn't be regarded as the Greatest Chess Player Ever it's easy to forget that Super Grandmasters aren't the only players capable of playing great chess.
Unfortunately, when the unheralded NM or FM a... Read more »
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Submitted by
Hellogoodbye1969 on Wed Nov 5, 2008 3:48pm.
Shelby Lyman publicou emThe Hartford Courant, o artigo Korchnoi mostra o seu vigor sobre o GM Viktor Korchnoi.
O lendário Viktor Korchnoi, com 77 anos de idade, um dos grande-mestres mais fortes do mundo nos anos 70s, continua a jogar xadrez de ... Read more »
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Submitted by
FernanDoylet on Sat Nov 1, 2008 7:00pm.
All ecuadorian chess players are now invited to join the group "Ecuador" here in Chess.com
There we can talk in Spanish and create or participate in the Forums.
See you there,Fernando. Read more »
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Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:49pm.
Jacques Mieses (1865-1954) was born in Leipzig, Germany. In 1939, he fled Nazi persecution of Jews. He was accepted in Great Britain where he became a citizen. In 1950, he was the oldest player (85) awarded the grandmaster title and the first Brit... Read more »
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Submitted by
billwall on Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:46am.
Today (October 31) is Alexander Alekhine's birthday. Here is some Alekhine trivia.
Alexander Alekhine was born on Halloween, October 31, 1892. This would have been October 19 on the Old Style or Russian calendar, which was in affect until 191... Read more »
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Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat Oct 25, 2008 6:57pm.
Frank Marshall (1877-1944) was the chess champion of the United States from 1909 to 1936 when he gave up the title. He played a match against Emanuel Lasker for the world championship in 1907. Despite losing to Lasker with 8 losses and 7 draws, Ma... Read more »
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Submitted by
benws on Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:54am.
Capablanca had his own distinct way of thinking. This game is a good illustration of that. He uses principles like zugzwang and preventing counterplay to totally lock down his opponent. Some think he might have read My System and used its principl... Read more »
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Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:57pm.
In 2004, Magnus Carlsen of Norway became the second youngest player to earn the title of international grandmaster at 13 years, 4 months, and 27 days. The first norm was at the Corus GMC in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands in January 2004. The second nor... Read more »
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Submitted by
benws on Thu Oct 9, 2008 3:45pm.
We've all heard of the great Magnus Carlsen and his achievements. So here's my little tribute to him: a game that will probably make its way into the tactics books within the near future.
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Submitted by
WTHarvey on Sun Oct 5, 2008 9:26am.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was born October 21, 1990 in Nogent-sur-Marne, just outside Paris. He plays 1.e4 and when playing Black, the Sicilian Najdorf or Dragon against it. Maxime prefers the Grunfeld against 1.d4 and 1...c5 or 1...Nf6 against 1... Read more »
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Submitted by
benws on Wed Oct 1, 2008 4:06pm.
This is a nice game from the young garry kasparov. Sacrfices abound, with excellent endgame play included. One is reminded of the legendary "game of the century" and bobby fischer.
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Submitted by
kostas_n on Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:16am.
Some chess players are so determined to win that forgot the main value of every mental game;pleasure. They use every way to reach their destination . Some days before i was playing with a man from Austria with higher rating than mine. In the mid... Read more »
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Submitted by
RobertABrown on Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:44am.
The Grand Slam in Bilbao has the attention of most of the chessworld this Fall, and deservedly so. The world champ can’t seem to win a game while Carlsen, Topalov, and an ascendant, Chess Oscar bound, Ivanchuk are fighting for top spot wi... Read more »
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