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With the increasing popularity of 'cloud' computing and online applications for many kinds of tasks, I had wondered for quite a while why no-one seemed to have invented a way of opening and managing PGN files online, eliminating the need to downlo... | Read More
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Kenneth Rogoff (pictured) was a gifted young Grandmaster of the 1970s who quit being an impoverished chess player for a successful and lucrative career in economics.
Now, some decades later he is the 58 year-old Professor of Economics at Harvard ... | Read More
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The New York chess club Chess NYC has a very special chess camp lined up starting 20 August 2012. From the ChessNYC website...
A lucky group of young aspiring Chess Masters and game lovers will spend an entire week of Camp with The World's... | Read More
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Today is the 10th Anniversary of Ruslan Ponomariov winning the 2002 FIDE World Chess Championship in Moscow.
Regardless of gripes about the KO format and time control (90 minutes + 30 seconds per move), it was a remarkable achievement for the (... | Read More
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I'm a big fan/user of Google services, from Gmail to Reader, Docs to Calendar, not to mention "search" obviously.
So I wasn't too concerned when back in March 2010 Google bought the online photo-editing suite Picnik, which has been my photo-edito... | Read More
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Judit Polgar is the greatest woman chess player of all-time, heading the women's ratings since 1989 and reaching #8 in the world against her male peers in 2005.
After taking some time off to start a family she has been playing more regularly agai... | Read More
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I was absent-mindedly looking through the official FIDE chess ratings when it occurred to me that although I'm never going to be the best chess player in the world (I still wince a bit as I admit that simple fact), I could still potentially be the... | Read More
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Are you the sort of chess fan who wonders why Garry Kasparov doesn't seem to play much chess any more; who thinks Florencio Campomanes is doing a great job with the FIDE presidency, and that Bobby Fischer will definitely be making a co... | Read More
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It's another new year again, that time of the year when we are filled with renewed hope and determination to improve ourselves physically, mentally and spiritually.
In the spirit of the season, I thought I'd blog about a few of my resolutions in ... | Read More
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Former world champion Garry Kasparov was still arguably the best chess player in the world when he retired in 2005, and he casts a long shadow over the current crop of players trying to make an impact.
Despite his involvement with Russian politic... | Read More