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Japanese neuroscientists have published interesting results about how our brains work, from testing professional Shogi players.Â
The result? Nurture beats Nature. Expertise in any area is the result of long serious training...
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The British chess magazine imaginatively named 'Chess' has made a special version of its January 2011 edition available free of charge in electronic format.
It's quite a few years since I had a subscription to Chess, but the quality seems as high... | Read More
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At the age of 23 the Azerbaijani GM Teimour Radjabov has qualified as one of the eight world championship candidates that will face off in Russia in May.
Radjabov recently gave an interview to the ExtraTime website in his home country and I am in... | Read More
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It's rare to find old audio of the great chess champions, let alone film, so it's a special treat that some footage of the great Jose Capablanca (pictured) and Max Euwe has surfaced on the wonderful interwebs
YouTube Link here.
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Just before the start of the London Chess Classic, Magnus Carlsen spoke to the Telegraph newspaper about his life.
There are some interesting little nuggets of information, and it's always nice to see chess in the mainstream media.
You can read ... | Read More
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There is plenty of media coverage of chess around the world, but many of the juiciest morsels are not in the English language, and automated translation sites like Babelfish or Google Translate are far from perfect.
Enter "Chess In Translation".Â... | Read More
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I'm sure he's too modest to post this himself, but Erik has just become a Tough Mudder!!! Congratulations Erik, it must have been really hard work!
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I've previously blogged about Battle Vs Chess, first back in March and then in June.
Now finally, after some delays, it seems that the release date really is imminent, on 28th September in the US (12th Nov in the UK) for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
Th... | Read More
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Coming up soon on the BBC World Service is a two-part documentary on chess.Â
The publicity blurb goes like this:
Chess is an ancient game and its popularity has spanned many centuries – but how is it faring in modern times? Simon Terrington,... | Read More
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A while ago I blogged about whether chess could work on television, and fondly recalled an earlier era before the internet when chess WAS on TV - at least in the UK anyway.
More and more of these early experiments in chess TV are magically appear... | Read More