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2013 U.S. Championships Round 1
Decisive Results Abound at 2013 U.S. Championships By FM Mike Klein UPDATE: The action got a running start today as the majority of the first-round battles at the 2013 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Champio... | Read More
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In sports they say you have to repeat something thousdands of times to get it right. I'm wondering how many games it takes for someone to get into the deeper facets of chess.
I understand that you should play as often as you can as one of the s... | Read More
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The Legendary former blitz champion, Felixtony, won a smaller level award today when he captured the lightly regarded "1200 Level Blitz Championship." Felixtony battled Meer_Salman in a 4 match slug fest that had chess fans on the edge of their... | Read More
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Electronic Production Companies
SONY
Make Believe
Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its diversified business is primarily focused on the electronics, game, entertainmen... | Read More
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Many people know that I love playing blitz chess, from my YouTube channel and from my DVD "Chess Blitz Fever". Yesterday I played in what may be the one of the strongest blitz open tournaments ever, the Aeroflot Blitz Open, with over 270 players, ... | Read More
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On January 22, there began a stirring 3 match battle between The Legendary Felixtony and blitz up-and-comer, samoradi277. In the first match, Samoradi277 won by checkmating the Legend in come-from-behind fashion. Everyone was shocked by this o... | Read More
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My goal as a new tournament director is to add cool features to the typical tournament:
Target Points - an estimate of how many points, based on ratings, each player should earn in their group.
Top Performers - who outperformed their Target Point... | Read More
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There are four basic checkmates in Chess: King and Rook, King and Queen, King and Two Bishops, King and Bishop/Knight. I believe it to be important to know and understand these basic checkmates. Too many times, I have seen games where one side had... | Read More
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[Blog History]
The mighty Norweigian GM Magnus Carlsen, who is 33 points ahead of the World's #2 chessplayer Armenian GM Levon Aronian, sits on the cusp of breaking history according to the November 2012 FIDE rankings. There have also been... | Read More
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Winner of Chess Olympiad in Istanbul Natalia Pogonina
Interviewer: Elena Vaytsekhovskaya, Sport-Express.ru
What is a Chess Olympiad? Why was Judit Polgar the only woman who could compete on par with male grandmasters? What thoughts do chess p... | Read More
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Early career
Kasparov at age 11, Vilnius, 1974.
Garry Kasparov was born Garik Kimovich Weinstein (Russian: Гарик Вайнштейн) in Baku, Soviet Union (now Azerbaijan) to an Armenian mother and Russian Jewish father.[6][7][8][9] He... | Read More
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I thought this was a very interesting feature offered by chess.com....so I participated in it.
The World Champ was playing several hundred players - most of which had rankings lower than...well...the World Champion.
He went for a "draw by repeti... | Read More
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You can easily compare a lot of things in life with chess, but few compare like marketing. I've been doing online marketing for over 13 years, before many of the search engines and myfacetweets were around. It compares well mostly because mar... | Read More
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With the full realization that there is no meaningful difference in goodness among the best opening moves, that players well-versed in unorthodoxy are apt to play great wtih "lesser" moves, and that all openings are playable in amateur competition... | Read More
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The Chess talk of last week, obviously, was all about Gibraltar. If you aren't entirely familiar with the Gibraltar chess congress, I urge you to go to the main website (http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/) and look it up. I'ts a fabulous e... | Read More
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Welcoming challenges from all players, all rankings....Help me improve my game, and perhaps yours as well......It's like a lets get smarter party, everyone wins. | Read More
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In the fourth game, I had the black pieces and expected to face my toughest competition thus far. I chose a tactical but impatient line of play within the Sicilian opening and probably didn't do myself any favors in doing so.
All in all, I was ... | Read More
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Welcome back everybody. This post will be explaining the top 10 best openings in chess history! May god praise these openings!
Number 10. The Ruy Lopez. Perhaps the greatest most complex openings out there. I respect this opening as it was ... | Read More
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Why is it that theres GM and WGM categories?. I understand, for instance, that in tennis it makes sense to have independent male and female rankings due to evident physical differences. In chess though, I really dont see how being a woman or a man... | Read More
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Though nothing disappoints me more than to reveal the devastating, and perhaps career threatening, secrets of my fellow countryman Magnus Carlsen, the time has come to clean out my closets.
When Magnus Carlsen told me last week that he plans to ... | Read More