Online chess community where you can play chess, learn strategies and tactics, read chess news, see book reviews, find rules & tips, get free downloads, and more! http://www.chess.com/ 2007 Chess.com For the next game, let's quote Edward Lasker. "This game's result had a large impact on destinies of three outstanding chess players. The undeserved loss had become a drama of his life for Janowski. Capablanca, after winning the game, won the w...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquot-part-5Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:51:26 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquot-part-5Dawid Janowski had two passions in his life - chess and gambling. He would visit a casino whenever there's a chance, often losing hefty sums in one night. Here's a recollection of some less-known gambling episodes from Janowski's life by Oleg Skur...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquot-david-janowski-the-gamblerSat, 14 Jan 2012 11:05:10 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquot-david-janowski-the-gamblerA very interesting report about the Ostend 1905 tournament from Grigory Ge, Russian actor, playwright and a friend of Mikhail Chigorin. Supplemented by Dawid Janowski's games compiled by Sergey Voronkov and Dmitry Plisetsky. Ostend, 12 June - ...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquot-special-feature-2-ostende-1905-reportThu, 12 Jan 2012 08:25:39 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquot-special-feature-2-ostende-1905-report"In this game, excellently played by both partners, Janowski, as always, tried to square the circle, or, speaking in more chess terms - to win an absolutely equal position." (G. Marco)   Here, Janowski played a "semi-correct" combination, one ...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquot-part-4Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:03:24 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquot-part-4Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky is not a name you'd find in chess books. The famous Marshal of the Soviet Union won his "games" on real battlefields of World War II, controlling much more than 16 pieces on the board. Nevertheless, chess was his hob...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/a-small-quotfamous-people-playing-chessquot-anecdoteMon, 12 Dec 2011 12:42:51 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/a-small-quotfamous-people-playing-chessquot-anecdoteReaders asked me to post some winning games by Dawid Janowski. So, here they are - some truly brilliant products of his imagination. These combinations are given as puzzles. This game by the young Janowski was printed in many chess magazines. ...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquot-special-featureFri, 25 Nov 2011 04:41:36 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquot-special-featureJanowski often fell victim to Lasker's psychological preparation. In the last round of Cambridge Springs 1904, Lasker had to win with Black pieces to catch up with Janowski... and he did exactly that. In 1905, Janowski played a match against M...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquot-part-3Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:04:45 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquot-part-3Janowski used King's Gambit against the aging Steinitz. Steinitz tried to refute it, Janowski counter-refuted, but then made a couple of inaccurate moves and lost.   Lasker already guaranteed himself the first prize and probably didn't mind a ...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquot-part-2Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:13:28 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquot-part-2The Polish/Russian - French - Jewish grandmaster Dawid (David Markelovich) Janowski (1868 - 1927) was known for his fiery attacking style, occasional impossible blunders and hatred of draws. Someone said of him, "He would rather lose a game than d...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquotThu, 17 Nov 2011 03:39:32 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/quothe-who-hated-drawsquotPart 1: Yuri Averbakh, Olga Botvinnik, Mark Taimanov http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/botvinnik-100th-anniversary-part-1 Part 2: Viktor Korchnoi, Evgeny Vasiukov http://blog.chess.com/view/botvinnik-100th-anniversary-party-at-suzdal-part-2 N. P...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/botvinnik-100th-anniversary-party-at-suzdal-part-3Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:26:00 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/botvinnik-100th-anniversary-party-at-suzdal-part-3Part 1, with speeches from Yuri Averbakh, Olga Botvinnik and Mark Taimanov, can be found here: http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/botvinnik-100th-anniversary-part-1 N. Polyanskikh: Our people have conquered Alps, time to time. First Suvorov used R...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/botvinnik-100th-anniversary-party-at-suzdal-part-2Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:18:47 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/botvinnik-100th-anniversary-party-at-suzdal-part-2Transcript of an almost 1.5-hour long video which can be found here: http://chessm.ru/vecher-posvyaschennyj-100-letiyu-mmbotvinnika/ GM Sergey Makarychev (from the screen): More than half a century ago, in Moscow, in the Pillar Hall of the House ...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/botvinnik-100th-anniversary-part-1Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:36:18 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/botvinnik-100th-anniversary-part-1Interview by Yuri Vasilyev, Sport-Express. 17 August 2011 http://others.sport-express.ru/reviews/15791/ A senior tournament is currently held in Suzdal in memory of Mikhail Botvinnik. The arbiter of this tournament is the 89 years old grandmaste...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/yuri-averbakh-speaks-about-mikhail-botvinnikFri, 19 Aug 2011 13:11:34 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/yuri-averbakh-speaks-about-mikhail-botvinnikThere are jokes in Tbilisi that during his illness, Tigran Petrosian took some beneficial drug, called "antidefeatine", and he crushes all his opponents with ease after that. He won 5 games out of 8 and drew such strong players as D. Bronstein, P....http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/in-the-age-old-tbilisi-part-2Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:32:49 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/in-the-age-old-tbilisi-part-2Next installment in the series of Salomon Flohr's articles is dedicated to the 1959 USSR Championship won by Tigran Petrosian. The original report didn't include games, but I will post all the games he mentioned. In the Age-Old Tbilisi The Sovie...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/in-the-age-old-tbilisiMon, 18 Jul 2011 14:41:45 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/in-the-age-old-tbilisiThis article about Mikhail Tal was written by the famous Czech-Soviet Grandmaster and chess writer Salomon Flohr after Tal won his first USSR Championship in 1957. He was quite accurate in his prediction that Tal would eventually challenge Botvinn...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/the-nineteenth-soviet-grandmasterSat, 16 Jul 2011 11:05:25 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/the-nineteenth-soviet-grandmasterAnnotations by Leonid Shamkovich, from his book Sacrifice in Chess. http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/mikhail-tal-defeats-the-future-fide-presidentThu, 09 Jun 2011 12:23:36 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/mikhail-tal-defeats-the-future-fide-president64, issue 45, 1970. Tal's third (and final) report from Sochi. Either the masters have finally managed to acclimatize or their physical form was better than their venerable opponents', but the struggle in the last seven rounds was completely even...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/mikhail-tal-quotfortune-smiles-to-the-youngquot-1970Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:51:57 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/mikhail-tal-quotfortune-smiles-to-the-youngquot-197064, issue 44, 1970. Second part of Tal's report. An original match between grandmasters and masters is almost equal, and there's some concrete proof for that. As the readers already know, the teams get White pieces by turns. And that's what is in...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/mikhail-tal-quotamplitude-of-the-pendulumquot-1970Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:31:57 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/mikhail-tal-quotamplitude-of-the-pendulumquot-1970Mikhail Tal's first report in 64 about the "grandmasters versus masters" tournament in Sochi 1970. Recently, I received a valuable gift from chess fans of Ryazan: a file of the 64 newspaper published in 1935-37. Reading through the "grandmother" ...http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/mikhail-tal-quotthey-dont-offer-draws-to-usquot-1970Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:47:27 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Spektrowski/mikhail-tal-quotthey-dont-offer-draws-to-usquot-1970