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    • About Paul Morphy

      Paul Morphy Years covered: 1848 to 1869 Overall record: +198 -26 =24 (84.7%)*    * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games       Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.       221 exhibition games, odds ... | Read More

      • Luidefunes
      • | May 18, 2013
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    • Fischer - Geller Bled 1961: Hoist with his own Petard

      Efim Petrovich Geller (1925– 1998) was a Soviet chess player and world-class GM at his peak. He won the Soviet CH in 1953, 1956, 1962, 1965, 1968, and 1971. He won four Ukrainian Championship titles (in 1950, 1957, 1958, and 1959) and sh... | Read More

      • NimzoRoy
      • | May 17, 2013
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    • Influential Chess Books

      We had a pretty cool discussion at chess club tonight about chess books.  A rapidly improving young player (very strong tactician, the rest of his game will catch up eventually if he's anything like I was...) was asking about which chess books ar... | Read More

      • ih8sens
      • | May 15, 2013
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    • Fischer Bashes Benko!

      Chess Life magazine, Jan 1964 reported: "In the later stages of the tnmt (US CH) some of FIscher's opponents did almost as much to guarantee his 11-0 score as Bobby did. The building tension worked to Fischer's advantage...On Dec 30 he won his las... | Read More

      • NimzoRoy
      • | May 15, 2013
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    • How the Internet has changed chess: Part 2

      Thank you for coming back to read my continuing series. The biggest change I have noticed in the last 17 years is that there are now fewer chess clubs and weekend events and participation is much lower. Why is this? There are many reasons includin... | Read More

      • aww-rats
      • | May 15, 2013
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  • 2013 US Championships Round 5

    . Krush Pulls Away, Kamsky Draws at U.S. Championships By FM Mike Klein SAINT LOUIS (May 8, 2013) -- The push and pull of the 2013 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship continued yesterday in round five, but this time the men pulle... | Read More

  • 2013 US Championships Round 4

    . Tourney Leaders Win Again at U.S. Championships By FM Mike Klein SAINT LOUIS (May 6, 2013) -- A pair of runaway trains kept up their furious pace in round four of the 2013 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship, held at the Chess ... | Read More

  • 2013 US Championships Round 3

    . Krush, Kamsky Remain Perfect at U.S. Championships By FM Mike Klein UPDATE INTERVIEW WITH WGM ABRAHAMYAN: SAINT LOUIS (May 6, 2013) -- Two premium matchups were the top layer on a chess cake that featured 13 winners in 17 games i... | Read More

  • 2013 US Chess Championships

    . The 2013 U.S. Chess Championship and 2013 U.S. Women’s Championship take place from 2-13 May at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. The opening ceremony takes place on May 2, and the first round for both events starts at 13... | Read More

  • Kaidanov Inducted into Hall of Fame

    Three to Be Inducted into World Chess Hall of Fame, Two into U.S. Chess Hall of Fame PRESS RELEASE: April 16, 2013 (St. Louis, MO) – An induction ceremony on May 2, 2013, will recognize five exceptional chess players as three are inducte... | Read More

Video Lessons



  • Sicilian Defence

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      The Sicilian Defence is an opening very rich in independent variations to the extent that it is always mentioned along with the mainline variation that follows. Black's purpose of playing 1...c5 is to undermine white's center by taking cont... Read More »

  • Benko, Pal

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    Pal Benko was in Amiens, France on Jul 15, 1928 but grew up in Budapest, Hungary. Benko learned chess from his father in 1938, at the age of 10.  His first book was a collection of Capablanca’s chess games. In June 1945, in his first chess to... Read More »

  • Chess prodigy

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    A chess prodigy is a chess player that is very young yet can play chess very well. A chess prodigy can beat masters at an early age. Many chess prodigies become famous and some suddenly quit sadly. Here is a list of great chess prodigies: 1. Paul... Read More »

  • Sicilian Najdorf

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    The Najdorf Variation belongs to the Sicilian Defence family of openings and is the sharpest and most analysed opening of chess. Many famous World Champions have extensively used this opening, including Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov. Read More »

  • Evans, Larry

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    Larry Melvyn Evans (March 22, 1932 – November 15, 2010) was an  was an American Chess Grandmaster, author and journalist. He won or shared the U.S. Open Chess Championship five times and the U.S. Open Chess Championship four times.  He won or ... Read More »