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Winning Starts For Anand, Kramnik, Giri In Tata Steel

Winning Starts For Anand, Kramnik, Giri In Tata Steel

NM SamCopeland 2 hrs ago

Two Tata Steel veterans seized winning starts in the 80th edition of the tournament. Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand each won nice games with White—against Wei Yi and Maxim Matlakov respectively. Joining them in the lead is Anish Giri, the last player to finish today. Also winning with White, he crafted some nice pitfalls for Hou Yifan in a king and pawn endgame. Tata Steel Masters The first to finish today was Anand who is continuing his excellent 2017 form which culminated in victory...

80th Tata Steel Starts Saturday With Chess.com Broadcast

80th Tata Steel Starts Saturday With Chess.com Broadcast

PeterDoggers 1 day ago

The 80th Tata Steel Chess Tournament was officially opened on Friday. Tomorrow's top games in the first round are Carlsen-Caruana and So-Mamedyarov. Once again the live broadcast is proudly powered by Chess.com. The new year has just started and this means that it's time for one of the biggest chess events of the year: the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Its first edition was in 1938, a modest four-player all-play-all that has grown into a huge festival that is now held for the 80th time. The field...

My Favorite U.S. Chess Magazines, Part 2

My Favorite U.S. Chess Magazines, Part 2

IM Silman 1 day ago

CHESS LIFE Chess Life, of course, has had its good times and bad times; the late 1970s brought about a cut in the page-count while the Fischer drop in membership forced austerity, including removing many columnists. It never came close to its glory days again. However, we are looking at its best years—1961 until the the merger (Chess Life and Review) in late 1969. To show what Chess Life had to offer, I randomly grabbed a stack and ended up with 1962. It’s been a long time and I was...

Bartholomew Beats Trent In Successful Death Match

Bartholomew Beats Trent In Successful Death Match

PeterDoggers 3 days ago

Taking part in yesterday's Death Match was more important than winning. IM Lawrence Trent, who lost 6-18 to IM John Bartholomew, will uphold the Olympic thought, supported by the dozens of donors who gave over $2,000 during the show. "This is one of the most exciting events we've ever done," said IM Danny Rensch, who hosted the Death Match's live broadcast on Chess.com/TV. He was referring to the amazing generosity by the viewers, who donated a total of $2,100, which came on top of the prize...

The Julien Levy Gallery

The Julien Levy Gallery

batgirl 3 days ago

       Chess as Art had been debated over and over.  Whether or not the Chess is Art, there does seems to be some affinity between the two disciplines.  Marcel Duchamp, a devotee to both, explained that it was the complexity inherent in each that formed the bridge.   Whatever the case, it's intriguing to observe the interplay between art and chess on its many levels.      Due in large part to Marcel Duchamp, the most intense connection between...

Kasparov Exclusive: His MasterClass, St. Louis, AlphaZero

Kasparov Exclusive: His MasterClass, St. Louis, AlphaZero

FM MikeKlein 3 days ago

Garry Kasparov had a busy spring and summer of 2017 in which he recorded his MasterClass and then participated, after a 12-year absence from competitive chess, in the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament. While he's been on television much recently to discuss politics, his passion is still the game that made him famous. In an exclusive interview for Chess.com, he speaks about all matters relating to chess. The interview was conducted in late December in Kasparov's new office atop a New...

What If Chess Pieces Were Cryptocurrencies?

What If Chess Pieces Were Cryptocurrencies?

pete 3 days ago

Cryptocurrency mania is surely upon us. Interest in these digital assets has soared like great blooming tulips, and prices have grown even higher. You can't turn on CNBC for more than a few minutes without seeing someone talking excitedly about Bitcoin or Ethereum. The collective market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies has surged over $700 billion, making them together more valuable than all but one public corporation on earth.  Trading these cryptocurrencies takes both luck and skill,...

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