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IM Silman | This article is about four interesting positions. Much of this is moderately advanced to very advanced, so hold onto your hats and see if you can meet the storm head-on! I've also discovered some incredible tactical possibilities in one of our tests. You'll know which one it is since when you see it your mind will (figuratively but, hopefully, not physically) explode in awe. The fir... | Read More

GM Ginger_GM | GM Simon Williams explores the much misunderstood role of diagonals in the attack with two brilliancies. Can you find the key diagonals and how two of the greatest players ever, David Bronstein and Akiba Rubinstein, exploited them? | Read More

GM SultanOfKings | With the Play Live Challenge on Thursday as the highlight, this week GM Magnus Carlsen is touring the east coast of the U.S. where he is playing lawyers and ambassadors and attending the Queen of Katwe Premiere. GM Jon Ludvig Hammer reports from New York. Carlsen at IS 318 as Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg watches| Photo Cara Metz. It’s only seven more ... | Read More

ijgeoffrey | Often, it can be very easy to focus on the games where we played exceptionally well, but the truth is that not all games are so pretty. In order to truly get a good picture of your own skill, it is important to analyze all your games--even the ones that make you cringe. So for this week's analysis, I dug deep into my own archives and pulled out a game from a year and a half ago. Compared to today,... | Read More