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GM Gserper | Pictures of a chess board and chess pieces are very popular in ads for banks, insurance companies and similar businesses. The companies want to underline their wisdom and strategic thinking. Unlike dice, cards, and other games of chance, chess is a game of skill and a stronger opponent generally beats a weaker opponent. I could be totally wrong here, but it seems to m... | Read More

GM dbojkov | GM Melik Khachiyan's student, WIM Ashritha Eswaran, turned in an excellent performance at the 2016 Continental Women's Championship in Lima, Peru. Khachiyan brings you her topsy-turvy last-round game in which the advantage shifts back and forth before culminating in an incredible mating net. | Read More

NM SamCopeland | GM Ian Nepomniachtchi began the Baku Olympiad with an incredible 7.0/7 before suffering a defeat at the hands of eventual gold medal winner, GM Wesley So. He seems to have continued his form into the Tal Memorial where he began the event by demolishing his Olympiad teammate GM Evgeny Tomashevsky in only 23 moves. Photo Eteri Kublashvili. Between today's victory and his Olympi... | 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