The generational meme wars are heating up as "OK, boomer" (often with the necessary comma omitted) is now a catch-all reply to trump any disagreement between the young and old.
This unstoppable meme has made its way across the Internet, all over Twitch, and even (dare we say it?) into "real life."
As the popular phrase throws the spotlight on the boomers (born 1946-1964), let's rank the best chess players from this large and important post-war generation.
While this era of chess was thoroughly...
Alexander Grischuk is the first finalist of the the FIDE Grand Prix in Hamburg after beating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the second game of the semifinals. Daniil Dubov and Jan-Krzysztof Duda drew again, and will play a tiebreak on Wednesday.
It was a highly important victory for Grischuk, who is playing his last event in the FIDE Grand Prix series. He is now strongly leading the overall standings with 17 points, and he can reach a maximum of 21 points if he wins the Hamburg final...
Chess is a very complicated game that requires utmost concentration. Therefore most of the time chess players have a very serious facial expression.
I doubt that a fianchettoed bishop or a semi-open file would make many people laugh. Yet there is a certain positional element that inevitably makes chess players smile. Regardless of the rating or age, chess players start grinning whenever such a situation appears on a chessboard. I am talking about tripled pawns.
I remember the first...
How does a grandmaster think compared to a lower-level chess master? Watch this informative new series where WFM Alexandra Botez analyzes positions before passing the baton to GM Daniel Naroditsky for his thoughts.
Dear Chess Friends!
Thank you for participation in my Simultaneous Exhibition and now I’m glad to invite you to my 11th webinar “How to Play against French Defense: Winawer Variation”.
Of course, you know that Winawer Variation is one of the most competitive lines of French Defense. This line is well-known by irrational positions that it can lead to. That’s why to be able to play this variation properly you should know which moves to play in this or that concrete sideline,...
The top two players in the world, Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, will meet in January for the 2020 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. With Anish Giri and Ian Nepomniachtchi, the field of the masters has four players from the current world's top 10.
For Carlsen it will be the 16th (!) time that he'll play in Wijk aan Zee, the small town at the Dutch coast that has been hosting the tournament since 1968. Before that, the tournament was held in Beverwijk between 1938 and 1967.
Carlsen has won the tournament...
How strong was Samuel Reshevsky in his prime?
Well, he won the U.S. championship eight times, the same number as Bobby Fischer. Reshevsky also played eight times in the Chess Olympiads (six times on first board).
Was he good enough to battle the chess greats? Yes. He beat (often many times) David Janowski, Efim Bogoljubov, Jose Raul Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker, Savielly Tartakower, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Salo Flohr, Paul Keres, Vasily Smyslov,Svetozar Gligoric,...
Jan-Krzysztof Duda vs. Daniil Dubov and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs. Alexander Grischuk, the first two games of the FIDE Grand Prix in Hamburg semifinals, both ended in draws. The return games will be played on Tuesday.
At a press conference in the Central Chess Club in Moscow, the exact dates of some major chess events for 2020 in Russia were announced today:
FIDE Candidates' Tournament: March 11-April 5 in Yekaterinburg.
FIDE Congress, Chess Paralympiad and General...
Judit Polgar, the strongest female chess player of all time, speaks to David Cox about growing up as part of her father Laszlo's groundbreaking educational experiment, the famous touch-move controversy when she played Garry Kasparov in 1994 and why no other woman in chess history has come close to her achievements.
Polgar’s life was never going to be ordinary. Few athletes have grown up as part of a revolutionary educational experiment, one which is still discussed by psychologists today...
