The fourth round of the Xtracon Open in Denmark featured a fantastic game by Danish/American IM Kassa Korley. He had the black pieces against super solid Ukranian GM Alexander Moiseenko. Moiseenko had a peak rating of 2726 in 2011 and is a very experienced and strong GM. With the game starting off as a Queen Gambit Declined one wouldn't exactly expect fireworks.....wrong!
One could say the game became interesting when Kassa went for an unusual knight maneuvre getting his b8 knight to e6 via...
Hikaru Nakamura was eliminated from the FIDE World Cup after failing to win his return game with Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. The Chinese GM Xu Xiangyu surprised again by knocking out Ernesto Inarkiev while Alireza Firouzja played a brilliant piece sacrifice.
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GMs Yasser Seirawan, Eric Hansen and Aman Hambleton are covering the tournament each day...
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The number of books written about chess is tremendous. While that can be great for the chess world, it poses practical issues for many fans. Most chess players have their own favorites, but how do you know which books belong on your shelf?
Here are the top 10 classic chess books that every fan should know.
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer
How to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman
My System by Aron Nimzowitsch
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The Stockfish project usually releases a new version (Stockfish 8, 9, 10) after about 50 Elo of improvement. But in the meantime, there is constant updating and patching and testing. So while your HomeFish sits unchanged for months, there is a 'development' version of Stockfish constantly improving. Usually we call it SFdev. Versions are numbered by DDMMYYYY, so today's is 15092019. These are all possible to download so...
Hikaru Nakamura started his second round at the FIDE World Cup with a loss and needs to beat Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu on Saturday to stay in the tournament. Spectacular attacks and special endgames were played in this round.
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GMs Yasser Seirawan, Eric Hansen and Aman Hambleton are covering the tournament each day on their channel Twitch.tv/Chessbrah....
Ask any chess player to name a grandmaster who deserved to be the world champion but never became one, and you will get a list of the usual suspects.
Bronstein, Korchnoi and Keres will be on the top of the list, and then it becomes very subjective. I've even seen Rashid Nezhmetdinov make such a list on Reddit. While Nezhmetdinov is one of my favorite players, it is fair to say that he was never even close to the world title.
One player who really deserves to be on the list but usually...
Michael Adams, Bu Xiangzhi and Sam Shankland are some of the players that were eliminated from the FIDE World Cup in the tiebreaks of the first round. Round two starts on Friday.
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GMs Yasser Seirawan, Eric Hansen and Aman Hambleton are covering the tournament each day on their channel Twitch.tv/Chessbrah. Play starts at 3 p.m. local time,...
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