The Chessboard Of The World: 1940-1960

The Chessboard Of The World: 1940-1960

VOB96
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Hello, friends! It's time to read another blog! Today, we will continue the series relating the chess scenario to some of the most significant events in history. The aim of this post is to explore how our beloved game evolved during the same per...

Defending The Honor Of The Reversed Grunfeld

Defending The Honor Of The Reversed Grunfeld

NM CoachJKane
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Hello chess friends, I haven't been blogging much lately, but today I came across a crazy statement by a great writer, GM Matthew Sadler and felt I had to respond. In his book Re-engineering the Chess Classics, Sadler briefly describes the ...

Coach’s Corner: Efstratios Grivas

Coach’s Corner: Efstratios Grivas

Chessable
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Efstratios Grivas was 13 years old when he learned to play chess. A few weeks later, he entered his first competition, a round-robin youth tournament at the Kallithea Chess Club.  Thirteen games later, he had suffered thirteen crushi...

ChessEver

ChessEver

GM Durarbayli
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Want a better way to follow chess? I did too. So I created ChessEver: simple, elegant, and to the point. View games and prepare for your own. Don’t miss our first move, sign up now! Update: What sets @chesseverapp apart from existing che...

Loser's POV? Fritz Riemann (1873-1888)

Loser's POV? Fritz Riemann (1873-1888)

Steakanator
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Now accepting suggestions for a better title. As expected, Amos Burn won the vote (albeit by a smaller margin than I anticipated) given in our previous discussion (see here) and thus he moves on while we say goodbye to Fritz Riemann. Seeing as t...

Deceptive mate-in-one problems

Deceptive mate-in-one problems

Rocky64
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By convention, directmate problems are solved from White’s perspective, and over time the stipulated task of “White to play and forces mate in N moves” has become abbreviated to “Mate in N.” An even more basic convent...

Offer A Pyrrhic Victory And Win The Game

Offer A Pyrrhic Victory And Win The Game

raync910
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Have you played a game when the opponent offered you a surprising sacrifice, and you took it and lost the game? You just succumbed to the legacy of King Pyrrhus. Here’s what you need to know to avoid such an experience again (or to trick an ...

A Century of Chess: Emanuel Lasker (1920-29)

A Century of Chess: Emanuel Lasker (1920-29)

kahns
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I think of Lasker's career in a few distinct stages. Before 1894, he's the upstart, a young coffee klatsch Berliner playing a kind of un-genteel but unstoppable chess. From 1894 to 1900, he's the usurper, the legitimate world c...

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