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4th Negros Closed Chess Championship 2014 Rd.5 NM Acaling vs Fritz 12 Kings Indian Defense For the first time in four years, the championship of our Province included an engine. The sponsors of the event wanted to test the mettle of o...
MIKHAIL TAL’S STARE was infamous, and to some ominous. With his deep brown, almost black eyes, he’d glare so intently at his opponents that some said he was attempting to hypnotize them into making a vapid move. The Hungarian-American player Pal B...
Remembering the 1990 Manila Inter-Zonal Chess Championship... Few young players knew how strong GM Boris Gelfand was and still is. In 1989 he won the GMA Open in Palma de Mallorca which was participated by more than 160 grandmasters! An amazin...
Art, Creativity and Beauty in Chess Beauty itself cannot be perceived. We have no physical sense for it in particular. We can only perceive elements, which in their combination, in their ratio of composition trigger a feeling of beauty in us.In ...
Remembering the 2001 Philippine Open Chess Championships The 2001 Philippine Open (Semi-Finals) was one of the most interesting chess events of the early 21'st Century. And not only because of the excellent start and sensational collapse of NM R...
