Cover photo from Agon Limited “To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.” – David Bronstein It’s 2016, it’s World Championship year, and on March 10th, 8 of the world’s top players will meet in Mosc...
“Variety is the spice of life.” – William Cowper Yet again, another online post by a chess master has got the chess town talking once again. IM Greg Shahade posted on his blog an article called “Slow Chess should die a fast death”, where he sound...
“If you are interested in improving, think of a draw offer as an offer to remain ignorant of what you would have learned in the remainder of the game.” - Dan Heisman Welcome back! When I did part 1 of this blog, I was looking at how the time con...
I know that at the start, I meant for this to be a statistical based blog, but I wanted to share my opinions of a topic that has been the talk of the chess world in the last few days. GM Magnus Carlsen, the World No.1 and the current World Champi...
Welcome all to my new blog! I’ve been thinking of creating a blog for some time now, but it’s only been recently that I found the time to put one together. I had many ideas of what to write about, but I finally settled on a blog about the statist...
