William Sonneborn Ranks the 1880s

William Sonneborn Ranks the 1880s

Steakanator
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This is quite possibly the most dry post I'll ever make. I beg you to bear with me, despite all of the seemingly useless arithmetic, I'm going somewhere important with all of this. In February of 1886, the mathematician William Sonneborn shared,...

IDEA OF THE WEEK #14: Capablanca – Fonaroff

IDEA OF THE WEEK #14: Capablanca – Fonaroff

IM MatBobula
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Capablanca – Fonaroff is a great example of how to bring all your pieces into play. Capablanca slowly builds up pressure, then finishes the game with a clean combination. Want to get more lessons like this? Sign up for my newsletter!Ever...

Summer Study Streak Challenge!

Summer Study Streak Challenge!

Chessable
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Summer is upon us!  But…you don’t really want to go…outside, do you? It’s hot out there. And there’s chess to be played! As Sheldon Cooper once said, “If outside is so great, then why has mankind...

IDEA OF THE WEEK #13: Andersson vs. Karpov

IDEA OF THE WEEK #13: Andersson vs. Karpov

IM MatBobula
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This position comes from the game Ulf Andersson vs. Karpov (1995). Ulf Andersson is a Swedish grandmaster, and there was a saying about him that he was so good at endgames, if a chess game started without queens, he'd easily become world champion....

Winner's POV: London 1889

Winner's POV: London 1889

Steakanator
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In Winner's POV, we take a look at tournaments from the 19th century and see the games that allowed the top player to prevail. Some tournaments will be known and famous, others will be more obscure - in a time period where competition is scarce, I...

My Around-the-World Journey With Chess.com

My Around-the-World Journey With Chess.com

FM MikeKlein
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Most people probably see me as a chess player, chess teacher, or chess journalist, and those are all true, but I've always thought of myself more as a traveler. Even before my current job, I'd been living on planes and trains for a lot of my adult...

Checkmated by Power: Times When Chess Was Banned

Checkmated by Power: Times When Chess Was Banned

VOB96
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Hello, dear readers! Today, I would like to talk about something that might sound absurd, especially to us chess enthusiasts. Believe it or not, our beloved game has been banned for various reasons in different parts of the world at different ti...

A Century of Chess: Aron Nimzowitsch (1920-29)

A Century of Chess: Aron Nimzowitsch (1920-29)

kahns
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Nimzowitsch entered the 1920s as one of the strongest players in the world, known for his eccentric style — and then disappeared for several years. The chaos of the war years affected him deeply. He left Riga during the Civil War, lived in G...

Questioning Non-Chess Players

Questioning Non-Chess Players

Lightning
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Hello there, welcome to the Lightning Reports! At long last, I am reviving my Questioning Non-Chess Players About Chess series! I never expected this to do as well as it has. I posted the first blog (you’ll have to go through my blogs to fin...

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