Below is another excerpt from Chessays: Travels Through the World of Chess, Chapter 6, Far Transfer (visit our website for more details HERE) (...) And now, I’m convinced, we’re finally onto somethin...
Below is another excerpt from Chessays: Travels Through the World of Chess, Chapter 6, Far Transfer (visit our website for more details HERE) (...) And if the case of Armenia doesn’t independently win ...
Below is another excerpt from Chessays: Travels Through the World of Chess, Chapter 6, Far Transfer: (...) Whenever you encounter a “chess should be a mandatory part of the school curriculum” type, two things will become...
I began these blog posts with a series on FIDE, not because I am particularly FIDE-obsessed and spend every spare moment of my life fulminating against the current world chess organization (I recently made a 4-hour documentary series on the socioc...
As we scramble out of the politicized morass of the last post, it’s worth pausing for a moment to retrace our steps before moving towards the conclusion of our somewhat intense journey. I began, you may recall, with the recognition that, b...
To begin on a relatively upbeat note (we’re going to need it), it should be pointed out that Arkady Dvorkovich is clearly the most able president that FIDE has had in the past 40 years. But then, given that his predecessors were the notoriou...
I must confess that I have never understood why the world chess championship is so broadly considered to be as essential to the current professional chess culture as it seems to be. Of course, I definitely see the value of a competitive structure ...
Now that we know what FIDE officially believes its own mission is—to be the “governing body of the sport of chess and regulate all international chess competitions”—we can move forward to address the question: Is it actuall...
Last week I had the pleasure of chatting with the wonderfully congenial Ben Johnson for his Perpetual Chess podcast, discussing my just-released 4-part documentary Through the Mirror of Chess: A Cultural Exploration, together with Chessays, the ac...
