On our first anniversary we've set a new club record: 24 players are taking part in our team match. The previous biggest match was against Acropolis where we fielded 23 players: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/nabokovs-dozen/755076 ...
Our club is now one year old, the first season is over. We have 64 members - a very special number for chess. Five of them are titled players: FM Er_is_geen_hoop_meer, FM chuddog, FM CountOfMonteCristo, NM Petrosianic and NM chessking2151. But o...
On the photo: another Nabokov surrounded by teammates. I can announce 3 results of our team matches: we beat The Capablanca Club, we lost to Alekhine Chess Club (it was our second team match and we were not as strong as we are now) and we also lo...
I organize the series of 16 tournaments named after World Chess Champions: Chess Legends Grand Prix (or CL Grand Prix). All tournaments will be for players in the rating group 1600-2000. Why did I choose this rating span? If you play regularly, t...
In February we started tournaments in 3 rating groups and I can announce the first winners now. In the Nabokov Tribute tournament (max. rating 1600) our shooting star AniketDawadikar5 was a clear winner. He scored 9,5 points out of 10 and t-hobbe...
As you may know we challenged both Spassky and Fischer teams simultaneously to commemorate the great World Championship match held 45 years ago. I wonder which team will perform better against us. Boris Spassky Chess Club outrated us significantly...
This chess problem was composed by Vladimir Nabokov in Montreux, Switzerland, March 22, 1965, and published in The Trinity Review, Cambridge, England, 1969. As a picture for this article I chose a photo of a chess tournament at Trinity College in...
On April the 23rd Nabokov has a birthday and we are starting four tournaments in different rating groups to celebrate it! Nabokov Happy Beginners (< 1500): https://www.chess.com/tournament/nabokov-happy-beginners Nabokov Amateurs (1500-1700):...
We've achieved our next milestone: our team counts 51 players now! Four of them are titled players: FM chuddog, FM CountOfMonteCristo, NM Petrosianic and NM chessking2151. But our most valuable player is ElFeroz05 (Timur Dandamaev) who has a FIDE...
In January we had some strong newbies, 7 of them are helping us in the match against ACROPOLIS. I'd like to introduce this Magnificient Seven! Catholic_Knight: José from the USA is a chess.com member since 2 years, he's a good tactician and ...
The match against ACROPOLIS is out biggest team match so far. It's being played at 23 boards, exactly have of the games (23 out of 46) are already over and it's tied: the score is 11,5:11,5. Two accounts in each team have been closed for violatin...
Below you see the solution to the Problem 1 published last week. The next chess problem was composed by Vladimir Nabokov in Montreux, Switzerland, March 1, 1965 (the picture was made in Montreux too). He says about the problem: "In this ...
I'm going to post chess problems composed by Vladimir Nabokov and published in his book "Poems and Problems". The one you see below was composed in Paris, mid-May 1940 (just before the Nazi invasion, the picture displays Paris in the thirties). Na...
This game is from our match versus The Capablanca Club. One of our best players ElFeroz05 could lose, but his opponent made a blunder allowing a knight sacrifice with the checkmate on the back-rank. It was a lucky escape!
This game was played in our match versus the Alekhine Chess Club. At the first board ElFeroz05 demonstrated the strength of two bishops in the endgame trapping the opponent's knight.
I plan to post the most beautiful tactics from our team matches. I start with our match versus The Capablanca Club. At the first board our star Qwestor11 trapped the opponent's knight in a beautiful combination which I would like to share with you...
On the picture you see the house in St. Petersburg where Vladimir Nabokov was born. He left St. Petersburg when he was 18 and never came back. In his stories, poems and novels he described his imaginary visit to the home city with every tiny detai...
In the Chess Legends Series the Murphy Club declined our challenge, but its admin sent us a challenge from his another team ACROPOLIS - this group has a very high average rating. If we can beat them, we can beat anyone. Please join the match: http...
On February the 4th we start our Nabokov Tribute Tournaments in 3 rating groups: 1201-1600, 1601-1800, 1801-2300. Each tournament has only 6 players. According to the rules of Chess.com, any tournament with fewer than 8 players will only have 1 w...
At the beginning of this month our first team match finished. We started it in September when there were only three of us: Dmitry, Masha and me. The match was tough, but it seems we wanted the win more than our opponents who lost half of their gam...
The film Luzhin’s Defence is based on Nabokov's chess novel amd contains a sacrificial combination, for the conception of which the British grandmaster Jonathan Speelman acted as adviser to the Dutch director Marleen Gorris. You can replay the c...
We've achieved the first milestone: our team counts 30 members now! 11 of them represent Russia, 8 represent the USA. We also have teammates from Netherlands, Philippines, UK, Indonesia, Canada, Bulgaria, Brazil, Spain, Italy and Ukraine. The ...
January - continue our Chess Legend Series (https://www.chess.com/news/view/chess-legends-series-3973) and challenge The Capablanca Club. We started these series a month ago by challenging The Alekhine Chess Club: https://www.chess.com/club/matche...
This is a Nabokov family photograph made almost a century ago. And this is symbolically how I see our team. If you have friends on chess.com who would like to join "the Nabokovs", please recruite them
Dear friends, my plan is to start the series of matches against teams named after chess legends. We've challenged The Alekhine Chess Club already, hopefully our opponents will field a good team. Please join the match: https://www.chess.com/groups...
