Jeroen van de Weijer Should we still be playing suicide chess (also known as ‘antichess’, ‘losing chess’, etc.)? After all, computer analysis by Mark Watkins (University of Sydney) has recently shown that White wins (1 e3!) against all defences. In my view, this should…
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Kirsan’s Election Slogans “Chess FIDE Fidelity” (2006) “One World, One Vision” (2010) “FIDE First”, “Onward and Upward” (2014) “I Have My Friends, I Have My Lawyers” (2018) See also Ilyumzhinov to Run for FIDE President in 2018 Ilyumzhinov Loses Even More Power as FIDE…
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Read More‘PUBLIC TESTIMONIAL to H. STAUNTON, Esq.—The services which have for a long series of years been rendered by Mr Staunton to the cause of Chess are generally known. His skill as a player has only raised for himself a reputation that is as yet unrivalled,…
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Read MoreH.E. Bird: A Chess Biography with 1,198 Games Hans Renette 608 pages | hardback | 150 illustrations | 1,198 games | $75.00 Jefferson: McFarland, 2016 Adrian Harvey During the period after 1860 three British chess players had a plausible claim to be in…
Read MoreMeanwhile Kirsan Ilyumzhinov makes a bold move to save FIDE from bankruptcy.
Read MoreIntriguing. Tell us more. Count me in. I knew there’d be a catch! Let me check my diary. . . Sorry, but I’m already committed to the East Grinstead Rapidplay. See also Struggle
Read More‘No one can remember the late Tigran Petrosian’s accepting an unsound sacrifice. It was really a waste of time to throw the gauntlet down before him because he did not possess an ounce of that defiant pride that drives others to refute an opponent’s every…
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