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Remembering Svetozar Gligoric: 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012
Remembering Svetozar Gligoric: 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012
Today, chess legend Svetozar Gligoric, who passed away in 2012, would have turned 100 years old. In World War II he fought as a partisan against the Germans, and after the war he became one of the world's best chess[…]
Feb 2, 2023 | 12:00 pm
Natasha Rogoff: Muppets in Moscow
Natasha Rogoff: Muppets in Moscow
Who doesn't know Sesame Street, the American educational children's television series that premiered in 1969 and runs on animation and puppetry. It is one of the longest-running shows in history. And it has been adapted for dozens of other countries.[…]
Feb 2, 2023 | 09:00 am
MIT Study Finds Chess Players Perform Worse When Air Quality Is Low
MIT Study Finds Chess Players Perform Worse When Air Quality Is Low
With the start of the 2023 Airthings Masters just around the corner, chess fans may already be expecting a renewed focus on how air quality affects players.
After all, the first event of the new $2 million Champions Chess Tour[…]
Feb 2, 2023 | 08:10 am
The Valencia variation in the Scandinavian
The Valencia variation in the Scandinavian
Since the early 21st century, the consensus among specialized historians is that the birth of modern chess took place in the ancient Kingdom of Valencia. Francesc Vicent was the author of the first known treatise on modern chess, the ‘Llibre[…]
Feb 1, 2023 | 21:23 pm
Deac Edges Out Carlsen After Nakamura Wins Another
Deac Edges Out Carlsen After Nakamura Wins Another
For the third week in a row, GM Hikaru Nakamura took home first place in a Titled Tuesday tournament. This week it earned him $2,000 of a $5,000 prize fund in the early event on January 31. Normal prizes resumed[…]
Feb 1, 2023 | 16:43 pm
Nepo and Ding swap places before match
Nepo and Ding swap places before match
Ian Nepomniachtchi is up to a career high world no. 2 on the February 2023 FIDE rating list after his World Championship opponent Ding Liren dropped 23 rating points to world no. 3. Tata Steel Masters winner Anish Giri climbed[…]
Feb 1, 2023 | 14:14 pm
FIDE ratings February 2023
FIDE ratings February 2023
At the beginning of February FIDE published the new world ranking list. Magnus Carlsen, who continues to be clear number one, lost a few rating points in Wijk, but increased the Elo gap to Ding Liren, who lost even more[…]
Feb 1, 2023 | 14:00 pm
Battle Against The A.I. Bots!
Battle Against The A.I. Bots!
What if I told you that Chess.com, as you know it, is nothing but a lie? That the moves you play, the blunders you make... that the whole website is nothing but a prison designed to keep us from winning[…]
Feb 1, 2023 | 13:56 pm
Russian Chess Federation Applies For Asia Switch As Row With Europe Deepens
Russian Chess Federation Applies For Asia Switch As Row With Europe Deepens
Russia's powerhouse chess federation, the biggest in the world, is pressing on with its historic move to formally switch from the European Chess Union (ECU) to Asia, it was revealed on Tuesday.
In the latest development in a row that[…]
Feb 1, 2023 | 08:41 am
Anish Giri wins his 1st Tata Steel Masters
Anish Giri wins his 1st Tata Steel Masters
Anish Giri, five times the runner-up in Wijk aan Zee, has won the 85th edition of Tata Steel Chess after pouncing on a blunder by Richard Rapport while Jorden van Foreest took down long-term leader Nodirbek Abdusattorov. Magnus Carlsen beat[…]
Jan 29, 2023 | 23:34 pm
Tata Steel 12: Abdusattorov on brink as Carlsen misses win
Tata Steel 12: Abdusattorov on brink as Carlsen misses win
Nodirbek Abdusattorov is a draw against Jorden van Foreest away from at least a playoff for the Tata Steel Masters title after he drew against Wesley So in Round 12. Anish Giri, who could have caught him, survived by the[…]
Jan 29, 2023 | 08:36 am
Tata Steel Masters 11: Maghsoodloo beats Pragg
Tata Steel Masters 11: Maghsoodloo beats Pragg
Praggnanandhaa surprised Parham Maghsoodloo on move 8 of the Najdorf but still slumped to a 3rd defeat in four games. That was the only decisive game in Round 11 of the Tata Steel Masters, as Nodirbek Abdusattorov kept the lead[…]
Jan 27, 2023 | 23:48 pm
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