Saturday, December 10, 2016
How Did He Manage to Lose?
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Friday, December 9, 2016
Peter Thiel, Chess Master...among other things
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I remember seeing the name Peter Thiel appearing in Chess Life years ago and remembered him as a promising young player, but then he...
Thursday, December 8, 2016
Found this deep in My Games Database
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Today the temperature is stuck on 28 degrees and we are having our first snow...a light lake effect snow. Yesterday was dark, cold ...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Henry Hookham
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Hookham (October 22, 1824 - November 24, 1898 in Christchurch, 74 years old) was a New Zealand champion in a bygone era.. He was bor...
Monday, December 5, 2016
Susan Polgar's Suggested Changes to World Championship
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Ms Polgar has long been persona non grata with the United States Chess Federation because of a dispute dating back to 2008. A...
The Amazing Zoltan Sarosy
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This Canadian chess Hall of Famer, inducted into the HOF in 2006 at age 99, was born in Budapest on August 23, 1906. There was...
Saturday, December 3, 2016
A Spectacular Piece Sacrifice in a World Correspondence Championship Game!!
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Fake stories and headlines designed to titillate are proliferating on the internet, social network sites, newspapers and TV and the...
Friday, December 2, 2016
A Stunning Queen Sacrifice by Sergei Prokofiev
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Sergei Prokofiev (April 23, 1891 – March 5, 1953) was a Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of masterpieces across...
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Necrology
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Mark Taimanov (1926) died at the age of 90 in his hometown St. Petersburg on the 28th and 20-year-old Russian GM Urii Eliseev died a...
How To Evaluate Threats
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C.J.S. Purdy founded and edited the magazine Australasian Chess Review from 1929 to 1944 when it became Check which morphed into Ch...
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