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Analyze the consequences of the Lions-Vikings draft trade
After the Detroit Lions selected homegrown Aidan Hutchinson, the 2nd overall pick, most thought they could relax and enjoy the rest of the draft until the Lions made their selection with the final first-round pick.
General Manager Brad…
5 Incredible Chess Prodigies You’ve Never Heard Of
Morphy. Capablanca. Fischer. Most chess fans know these legendary names. Other young players, like GM Abhimanyu Mishra or ChessChild FM Tani Adewumi, are known to chess fans right now and we're waiting to see how…
The Mega Chess Championship begins in Jammu. 34th National MPL Boys and Girls U10 Event Begins
Srinagar, April 26: (KNS) In what is proving to be one of the mega chess events in J&K's union territory history, the 34th MPL U-10 National Chess Championship has kicked off today in Jammu. More than 500 participants, including…
Russia blocks chess site about Ukraine
Published on: 04/24/2022 - 15:24
Moscow (AFP) - The popular site Chess.com has been blocked in Russia after publishing two articles critical of the situation in Ukraine, which…
Putin: Putin plays poker, not chess, there won’t be a 2-2 draw: Kasparov
NEW DELHI: Garry Kasparov, a rare voice of reason in modern sport, has once again chosen to portray Russia's aggression of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin's maneuvers as anything but failures. The Russian grandmaster, former world champion,…
F1 news LIVE: Emilia-Romagna GP set as ‘ticking time bomb’ Max Verstappen tipped for…
(Getty Pictures)Follow all the latest news and reactions from the world of F1 as the teams prepare for the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix.It's still about trying to fix the kinks and stop the porpoising for several drivers, with Mercedes…
Aronian takes the knockout: Rapid Chess Championship Week 10
GM Levon Aronian won week 10 of the 2022 Rapid Chess Championship presented by Coinbasedefeating GM Alexander Grischuk in the knockout final.
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the Swiss tournament and qualified for the semi-finals with GM…
Freedom, chess and Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller has, in my mind, always been associated with chess, ever since I became familiar with his ideas about the nature of the game. Identifying in fact a specific and unmistakable reference to chess in Schiller…
Pragg defeats Gukesh after sudden turn to win Reykjavik Open
Abhimanyu impresses
As noted in our first Reykjavik Open report, a considerable percentage of registered attendees were players aged 16 or under, as the 50% reduction on their entry fee was an effective move by…
Will NATO allow Ukraine to make peace?
After World War II, the international community created a global management system called the United Nations. Its purpose was to prevent nuclear wars; the first committee created by the main players was the “Nuclear…
New Panthers Esports Team Wins State Tournament | News, Sports, Jobs
Sue Sitter/PCT Members of Rugby High School's new eSports team pose with their general manager, Johnny Skipper. From left to right are Kenyon…
Matthias Bluebaum wins the 2022 European Championship
GM Matthias Bluebaum won the 2022 European Championship in Terme Catez, Slovenia on Wednesday. The German grandmaster edged out GM Gabriel Sargissian in the tiebreaker. Bronze went to 2018 GM champion Ivan Saric of Croatia.…
Chess gives Afghan refugee children a taste of home
RALEIGH, NC (WFSB) – Afghan refugee children are adjusting to a new life in the United States by playing a game originating in their home country.While the Taliban once banned the game of chess, an elementary school in North Carolina uses…
OPINION: Social and mental health benefits of playing board games | Opinion
The first time I learned to play chess was with a Mario Kart chess kit that my college friend had. The next…
Tennis: Ten things you didn’t know about Carlos Alcaraz: Passion for chess, naps, n°3…
VSArlos Alcaraz is one of Spain's great sporting hopefuls and he is impressing at 18. He has just reached the final of the Miami Masters. But who is Carlos Alcaraz? Here are 10 things you didn't know about him.Four years with Juan Carlos…
Mamallapuram to host 44th Chess Olympiad in July-August
The ancient coastal city of Mamallapuram, known for its magnificent architecture of the famous kingdom of Pallava, will host the 44th Chess Olympiad from July 27 to August 10, after the international event was moved out of Russia due to its…
Madison Teams Dominate State Chess Championship – The Madison Record
MADISON — After a first day of fast-paced individual action, the Alabama State Chess Championship resumed on March 13 with Madison teams taking home all of the team awards for the tournament.
“Things got even more exciting on…
How chess prodigy Praggnanandhaa played in a cricket-crazed India | Sports News
New Delhi, India - In India, a nation of over a billion people who are mostly cricket-mad, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa was drawn to chess at the age of three.
He watched his sister Vaishali Rameshbabu – enrolled in a chess academy by their…
Chess: Report closes in on candidates as Six-Year-Old Thieves show up in Blackpool | Chess
Richard Rapport is set to claim one of the two remaining spots in the 2022 Candidates after the Hungarian beat Russian Dmitry Andreikin 1.5-0.5 in Belgrade in the second leg of the Fide Grand Prix final. The action now moves on to the…
Uncertainty hangs over Iran nuclear deal
Uncertainty hangs over Iran nuclear deal
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian attends a meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister in Moscow on March 15, 2022. (AFP)
An unexpected casualty of Russia's war on…
4 reasons why people like to play chess
The story of exactly where chess originated or who invented the game is unclear, but what we do know is that it originated in India, around 1500 years ago.
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The game then spread…
Rapid City chess club will host two tournaments | Local
For the first time, K-12 students and adults will participate in an open chess tournament through the Rapid City Scholastic Chess Club.The club will hold its first open tournament from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 19…
Villanova will face Creighton for the Big East title
NEW YORK — There it was, Connecticut's point joining the Big East Conference, a jam-packed Madison Square Garden for a late Friday night game in March... "Let's go Huskies" fills the air in the Garden. UConn fans, much of the 19,812-strong…
10 Best Perry and Dr. Doofenshmirtz Battles
One of the most epic and cohesive parts of Phineas and Ferb was the endless battles between Dr. Doofenshmirtz and Perry the Platypus. Each episode would bring a new initiator, a ridiculous new pet peeve from Doof, and a new way for Perry…
Carmichael Comments: Regrouping – University of North Carolina Athletics
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There's no denying that Friday's ACC Women's Basketball Tournament quarterfinal loss to…
The Winning Academy 7: Why is the threat stronger than its execution?
"The threat is stronger than its execution", is probably the most enigmatic rule of chess culture. I remember that in my teenage years this sentence (attributed to Mr. Nimzowitsch) was repeated to me several…
FIDE Belgrade R5 Grand Prix: Rapport wins and takes the lead in Group C
Sunday's drama was taken care of by Group C, where both matches found winners, most notably by general manager Richard Rapport, who leads by a point in the final lap. In Group A, two draws mean GM Dmitry Andreikin and GM Sam…
“Bleed the Russians in Ukraine as in Afghanistan”
Was Vladimir Putin lured to Ukraine? Did he really imagine it would be an easy two-day outing? Something he didn't factor into his calculation was the years of planning at the Pentagon, Langley and British military…
Ukraine-Russia War Breaking News: Live Updates
ODESSA, Ukraine — After capturing the strategic city of Kherson, Russian forces pushed west Thursday, moving along the southern Black Sea coast toward Odessa. They continued to besiege the critical port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine,…
Poland will not send fighter jets into Ukrainian airspace, says President Andrzej Duda
In London, a sister remembers her brother killed on the Ukrainian front line. In Glasgow, a truck driver receives a call from his wife in Lviv: war has come to their homeland. And in Connecticut, a college professor reflects on Putin's…
The opening ceremony of the second leg of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix series took place in Belgrade
The second leg of the 2022 Fide Grand Prix series has officially opened in Belgrade, Serbia. Over the next 14 days, 16 of the world's best players will attempt to progress through the 2022 GP series in hopes of securing one of the two…
UK will prevent Russia from selling sovereign debt to London, says Liz Truss | Ukraine
Britain will prevent Russia from selling sovereign debt to London as part of a "very serious package" of sanctions that will "inflict pain" on Vladimir Putin, Liz Truss has said.As the Conservative Party came under increasing pressure to…
At 16, India’s great chess hopeful reaches his first peak and defeats his own hero and world…
World champion AS Magnus Carlsen was bewildered with his palms on his face after realizing he was going to lose the eighth round of the Airthings Masters online rapid chess tournament shock waved over his face his future killer R…
Friends, fun and board games are the perfect combination – InForum
WILLMAR, Minn.
— They come in boxes of different sizes, filled with cards, coins, boards, dice and spinners. Some have been around for hundreds of years in one form or another, while…
Glasgow Chess Makers: Our Next Move is Edinburgh and Beyond
IT started as a tribute to their hometown and saw some of Glasgow's most famous landmarks replicated in chess pieces.
The Glasgow-themed chess set became a hit and business boomed for product design graduates Michael…
Sadhwani Takes Week 3 In Arena Kings Season 9
GM Raunak Sadhwani cruised to victory in Week 3 of Arena Kings' ninth season on Wednesday, beating IM Le Tuan Minh in the final 3-2 to deny Le a second straight win .
The semi-finalists were general managers Jose Martinez and…
Berlin 2022 FIDE Grand Prix Final: A memorable first clash ends in a thrilling draw
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Levon Aronian were involved in a memorable clash in the first match of the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix Final First leg in Berlin. Both players had the upper hand at different points in the game which ended in…
What’s in Russia’s World Chess Game for Israel?
Over the past few days, we have been on the brink of historic events centering on Russian President Vladimir Putin's determined decision to bring Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union back into the sphere of influence of…
Center County club teaches residents of all ages how to curl
When State College resident Mark Lachendro saw curling make its official debut at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, he was intrigued - and unlike 80 mph downhill skiing or landing of a double loop on figure skates, he could imagine…
2022 FIDE Grand Prix Berlin Group Tiebreaks: Dominguez, Rapport qualify with quick wins
GM Leinier Dominguez and GM Richard Rapport beat GM Wesley So and GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek respectively in the quick tie-breaking matches with identical 1.5-0.5 wins to reach the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix Semi-Finals at Berlin.…
Nepomniachtchi wins, Shevchenko nearly sweeps title on Tuesday
GM Kirill Shevchenko, who also won the title from Tuesday June 15, 2021, won the early tournament on February 8 and finished third in the late tournament. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the last tournament.
Both players won,…
For the Concio sisters, chess is an opportunity and a way to honor their father
Rick Olivares - Philstar.comFebruary 8, 2022 | 4:04 p.m.
MANILA, Philippines - If you travel the landscape of Filipino chess, aside from the obvious talent and competitiveness, it's safe to say it's a family affair. The Garmas,…
Pasig hits San Juan but loses to Quezon City in PCAP chess
Rick Olivares - Philstar.comFebruary 7, 2022 | 9:55 a.m.
MANILA, Philippines - It's a feel-good time to slay the beast or the predator. But somehow the effort that went into it – the luster – waned by an unlikely loss.
The Pasig King…
FIDE Grand Prix Berlin R1 2022: Wojtaszek, Fedoseev, Aronian start with victories
The first round of the FIDE Grand Prix 2022 saw three decisive matches in an intense start to the group stage of the event. After the first of six doubles round robin matches between players in each group, GM Vladimir Fedoseev…
Can Artificial Intelligence identify your style of play?
AI Unmasks Anonymous Chess Players, Posing Privacy Risks
Software that identifies unique playing styles could lead to better tutorials and games
By Matthew Hutson
Think your bishop's opening, queen's gambit and…
Nakamura wins Arena Kings after Tuesday sweep
General Manager Hikaru Nakamura won Week 1 of Arena Kings Season 9 3-1 in the final knockout game, beating second general manager Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara with one game to spare. Nakamura also swept both Titled Tuesday…
GM Antonio Banners FIDE Rated Fast On Board Chess Tournament
GM Antonio Banners FIDE Rated Fast On Board Chess TournamentThrough Marlon BernardinPhilBoxing.comwed 02 feb 2022MANILA --- 13-time Philippine Open champion Grandmaster Rogelio "Joey" Antonio Jr.…
Battle of the sexes: men are catching up
#GibChess Battle of the Sexes Chess Tournament: Round 6
Team Sabino's top scorer is still their starting header, Sabino Brunello, with 4/6. Sabino made an early peace treaty with Team Pia's top-rated player,…
Chess: Carlsen heads for minimalist victory as Covid strikes at Wijk | Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen is heading for a minimalist win at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee this weekend after the world champion failed to convert a winning round 11 final against Vidit Gujrathi on Friday, the defense accurate India No 2 forced a draw by…
Chess: Carlsen closes in Wijk as women’s team leads Battle of the Sexes
Magnus Carlsen closes in on another victory this weekend as the Norwegian world champion leads Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee by half a point with three sets remaining. The 31-year-old has already won the 'Wimbledon in Chess' seven…
Pesandu wins the 2022 Sri Lanka Chess Grand Prix – The Island
by A special sports correspondent
Taekwondo in Sri Lanka has had a difficult and challenging journey after being introduced to the islanders by Deshamanya master Dr. Cyril Antony on the island on December 12, 1976.
It was the…
Ash Barty prepares for ‘game of chess’ with Jessica Pegula in Australian Open…
During her Australian Open campaign, Ash Barty opened up about how much she loves being challenged.Key points:Barty plays Jessica Pegula in the quarterfinals tonightThe Aussie hasn't dropped a set so far in the tournamentBarty says Pegula…
Covid-19 omicron surge impacts western Arkansas prisons
FORT SMITH — Sheriffs in western Arkansas recently reported having trouble in their jails following the rise of the omicron variant of covid-19 in the state.Sebastian County Sheriff Hobe Runion estimated that about 35-40% of staff at…
Oreste D’Arconte: It’s more than a game | Columns
I like chess and poetry. Are they so distant? I would say NxQ has a…
Why You Can’t Resist Wordle
Before playing the game, you've probably seen the grids on social media, five-by-six rows of emoji squares in grey, yellow and green. At first they seemed mysterious. Each grid contained a different color pattern. Some who shared their…
The Opportunity and Danger of Artificial Intelligence in Retail
When humans and machines become one, will human values always triumph?
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If a case of product is delivered to a store and left in the back room rather than unpacked and put on the shelf, a problem all too…
Adeboye and Ukuevo head Ronchess Global Resources’ board of directors, management
Through Chinwendu Obienyi
Following Successful listing on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX), Ronchess Global Resources Plc has now restructured its Board of Directors and informed the investing public…
Strange sand chess pieces dot the shore of Lake Michigan. Here’s how they formed.
Sand pillars decorate the shore of Lake Michigan at Tiscornia Park, with the North Pier Lighthouse in the background, in St. Joseph, Michigan. (Image credit: Terri Abbott)
Bizarre sand sculptures rising from the beach at Lake Michigan…
New Zealand’s top chess players converge on Christchurch
We have Sevens, Twenty20 and Fast5 netball - and now Lightning Chess is bringing a new generation to the game.Christchurch recently hosted the 129th New Zealand Chess Congress for the first time in 20 years. And among the tournaments at!--break-->…
Game of the Week #498: A beautiful figure from the Prague Open
Game of the week #498
Currently, the Prague Open is underway and after six rounds Dutch IM Arthur Pijpers shares the first. Arthur has a simple, no-frills style and the Sicilian dragon has always been one of his…
The Davao Chess Eagles join the PCAP
Rick Olivares - Philstar.comJanuary 11, 2022 | 10h54
MANILA, Philippines - Goodbye Davao Chess Wizards. Hello Davao Chess Eagles.
Davao, who attended the OCAP Open Conference last year as a guest team known as the Chess Wizards and…
The princes in the Tower, Grand Echecs and the 41 giraffes
"Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?" (The Bible, Old Testament, Book of Jeremiah)
King Edward V (aged twelve but not yet officially crowned) and his nine-year-old brother Richard were…
Philadelphia Eagles’ ‘ultimate pro’ Greg Ward making the most of his limited…
Greg Ward Jr. hasn't been targeted much by Jalen Hurts this season.But when the Eagles quarterback receiving duo connected, Ward was quite effective as a goalscorer. Of his six takes, Three received touchdowns.Which begs the question: why…
School failures return after a two-year hiatus | News
For the first time since February 15, 2020, there will be a school chess…
Midnight chess: where beer and bishops meet
Tired of online chess? Whether you are a beginner who discovered the game by watching The Queen's Gambit or a seasoned gamer strategizing 10 moves ahead, a nightly event (knight?) at the Brother's Night store is here to bring…
The romanticism of chess
I wanted to write a dissertation, but the connective tissue of the dissertation did not interest me. I wanted to return memories that would pop up like mushrooms and quickly fade away. I owe a lot to where I grew up, in a black…
Liberia: LCF seeks urgent development of chess in Liberia
The President of the Liberian Chess Federation (LCF), Mr. William T. Thompson, said the performance of Liberian chess players had motivated him to believe that if more resources were invested in the urgent development of chess. in…
The winners of our magical endgame calendar!
72 e-mails with the correct answer were drawn. Three readers who were right on one of the 24 days had the chance to win a digital voucher for our ChessBase store.
In addition we drew 14 x 2 DVD Fritztrainer at…
Try Chess – Ridge Times
Chess is one of the oldest sports in the world, practiced by Europeans since at least the 15th century. It is played between two players, and the logical thinking required in chess has been positively linked to performance in math and…
Teaching a computer to play the game of Go is difficult
Go is a 4000 year old game where each player tries to form borders around other players' rooms to destroy them. The winner is the person who has captured the most spaces on the board when both players pass. The game presents a…
Topex congratulates Aljun Melecio on his standing against Ginebra
AS painful as the overtime loss to Barangay Ginebra, Phoenix Super LPG coach Topex Robinson looks at the bigger picture - an opportunity to learn from mistakes that occurred late in the game.
The Fuel Masters lost in…
In the little-known corner of Satyajit Ray’s life as a board game lover, from Scrabble to…
“My father was deeply interested in word games, quizzes and anagrams. These were purely private concerns, and known only to a small circle…
Start of the Asian Junior Chess Championship – The Island
by Reemus Fernando
Madampa Central spinner Malsha Tharupathi and Sakuna Liyanage of Lumbini College are among 17 players selected for the ICC Asian Under-19 Cup and ICC Youth World Cup. The players were chosen from the squad…
The ban on online games in Karnataka has had a negative impact on chess.
The recent ban on online games, including "skill game" implemented by the state government of Karnataka, has had a negative impact on the state's chess ecosystem, according to the Association. Karnataka State Chess (KSCA)
DP Ananth,…
Female chess: “It’s not biology”
The Netflix series has attracted a vast new audience of people who have become interested in the game. Beth Harmond has become a household name, eponymous for female excellence in chess. But the reality, now that…
Australian government rejects calls to pressure UK and US to release Julian Assange | Julien…
The Australian government has rejected calls to intervene to secure Julian Assange's freedom, after a UK court cleared the way for the WikiLeaks co-founder to be extradited to the United States to face espionage charges.The government said…
CAC introduces chess for the 2023 Games | Sports
Chess will make its Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC) event debut at the San Salvador Games in 2023.
Jamaican Olympic Association (JOA) President Christopher Samuda is pleased with the announcement and says the…
Biden seizes opportunity to make next moves in geopolitical chess match with China and Russia
“One nation cannot force another nation to change its border; one nation cannot tell another to change its policy; and nations can't tell others who they can work with, ”Biden told the Russian leader, according to an official familiar…
Suns vs. Warriors – Match Recap – December 3, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO - - Warriors coach Steve Kerr spent much of his post-game press conference reiterating his belief that the Suns are the best team in the West.It's funny, because Phoenix coach Monty Williams said much the same thing about…
The Endgame Magical Christmas Calendar – Door 2
Gate 2
Open 24 calendar doors, where you just need to correctly answer the endgame puzzle. Some puzzles are very simple and others require a little more research.
If you guess right, you can automatically enter…
2021 World Chess Championship begins in Dubai
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 26, 2021 / PRNewswire / - The grand opening of the 2021 World Chess Championship took place in Dubai. The match for the world chess leadership takes place with the support of the International Chess…
PlayShifu Launches AI-Powered Tacto Product Line With Advanced ‘Phygital’ Board Game…
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Update: November 24, 2021 5:27 PM STI
New Delhi , November 24 (ANI): Popular toy brand PlayShifu has launched…
As chess explodes, Magnus Carlsen returns to defend his crown
It has been 1,090 days since the last World Chess Championship. In the meantime, the ancient game has seen a modern resurgence, a surge in popularity driven by technology and a global pandemic, a dramatic prologue to the game's…
Hextech Mayhem review: a musical game filled with freedom
Rhythm games consist of following a set of strict patterns, but Hextech Chaos understands how much fun breaking the rules can be.
Hextech Chaos: One League of Legends Story is one of Riot Forge's first two initiatives - games designed…
Israel Open Chess to be held in Safed
The 2021 Israeli Chess Open will be held in Safed in December, the Israel Chess Federation announced on Monday.The tournament will take place from December 8 to 17 and prizes worth NIS 80,000 will be awarded to the winners.In…
Deron Williams’ boxing journey began with his MMA obsession
Editor's Note: This story was originally published on November 29, 2016. We bring it back with the news of Deron Williams register for your first professional boxing match against former NFL running back Frank Gore next month.Mavericks…
Harry Potter Wizard Chess is now half price on Amazon
The Wizard Chess scene in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is both memorable and iconic. The way the pieces came to life and crashed was great to watch, although it left some of us with a lifelong fear of faceless pawns, and it…
Women generally receive less staff and less funding, but these negotiation tactics can help
Many women feel uncomfortable asking for more resources, says negotiation expert Fotini Iconomopoulos, posing here on the Puente de Luz pedestrian bridge in Toronto.Tijana Martin / The Globe and MailFotini Iconomopoulos is an expert in…
Daniel Naroditsky becomes Chess.com’s new lead commentator
We are delighted to announce that General Manager Daniel Naroditsky has officially signed as a main commentator of Chess.com! Now you'll enjoy Danya's insightful and humorous commentary on most of the chess events we cover, starting…
Blitzcoin Invitational Day 4: Naroditsky, Liang in the final
Day four of the Blitzcoin Invitational saw two semi-final matches, with the four fastest and most stubborn players competing for places in the final match.
Seeded GM Daniel Naroditsky defeated fastest ball player GM Andrew Tang, while…
Ex-teacher sends Boris Johnson game that helps fight math anxiety
The game was designed to help people overcome math anxiety and revolves around movements that can be performed on a chessboard-like chess board.Chris pictured at the Breast Cancer Now fundraising event (Image: Instagram /…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson played Prometheus during Covid virus recovery
A strategy board game invented by a Wiltshire math professor has found a new fan: Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The PM received the Prometheus strategy game during the Covid-19 pandemic by its inventor Chris Curtis.…
Mohammad Reza Aslani on the miraculous resurrection of his long-lost masterpiece, The Chess of the…
The backstory of a movie can't be less compelling than what's in the movie itself. Wind chess has the kind of story they'd make movies about. Screened publicly only once, in 1976 at the Tehran International Film Festival, Mohammad Reza…
The best skill games of 2021 – Film Daily
While many video games are designed to be fun and enjoyable for the whole family, there are just as many where you have to play for hours on end to learn the skills to be the best you can be.
If you want play bingo…
Harikrishna and Harika at the head of the Indian challenge at Grand Swiss
P. Harikrishna leads a 10-player Indian squad at the richest Swiss League event of the year - the $ 425,000 FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss - which will start in Riga, Latvia , Wednesday. In the women's section, which offers $ 125,000 in cash…
Offensive idea against the Sicilian Taimanov
Offensive idea against the Sicilian Taimanov
Robert Ris out 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 a6 7.g4
The Taimanov variant with 6.Le3 a6 is currently very popular and is also considered one of…
Lopez wins DavNorRapid Chess Tilt
ASEAN Para Games veteran and new national master Henry Lopez recently got a 7/10 score in an unbeaten streak to win the 2021 DavNor Quick Tournament.The first round saw NM Lopez lock the horns with chess prodigy NM Christian Gian Arca…
Colorado teenager wins chess championship just months after brain surgery
DENVER (KDVR) - A Colorado teenager became one of the youngest in state history to win the Blitz Chess Championship, beating dozens of adults for the top prize.
Blitz chess, or quick chess, requires players to complete all of…
Were Tal, Korchnoi and Geller 2200 rated players?
It all started on a fairly ordinary day while studying one of the games in Ludek Pachman's great trilogy, "Complete chess strategy”. I had reread it in an effort to "restart" my failures, in order to base my game…
Annotate in ChessBase: Variations, moves and more
Larry Evans once aptly described one of the games in Bobby Fischer's game collection as a wonderful adventure that unfolded in the Notes. While the actual movements in the game were of course fascinating and of…
Wesley So dominates playoffs and wins 2021 US Championship
A third US title for So
Wesley So defended his United States league title on Tuesday, having beaten Fabiano Caruana and Sam Sevian in the quick playoffs. The Philippines-born grandmaster won the 2020 event, which…
Chess: eventful British women’s championship breaks 1948 record
A turbulent British Women's Championship last weekend had some twists and turns and produced a new record. The pre-tournament favorites were England's Harriet Hunt and Scotland's Keti Arakhamia-Grant, who in their prime years were…
Carlsen 4.c4 in the Caro-Kann Advance variant
Carlsen's 4.c4 vs. Caro-Kann Advance variant
Jan Werle examines 3.e5 Bf5 4.c4 e6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.cxd5
A look with the ChessBase 16 benchmark search in the Mega Database 2021 reveals that Carlsen's 4.c4 continuation in…
Monarchs and ubersprogs | Chess base
The next generation of chess royalty
About a week ago, at Westminster Abbey, Queen Elizabeth II was first seen in public with a cane. It was an iconic moment if not surprisingly, as with a reign that began in…
After becoming the world’s youngest chess grandmaster, 12-year-old New Jersey is ready for his…
Away from his New Jersey home, Abhimanyu Mishra became the world's youngest chess grandmaster this summer at just 12 years and four months. He took the prestigious title away from Sergey Karjakin, who had held it for 19 years, since the…
Chess Super League R4: Draw Drama
Fourth round of the The Chess Super League has seen three players significantly lose their games due to the offer of a draw before move 40, which is prohibited in this tournament. With one round to go in the round robin phase, the…
Chess Corner: Forks and Knives | New
Black to move and winDIAG 1The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour was a tournament series starting in 2020 and…
Game of the Week 484: Fighting the Dragon
Game of the week # 485
The US Championship is a tense affair, and after six rounds Caruana, the number one seed, is just 2.5 / 6. The surprising leaders after six laps are Aleksandr Lenderman and Ray Robson.
Our…
Indian GM SL Narayanan finishes second in chess tournament in Armenia
Indian grandmaster SL Narayanan played a draw against Russian general manager Aleksey Goganov in the final round to finish second in the ChessMood Open chess tournament, which ended in Tsaghkadzor near here on Tuesday.Goganov clearly…
Alex Wood is getting ready to start pivot game 3; “He still wants the ball” – CBS…
LOS ANGELES (CBS SF) - There's a bulldog's heart pounding deep inside San Francisco starter Alex Wood as time runs out for crucial Game 3 of the historic Giants-Los Angeles Dodgers NLDS Monday evening.The two canoes know this so well. Wood…
How to automatically create tactical quizzes
You have just played a game or a series of games and want to see them again. You can easily perform the error checking function as shown in a previous tutorial, but what if you could be quizzed about key…
WEEK SIX FOOTBALL – Bozanic, Brown and Nelson help Valley Christian through Artesia’s…
October 6, 2021
By Loren Kopff
@LorenKopff on Twitter
It has been almost 30 years since football teams Artesia High and Valley Christian High came together on the grill, and in any other season that has not been fueled by the…
Lemnis Gate review – 4D chess with guns
Lemnis Gate from Canadian developer Ratloop Games reimagines the move-versus-move approach to turn-based combat as a smooth first-person shooter with time-loop mechanics,…
Lemnis Gate is a great FPS because it’s a puzzle game at heart
You know what to expect when you open an FPS. You get a gun, point it at an enemy, and shoot him. It's a proven formula that has worked since the '90s, with so many games since built on…
5 accounts to follow and learn
Why has learning to play chess on Twitch recently exploded? Last year, chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura started broadcasting on this platform and has averaged 2,000 viewers. With the escalating pandemic, that has grown to 18,000…
Who invented chess?
CHESS is considered the world's best-selling board game, with around three million copies sold each year in the United States alone.
Chess has had a checkered history and has been banned in many countries over the years, most notably by…