Archive for January, 1970

The fields for the A- and B-groups of the great January event in Wijk aan Zee have been announced, and you can find them here. To save you a click,…

I’ve pushed as hard as I can for information about the shows and premium memberships; here’s what I know so far….

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In this post, I presented the following position:…

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Though this time, Magnus Carlsen is taking a page out of the Karpov playbook by his relatively late withdrawal from the European Team Championship, which runs from October 21-31. The reason…

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Gregory Kaidanov is one of the U.S.’s strongest grandmasters, though over the past few years he has spent more time as a trainer than a player. He just turned 50 this…

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The European Club Cup finished this past weekend, and was won by “Economist Saratov”, a team composed of neither economists nor Saratovians. Most unusually, the second place team really was a…

(Sorry, Topalov fans, this isn’t a Kramnik reference.)…

Grandmaster-elect, technically, but that doesn’t matter. He has now earned the title, winning the Panamerican Junior Championship with a round to go. He started 7/7 and drew in round 8 to…

18-year-old Magnus Carlsen put a worthy cap on a magnificent performance, defeating Dmitrij Jakovenko with another variation pulled out of the Kasparov playbook. It was an Exchange Queen’s Gambit with Bf4,…

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This is not from the super-GM event, but a concurrent women’s tournament. Here’s the position:…

Though there were three draws today, the first was sufficient to grant him clear first – his very easy draw with Black against Radjabov. Jakovenko-Leko had a bit more bite to…

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A light interview, but hey – it’s Kasparov….

It’s common to think that grandmasters have colossal, world-class memories. Although Adrian de Groot and others have to some extent debunked this*, it does seem true that GMs have outstanding domain-specific…

Today is/was a rest day at Nanjing, which will finish up over the next two days. Meanwhile, the Live Rating List looks like this at the top:…

It is one of the most famous games in chess history, one which used to be a part of every player’s education back in the book era. Nowadays, though, there is…

Jerry Hanken, well-known in U.S. chess circles as a journalist, politician and national master, passed away on October 1. Affable and present at practically every major American event for at least…

For the first time in the tournament, there was more than one winner in a round (usually just Carlsen); in fact, there were no draws today….