Archive for October 26th, 2009

It will only bother you for a couple seconds that they have the chessboard set up wrong. Hat tip ALCHEssMIST.

Here’s a new angle on our beloved game: four players, who can strategically vary their starting position, and then play independently or join forces to capture the enemy kings. “Last man standing” is the winner. Originator Johnny M. Wahl says that this game is friendlier and more easily digestible than regular chess. He has enthusiastic videos to bear this out. Illustrated report.

For twelve years now Boris Kutin has ruled over the ECU. Now he is being challenged by a new candidate, the very dynamic President of the Turkish Chess Federation Ali Nihat Yazici, who will be up for election next year during the Olympiad in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. “ANY” outlined his goals and presidential intention at his editorial campaign launch in Novi Sad.

The Editor of Chess
Notes investigates a further batch of discrepancies arising from game-scores. Three of them involve Capablanca (against S. Coleman, F.J. Marshall and T.H. Tylor), and two concern Alekhine
(against R. Réti and F. Reinfeld). For instance, regarding the famous game Réti v Alekhine, Baden-Baden, 1925 three versions of the score have been found. Can the truth be established?