→ Meet Norway’s 17-year-old Magnus Carlsen, currently ranked #6 in the world. (Cool number!) Magnus has been a grandmaster since the age of 13, a status that has been getting reached by younger and younger players since the advent of chess databases.
You know, Magnus, in my day, we had to read books barefoot through the [...]
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Chess
Inspired by Escher. Are we looking up at it or down on it?
Source: Sandro Del-Prete
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Chess legend Bobby Fischer has died at the age of 64.
“Chess is war on a board. The object is to crush the other man’s mind.”
– Bobby Fischer
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Dear me. Found this thing from about 1995, which looks to be part of a chess test I gave myself JUST BECAUSE I WANTED TO. Then I scored myself, reviewed my mistakes, and trusted that I was a better chess player as a result of the exercise.
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Chess Boxing — a new sport combining brute force and brainpower — is taking Germany by storm, writes Steve Rosenberg.
I think they may be onto something with this. Kung Fu Scrabble, anyone?
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“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.”
– Savielly Tartakower
So true, and not just in chess. Small picture and big picture. Translated: Tactics is about identifying opportunity and exploiting it; strategy is about creating opportunity for exploitation. Without tactical [...]
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Checkers has been reduced to the level of tic-tac-toe.
From an article today in the New York Times:
Champion at Checkers That Cannot Lose to People
By KENNETH CHANG
Published: July 20, 2007
Checkers has been solved.
A computer program named Chinook vanquished its human competitors at tournaments more than a decade ago. But now, in an article published Thursday [...]
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“Chess for me is not a game, but an art. I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.”
– Alexander Alekhine
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Source: Rob Gonsalves
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>> Chess Master Bios
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The chess notation format most people think of when they think of chess is called descriptive notation, with moves like P-K4, N-KB3, etc. There are many systems of chess notation, three of which are common today. These are descriptive, coordinate, and algebraic. Algebraic is the “official” notation used in tournaments and in all modern books, [...]
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Chess is ludicrously difficult …Stephen Fry
Chess is an earnest exercise of the mind …Thomas Cogan
Chess is one long regret …Stephen Lealock
Chess is a sad waste of brains …Sir Walter Scott
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever …George Bernard Shaw
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