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Anand defends title as world chess champion

05.11.2010

Viswanathan Anand, the current world champion, exploited a blunder made by challenger Veselin Topalov to win the 12th and final game of their title match today in Sofia, Bulgaria. He remains world champ. How long Anand will remain champion is another question. He is 40, an age when chess players usually begin to decline. Last [...]

The future face of chess

09.09.2008

→ 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 [...]

Impossible Chess Set

01.20.2008

Inspired by Escher. Are we looking up at it or down on it? Source: Sandro Del-Prete

Bobby tips his king

01.18.2008

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

1995 chess test

01.04.2008

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.

Rocky with rooks

11.11.2007

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?

Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov on Bill Maher

10.22.2007

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Tactics and Strategy

08.03.2007

“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. [...]

Checkers has been solved

07.20.2007

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, [...]

Game vs. Art

03.17.2007

“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

‘Chess Master’ Illusion

10.09.2006

Source: Rob Gonsalves

Chess Master Bios

10.03.2005

>> Chess Master Bios

Tutorial On Chess Notation

07.29.2005

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, [...]

What is Chess?

06.10.2005

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

The Immortal Game

06.10.2005

Anderssen-Kieseritsky 1851 This game was played as a friendly aside to the 1851 Great Exhibition tournament – the first ever international chess event – which Anderssen won. His opponent, Kieseritsky, was chess tutor at the Cafe de la Regence, in Paris, where he gave lessons at five francs an hour. 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 [...]

The Psychology of the Chess Player

06.10.2005

By Reuben Fine Chess is a contest between two men in which there is considerable ego-involvement. In some way it certainly touches upon the conflicts surrounding aggression, homosexuality, masturbation and narcissism which become particularly prominent in the anal-phallic phases of development.

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