I’m all about Smyslov
Witness Smyslov through the trembling eyes of his opponent’s king.Vasily Smyslov, the seventh world champion of chess, is my favorite player of all time. When I’ve had occasion to say that to people in...
View ArticleA nice win for Svidler
Svidler and Navara in action during Game 2 of the match. (Photo from the gallery of the event website.)There is an annual match held in the Czech Republic, the Čez Chess Trophy, which pits the...
View ArticleCan you answer this for me?
Where did this come from?I recently asked a question at Chess Stack Exchange about the origin of the position you see at left. The oldest written source I know of is a 1939 Botvinnik article about...
View ArticleHoneymooning
Ashley chatting with a local Dutch grandmaster. He crushed me easily, even with rook odds.My wife and I finally got around to going on a honeymoon, right at the time of our first anniversary, and we...
View ArticleACP Golden Classic Master Classes
Adjourned position after 62. Ke3 in Kamsky-Karpov, Elista 1996 (13).The recently completed ACP Golden Classic, won by Vassily Ivanchuk, was a strong unrated tournament – participating were Ivanchuk,...
View ArticleI am just like Gelfand
Put me in one of these, and you can’t tell us apart.OK, so I’m not just like Gelfand, but still, the finish to my round 4 game at the PCC’s Fred Sorensen Memorial yesterday was slightly similar to the...
View ArticleWhat a game: Kramnik-McShane
Kramnik in one of Ray Morris-Hill’s photos from the 2012 London Chess Classic.In the fifth round of the ongoing London Chess Classic, Vladimir Kramnik played just the sort of game that I always want to...
View ArticleYou really shouldn’t have
It’s nice enough. I guess. It’s the thought that counts.I told my wife that I didn’t really want anything for Christmas, but even so, it seems she went out and bought me a modest little chessboard. And...
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