Rd2.1 Blackburne-Steinitz 1-0 [Event “Vienna”] [Site “Vienna AUT”] [Date “1873.07.24”] [EventDate “1873.07.21”] [Round “2.1”] [Result “1-0”] [White “Joseph Henry Blackburne”] [Black “Wilhelm Steinitz”] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nge7 4. d4 exd4 5. Nd4 Nd4 6. Qd4 Nc6 7. Qd5 Be7 8. Nc3 Bf6 9. Bd2 O-O… Continue reading
40th World Othello Championship, Mito Japan Nov. 1-4 2016 Current and 4 time World Champ Yusuke Takanashi will defend his title .. Video Trailer for 2016 Othello World Championship WOC list of players sorted by rating can be found here Othello News Interviews Seeded players and (former) World Champions Othello… Continue reading
by National Life Master Loal Davis By now you probably know that Magnus Carlsen won the GM Blitz Battle against Hikaru Nakamura. I normally do not like annotating rapid games as a large number, by their very nature, place a value of time over the chess game itself;… Continue reading
Games Of GM Blitz Battle : Magnus Carlsen won the GM Blitz Battle against Hikaru Nakamura. Final score of 14.5-10.5 Carlsen dominated on the Time Control and took an Early Lead 5.5 – 3.5 then 2nd phase three minutes plus two seconds increment 5.0 – 2.0 victory M.C. Rd7… Continue reading
The match everyone has been waiting for featuring the two best speed chess players on the planet……… The GM Blitz Battle final between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura will be October 27 at 10 a.m. Pacific or 7 p.m. Central European Time. Watch it at Chess.com/TV and Twitch.tv/chess. https://www.chess.com/news/carlsen-nakamura-blitz-battle-set-for-october-27-1801 Continue reading
Thinking Machine: Play chess against a transparent intelligence .. Google’s Big Picture data visualization group has created an online version of chess called the Thinking Machine 6, which lets you play against a computer and visualize all of its possible moves…. Continue reading
Russian Championship Superfinal/Rd6: The Superfinals of 69th Russian men’s championship and 66th Russian women’s championship take place on October 15-27 at the Novosibirsk State Museum of Local History. The organizers are Russian Chess Federation, Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation, government of Novosibirsk Region, and Novosibirsk… Continue reading
Classical games: Anatoly Karpov vs. Boris Spassky 14 – 2, 23 draws.Including rapid/exhibition games: Karpov vs. Spassky 15 – 3, 25 draws. Karpov vs. Spassky FIDE World Cup 1982 – YouTube [Event “15 min, Hamburg-TV”][Site “15 min, Hamburg-TV”][Date “1982.??.??”][EventDate “?”][Round “?”][Result “1/2-1/2”][White “Boris Spassky”][Black “Anatoly Karpov”][ECO “C42”][WhiteElo “?”][BlackElo “?”][PlyCount “103”] 1.… Continue reading
Howard Staunton Robert Fischer places Howard Staunton on his list of the best ten (greatest) players of all time. His view are below: Howard Staunton Staunton was the most profound opening analyst of all time. He was more theorist than player, but nonetheless he was the strongest… Continue reading
Bobby Fischer guest appearance on The Bob Hope Special television show Oct 5th 1972: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSWau3pTyIg GAME 6 Fischer-Spassky 1972 1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 O-O 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4 b6 8. cxd5 Nxd5 9. Bxe7 Qxe7 10. Nxd5 exd5… Continue reading
