April 1 2021

April 1 2021  sorry for not keeping up with post …I will do better this Month..now that we have the Candidates to look forward too. Candidates Tournaments Place:Yekaterinburg, Russia Start: 19-Apr-2021 End: 28-Apr-2021 The 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, the biennial 8-player event that decides who will be the Challenger for the World… Continue reading

Chess in Tweets

Chess in Tweets What’s trending currently in the Chess World….. https://t.co/dT4hyMadvY via @wired — Quantum Gambitz (@QuantumChess) September 10, 2020 Daily chess puzzle Krasenkow – Jansa, @SchachBL 2002 https://t.co/GnaWhdmA7a — Chesspuzzle.net (@Chesspuzzle_net) September 9, 2020 FIDE Candidates Tournament Resumes November 1https://t.co/IEAezyPQou — Marshall Chess Club (@MarshallChessNY) September 9, 2020 Can… Continue reading

Shogi Superstar: Sota Fujii

  Shogi Superstar: Sota Fujii   OSAKA – The nation’s youngest professional shogi player, 14-year-old , won his 28th straight match on Wednesday to equal the all-time winning streak in official matches of the traditional chess-like game. Fujii, a junior high school student who holds the rank of fourth dan,… Continue reading

Man vs Machine (shogi)

Checkmated: Shinichi Sato, a professional ‘shogi’ player,  Saturday in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo. | KYODO A program called Ponanza, developed by Issei Yamamoto, took down 30-year-old Shinichi Sato on Saturday in the Shogi Master Versus Machine Match. An active professional player had never lost to a computer before Saturday.. Ponanza is one… Continue reading