Reviews
De la Bourdonnais versus McDonnell, 1834 by Cary Utterberg Softcover: 416 pages McFarland. 2012 (First published in 2005)
De la Bourdonnais versus McDonnell, 1834 by Cary Utterberg Softcover: 416 pages McFarland. 2012 (First published in 2005)
Today’s topic is the 2014 Chess Olympiad at Tromsø. There were a lot of great games to choose from for our “tragicomedy” article – the biggest upsets. Today’s issue includes the big stars like: Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Vasily Ivanchuk, and HouYifan. Even they lose games from time to time. Okay, here we go:
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In this update on ChessPublishing.com our columnist draws attention to trends in Alekhine-Chatard Attack and Grünfeld Exchange Variation-Ed.
Chessbibliophile continues his series of reviews on New in Chess Yearbooks, important titles from the point of opening theory – Ed.
Chessbibliophile continues his series of reviews on New in Chess Yearbooks, important titles from the point of opening theory-Ed.
Today we will analyze the scoresheets of the famous chess players. Some of the players have incredibly terrible handwriting, you cannot read anything without a proper decryption process. Some of the players have a great handwriting. Why is that? Are they short on time and rush to write down the moves or they use it […]
Round 6 featured two players with a strong dislike for each other as Topolov played Kramnik. Kramnik has stated publicly that he would not shake Topolov’s hand after the match win or lose. This very strong dislike for Topolov from Kramnik comes from the bathroom gate scandal when they played each other for the […]
2013 was a terrible period for Viswanathan Anand. It was the year in which he lost the world championship title. In the pall of gloom there was one illuminating moment that lit up the sky early that year. It was the day on which Vishy played his immortal game against Levon Aronian at the Wijk-aan-Zee […]
