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Nov 26, 2024: Reshevsky-Bisguier, 1957 This is where—JUST in the nick of time—former wunderkind Samuel Reshevsky puts the hurt on Art Bisguier in game 3 of their 1957 match …
Nov 19, 2024: 'Tis a Good Move Perhaps because I am an ancient (unwise) elder, I feel the little thrill of serendipity more often in the chess world than any other community I am …
Nov 19, 2024: Hello and Good Knight My partner (in life and crime) returned from Norway with a perfect gift for me: a t-shirt from The Good Knight chess pub. Excuse the wrinkles and my …
Nov 14, 2024: "Considering the Case" (V. P. Loggins) Considering the Case after a line by Stephen Dunn It is sensible, certainly, to assert that feelings are partly the problem. They slide like leaves …
Nov 14, 2024: Taimanov-Golombek, 1952 Seeing Douglas Griffin had updated his fabulous Mark Taimanov page led me on a little walkabout and…synchronicity! In this position from …
Nov 14, 2024: Capablanca's Best Games (Golombek and Nunn) The Capablanca book I most want to get my hands on is Capablanca’s Best Games. Specifically, the new (1997) edition edited, revised, and …
Nov 12, 2024: Morozevich v Kokarev Alexander “Moro” Morozevich, facing Dmitry Kokarev in the 2019 Russian Team Blitz Championship, found a sweet move to here to effectively …
Nov 8, 2024: Szablewski v Radjabov, 1996 Playing with the black pieces on his way to winning the U10 group in the 1996 European Youth Chess Championships1, a 9-year old Teimour Radjabov finds …
Nov 7, 2024: That Hollow Click Is there a word for the feeling of sadness, nostalgia, fear and faint, doomed hope I get when I click to follow someone who hasn’t posted in …
Nov 6, 2024: Marin-v-Ljubojević, 1987 Yesterday I shared a puzzle I learned about via one of John Nunn’s books. Today, Douglas Griffin—translator extraordinaire, man of a …
Nov 5, 2024: Mihail Marin on the "Information Explosion" There is an almost unanimous opinion that, in chess as in other fields, the beginning of the third Millenium features an explosion of information …
Nov 5, 2024: A Tale of Two Mugs Today’s coffee mug alongside yesterday’s. Fitting since today is election day here, and yesterday I was again mourning the passing of …
Nov 5, 2024: Lautier-Bologan, 1999 Speaking of Joel Lautier the other day, here’s a position where he found a nice tactic against GM Viktor Bologan in 1999. Not a difficult …
Nov 4, 2024: Gasiorowski-Gawronski, 1994 White found an amazing resource to save this game. Can you find it? This is one of the many excellent positions found in John Nunn’s book Learn …
Nov 3, 2024: GM Joel Lautier on the New in Chess Podcast Lautier has an amazing inside perspective on Fischer in his long twilight years and his own battles with Kasparov before serving as a second for …
Nov 3, 2024: Korchnoi v Guevara When Korchnoi plays chess, he forgets about everything. Tal once told me that before a simultaneous display in Havana, Viktor was told: ‘You …
Oct 30, 2024: McShane-Mirumian, 1999 A young Luke McShane has just made what seems like a reasonable move with 22.Rd3 … but Vigen Mirumian has a cruel surprise in store. Full …
Oct 29, 2024: Shelby Lyman on Bobby Fischer “When he [Fischer] was at the board playing, it was like God was playing,” says Shelby Lyman, who narrated the eventual, inevitable world …
Oct 28, 2024: A few site updates: I started a page on Chess Podcasts and beefed up the About page a bit.
Oct 24, 2024: The Perfect Path There’s been a long1 discussion on the Chess Dojo public Discord2 involving, among many other topics, the perennial favorites of practice and …
Oct 23, 2024: Tactics Training the Right Way(s) In the grand scheme of things1—even before losing the ability to visualize—I’ve never been a particularly good chess player. But …
Oct 20, 2024: A little tactic for your pleasure. White to move. [try it on Lichess]
Oct 20, 2024: Taking Myself to the Dojo A few days ago I joined the Chess Dojo. I’ve heard so many good things about it over the last six months that I likely would have joined, despite the …
Oct 16, 2024: A New Journey Begins The Road goes ever on and on. Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager …
Oct 16, 2024: This seems like it could be a reasonable place to (b)log my experience re-learning chess in light of my new cognitive reality. Onward! [pictured: …