Szablewski v Radjabov, 1996
Playing with the black pieces on his way to winning the U10 group in the 1996 European Youth Chess Championships, a 9-year old Teimour […]
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 […]
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 million photos, and apparent […]
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 […]
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 Chess24.
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]