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Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
Best-Selling Author Frank Brady to Appear at Woodhaven Library
The House of Staunton The Reykjavik Series Plastic Chessmen
Gagik Hovhannisyan - head of FIDE Mass Media CommitteeGeneral Secretary of Armenian Chess Federation, editor-in-chief of “Chess in Armenia” magazine Gagik Hovhannisyan was appointed head of FIDE Mass Media Committee and Adviser for Chess Media Project by FIDE.Hovhannisyan was the Co-Chairman of the Mass Media Committee together with Spanish chess journalist Leoncio Garcia, armchess.am reported.Source: http://www.aysor.amChess daily news from...
- World Amateur Chess Championship 2012 (blogger.com)
- Aronian warns FIDE he will not play in Azerbaijan (centralasianews.net)
Position after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.exf5!I have posted Refuting the Philidor Counter Gambit, which analyzes the line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.exf5! which I had previously recommended in my Philidor Defense Bibliography.The Philidor Counter Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5) was Philidor's own method of playing the opening that bears his name. The man who said that "pawns are the soul of chess" always tried to use his pawns to claim...
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Sports Book Hall of Fame: Searching for Bobby FischerBy Michael Weinreb on February 10, 2012 2:26 PM ETIn 1993, a screenwriter staked his burgeoning career on a movie about chess. His name was Steven Zaillian, and he might be the most important man in Hollywood you’ve never heard of: In the two decades since, he’s written (or co-written) adapted screenplays for Schindler’s List and Clear and Present Danger and A Civil Action and Gangs of New...
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- Chess with no opening book (feedburner.com)
- Toward a theory of praise (marginalrevolution.com)
- Fischer in Forbes Magazine (blogger.com)
Hrant Melkumyan becomes Armenia’s Chess 960 champion of 2012January 28, 2012 - 17:03 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Scoring 6 points out of 7, grandmaster Hrant Melkumyan became Armenia’s Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess) champion of 2012. With 5 points Zaven Andriasian came 2nd, while Levon Babujyan came 3rd with 4 points. Chess960, or Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant invented by former World Champion Bobby Fischer. It uses the same board and...
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- Hrant Melkumyan becomes Armenia’s Chess 960 champion of 2012 (panarmenian.net)
I have a personal list of all-time favorite games which I have not shared with anyone. I have hundreds of chess sets at home (literally ... If you have been following the online discussions on Rybka and how the programmer cheated by copying some of ...
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David Levy: The reason that Rajlich had been under attack for years ... ChessBase has always had access to the ICGA wiki since one of you (Frederic Friedel) were on the panel. If you want to disagree and say there are more than three voting active ...
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White to play after 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 b5 3.Bxb5 c6I have annotated Goeller-Komunicky, from the 21st Annual Kenilworth Chess Club Championship, which began on Thursday night with a strong turnout. My game featured the old Anderssen Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 b5. I can't decide how to annotate that move now, since on close analysis it almost seems playable, especially after the book line (which I chose) with 3.Bxb5 c6 4.Be2(?!) Nf6 5.d3 d5 6.f4 which...
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Computer chess has been gaining a lot of added attention in the past few months, and not for positive reasons. Last summer, Rybka was stripped of its ICGA computer chess championships after allegations surfaced that significant portions of Rybka (in particular, early versions of the software) were plagiarized from another chess engine, Fruit....Read Full Post
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- A Gross Miscarriage of Justice in Computer Chess (feedburner.com)
- Fissure opens in chess AI scene (api.bing.com)
FIDE President at the South African Junior Chess Championships FIDE President arrived on a working visit to South Africa where he participated in the opening ceremony of the South African Junior Chess Championships in Port Elizabeth. At the ceremony were also present Executive Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Mr Zanoxolo Wayile and the President of South African chess federation Ms Emelia Ellappen. 1800 children from all parts of the country...
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Are you big or are you small? Whichever you are, there is something here for you. If you are one of the world’s largest federations, your budget may rival or even surpass that of FIDE. If you are small, your annual budget may be only USD 30,000, or even ...
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