The regulations of the 1985 World Chess Championship Match between Karpov and Kasparov included a special clause – should Karpov lose his title, he would be granted a return match. This clause, confirmed at the…
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Paul Morphy Birthday
Chess history is abundant with incredibly talented chess players, but probably no one was such a NATURAL genius as the great American, Paul Charles Morphy. After learning the game by observing his father and uncle…
Kasparov – Karpov World Championship Match 1985
After the abrupt finish of the previous World Championship Match in February, 1985, a new match between Kasparov and Karpov was to begin in September 1985. The initial score was set to 0-0 and the…
Kasparov – Karpov World Championship Match 1984
After his successful title defence against Korchnoi in 1981, it appeared Karpov would have no equal for a long time. The old generation was fading slowly, but surely, and it seemed that it would take…
Croatian Chess Cup 2018 – Highlights
THE VENUE, PARTICIPANTS AND REGULATIONS Less than a month after the finish of the Croatian Chess Championship 2018, from 15th-20th May 2018, another chess tournament involving creme de la creme of the Croatian Chess was…
Croatian Chess Championship 2018 – Highlights
PARTICIPANTS AND REGULATIONS The 49th edition of the Croatian Individual Chess Championship was held between April the 17th and April the 27th, 2018, in Grgin Dol hotel in Požega in Croatia. Croatian Individual Championship is…
Karpov – Korchnoi World Championship Match 1981
(Cover photo credit: Douglas Griffin Twitter) After the nail-biting defeat at Karpov’s hands in the controversial 1978 World Championship match in Baguio City, Viktor Korchnoi was seeded directly in the quarter-final phase of the Candidates…
Ivan Šarić Interview
IVAN ŠARIĆ For almost a decade now, Ivan Šarić has been both the top-ranked and the strongest Croatian chess player. Already back in 2007, he introduced himself to the broader chess public by winning the…
Nona Gaprindashvili Birthday
On May the 3rd 1941, in the middle of the World War, less then two months before the start of Operation Barbarossa, in a small city of Zugdidi in Georgia (Soviet Union), legendary Nona Gaprindashvili…
Chess study 29 – Alexey Troitsky study
Chess study 29 Alexey Troitsky study
Chess tactics 83
Chess tactics 83 WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN
Mikhail Botvinnik Best Games
The patriarch Mikhail Botvinnik, the sixth world champion, is widely regarded as the “most instructive chess player ever” (you heard it here first). And indeed, in a number of his games, he exerted his plans…