Cover Photo: Vera Menchik (Left), Paula Wolf-Kalmar, Wally Henschel (top), Katarina Beskow and Agnes Stevenson (bottom), Sources: Various, but mostly the fantastic website BritBase by John Saunders and the following Chessbase article Women’s World Chess…
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1927 Women’s World Chess Championship
Cover Photo: Vera Menchik (Left), Edith Price, Martha Daunke (top), Paula Kalmar, Edith Holloway, Edith Michell (bottom), Sources: Various, but mostly the fantastic website BritBase by John Saunders In order to track the origin of…
Vasily Smyslov Best Games
The games analyzed in this article can be found in this public Lichess Study, where they have been provided in the form of mini-Chessable courses (with exercises taken from the game preceding the actual full…
Mikhail Tal Best Games
The games analyzed in this article can be found in this public Lichess Study. You can also download them in the .pgn format at my Chess PGN Download page. The Magician From Riga Out of…
Chessentials Chess Quiz #2
Questions Great Female Players Question 1 Today is Valentine’s Day and is there a better way to celebrate the occasion but by giving spotlight to chess players that are often not given the credit they…
The Rise and Fall of Soviet Chess?
The cover photo was taken from a tweet by Douglas Griffin. A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled upon a very interesting Quora question titled: “Why has Russian chess faded so badly? They haven’t held…
5 Chess Players Who Should Get Posthumous Grandmaster Title
I recently stumbled upon the following question on Quora: If you could posthumously award an honorary Grandmaster title to five chess players currently not holding title, who would you pick and why? I thought this…
Carlsen – Caruana World Chess Championship 2018
Already in 2014, after the second Carlsen – Anand match, FIDE decided to hold the World Chess Championship as two-year cycles. After Carlsen defended his title against Karjakin, FIDE stuck to the same format. The…
History Of Chess Computer Engines
INTRODUCTION Throughout history, chess was revolutionized several times. In the late 19th century, the first World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz provoked his opponents to attack him vigorously and laid the foundations of positional chess. In the…
Carlsen – Karjakin World Chess Championship 2016
Two years after he successfully defended his title against Anand in Sochi, Magnus Carlsen’s reign as the World Champion was once again challenged. By winning the 2016 Candidates tournament, Carlsen’s childhood rival and friend, Ukrainian…
Anand – Carlsen World Chess Championship 2014
One year after the Carlsen – Anand 2013 match in which Magnus ended Anand’s long reign and became World Champion, the chess community braced for the reprise of that match. In contrast to the first…
Anand – Carlsen World Chess Championship 2013
Since capturing the title of the World Champion in 2007, Viswanathan Anand has successfully defended his crown on three occasions. In the Anand – Kramnik, Anand – Topalov and Anand – Gelfand matches, he has…