21.01.2010– Many books have been written about the American chess genius and world champion Bobby Fischer. But now there is a remarkable new one, by German GM Karsten Müller, whom you will know from his articles and multimedia lectures in ChessBase Magazine. This book contains almost 1000 Fischer games, all of them annotated by GM Müller a monumental task. Interview with the author.
21.01.2010– When Magnus Carlsen lost a pawn against Loek van Wely on his
10th move in well-known way, many might wondered whether he had
not fallen into a familiar opening trap. After all, on the CD-ROM "1000 Opening
Traps" the pawn loss was branded a mistake, and so far statistics clearly
seemed to confirm this. Yet reportedly the Norwegian had followed a
recommendation of Garry Kasparov, and it soon turned out that Black gets quite a
lot for the pawn. Buy
"1000 Opening Traps" in shop anyway Replay Van Wely - Carlsen
with annotations
20.01.2010– Daaim Shabazz met the Haitian chess team at the 2006 Olympiad a genuine and enthusiastic group. They missed the Olympiad in 2008 because of a series of hurricanes. The country had a small, but thriving chess community before the earthquake struck. Since then Daaim has been unable to make contact with anyone in the Haitian chess community. An appeal for assistance.
19.01.2010– Edgar Colle (18971932) was a Belgian chess who scored excellent results
in world-class tournaments. He died tragically at the age of 34, and is mainly remembered
for the Colle Opening System 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3. This, as Dennis Monokroussos
relates in this week's Playchess lecture,
was not what he was able to play in a beautiful game against Ernst Grünfeld.
Be there at 9 p.m. EST.
19.01.2010– A total of 445 players competed in the first qualifier for the FIDE Internet Championship, and tested the tournament software on the Playchess server to its limit. Everything went smoothly, and ten players have qualified for the final on January 30. The second qualifier is on Wednesday evening, the third on Saturday afternoon, with three more to follow. You can play in as many as you like.