This interview was originally published in my www.chesscafe.com column in August 2003. It was the most emotional interview I have ever conducted. A Man with a Noble CauseThe Mission: Help Chess (especially Scholastic and Women’s Chess)By Susan Polgar This month’s article is a little different. I decided to treat you with something very unique, special, […]
Fischer Book Release
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Fischer’s trip to the Philippines in 1967
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Yasser Annotates
Viswanathan Anand (2715) – Gata Kamsky (2710)Las Palmas (1) 1995Ruy Lopez Zaitsev [C92] http://www.chesscafe.com/ http://www.chesscafe.com/yaz/yaz.htm 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5 O‑O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 No Marshall Attack today. 8.c3 O‑O 9.h3 Bb7 The Zaitsev has become a part of Gata’s defense system. 10.d4 Re8 11.Nbd2 Bf8 12.a4 h6 13.Bc2 […]
Solid Endgame Knowledge
Solid Endgame Knowledgeby Mark Dvoretskywww.ChessCafe.com In the endgame, everybody makes mistakes! It’s partly because of the modern-day time-control, that condemns players to perpetual time-scrambles in the endgame; and it’s partly because, in our day, the overwhelming majority of masters and grandmasters have gone crazy studying openings, and pay almost no attention to rounding out any […]
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America’s next talent
Kayden Troffby Steve Goldberg for www.ChessCafe.com There are plenty of talented young chess players in the U.S., many of whom have appeared in this column. This month a new phenom makes his debut here, not quite as highly rated as some others, but he’s still only ten years old and has already defeated the current […]
Positional chess understanding
This is the position I showed yesterday on this blog. Below is the analysis done by world famous chess author IM Mark Dvoretsky for www.ChessCafe.com. The Worst-Piece Principle Secrets of Positional Play, by M. Dvoretsky and A. Yusupov (the fourth volume in our series, “School of Chess Excellence”) contains a lecture by Alexei Kosikov, entitled […]
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