Archive for June, 2011
Many chess fans and experts seem to believe that an alternative design of the Candidates Matches would better achieve the goal of selecting the “best” challenger for a match against the current World Champion. David H. Krantz, Professor of Psycho
The teams of Clichy, Mulhouse Philidor and Marseille Echecs have won all of their first seven matches at the French Team Championship. More big names are now playing in Mulhouse, like Michael Adams, Dmitry Jakovenko and Fabiano Caruana. Going through
The date for receiving entries has been extended by 20 days to Monday June 20th. Please ensure that entries are sent to the organizers by this date. For full details see http://www.wjcc2011.org/
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Try the Evans Gambit!
Jun 2
Now that’s a spectacular story from the German Championship, which is currently taking place in Bonn. In the 6th round, on Tuesday, IM Niclas Huschenbeth tried the Evans Gambit against well-known theoretician GM Jan Gustafsson, who even wrote a
“I was worried I’d forgotten how to play chess.” (Alexander Grischuk) “What else do you need? My son’s been born, I’m going to play a World Championship match, tomorrow I’m flying to the Champions League final… Although, t