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GOLD FOR PALESTINE 2006 Olympiad in Turin, Italy: GM Evgeny Ermenkov Source: olimpbase.org Today is the birthday of GM Evgeny Ermenkov, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, on September 29, 1949. Ermenkov was a five-time Bulgarian Champion between 1973 and 1984. He represented his country in all the Olympiads from 1978 to 1992, winning a bronze medal in 1990 in Novi Sad, Serbia. From 2003 to 2010, Ermenkov played for Palestine, conquering two historical medals on the first board: gold in Calvia in 2004...Full StoryAdded on 09.29.2023
IM Malcolm Pein September 29, 2023 IT WAS to be the final that everyone wanted for the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship presented by Coinbase, as Hikaru Nakamura defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 16.5-11.5 to ensure a repeat of the 2023 final, where he edged out Magnus Carlsen. Nakamura has dominated the event since it started in 2016, winning it five times. It was an extremely close match, although Vachier-Lagrave won the first three games. Nakamura recovered and MVL led by just...Full StoryAdded on 09.28.2023
SWEDISH STAR GM Stellan Brynell - Source: iccf.com Today is the birthday of Grandmaster Stellan Brynell, born in Sweden on September 28, 1962. Stellan is a two-time Swedish Champion (1999 and 2005). He represented his country in five Olympiads between 1992 and 2004 and five times in the European Team Championship. He works as a civil engineer. Brynell reached his peak rating of 2534 points in January 2003. Today's puzzle presents a theme that was dear to Emanuel Lasker. Anda Safranska...Full StoryAdded on 09.28.2023
IM Malcolm Pein September 28, 2023 MAXIME Vachier-Lagrave had more success against young Indian opposition when he eliminated Nihal Sarin from the Speed Chess Challenge in their quarter-final on Chess.com. MVL won the online contest 19.5-11.5 soon after triumphing over the board at the Tata Steel Rapid and Blitz in Kolkata. The match followed a pattern; MVL won most of the tactical skirmishes, but was often outplayed positionally on the queenside when Nihal employed the Torre...Full StoryAdded on 09.27.2023
GM Davorin Kuljasevic After a hiatus due to Davorin working on his next chess book, the Croatian GM is back creating videos for us! Davorin has prepared a fantastic video series about the importance and the use of Pawns in a chess game. "Pawns are the soul of the game. They alone create attack and defense; the way they are deployed decides the fate of the game." – Francois-Andre Philidor. Philidor, one of the strongest chess players of the 18th century and an accomplished music composer was...Full StoryAdded on 09.27.2023
THE FED Dubai Olympiad 1986: John Fedorowicz. In the background Lubomir Kavalek. Photo: Bill Hook - Source: thechessdrum.net Today is the birthday of GM John "The Fed" Fedorowicz, born in New York on September 27, 1958. John grew up in the Bronx and became interested in chess when following the Spassky-Fischer match. His first notable result is the victory at the 1997 US Junior Championship. John is a two-time medalist at the Olympiads and worked as a second for Gata Kamsky. After his...Full StoryAdded on 09.27.2023
IM Malcolm Pein September 27, 2023 GEORGIA defeated Kazakhstan in the final to win the FIDE Women’s World Team Championship in Bydgoszcz. Each match consisted of two halves, played at a Rapid time limit. The Georgians defeated the Kazakhs 2.5-1.5 then 3.5-0.5. Exactly the same five Georgian players had also won the event in 2015 in China. In Poland, Bella Khotenashvili, Meri Arabidze, Nino Batsiashvili, Lela Javakhishvili and Salome Melia proved too experienced for the young Kazakh...Full StoryAdded on 09.26.2023
TWO WINS THAT SAVED A LIFE Match Dinamo-Lokomotiv, Moscow 1954: Fëdor Duz-Khotimirsky plays the King's Gambit vs. David Bronstein. Source: unoscacchista.com Today, we remember International Master Fëdor Duz-Khotimirsky, born in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on September 26, 1879. He was three times Kyiv Champion, one time Uzbekistan Champion, obtained two important third places in the Soviet Championship, and a fifth place in the 1925 Moscow super-tournament, which Bogoljubow won. In his long...Full StoryAdded on 09.26.2023
IM Malcolm Pein September 26, 2023 CHESS.COM’S Speed Chess Championship presented by Coinbase was conveniently scheduled to fill in gaps in the chess calendar. Last week, Magnus Carlsen advanced to the semifinals after crushing his last world title challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi 20.5-9.5. The faster the games were played, the greater the disparity in strength it would appear. Carlsen’s Blitz and Bullet ratings are both more than 200 points higher than Nepo’s. Speed Chess...Full StoryAdded on 09.25.2023
THE SECOND REYKJAVIK GM Wijk aan Zee 1980: GM Gudmundur Sgurjonsson Photo: noord-hollandsarchief.nl Today is the birthday of Grandmaster Gudmundur Sigurjonsson, born in Reykjavik, Iceland, on September 25, 1947. Sigurjonsson won three times the Icelandic Championship and represented his country in ten Olympiads, between 1966 and 1986. In his career, he defeated several big names, such as Timman, Reshevsky, Szabo, Beliavsky, Ivkov, Sax, and Miles, to name a few. Sigurjonsson reached his best...Full StoryAdded on 09.25.2023
IM Malcolm Pein September 25, 2023 THE England Open team for the European Team Chess Championship has been announced by the English Chess Federation. The Russian GM Nikita Vitiugov, who criticised the war in Ukraine and left Russia, has changed his flag to England The team will line up: Nikita Vitiugov, David Howell, Michael Adams, Luke McShane, Ravia Haria. After six enjoyable years, your correspondent has passed the captain’s mantle to GM William Watson. The tournament will take...Full StoryAdded on 09.24.2023
IM Malcolm Pein September 24, 2023 The Nimzovich Sicilian, 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6, has been making a comeback in online games, with Shak Mamedyarov and others having seemingly resurrected the main line. Lei Tingjie, who challenged Ju Wenjun for the world title last July, is amongst its new adherents. I was amazed to see that Lei Tingjie had despatched Anish Giri, Nils Grandelius and even the world champion Ding Liren with the opening in online games. At the Julius Baer Tournament of...Full StoryAdded on 09.23.2023
IM Malcolm Pein September 23, 2023 AN instructive and ultimately aesthetically pleasing game from the Spanish First Division that illustrates a couple of points that Black should note in the e4 e5 structure. Black may have been taken by surprise by White’s 10th move novelty, but it was not particularly good. Giving up the centre with 11...exd4?! also involved losing a tempo with 12...Bd7 and allowing the annoying pin 13.Bg5. As a general rule, Black can get away with g7-g5, even...Full StoryAdded on 09.22.2023
THE SWISS SYSTEM GM Yannick Pelletier - Photo: Niklesh Jain / chessbaseindia - Source: chessbase.com Today is the birthday of Grandmaster Yannick Pelletier, born in Biel, Switzerland, on September 22, 1976. Yannick is a six-time National Champion between 1995 and 2017. Pelletier has been the first Swiss to get a rating over 2600, with his best of 2624 elo points in January 2003. He is one of the most appreciated commentators, and Yannick obtained a prestigious victory over Magnus Carlsen in...Full StoryAdded on 09.22.2023
IM Malcolm Pein September 19, 2023 TO THE general relief of the chess world, the lawsuit between world number one Magnus Carlsen and the American GM Hans Niemann has been settled. The terms have not been disclosed. Niemann sued Carlsen last October, after the then world champion appeared to accuse him of cheating, following his defeat at Niemann’s hands at the Sinquefield Cup. Carlsen withdrew from the tournament the following day. Chess.com then weighed in with a dossier alleging...Full StoryAdded on 09.21.2023
THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN THE PLEIADES Paul Rudolf von Bilguer Source: clubescassantandreu.blogspost.com Today, we remember Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, born in Ludwigslust, Germany, on September 21, 1815. Lieutenant of the Prussian army, he left the service to write the first real Chess encyclopedia, that is the "Handbuch des schachspiel." He could not finish his masterpiece because of his premature death when he was only 25 years old. His work was finished by Tassilo von der Lasa, another member...Full StoryAdded on 09.21.2023
IM Malcolm Pein September 19, 2023 GARRY Kasparov made a rare return to the board earlier this month at the Saint Louis Chess Club and led after the first day of the 2023 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX (Chess960 or Fischer Random). The 13th world champion scored excellent victories over Wesley So and Ray Robson and drew with Hikaru Nakamura to end the day in clear first place with 2.5/3. Thereafter, the 13th world champion faded and ended eighth in the 10-player all-play-all, as Sam...Full StoryAdded on 09.20.2023
FRIEND FRITZ Praga 1942: Cenek Kottnauer-Friedrich Sämisch Photo: British Chess News - Source: chessbase.com Today, we remember Grandmaster Friedrich (Fritz) Sämisch, born in Charlottenburg, Germany, on September 20, 1896. Fritz was German champion in 1920 and Austrian Champion in 1921. He was one of the first chess professionals. Famous is his "lucky" 1929 win over Capablanca in Karlsbad. Sämisch has tied his name to two important opening variations: one in the East Indian and the second...Full StoryAdded on 09.20.2023
IM Malcolm Pein September 20, 2023 OCCASIONALLY, the maxim “never give up” pays dividends, even at the top level. Black is comprehensively outplayed right from the opening but hangs in before swindling the 2021 world title challenger in this online game. In opposite-bishop middlegames, it’s the side with the more active pieces and more potent bishop who usually prevails; a pawn or two does not always matter. I Nepomniachtchi – V Fedoseev Julius Baer Cup Division 2 Petroff...Full StoryAdded on 09.19.2023
THIRTY FOR TER GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan - Source: fide.com Today is the birthday of GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, born in Vanadzor, Armenia, on September 19, 1993. Samvel is one of the strongest players in Armenia. He won the World Championship U10 in 2003, the European Championship U18 in 2009, and the World Championship U18 in 2011. Ter-Sahakyan won the Armenian Championship in 2020. His peak rating was 2645, reached in 2021. Levon Babujian (2474)-Samvel Ter Sahakyan (2569), Yerevan (campionato...Full Story
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