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Chess, being for the most part a non-physical sport, rarely requires players to play through injury. But in the Champions Showdown in St. Louis, we saw that and more in an unusual kind of tournament. The Showdown pitted eight players in four arduous deathmatches. The players contested games at different fast time controls—G/5. G/10, G/20, and G/30. The match between Magnus Carlsen and Ding Liren started later, so I’ll recap that one next week. The other three matches are completed...Full StoryAdded on 11.07.2017
The University of Texas at Dallas vs. The University of Belgrade The Internet Chess Club is honored to host, once again, the Gligoric Transatlantic Cup, a chess tournament played on ICC's chess server between The University of Texas at Dallas and The University of Belgrade. The match is scheduled for November the 10th at 1:00 PM EST. Download the brochure HERE for all the info and the matchups.Added on 11.01.2017
"Here is the November 2017 schedule for ICC TV! Join us this month and become a star on ICC and YouTube!" - GM Joel Benjamin 11/01 Wednesday 1PM IM Vojislav "voja" Milanovic LIVE Simul vs. 20 players 11/02 Thursday 2PM GM Alex Yermolinsky Every Russian Schoolboy Knows LIVE! 11/03 Friday 4PM CM Tryfon Gavriel Let's Crush the Kings!...Full StoryAdded on 11.01.2017
Hi, everybody! Happy Halloween! Here is a report from my LIVE show. Tonight was All Hallows Eve, or Halloween as we say in the States. So when I was asked in an email what to do about the Halloween Gambit as Black, I couldn’t resist starting the show with it. It begins with the outrageous sacrifice 1e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Nxe5!?. Black has several ways to gain a nice advantage if he knows what he’s doing. Here is the game: your web browser and/or your host do not support iframes...Full StoryAdded on 10.30.2017
Watch the video! This week I have analysis of an interesting match between Vassily Ivanchuk and Wei Yi, followed by an intro to the European Team Championship. The organizers of the Hoogeveen chess festival chose wisely with the elite grandmasters in this match. The veteran Ivanchuk is one of the most uncompromising players on the circuit. His level can be very variable, but he can always be counted on for fighting chess. The teenager Wei Yi has already become a favorite on my show as he...Full StoryAdded on 10.29.2017
Participate in ICC's Halloween picture contest and win a free copy of Houdini 6, the strongest chess engine ever! Send us a picture of yourself playing chess on ICC, Halloween costume a bonus but not mandatory, and become eligible to win a free copy of Houdini 6, the latest version of an amazingly strong chess engine. How to participate: Twitter Mention @chessICC with your picture and use hashtag #halloween Facebook Visit our page at www.facebook.com/InternetChessClub and post...Full StoryAdded on 10.28.2017
Photo copyright Webster University GM Alex Yermolinsky participated in the Spice Cup, a strong open held in St. Louis and organized by the famous GM Susan Polgar. GM Yermo shared 4th overall (and won the Senior section), playing a good event. Today, in his bimonthly live show, Alex told us about his 4th round game against the young and strong US GM Sam Sevian. Photo copyright Webster University GM Alex Yermolinsky and GM Sam Sevian The analysis provided by GM Alex is...Full StoryAdded on 10.17.2017
This week I have a special tribute to one of America's all-time great players. One by one, all the heroes of my childhood pass on. In the last few years on my show, I have honored Larry Evans, Robert Byrne, Walter Browne, and Arthur Bisguier. To this list, we add William Lombardy, who died recently in California, a bit before his 80th birthday. GM William Lombardy (December 4, 1937 – October 13, 2017) Lombardy's career was full of achievements. He became, I believe, the first...Full StoryAdded on 10.04.2017
What is "thought process"? It's related to thinking, of course, but there is a difference between thinking and thought process. In a sense, we can break "chess thinking" into three different types, each representing a different class where you may make errors. Let's put the process in class one, knowledge in area two, and analytical in class 3. The latter usually occurs at a higher level, but it's useful to know how errors during analysis can happen. There is also a grey area, which we can...Full StoryAdded on 10.01.2017
"Here is the October 2017 schedule for ICC TV! Join us this month and become a star on ICC and YouTube!" - GM John Fedorowicz 10/02 Monday 6PM GM Max Dlugy Take it to the Max! 10/04 Wednesday 1PM IM Vojislav "voja" Milanovic LIVE Simul vs. 20 players 10/06 Friday 4PM CM Tryfon Gavriel Let's Crush the Kings! 10/09 Monday 4PM IM...Full StoryAdded on 09.22.2017
Levon and Liren are the last two men standing, after six tough rounds of the KO being played in Tbilisi. In the next four days, the two top players will play 4 standard games, with time control 90 30. Rating-wise Aronian is favorite over Ding, but we have seen so many top-seeded players surrender during the World Cup, starting from Magnus and down to all the top ten, excluding the two final contenders, that predicting the final winner is almost impossible. The World Cup format is an...Full StoryAdded on 09.02.2017
"Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data. In applying statistics to, e.g., a scientific, industrial, or social problem, it is conventional, to begin with, a statistical population or a statistical model process to be studied." Mamamia, it really sounds boring beyond imagination, doesn't it? But actually, stats is something that can give us a somewhat precise idea of trends and events that happen on a...Full StoryAdded on 09.01.2017
"Here is the September 2017 schedule for ICC TV! Join us this month and become a star on ICC and YouTube!" - GM David Smerdon 09/01 Friday 4PM CM Tryfon Gavriel Let's Crush the Kings! 09/04 Monday 6:15PM GM Max Dlugy Take it to the Max! 09/05 Tuesday 4PM IM John Watson Ask the Master! 09/06 Wednesday 1PM IM Vojislav "voja"...Full StoryAdded on 08.30.2017
August has been an intense month for all the chess fans and, of course, for the elite players, who gathered in St Louis to play the Sinquefield Cup and the Rapid&Blitz Grand Chess Tour events. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won his first top tournament, jumping again over 2800, and establishing himself in second place in the live rating list. The Rapid&Blitz event generated a lot of interest because Garry Kasparov decided to join the fray again, making the St Louis Grand Chess tour event the most...Full StoryAdded on 08.28.2017
Almost everyone who uses a personal computer is, in a way, Googlized. We use our Google account to keep connected to the rest of the world, to move preferences, bookmarks, and many other things from a computer to another. Google Calendar is a powerful and versatile tool, which allows you to plan your tasks and keep them under control. You can set reminders, use it on your mobile device. Not to mention that you can import full calendars or single events, and make yours someone else's...Full StoryAdded on 08.19.2017
Yes, let's face it, it was just great to see Garry Kasparov sit at the board, make all the faces that those of my generation have loved and criticized - as if a chess player of his strength would need a poker-face - and join the fray again, after 12 years of chess inactivity. Photo by Eric Rosen You can see a set of nice shots HERE I can't see anything negative in Kasparov's comeback. The result? C'mon, it doesn't matter. Watching the games, I have seen kibitzers going for the squalid...Full StoryAdded on 08.13.2017
It was March 2005, when the strongest player ever announced his retirement from professional chess. After 20 years at the top of the game, Garry Kimovich Kasparov declared: "Before this tournament, I made a conscious decision that Linares 2005 will be my last professional [tournament] and today I played my last professional game." He won Linares 2005, ahead of Topalov, Anand, Leko, Adams, Kasindzhanov and Vallejo Pons. Nonetheless, the decision had been taken: the greatest players of all time...Full StoryAdded on 08.13.2017
GM Alex Yermolinsky, who recently won the US Senior Open, is one of the best content creators in the chess scene. Alex is always ready to explore new paths, without losing sight of the more traditional theory. In this series, GM Yermolinsky revisits Kasparov's point of view on some of the most common openings. Garry Kasparov's “Revolution in the 70's” was published in 2007 as the first book of “On Modern Chess” series. Soon it was followed by three tomes on his matches with Karpov, and then...Full StoryAdded on 08.01.2017
"Here is the August 2017 schedule for ICC TV! Join us this month and become a star on ICC and YouTube!" - GM David Smerdon 08/02 Wedensday 6PM GM Ronen Har-Zvi Sinquefield Cup 2017 - Round 1 Recap 08/03 Thursday 6PM GM Alex Yermolinsky Sinquefield Cup 2017 - Round 2 Recap 08/04 Friday 4PM CM Tryfon Gavriel Let's Crush the Kings!...Full StoryAdded on 07.31.2017
Joel Benjamin, Ronen Har-Zvi, Alex Yermolinsky, David Smerdon, John Watson, Tryfon Gavriel, Christof Sielecki, Max Dlugy, Voja Milanovic, John Fedorowicz. These are the names that the Internet Chess Club sponsors to bring you a lot of LIVE chess, almost every day! Weekly shows SHOW HOST FORMAT TIME JOIN/WATCH MONDAYS An Hour of Chess... explained! IM Christof Sielecki 5-minute auto-pairing...Full Story
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