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Yours Truly, on DVD 27 Aug 2013 | 12:39 am
In addition to blogging and giving lessons (please contact me if you're interested!) I also record videos for ChessLecture.com. The topics have often been diverse, but I did a series on the world cham...
2013 World Cup: Round 6, Day 1: Two Short Draws 27 Aug 2013 | 12:23 am
The semi-finals of the World Cup are underway, but despite the fans' high hopes the games were fast and they were short, both drawn in fewer than 20 minutes and in less than 80 minutes. They had a som...
2013 World Cup: Round 5, Day 3: Andreikin, Vachier-Lagrave Advance on Tiebreaks 26 Aug 2013 | 08:45 am
The tiebreaks at the World Cup are getting shorter. There were Armageddon games in the first two rounds, while rounds 3 and 4 made it through the 5" minute games. (And with an 80-90 minute "ten minute...
Kasparov On The World Cup 25 Aug 2013 | 11:22 am
Garry Kasparov - or more likely, I suspect, his amanuensis - has been commenting on the World Cup on his Facebook page. (But not only on the World Cup, so depending on when you look some scrolling may...
2013 World Cup: Round 5, Day 2: Kramnik, Tomashevsky(!) Advance 25 Aug 2013 | 10:23 am
The classical stage of round 5 of the 2013 World Cup has finished, and two of the four matches have been decided. Vladimir Kramnik defeated Anton Korobov on day 1 of the round and needed only a draw o...
2013 World Cup: Round 5, Day 1 24 Aug 2013 | 07:30 am
The World Cup has reached the quarter-finals and the fatigue is starting to show. With no rest days other than those earned by avoiding tiebreaks, the players have been playing for most of the past 13...
2013 World Cup: Round 4, Day 3: Tomashevsky The Tiebreak Hero 23 Aug 2013 | 08:26 am
Three of the four tiebreaks today at the World Cup were straightforward affairs, but the last was something else. Two of the three relatively mundane tiebreaks saw upsets as two of the pre-tournament ...
2013 World Cup: Round 4, Day 2: Kramnik, Caruana, Kamsky and Korobov "Kwalify" 22 Aug 2013 | 08:10 am
There's something about chess excellence and names starting with a "k" sound: Karpov, Korchnoi, Kasparov, Carlsen, and the first and third players listed in the title have enjoyed remarkable careers a...
Carlsen's Recce in Chennai 21 Aug 2013 | 06:01 pm
Magnus Carlsen and team are doing recce - reconnaissance, if like me you were hitherto unfamiliar with that military term - in Chennai, India. Most of what you'll read in the article is what you'd exp...
2013 World Cup: Round 4, Day 1: Kramnik, Caruana and Kamsky Win 21 Aug 2013 | 08:51 am
Day 1 of round 4 of the 2013 World Cup got off to a slow start with super-quick draws in the Dmitry Andreikin - Sergey Karjakin and Hikaru Nakamura - Anton Korobov games, but then it heated up. (That'...
