Checkmate! The Queen’s Gambit & Anya Taylor-Joy win Golden Globes
The Queen’s Gambit Netflix series has won the Golden Globe for the Best TV Limited Series while Anya Taylor-Joy, who starred as chess prodigy Beth Harmon, took home her first Golden Globe as Best Actress. Anya, who faced stiff competition from Cate Blanchett (Miss America) and Nicole Kidman (The Undoing), commented afterwards, “We played very sassy chess and I didn’t realise I needed sassy chess in my life, but I do!”
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Top 5 YouTube chess videos
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Know your enemy: Blunders and the brain
Blunders in chess are as common as they are painful, but sometimes we find it hard to find a rational explanation for why we’ve fallen below the level we expect of ourselves. We asked psychologist and FIDE Master María Rodrigo Yan...
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How I became a cheater
The recent scandal involving two-time Georgian Champion Gaioz Nigalidze got Vlad Tkachiev thinking about the problem of cheating in chess. He wondered what can be done about it, but also why those who call for lifetime bans condone ...
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Nigel Short and Susan Polgar at war
Nigel Short is embroiled in controversy over allegedly "sexist" comments he made in an article in the last issue of New in Chess, but our correspondent Tarjei J. Svensen was more struck by the criticism of former Women's World Champ...
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The Daily Show on US efforts to recruit Caruana
Every negative chess cliché you could imagine was packed into a funny but somewhat dismaying 5-minute clip on Jon Stewart’s hugely popular The Daily Show – chess players as nerds, chess as boring, chess as only “kind of” a sport ...
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Learning from our mistakes (2)
In the previous article we saw a strategic struggle in which chess24 user Wepner managed to get the better of his rival. The position he reached was one with a clear advantage for Black – a passed pawn, better pieces and also a w...
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Did Korchnoi inspire the move of the year?
Denis Khismatullin’s stunning 44.Kg1!! was the move of the European Championship and the year 2015 so far, but was it inspired by a great predecessor? The move bore more than a passing resemblance to one which helped Viktor Korch...
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Learning from our mistakes
In a recent birthday article we invited users to submit their games for analysis. The first to be selected was considered so interesting by Spanish IM David Martínez that he split the analysis into two separate articles. In this ...
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Yet another draw…
The European Championship has long had a bad reputation for draws, with most of the players treating getting into the coveted 23 World Cup qualifying places as the overriding goal. This year, in the absence of Sofia Rules, the pl...
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Korchnoi vs. Uhlmann, two legends in Zürich
On the sidelines of the Zürich Chess Challenge, we also witnessed a duel of four games between the chess legends Viktor Korchnoi and Wolfgang Uhlmann. The event gave International Master Pablo Almagro an excuse to pay tribute to the...
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