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Three FIDE Titles for Canada

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Submitted by John Upper on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 13:23

Aman Hambleton, Bernard Ouimet and Vadim Tsypin were awarded FIDE titles at the Presidential Board of the FIDE, which ended April 9, 2018. Details and links...

BOTW: No Match for World Champion

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Submitted by John Upper on Wed, 03/28/2018 - 17:54

With the 2018 Candidates ending with seven of the eight players not qualifying for a World Championship match, our Best of the Web this week focuses on two great players who, despite their best efforts, never got to play a match against the world's best player....

GOTW: Vogt - Piasetski, HD Bank Cup, 2018.

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Submitted by John Upper on Thu, 03/22/2018 - 12:44

IM Leon Piasetski annotates his topsy-turvy round 5 game against German GM Lothar Vogt from the 2018 HD Bank Cup Open in Vietnam...  

BOTW: Candidates 2018

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Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 03/10/2018 - 10:39

The 8-player double RR to determine the Challenger for Magnus Carlsen in the next World Championship match is this week's Best of the Web...

BOTW: Bonus

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Submitted by John Upper on Fri, 02/09/2018 - 12:58

Carlsen vs Nakamura in Fischer Random Match, Stockfish 9 released, and Qiyu Zhou at the St.Louis Norm Congress are a bonus Best of the Web...

BOTW: 2018.02.03

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Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 02/03/2018 - 19:05

The PRO Chess League returns with a special weekend of chess, and GM Pascal Charbonneau is interviewed on Perpetual Chess, this week's Best of the Web...

BOTW: 2018.01.24

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Submitted by John Upper on Wed, 01/24/2018 - 15:21

Gibraltar 2018, the PRO Chess League rounds 2 and 3, and the last three rounds of TATA Steel/Wijk aan Zee are this week's Best of the Web...

GOTW: +2 and lost!

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Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 01/22/2018 - 23:58

Inspired by (and including) Magnus Carlsen's amazing hang-a-piece-and-still-beat-a-2630 on Sunday, our Game(s) of the Week are all Dragons which start from the position in the diagram and where one side had an advantage of at least +2, and yet failed to win. Games and notes include: Carlsen-Jones, Leko-Carlsen, Lugovoi-Sambuev, Ganguly-Richard Wang, as well as an opening survey on this line...

BOTW: 2018.1.12

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Submitted by John Upper on Fri, 01/12/2018 - 17:52

The 80th running of the Dutch by-the-sea classic is the first major chess event of 2018, and this week's Best of the Web...

GM-Elect Hambleton Annotates

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Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 01/08/2018 - 14:40

GM-elect Aman Hambleton annotates three of his games from his 2017 European campaign to gain his final Grandmaster Norm...

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