Garry Kasparov played a near perfect game against David Navara at the St. Louis Chess Club yesterday (16th August 2017), only to see it all blow up in his face when checkmate appeared inevitable. Can you find what’s wrong with 49.Nb4-c6+ ? […]
The 6 Types of Chess Player – Which one are you?
Yuri Averbakh, Russian GM, author, endgame expert and currently the world’s oldest living GM at 93 (!), revealed in a 1997 interview in New in Chess that he placed chess players into 6 categories. Here they are with his description […]
Capablanca Interview 1925: Chess as Art
(This interview was published in New York World, 25 October 1925.) ‘Chess is not merely a game nor a mental training, but a social attainment, in the opinion of José Raúl Capablanca of Cuba, the world’s chess champion, who stopped off […]
Chess Interview with Fischer, Korchnoi & Larsen (1967)
(This is an excerpt from Bjelica’s “Grandmasters in Profile”) The three of them, Larsen, Fischer and Korchnoi, were the central personalities of the 1967 Sousse Inter-Zonal tournament. They were the ones who fought the strongest. Fischer left the tournament whilst […]
Chess Interview: Murray Cohen
A short chat on twitter with Murray Cohen, a master level player/coach with 50 years experience, became very interesting and I requested to expand our conversation and am grateful that he agreed. Check it out, be sure to give him […]