To Succeed in Chess, Start with WHY
Very often I am asked: “How to keep concentration?”, “How to have more energy?”, “How to overcome blunders or painful defeats?” or...
The New Economics of Chess By Tyler Cowen
I just finished watching one of Chess24.com’s Magnus Carlsen-affiliated rapid on-line chess tournaments, when today (a day later?) I see that another tournament has started. ...
“It Comes as a Shock That People Suddenly See You as the Veteran” Vishy...
Former world champion and legend of the game GM Vishy Anand speaks to David Cox about competing with the elite at the age of...
My Wife Won’t Talk to me Because I Won at Chess
This is one interesting story.
Hey there, So pretty much like the title says my wife won't talk...
Trap. Dominate. Chess.
Sceptics maintain that live chess is as enthralling as watching paint dry. Ultra-sceptics reply: unfair to paint. As a theatrical experience, it...
The Use Of Engines, Average Centipawn Loss And Online Cheating By Pureheart Loveday
Being a mathematics enthusiast, the subject of centipawn loss is really of interest to me.
Irrespective of the primary...
CALL FOR BIDS: FIDE World Championships 2022
IMPORTANT: Please note that FIDE is considering an option to postpone the 2020 competitions to 2021, and the 2021 competitions to 2022....
How Online Chess is Becoming a Pandemic Coping Mechanism Like it did Centuries Ago...
Chess.com, the most-visited global website for online chess play, expects 10 years worth of site growth to occur within the next few months. It...
Breaking: FIDE Suspends Candidates Tournament 2020
The 2020 FIDE Candidates Tournament opened officially on March 16, 2020, in Yekaterinburg, Russia, despite the threat of the pandemic, COVID-19. It...
Cheating: Chess has Nearly Seen it all
In chess and other sports, both real and rumored instances of cheating have been around for decades, but other sports malfeasance — sign-stealing...
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Wadim Rosenstein Didn’t Just Announce a Chess Event. He Made the World Look.
Most chess events come and go quietly with a flyer, a post and a few shares. The usual crowd sees it. There...
An End of an Era as Dasaolu Olurotimi Steps Back from National Friends of...
For many years, Dashe has been one of the familiar names in Nigerian chess organization. Through Friends of Chess, and later National Friends of Chess, he built a platform that gave players across different parts of Nigeria the chance to compete. Now, with NFOC 2026 titled An End of an Era, he is stepping away from that role.
Nigerian Chess Community Mourns the Loss of Sandif Samson, Rising Star from Gombe State
The Nigerian chess community mourns the loss of Sandif Samson, a FIDE-registered chess player from Gombe State who tragically lost his life in a road accident while on his way to write his Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). A student leader, competitor, and rising talent gone too soon.
