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Bundesliga season 22/23: Stars up close - Eljanov, Van Wely, McShane, Jones, Kasimdzhanov, Cheparinov, Meier and many others comment on games from the first rounds - "Special" on Mikhail Tal: exclusive collection of 21 commented games + contributions on strategy and endgame - "The Scotch Gambit": Daniel King presents another gambit idea: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Nf6 5. 0-0 (video) - "How to deal with opening surprises": Jan Markos continues his training ser...

All GPs have patients with fertility problems who, at some point, may need advice, investigations organised and appropriate referral. This article, written by Olivia Stuart, provides an overview of the optimal lifestyle and medical advice for men and women, discusses the best predictors of fertility, and presents the relevant investigations and latest treatment options

In honor of the 44th Chess Olympiad, we at Chess.com asked the question: If you could put every country's best five players ever on the same team, how good would those teams be? Now there are many arguments, and not just in chess, about how good players of the past really are. But for this article, we...

Hikaru Nakamura showed few signs of jetlag as he won the Zurich Chess Challenge blitz opener without losing a game. He was joined by Boris Gelfan...

As chess tournaments go, Tata Steel Chess has run pretty much forever—it has been held annually since 1938 with just one missed year. In that time, it became one of the strongest chess competitions in the world. How to watch the 2022 Tata Steel Chess Tournament You can watch the 2022 Tata Steel Chess...

Legend has it that a player who once was analysing with Dr. Tarrasch (pictured), a great believer in the power of the bishops, gave his bishop for a knight and remarked: "Winning the small exchange!" Tarrasch, probably with good reason, felt provoked, and said: "You obviously mean losing the small exchange!" Exchanging minor pieces is a fine and difficult art indeed. Jan Markos knows more!

A pre-requisite for an organization to become world class is to have competent people working for it in key managerial positions. This is exactly what FIDE has done by roping in Dana Reizniece-Ozola as the managing director. A look at her credentials and you can have no doubts about her competency. Dana is a former Minister of Economics of Latvia as well as its Finance Minister! She has a Masters in Business Administration, has been the head of space programs and her list of achievements is quit...

In the meantime Anish was also playing a game of chess, but he wasn’t finding it too demanding: I forgot to talk about this game, by the way. I was winning the whole time, so I kind of forgot about it, and basically I was too winning, too winning for words. The thing is, when you are inexperienced you don’t realise how lost you are sometimes, so it comes with experience to resign at the right moment. Let’s say it’s fine when somebody doesn’t resign in such a position if he’s not st...

€29.90 Wijk aan Zee Storytellers (5) - Loek van Wely In this last episode of the "Wijk aan Zee Storytellers", Eric talks to his compratiot GM Loek van Wely, who played 25 times in the highest group in Wijk aan Zee. He played the most games on the highest level in the history of the event and shares the record with the legendary GM Jan-Hein Donner: 297 games! Loek debuted in 1990 though , in the B group and in that tournament he lost to all the three Polgar sisters!  In this e...

Great minds: 10 players who excel at both chess and poker Chess and poker are recognized as intellectual sports and the metaphor of "seated boxing" can be used to refer to each of them. It is said of both games that they take a few minutes to learn, but a lifetime to master. Somehow, a few players have managed to excel in both disciplines. This article is the first part of a series that will look into the similarities and differences between chess and poker. The 10 players are classified by ye...