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At the chessboard, it's Erin go blah Follow Us Question of the Day By David R. Sands - The Washington Times - Tuesday, March 16, 2021 There are so many things the Irish are good at: lyric poetry, dark beer, dancing with their arms epoxied to their sides. Chess, unfortunately, has never been one of them. Those preparing a toast to the glories of Irish chess this St. Patrick’s Day will not be overwhelmed by choices. Alex Baburin, the country’s only grandmaster, is a fine player and noted chess journalist, bu...

€19.95 ?  ??  !  !!  ?!  !?  +/- A written language uses a set of symbols and punctuation marks as basic elements of orthography that make it possible to convey a thought. Punctuation is necessary to structure and organise words in a sentence and give it sense. Language is a science. Chess is a language. Therefore, chess is a science, would be Aristotle's logic. As such, it uses its own orthography of signs, symbols and formulae that helps to fathom its scientific nature, which was emphasized in Wilhelm Steinitz' words: " Chess is a scientific game and its literatur...

€29.90 After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Black can spoil White's intentions to play the Ruy Lopez, the Scotch Game, the Giuoco Piano or the Evans Gambit by answering with 2. ... d6. In a first article on this topic I described that the former World Champion Alexander Alekhine (1892 - 1946) played the Philidor Defence several times and was very successful with it. Since the article met with lively interest and some ChessBase readers also provided interesting hints, I would like to go into some more details and present some more exciting games with this opening. Edward Lasker vs Alekhine - ...