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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 quite huge. To add to all of this, she is also a strong chess player - a WGM with an Elo of 2283. At the...
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 strong enough, like my opponent, but sometimes the opponent is strong
€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 episode "KingLoek" , as he is often called, talks about his best games, the rivalry between Dutch pla...
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 year of birth. Dan Harrington (born in 1945) Dan Harrington at the WSOP | Wikipedia