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Although we learn various ideas in chess as we go along, putting them into practice is often harder. In the given position it is Black to pl...

I have mixed feelings about opening traps. I enjoy playing them, and will try and memorise them when I can, and yet I feel uneasy about teac...

Young Indian GM Parimajan Negi has won the 2009 Data Arthur Tan Malaysian Open, on tie break after finishin on 7/9 along with IM Ronald Dabl...

The 2009 ACT Chess Championship begins next Friday night (4th September). In a slightly unusual move the event is being played on a non-club...

Given that Hikaru Nakamura has played 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 on occasion, the tendency is to be a little more respectful of the queen move than we ot...

The annual Rising Stars v Experience match is currently running in Amsterdam and at the halfway point, it is Experience holding a 2 point le...

Last year I wrote about the collision between what I sometimes read in chess (Eric Schiller), and what I always read in politics (Daily Kos....