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Thursday, 31 December 2009

2009 Australian Player of the Year

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Despite some outstanding individual performances in 2009, for me there is pretty clear choice for the (Chessexpress) 2009 Australian Player ...
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009

Nice Geometry

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As I've stated before, I prefer to read the solution to a chess problem than actually solve it. I admire the cleverness of the problem s...
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Tuesday, 29 December 2009

Deep thought for the Day

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What are the odds that the best chess player in the world has never played chess? This thought has occured to me over the years, especially ...
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Monday, 28 December 2009

Korchnoi and Spassky halve out

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The match between Boris Spassky and Viktor Korchnoi ended all square after 8 games. The second half of the match saw 2 wins for Spassky and ...
Sunday, 27 December 2009

How not to publicise a tournament

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Since the start of December I have been bombarded with press releases from the "World Championship" tournaments being held in Las ...
Saturday, 26 December 2009

Hastings Chess Congress

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There are a number of traditional post-Christmas chess events, with the Hastings Chess Congress probably the most famous. For many years the...
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Friday, 25 December 2009

A couple of different draws

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Here is an interesting chess problem for Christsmas Day (and most of Boxing Day as well). It was composed by Rinck, and I came across it in ...
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