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Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Carlsen wins World Rapid, signs up for Qatar Masters

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World Champion Magnus Carlsen has defended one of his other World Championship titles, the World Rapidplay Champion, winning the 2015 event ...
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Monday, 12 October 2015

Draw in 9, win in 11

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There was a bit of a blow up at the 2015 Millionaire Chess tournament, when Hikaru Nakamura and Luke McShane drew their round 7 game in 9 mo...
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Sunday, 11 October 2015

A chess game on wheels

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I'm not sure spending most of the day watching the car racing from Bathurst counts as a waste of a day, or an affirmation of Australian ...

An overdose of chess

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Sometimes there are no international chess events, then three all turn up at the same time (apologies for such an old joke). Currently runni...
Friday, 9 October 2015

The Troll-iest opening ever

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Today at the ACT Juniors I saw what might be the 'troll-iest' opening line ever. The game started normally with 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3....
Thursday, 8 October 2015

ACT Junior Arbiter Fun

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The 2015 ACT Junior Chess Championship is currently underway, and I doing duty as an assistant arbiter to WIM Emma Guo. The tournament is be...
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Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Logical chess, hack by hack

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As a coaching book, "Logical Chess: Move by Move" is quite a fun text. Certainly the section on Kingside Attacks is a step above t...
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