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I recently came across some games of Prince Andrei Dadian of Mingrelia that I hadn't seen in any database. I had published some of them elsewhere, but wanted to put them all into this series.
Chess has been called the Game of Kings. It seems... | Read More
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I recently came across some games of Prince Andrei Dadian of Mingrelia that I hadn't seen in any database. I had published some of them elsewhere, but wanted to put them all into this series.Because of their innate beauty and creativity, many g... | Read More
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Ivan Alexandrovich Butrimov, who was born in St. Petersburg March 7, 1782, produced Russia's first chess book, Chess Play, in 1821. Below is th... | Read More
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The Chess Player's Magazinevol. II, 1864edited by Johann Lowenthal
An excerpt from a letter from George Walker to the editor in response to a series on the M'Donnell-Labourdonnais match presented in the magazine
. . .Alexander Macdonnell, the s... | Read More
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I'm an algebraic kind of girl. I learned to play chess on a computer and that notation comes most natural to me. In the course of reading old texts, periodicals and books, I've had to transpose descriptive into algebraic notaion, though I hav... | Read More
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Josephy Méry, as far as chess players are concerned, is remembered for three things: -With Labourdonnais, he founded Le Palamède, the first chess magazine.-He authored the poem Une Revanche de Waterloo (1836), celebrating Labourdonais' victory ... | Read More
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In 1937 Adele Rivero won the championship of the National Chess Association. The tournament that decided the championship began as the Marshall Club championship for women in 1934, refereed by Frank Marshall himself and organized by hi... | Read More
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I really do like chimpanzees in spite of the fact that they can be ferocious and even vicious. There is something compelling about their nature. Chimpanzees are not just primates, but the animal closest to humans in DNA and intelligence.One h... | Read More
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The Double, or Wild, Muzio
There happens to be several openings or variations that fall unter the umbrella of either "Double Muzio" or "Wild Muzio." They all involve the sac of two pieces in the openng. The most common moves are -1. e4 e5 2. f... | Read More
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"One of the most beautiful openings. It involves the sacrifice of the King's Knight, but is not considered safe, as it is believed to admit of a perfectly satisfactory defence, and therefore to be disadvantageous to the attacking player, on a... | Read More