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This coming Sunday (May 20) is the soon-to-be-unforgettable Death-Match 5! Giorgi Kacheishvili and Jorge Sammour-Hasbun will clash for chess, for pride, and for $1000 in cash.
Kacheishvili is a strong Grandmaster with many tournament wins (inclu... | Read More
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Qualification for the April Death-Match will take place at midnight between this coming Saturday-Sunday. Today I want to take a look at the leading players who have a chance at qualifying as of right now. (If you don't know the rules for qualifica... | Read More
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On Sat, April 28th, the 4th Chess.com Death-Match will take place, with a prize of $1000. And you just might be one of the two players! My purpose here is just to lay out all the ground rules, so that everyone knows how they could qualify.
On Ap... | Read More
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This coming week is a huge week for chess entertainment! We have a huge schedule of shows (the full schedule can be seen at chess.com/tv by scrolling down), including several special events and several shows open to basic/gold members; so if you h... | Read More
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The Western Class Champs are an annual continental chess event in Los Angeles. I played this tournament several times 12-14 years ago when I was a developing master, but had not played it recently. This year there are several interesting opponents... | Read More
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This post is just to let people know about some random things going on on chess.com these days, particularly in my work.
Up first: tomorrow's episode of our weekly chess TV show, "Pardon our Blunders," will be open to basic and gold members as w... | Read More
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Last week, in round 2 of the Gibraltar Chess Congress, 17 year old Hou Yifan, rated over 2600 FIDE after her crushing Woman's World Championship match victory over Humpy Koneru, played the following game against super-GM Zoltan Almasi:
Beating... | Read More
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In less than half an hour, Danny and I will contest chess.com's inaugural Death Match, a 3-hour bonanza of chess, sweat, and tears. All levels of members can watch by going to www.chess.com/tv. This is our latest attempt to advance chess entertain... | Read More
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From grandmasters, down to beginners, all chess players would do well to enter each tournament they play with a goal. That goal could simply be to play your first tournament, and learn what the experience is like, or that goal c... | Read More
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In round 5 of the Western States Open, I was surprised to be paired with young (12 yrs old?) Luke Harmon-Vellotti of Idaho. Despite losing in round 4 I had 3/4 and I thought that I should still be in line for an IM or GM. I thou... | Read More