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Best Chess players of all time

In no order, who are the top 5 chess players of all time? Mine are Fischer, Kasparov, Carlsen Botvinnik and Alekhine. I think that Carlsen benefits from today’s technology, which basically wasn’t around for the other 4. The “benefit of coming after”, so to speak, which is kind of true of Kasparov as well. BotvinnikContinue reading “Best Chess players of all time”

Diamond Dust! Chess Tactics

Chess Tactics! Through space and time, from Chaturanga and around the world, tactics to sharpen your skills. From Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations 4th Edition. “Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of chess…..It is because combinations are possible that chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game;Continue reading “Diamond Dust! Chess Tactics”

Master Musings!

Annotated games and Opening/Middle/Endgame instructional articles from before the Internet age From Inside Chess Volume 7, Issue 5, Chess Life September 1973 and Chess, February 1937.

Diamond Dust! Chess Tactics!

Through space and time. From Chaturanga and around the world. Tactics to sharpen your skills! From Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations 4th Edition. Answers are below page.

Diamond Dust

Time and Tide

Annotated Master Tournaments from before the Internet age! From November of 1942 of Chess Review there is the opening games of the Reshevsky – Kashdan match for the U.S. Championship. The allies were landing in North Africa, Operation Torch. The Germans and Soviets were in a death grip at Stalingrad. Along with Midway and ElContinue reading “Time and Tide”

Diamond Dust

Chess Tactics! Through space and time, from Chaturanga and around the world, tactics to sharpen your skills. “Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of chess…..It is because combinations are possible that chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to chess what melody isContinue reading “Diamond Dust”