Paul Keres

November 4, 2009

On January 7, 1916, Estonian chess grandmaster Paul Keres was born. Taught from his father and older brother, Keres found an interest in chess early in life. He won three separate tournaments as a student in Estonia, and was well-renowned for his brilliant and sharp attacking style. When attending the University of Tartu, Keres, like [...]

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Max Euwe

October 29, 2009

Machgielis (Max) Euwe was a genius in mathematics and chess, born May 20, 1901. Born near Amsterdam, he earned his doctorate at the University of Amsterdamin 1926. He applied his passion of math to chess, analyzing the game and publishing his finding that the current chess rules had not taken into account the possibility of [...]

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Alexander Alekhine – World Champion

October 25, 2009

Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine is a famous World Chess champion who began pursuing chess since the young age of 10, competing in Shakhmatnoe Obozrenie’s numerous correspondence tournaments. Five years later, teenage Alexander would go on to win Moscow chess club’s Spring Tournament. This seemed to be the point of revelation to Alexander that he would become [...]

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I’ll get you Wolfgang Unzicker

October 22, 2009

Skittles room of the New York Open Penta Hotel circa mid 1980’s I’ve finished the post mortem from the previous round and now I’m just hanging out watching other players toss chess pieces into the air with claims of “THIS WINS” and “I should have drawn”. Nothing much is going on and I’m thinking about [...]

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Emanuel Lasker: Greatest World Chess Champion?

October 17, 2009

Chess players will often gather in clusters like birds on a wire, in tournament halls, skittles room, hotel lobbies and the nearest Denny’s. They chatter on and on like old women of the Red Hat Society and in the mist of this chatter at some point the subject of the greatest world champion will come [...]

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