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The Fabulous 00s: 2009 USCL Week 9 Opening of the Week
USCL Week 9 Opening of the Week (OOTW) USCL Week 9 action sees a Caissic Horror Show brought out of the storage closet for Halloween! Charbonneau, Pascal (NY) -Enkbhat, Tegshsuren (BAL) Fugly Caro Ad… more →
IM Mark Ginsburg Presents A Personal Chess History
The Fabulous 00s: 2009 USCL Week 9 Opening of the Week
nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: USCL Week 9 Opening of the Week (OOTW) USCL Week 9 action sees a Caissic Horror Show brought out of … more →
The Fabulous 00s: Scorpions Continue Winning Ways
nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: Week 9 USCL Action: Arizona 3 Seattle 1 Going into the match, I was not hopeful at all about our cha … more →
The Fabulous 00s: USCL Opening of the Week (OOTW) Week 8
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nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: In Week 8, we had an interesting old-school Semi-Slav Meran (think Larsen, Uhlmann, and other giants … more →
The Fabulous 00s: USCL Week 6 Opening of the Week (OOTW)
nezhmet wrote 2 months ago: The Inscrutable Chinese Dragon I guess we could say it’s a gambit of structure (backward pawn … more →
The Fabulous 90s: From the Vaults - San Francisco 1999 Dake Memorial
nezhmet wrote 3 months ago: The Arthur Dake Memorial was a 9 round invitational held at the venerable Mechanics Institute Chess … more →
The Fabulous 00s: Player Freakouts
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nezhmet wrote 4 months ago: Players and Their Freakouts View This Pollopinion I laughed my butt off at Vinay Bhat’s World … more →
The Fabulous 00s: Championing Dubious Systems
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nezhmet wrote 6 months ago: Say What? A lot of authors champion some pretty bad things. A duo of Dutch amateurs champion a pas … more →
The Fabulous 60s: McKelvie upsets Benko
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nezhmet wrote 8 months ago: This just in from Dr. Neil McKelvie (Chemistry Professor at CCNY and Chess Master) Mark…I noti … more →
Various Types of chess The Fabulous 00s: Getting Here from There
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nezhmet wrote 1 year ago: Getting Here There are many chess information sites in the Blogoverse. How do mortals traverse fr … more →
The Fabulous 00s: The NY International 2008 Part Deux
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nezhmet wrote 1 year ago: More Games, More Drama Here’s a barnburner I played in Round 3 vs. GM Michael Rohde. IM M. Gin … more →
Photo of Chess Grandmaster Sammy Reschevsky, at 8 Years Old, Playing 20 Simultaneous Games Against Experts at West Point Military Acadamy
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wpm1955 wrote 1 year ago: Sammy Reshevsky (8 years old, lower right, and recently arrived from Poland) playing 20 simultaneous … more →
New York International 2008
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nezhmet wrote 1 year ago: The Basics The first-ever New York International 2008, a nine round masters’ Swiss, was held a … more →
Correspondence Chess Through E-Mail
wpm1955 wrote 1 year ago: I live in Marrakesh, and my brother lives in Denver. When I moved here 17 years ago, email did not e … more →
The Fabulous 60s: Dr. Neil McKelvie on Arnold Denker
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nezhmet wrote 1 year ago: MG Note: This guest article by Dr. Neil McKelvie, long-time MCC official and Professor of Chemistry … more →
The Fabulous 00s: A New Chess.FM Segment
nezhmet wrote 1 year ago: Upholding the Sicilian – A new Chess.FM Segment I am preparing a series of ICC Chess.FM lectur … more →
The Fabulous 70s: Rewarding the Clock-Punching Monkey
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nezhmet wrote 1 year ago: The Good and the Evil Inherent in Clock Punching Monkeys I was titillated to read in a recent CLO Ir … more →
11th North American FIDE Invitational
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nezhmet wrote 1 year ago: Selected Games from the 11th North American FIDE Invitational Here are some games from the 11th Nort … more →
Conticello on MCC
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nezhmet wrote 1 year ago: A Manhattan Chess Club Timeline [Abridged] by Nicholas W. Conticello Italicized Supplemental Notes b … more →
