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The Fabulous 00s: New-Age Chess Programming
New-Age Chess TV Programming at Chess.Com Chess.Com is using an interesting technology to beam chess “TV shows” on the Internet. Not just a board with a voice that you replay from an arch… more →
IM Mark Ginsburg Presents A Personal Chess History
The 3 K's in chess - why not the whole alphabet?
esalen wrote 2 hours ago: It’s well known that Kasparov, Karpov and Kramnik is the 3 K’s of chess. Kasparov and Ka … more →
The Fabulous 00s: New-Age Chess Programming
nezhmet wrote 3 days ago: New-Age Chess TV Programming at Chess.Com Chess.Com is using an interesting technology to beam chess … more →
The Fabulous 00s: Where is the Caro Complaint Department?
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nezhmet wrote 5 days ago: Kompliant Karo in New In Chess In the 2009#7 issue of New in Chess, Nigel Short presents a Caro-Kann … more →
The Fabulous 00s: The end of the 2009 USCL Season for the Arizona Scorpions
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nezhmet wrote 1 week ago: Scorpions Squished San Francisco defeated the Scorpions comprehensively last Wednesday 3.5 – 0 … more →
The Fabulous 00s: No Computer Allowed Quizzes
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nezhmet wrote 2 weeks ago: Test Your Insight Here’s a set of tough positions. Each has interesting strategical and tact … more →
The Fabulous 00s: 2009 USCL Week 9 Opening of the Week
nezhmet wrote 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 8
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nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: Scorpions Sting Again; ICC Kibitzers Hopelessly Confused Well, the Scorpions did it again! They squ … more →
The Fabulous 00s: USCL Week 7 Opening of the Week (OOTW)
nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: Let’s explore an interesting junior battle. Gerald Larson (TEN) – Trevor Magness (CHI) … more →
The Fabulous 00s: A Titantic Week 7 USCL Matchup
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nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: Scorpions-Mechanics: Not for the Faint of Heart Wow, I am still freaking out a day later. The Arizo … more →
The Fabulous 00s: USCL Week 6 Opening of the Week (OOTW)
nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: The Inscrutable Chinese Dragon I guess we could say it’s a gambit of structure (backward pawn … more →
The Fabulous 70s: The National Chess League
nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: Before the current-day US Chess League, we had the National Chess League played with telephones! (p … more →
The Fabulous 00s: USCL Week 5 OOTW
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nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: USCL Week 5 Opening of the Week The Foxy Rauser Deviation, as practiced by IM Albert Kapengut many t … more →
The Fabulous 00s: The Smith-Morra, again?
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nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: Dealing with the Smith-Morra Again The recent USCL Week 4 GOTW Esserman-Bartell put the Smith-Morra … more →
The Fabulous 00s: USCL Week 4 OOTW
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nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: USCL Week 4 Opening of the Week Molner (NJ) – Herman (NY) Sicilian Najdorf Bg5 AND Bc4 Combo … more →
The Fabulous 00s: USCL Week 3 OOTW
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nezhmet wrote 2 months ago: 2009 USCL Opening of the Week – Round 3 IM Jonathan Schroer – GM Joel Benjamin King … more →
The Fabulous 00s: Week 2 USCL Opening of the Week (OOTW)
nezhmet wrote 2 months ago: Week 2 USCL OOTW In a GM matchup from round 2, we have Pascal Charbonneau (NY) tangling with GM Greg … more →
The Fabulous 00s: 2009 USCL Round 1 Openings Roundup
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nezhmet wrote 2 months ago: Week 1 Noteworthy USCL Openings In Week 1 2009 USCL opening theory action, I will defer Scorpions Ga … more →
