I have been getting more into my chess the last few weeks and quite amazed by how popular chess has become since the Netflix series for the Queens Gambit. I…
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Solutions to Word newspaper chess triple
13 May 2021When we set the problems on pages 22 and 23 we did not expect them to be so tough, so we sobered up our beautiful chess fanatic to work out…
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Softly, softly catchee Hippo
30 June 20201. e4 e6 2. D4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. Nc3 Ne7 5. Be3 b6 6. Qd2 h6 7. O-O-O Bb7 8. h4 d6 9. Bd3 Nd7 10. Kb1 a6…
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Soviet palace coup made them Kings of the board
30 June 2020When I was young it was always something of a mystery why the then Soviet Union dominated chess. It was like the sun and rain, just a fact of life. Later,…