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The Fabulous 00s: The 2007 Miami International Open

nezhmet wrote 9 months ago: When my good Word Press blog buddy FM Marcel Martinez (we cross-link, you see [wink wink]) told me a … more »

Tags: 2007 Miami International Open, Alexander Shabalov, catalan, Chess History, Chess Journalists, Chess News, Chess Openings, Corey Acor, Glenn Bady

The Fabulous 00s: The National Open 2001

nezhmet wrote 11 hours ago: Playin’ At The Riviera The Las Vegas National Open is always a good time.  The Riviera hotel … more »

Tags: Chess History, Chess Openings, Chess Tournaments, The 2000s, Andrey Sokolov, Artur Yusupov, National Open, Nembu, Reti

The Fabulous 00s: The NY International 2008 Part Deux2 comments

nezhmet wrote 2 weeks ago: More Games, More Drama Here’s a barnburner I played in Round 3 vs. GM Michael Rohde. IM M. Gi … more »

Tags: Alfonso Almeida, Chess Clubs, Chess History, Chess Openings, Chess Tournaments, English Opening, Hedgehog, Marshall Chess Club, Michael Rohde

The Fabulous 70s: Boris Baczynskyj!

nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: The chess world lost a nice guy in January of 2008 when Boris Baczynskyj passed away. See also a Che … more »

Tags: Boris Baczynskyj, Chess History, Chess Openings, Chess theory, Chess Tournaments, GHI International 1978, Leonid Yudasin, Modern Rauser 6...Bd7, Sicilian Defense

The Fabulous 70s: 3 Chess People and a Beautiful Woman ... Plus, Petrosian Tidbits1 comment

nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: 4 Peeps Hangin’ Out in 1976 Upper left: Louis D. Statham, the famous patron of the Lone Pine … more »

Tags: Chess Tournaments, Chess History, The 1970's, The 1980's, Photographs, lone pine, National Open, Ed Formanek, Tigran Petrosian

The Fabulous 60s: Dr. Neil McKelvie on Arnold Denker

nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: MG Note: This guest article by Dr. Neil McKelvie, long-time MCC official and Professor of Chemistry … more »

Tags: Chess Openings, Sicilian Kan, Chess History, Sicilian Defense, N. McKelvie, Manhattan Chess Club, Chess Clubs, The 1960's, Neil McKelvie

The Fabulous 00s: A New Chess.FM Segment

nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: Upholding the Sicilian - A new Chess.FM Segment I am preparing a series of ICC Chess.FM lectures on … more »

Tags: Alex Lenderman, Andy McFarland, Chess Clubs, Chess History, Chess Journalists, Chess Openings, Chess theory, internet chess club, John Henderson

The Fabulous 70s: Rewarding the Clock-Punching Monkey4 comments

nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: The Good and the Evil Inherent in Clock Punching Monkeys I was titillated to read in a recent CLO Ir … more »

Tags: Anna Zatonskih, Chess Clubs, Chess History, IM Steve Odendahl, Irina Krush, Larry Kaufman, Lubosh Kavalek, The 1970's, Anna Zatonskih

The Fabulous 00s: Understanding the Flying Phallus Attack

nezhmet wrote 1 month ago: What did the Flying Phallus Portend? The world (more than 300,000 views on YouTube) has now seen the … more »

Tags: Chess History, chess humor, Garry Kasparov, The 2000s, Chess, Chess Farce, Ecuador, Flying Phallus, Flying Phallus In Ecuador

The Fabulous 00s: Dos Hermanas OTB 2008 1 comment

nezhmet wrote 2 months ago: Topalov-Vallejo - What the Dealio in this Classical Ruy Lopez? This game from Dos Hermanas OTB (G/20 … more »

Tags: Chess Openings, Chess History, The 2000s, Veselin Topalov, Paco Vallejo, Viktor Korchnoi, David Norwood, Topalov, vallejo

Baku Chess round 36 comments

Nikita wrote 2 months ago:   Azerbaijan is now a world of chess! GrandMasters in the world of Chess are there for this presti … more »

Tags: Chess, Chess Games, chess masters, Chess Videos, Chess Grandmasters, Carlsen, Grischuk, Navara, Baku Chess round 3 results

The Fabulous 70s: Arthur Bisguier and other American Powerhouses1 comment

nezhmet wrote 2 months ago: The 1970s (post-Fischer boom) were a great time to play in tournaments in the USA. Here’s one … more »

Tags: Arthur Bisguier, Boris Gulko, Chess History, Josif Dorfman, Max Dlugy, The 1970's, Tim Taylor, Walter Shipman, Arthur Bisguier

The Fabulous 80s: The Inimitable Kamran Shirazi4 comments

nezhmet wrote 3 months ago: Iranian International Master Kamran Shirazi was a fixture on the NY Chess Scene in the 1980s and a d … more »

Tags: Chess History, Sicilian Defense, The 1980's, Chess Clubs, Kamran Shirazi, Howard Lederer, Bar Point, Peter Malick, Bill Goichberg

The Fabulous 00's: The Headache of Dos Hermanas Online Blitz

nezhmet wrote 3 months ago: ICC is hosting every year a relatively big money (2,000 Euros [$3,400] first) online blitz (3 0 time … more »

Tags: Chess History, The 2000s, Chess Clubs, internet chess club, Jorge Sammour-Hasbun, A Personal Chess History, Ronen Har-Zvi, dos hermanas, ethics problems

The Fabulous 00s: The Magic and Delight of Foxxxwoods, Connecticut2 comments

nezhmet wrote 4 months ago: Nostalgia First Here’s a photo from Lone Pine 80. Note the fancy name tags. I have the black … more »

Tags: Chess Openings, Chess Tournaments, Chess History, Slav Defense, The 2000s, Eugene Perelshteyn, Foxwoods 2008, Keith Arkell, Mark Paragua

Judith Polgar and Peter Svidler

Nikita wrote 4 months ago:   Judith Polgar was born in Hungary on 23 July 1976. Her childhood consisted of an extensive ches … more »

Tags: Chess, Chess Games, Chess Grandmasters, Corus 2005 round 1, Judith Polgar, Peter Svidler

The Fabulous 00s: Never Let Chess or Bridge Bums Near Vast Amounts of Cash1 comment

nezhmet wrote 4 months ago: Watch Out for Games Playing Bums with Twinkly Gazes and Large Piles of Cash Sitting Nearby As report … more »

Tags: Bridge Player, Chess History, Hank "Ace" Greenberg, Jerry Hanken, Jimmy Cayne, Ken Rogoff, Stephen Feinberg, The 2000s, Warren Spector

The Fabulous 00s: Curing the GGGg Debacle at the US Amateur Team East 20085 comments

nezhmet wrote 4 months ago: The Steve Doyle Principle As a rule of thumb, if there is ever anything dubious in the Amateur Team … more »

Tags: Chess History, Chess Tournaments, Dave Gertler, duif, Eugene Perelshteyn, Roman Dzindzihashvili, The 2000s, US Amateur Team 2008, Ziad Izoria

The Fabulous 80s: The Mighty Cochrane Gambit1 comment

nezhmet wrote 5 months ago: I was always up for the experimental gambit here or there especially at free-wheeling New York City … more »

Tags: Chess History, The 1980's, Chess Clubs, Bar Point Chess Club, Chess Journalists, Chess theory, V. Gostroievich, Cochrane Gambit, John Henderson


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