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What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

Last week in Romania a tournament was held where a total of three points could be won with one game. Also at the Grand Slam Final in Bilbao, a victory will yield three points. Does this footballization of chess make make any sense? I don’t think so.

From June 21 to …

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Jan Gustafsson

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Peter Leko
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Arkadij Naiditsch

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Vladimir Kramnik
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Peter Leko of Hungary leads the annual Dortmund super tournament — which is also known by the somewhat odd name, Sparkassen Chess-Meeting — with one round to play. He overtook the fifth round leader, Jan Gustafsson of Germany, by beating him [...]

RZA, one of the founders of the Wu-Tang Clan, the rap super group, is a huge chess fan, and a pretty good player. On Monday, in conjunction with Chesspark, he launched a Web site called Wuchess.com, where fans of the group (and even those who are not) can play chess and socialize online. The site [...]

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Alexander Morozevich

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Sergei Movsesian
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Vassily Ivanchuk

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Viswanathan Anand
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Peter Leko

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Magnus Carlsen
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Five tournaments and matches wrapped up Monday across Europe. In an event that might have an impact on world rankings, Alexander Morozevich of Russia easily won a strong tournament in Sarajevo, Bosnia. His final [...]

After several blown deadlines for settling the time, location and prize fund for a match between Gata Kamsky of the United States and Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, the World Chess Federation announced yesterday that the match will take place in Lvov, Ukraine, from Nov. 26 to Dec. 14. The prize fund will be 0,000.
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As the weather has warmed, tournament and match activity has picked up. Last week, began with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, ranked No. 2 in the world, winning the CEZ Chess Trophy, a rapid-play match in the Czech Republic against David Navarra, that country’s top-ranked player (No. 50 over all). Kramnik got off to a blistering [...]

It is no surprise that everyone makes mistakes, even grandmasters. But in recent tournaments, some of the top players in the world have made some blunders that even, well, ordinary players might make. Obviously, there is no causal relationship among the errors, but it is nice to be reminded that everyone is human. The first [...]

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Julio Becerra

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Yuri Shulman
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Alexander Onischuk

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John Fedorowicz
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Tatev Abrahamyan

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Anna Zatonskih
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Yuri Shulman and Anna Zatonskih are the United States men’s and women’s champions. It is the first title for Shulman and the second title for Zatonskih, who also won in 2006. The games and [...]

Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan, Wang Yue of China and Magnus Carlsen of Norway tied for first in the grand prix tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan. The grand prix is part of a new system to select a challenger for the world championship and the tournament in Baku was the first of six that will played through [...]