Joe Bihlmeyer wins National Donut Day Chess Open 3-0.
Photo: Ken Desrosiers, left, vs. Joe Bihlmeyer.
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Check out the launch trailer below and hopefully you’ll agree that our new internal development team has put together a stunning-looking simulation. We’ve poured everything we can into making the environments, boards, pieces and materials as beautifully realistic as possible, all in 4k resolution. From the wood grain and varnish on the antique mahogany board in the library, to the luxury felt on the bottom of each piece, you’ve simply not seen a board game this gorgeous.


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What do you do in a tie position (draw) in which you have the initiative:
1) Play until the end by repeating moves
2) do you offer a draw, quickly
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Excellent page. Thanks for all your fine efforts that benefit players from three states. Best of good luck this Sunday with Bryant Park XI

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Super GM Bughouse !!
Magnus Carlsen & Maxime Vachier vs Fabiano Caruana & Levon Aronian 😊
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The best game of the best chess blitz players of the world.
Magnus Carlsen vs Hikaru Nakamura
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This article is a good introduction to the positional exchange sacrifice, with some games from the masters who practiced it!


I found some simple endgames that even GM level players got wrong. They come from real games, and I shared them in this article:

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A unique Dubrovnik Knight yoga head stance. The only set that could performed such stance with well balance
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This is a repro of Botvinik & Flohr set which Alan Devey has task to Chess Bazaar to reproduce them. Albeit they are no where near the actual set but they inher...

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Beautiful endgame by GM Sergey Karjakin vs GM Le Quang Liem
Here's a case that even the best blitz player in the world can loose a game in the clock (Karjakin's time was over and the GM from Vietnam won the match)



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Just arrived... this vintage Spanish set. Used for decades in Spanish tournaments. Beautifully proportioned and rugged for play. Judging from the golden patina and the Lardy Lean of the White King and Black Queen, I'd judge this to be from the sixties...

The Botvinnik-Flohr II circa 1940's-50's Soviet Chessmen
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Preparing myself for the Holland open in August'2017
