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The Underdog

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  The Grandmaster scowled at the autograph hunter and dutifully scribbled on the ticket. He had just blundered a game away, losing horribly in under 25 moves. That he, a World Championship candidate no less, had crushed his young English opponent in a simultaneous display the…

‘All the Potentialities of Vice’

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CHESS AND CHARACTER. To the Editor of The Daily Mail. Sir,—There appears to be a recrudescence of interest in the perennial game of chess. Most of us can play, indifferently or well; most of us play for amusement. But I wonder whether it is generally…

How Deep Blue Knew

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Daniel Johnson reviews Garry Kasparov’s Deep Thinking Times, 3 June 2017, p.16.   We know exactly why Deep Blue knew that its eighth (not seventh) move, Nxe6, was winning by force: it was programmed to play this well-known winning line.

The Perfect Suicide

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Jeroen van de Weijer   Should we still be playing suicide chess (also known as ‘antichess’, ‘losing chess’, etc.)? After all, computer analysis by Mark Watkins (University of Sydney) has recently shown that White wins (1 e3!) against all defences. In my view, this should…

Andy

Who knew suicide chess would be so complicated!
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Seems I have a kindred spirit in Kingpin. My proposed design for Wolverhampton Chess Club ...…
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arthur

does anybody know where can i find english subtitles?
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David Pruessner

On Rule Changes: Please consider this as an open letter to the chess community. I am…
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