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Candidates Tournament — 3 days away

by scribe | Mar 12, 2013 | Crestbook, current news, people, tournaments

If you’re interested in world championship chess, the place to be for the rest of the month is London, where the 2013 World Championship Candidates tournament will be held from March 15 to April 1 (with tiebreaks, which I devoutly hope will not be necessary,...

Pics and Analysis from Oslo

by scribe | Mar 24, 2009 | chess clubs, endings, games, openings, people, positions, tournaments

Note: In the first draft of this post I got an important name wrong, and I have corrected it throughout. My apologies. — DM I’m back home from my second trip to Oslo. In my last entry, I promised some analysis of Roar Elseth Nikolas Mellem’s upset...
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