Today’s winning Girl Next Door
Li’l Sister
The incredible Jess Southern, the less well-known of the two Southern sisters, though that might soon change. ”Siblings: your only enemy you … Read the rest
Category: Smile!
Nice gory finish!
The final attack in the game between gm Denes Boros (rated 2439) and fm Chris Yoo (rated 2402) played yesterday in the 2018 Fall Chess … Read the rest
Monday Coffee
For Women Only!
How are you today? Today’s coffee articles are abstractly about women, women & chess or other women-related issues. Why? Why not! I … Read the rest
The Controversy Continues
FIDE Dress Code: The Double Standards Game
They could both pass as fashion models! Grandmasters Anton Kovalyov (l) and Magnus Carlsen (r). Kovalyov looks … Read the rest
Today’s winning Lady in Red
Firey Passions
”The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.” ~Christian Nestell Bovee
Canadian Chess News
ChessBrah Eric Hansen returns to chess!
Happy to see that Eric Hansen, founder of the successful ChessBrah brand name, is slated to play in a … Read the rest
Nature or Nurture. A modern perspective.
Nurturing a talented child
“Setting out to raise a genius is the last thing we’d advise any parent to do,” says Camilla Benbow, dean of … Read the rest
Today’s winning GIRL NEXT DOOR
Mindfulness
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” ― Henry Miller… Read the rest
China wins BIG in Batumi
They came; they saw; they conquered.
China won both the Men’s and the Women’s gold medal at the Batumi Olympiad earlier today. Congrats!! When was … Read the rest
Batumi and Juga
Batumi and Juga
They are producing some very nice quality videos over at the Batumi Olympiad. Here Nino Maisuradze and the singer Juga entertain us. … Read the rest
Today’s FIDE election humour
When Malcolm Pein was informed of the Vote:
Not everyone can be a good winner! Malcolm picked the wrong side, for the wrong reasons, and … Read the rest
Dvorkovich is the new FIDE president!
Congratulations! To me, of course (just joking!) But I have predicted every FIDE election outcome since 1994. Last week someone wrote to me and asked … Read the rest
D-day for FIDE…
Someone will celebrate this evening. But who?
I have written enough of the 2018 FIDE election campaign here on this blog for my liking, and … Read the rest
Dvorkovich’s pitch with FIFA’s Infantino
FIFA and FIDE working together!?
This is a project of Dvorkovich mentioned here back in July. FIFA and FIDE working together in several areas … Read the rest
Today’s Insight into the Meaning of LIFE
The Poet-Entrepreneur
Wang Xing, 39 years old, is one of the richest men in China today. Deservedly so. How did he become so successful? Take … Read the rest
