Improving in the time of Covid
The Need to Strike a Balance

Last week I wrote of the advice by former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik on how young players today should … Read the rest
The Need to Strike a Balance
Last week I wrote of the advice by former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik on how young players today should … Read the rest
Straight Talking Guys
Yesterday excerpts of a recent interview of Vladimir Kramnik by the Russian magazine Sport-Express were published on Chess-News.ru. The former World Champion … Read the rest
Kasparov in 2011:
Cheating, Faster time controls & Elitism
It was the spring of 2011. Kasparov had just finished a rapid visit to the playing … Read the rest
Has Dvorkovich no Shame?
The latest in a series of public relations stunts by the Dvorkovich leadership. Yesterday the FIDE Czar announced quite possibly the … Read the rest
PRIORITIES
Our number one priority is to stay as healthy as we can for as long as we can. After that comes our resolve to … Read the rest
Attack of Conscience?
Vladimir Kramnik, former World Champion, has saved the reputation of the chess community proving that not all elite chess players are motherless … Read the rest
The Politics of Discarding the Rules of Chess
When the Spanish priest Ruy Lopez published in 1561 his LIBRO DE LA INVENCION LIBERAL Y ARTE … Read the rest
Quick 1-Minute Summary
Carlsen’s tournament record is the perfect definition of boring: repetitive, the “same old thing”, “once again”, “nothing different”, etc. In any other … Read the rest