Today, the Czech Grandmaster Vlastimil Jansa celebrates his 80th birthday. For many years, Jansa was one of the best Czechoslovak players, and he took part in ten chess Olympiads and was Czechoslovak national champion three times. In his youth, he was also part of the national junior team of Czechoslovakia – the football team. In […]
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Pattern recognition is a major feat of the human brain, albeit one that can lead to wrong outputs. Examples include seeing faces where there are none, known as pareidolia. Once it was believed that the planet Mars has a face structure on it, speculations about former inhabitants of the planet ran wild, later it turned […]
By beating Uzbekistan in the final match, China won the World Team Championship in Jerusalem. The Chinese squad won both sets by a 2½-1½ score to claim the title. Meanwhile, in the match for third place, Spain got the better of India in tiebreaks, with wins for Jaime Santos and David Anton in the blitz […]
Garry Kasparov was the eight of the twelve World Chess Champions whom Frederic met. In our new weekly series he tells us how he met and befriended the top players, and the adventures they experienced together. Frederic has written a new book, together with Professor Christian Hesse, with fascinating chess stories from the last 50 […]
Few tournaments brought as much stake to its host nation as Moscow 1925 did to Russia. The event brought a Russian into world title contention, but, more importantly, it proved vital to Russia’s rise as dominant force in chess. Eugene Manlapao takes a look at the tournament and its history. | Photo: Tournament winner Efim […]
At the semifinals of the World Team Championship in Jerusalem, China and Uzbekistan defeated Spain and India respectively. In both cases, a draw in the first set was followed by a deciding victory in the second. The final and the match for third place will be played on Friday. | Pictured: Uzbekistan’s Javokhir Sindarov | […]
The Israel Chess Federation is hosting the World Team Championship on November 19-26, with twelve teams from all around the world. The participant countries were split into two pools of similar strength, taking as a reference the rapid rating list. The four best teams from each pool will advance to the knockout stage. | Follow […]
The new Chessbase 17 is out, and among the numerous new features is the completely revamped Search function. On the surface this might not sound terribly exciting, but the proof is in the pudding, and when you see it in action you will understand. Check out this article and video to see what the fuss […]
Our second Discount Day of the year begins on Tuesday, November 22, at 4:00 p.m. CET (midnight in Tokyo) and ends on Thursday, November 24, at 10.00 a.m. CET (midnight in California). We are offering you a 25% discount on everything. That includes software, training DVDs, services, the ChessBase Account. And there are some very […]
The Meltwater Champions Chess Final in San Francisco was visited by a chess fan whose uncle is a legend in the chess world: Bobby Fischer. Nicholas Targ, son of Joan Fischer Targ, the sister of Bobby Fischer, came to visit the tournament and met Magnus Carlsen. In a short interview with Tania Sachdev Nicholas Targ […]