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...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....
...Puzzle 2558 Samuel Sevian v Wojciech Przybylski, Titled Tuesday 2021. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...It was originally called Fischer Random after its inventor, then Chess 960 or Chess 9LX after the number of possible starting positions....
...Puzzle 2564 Mateusz Bartel v Gergely Szabo, Hungarian teams 2017. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Realistically, though, there are now fewer world class prospects than in the golden era of the 1970s, when the Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky match sparked the interest of teenagers at grammar and public...
...Only Bobby Fischer in 1959 and Carlsen in 2006, both then 16, have been younger Candidates, and both were also-rans....
...Puzzle 2549 Oleksandr Bortnyk v Jeffery Xiong, Titled Tuesday 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...In the eyes of many, his consistency is edging him ahead of Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer as the greatest of all time....
...He will be the third youngest Candidate ever, after Carlsen and Bobby Fischer....
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
...Evidently Wojtaszek knew Karpov v Miles well, as he chose a harmonious formation with Nbd2 to guard his e4 pawn where Karpov had preferred the less precise Qe2....
...2022 has proved a vintage year for English senior chess, half a century after the Fischer v Spassky match which triggered a global boom and, for a while, made England the world No2 chess nation behind the...
...Bobby Fischer in 1975 renounced his Fide championship title, and then retired apart from a brief comeback in 1992....
...The period between the Fischer-Spassky match of 1972 and the fall of the Berlin Wall was uniquely productive for English chess....
...A third round of Carlsen v Niemann is possible this weekend....
...Puzzle 2486 Samuel Sevian v Wojciech Przybylski, Titled Tuesday 2021. White to move and win. The position appears completely blocked, but there is a hidden route through Black’s defences....
...Puzzle 2489 Gata Kamsky v Judit Polgar, Buenos Aires 1994. The all-time No1 woman was doubly threatened with immediate checkmate by 1 d8=Q mate or 1 Qf8 mate....
...Puzzle 2477 Pavel Anisimov v Ian Nepomniachtchi, Krasnoyarsk 2007. Black, the future double world title challenger, to move and force mate. Click here for solution...
...Serious Californian money is backing this boy, as American enthusiasts still remember the glory years of Bobby Fischer. 2466 Monika Socko v Marina Guseva, European women’s championship 2005....
...He becomes the third youngest Candidate ever, after Bobby Fischer and Magnus Carlsen at 15 in 1958 and 2005, and a few weeks younger than Boris Spassky in 1955....
...Puzzle 2467 Laszlo Szabo v Ludek Pachman, Marianske Lazne 1954. White to move and win. More than one move works, but White found the quickest route. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2445 Nigel Short v Nils Grandelius., Malmo 2017. What is White’s winning move? Short chose 1 Bb4? and only drew. Click here for solution...
...The Yorkshireman, 34, won the board three silver medal with 5.5/7, repeating his result from the 2019 world teams. 2446 Hou Yifan v James Jackson, Isle of Man 2016. White to move and win....
...A Carlsen v Firouzja series for the global crown in around 2025 is already a plausible forecast....
...When organisers brought this to the general assembly, the crowd was not “fussed”, Colvin recalls with a chuckle. “Nobody cared. They just weren’t interested in engaging with it at all.” V....
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