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Endgame Challenge

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Le (2702) - Grischuk (2785), 2013
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Black has just offered a queen trade. Should White accept it? Is the pawn endgame winning for White or drawn? Try to support your opinion with a concrete plan.

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Greatest Female Chess Players. Nana Dzagnidze

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By International Master Alexander Gelman

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Pogonina.com & IM Alexander Gelman are producing a special series of videos dedicated to the highest-rated women in the history of chess. Episode 9 features the highest-rated Georgian player Nana Dzagnidze.

Previous episodes:
Xie Jun
Nadezhda Kosintseva
Susan Polgar
Tatiana Kosintseva
Anna Muzychuk

Koneru Humpy
Hou Yifan
Judit Polgar

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Fortress

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by WGM Irina Bulmaga

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The time passes quicker than ever in Kavala, where feeling great is the only option!

Five rounds have been played and I've got 3p (as of August 10). I guess that it could be better, but it is still ok. You can find the pairings and the results here.

I visited the Byzantine fortress on the hill of Panagia yesterday. You can see some photos here:


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Chess Tactics

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Tomashevsky (2709) - So (2708), 2013
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How should White proceed?

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How to Beat Higher-Rated Opponents

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Wednesday, 14 August 2013

By GM Lars Bo Hansen, PhD, MBA

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One of the key questions for competitive chess players is how to approach games against significantly higher rated opponents.

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David vs. Goliath: Upsets of the Week

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Tuesday, 13 August 2013

By candidate master Peter Zhdanov, editor of Pogonina.com

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In this special weekly column we will be looking at the most unexpected upsets that happened last week. Players usually face opponents of a similar level. Considerably less frequent are situations when a significantly lower-rated player succeeds in beating a much stronger adversary.

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Chess Week on Twitter

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Pogonina.com offers you a selection of some of the most informative chess tweets from last week. A digest of the most important chess news in one short post:

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Chess Theory

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One doesn't often see an article in Vogue Russia titled "Chess Theory". This is the case. Quoting the post:

"Black arrows on a white dial, a contrast between the wristlet and the watch-case, or all elements of the same color - your watch is precise and strict, just like the regulations of a chess game".

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British Champs-2013

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Just finished playing the British chess championships, which took place in the picturesque Devon town of Torquay.

As the winner David Howell said at the prizegiving, he wished every tournament was in Torquay, it really is a happy hunting ground for him having won his first British champs the previous time it had been held there.

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Happy 70th Birthday to Lubomir Kavalek

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Saturday, 10 August 2013

By GM Kevin Spraggett
Kevin's blog (parental advisory)

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Grandmaster Lubomir Kavalek (born Czechoslovakia, August 9, 1943) celebrated a milestone in his life on August 9.  Though long since retired from active competition, Lubomir remains very active in chess as a writer and correspondent.  His columns in Huffington Post and the old Washington Post have made him one of the most widely reader writers on the game today.
 

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