CHESS AND CODING

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Chess Festival in Basel – Grachev wins on tiebreak

The Basel Chess Festival took place from January 1st to 5th as a seven-round Swiss tournament, with top seeds Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, B...
GM Timur Gareev wins chess tournament in ‘Sin City’

Las Vegas plays host every year to one of America's biggest class opens, the North American Open (NAO). Chess enthusiasts of all stren...
"How do I become a Grandmaster?" by Daaim Shabazz, Ph.D.

In chess, an ambition may be to learn a particular opening, to beat a friend in five-minute chess, to win a club title, or another l...
Magnus Carlsen – 'I don't quite fit into the usual schemes'

He is by his own admission a chess genius, weaned on computers, a supreme expert on openings, and the hardest worker amongst the top play...
Krasenkow wins the XLII Rilton Cup with 7.5/9

The Polish GM won the first four games of Sweden's biggest international chess tournament, then drew three games, then won the last t...