The United States of America imports most of its grandmasters from around the world (or at least it seems to) and many of its products from Asia (cars, electronics, toys, etc.), so it's only fitting that its best magazine would be produced by the good folks from Serbia.
We regret to announce the retirement of Bert Corneth as our web-editor, due to personal reasons. Of course we fully respect his decision, but consider his retirement a great loss for the KWA, as he...
We soldier on, despite the absence of readers submitting groans at our Geneva Convention pun in the last post. Very disappointing. (Maybe such word plays were prohibited by that Convention as cruel and unusual punishment?
Essex Rapid 2017
Sunday 16 July 2017, at Scout HQ, Paradise Road, Writtle CM1 3HW
Last call for the Essex Rapid this coming Sunday. Note the NEW VENUE in Writtle - see map document below.
Traditionally, Russia’s female sporting teams have excelled at gymnastics, synchronized swimming, and ice skating on the international stage. But the last decade has seen women turning their hand to a number of male-dominated sports including rugby...
“Queen of Katwe” is based on the vibrant true story of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, as a result of the support she receives from her family and community...
The Geneva (chess) convention is off today, so that leaves Danzhou as the one super-event seeing action on Tuesday. Coming into the round there had been only one win in the first two rounds, by Wei Yi, and in round three he made it a double by defeating Ruslan Ponomariov with White in a Reti.
The story behind one of the best scenes in Spider-Man: Homecoming…
Spoiler alert: Spider-Man: Homecoming’s plot, including one pivotal scene, is discussed in full below.
There’s a lot to love about Spider-Man...
Round 5 of the Grand Prix tournament in Geneva is in the books, and while most of the games on the top boards were drawn (and quickly), one wasn't. Alexander Grischuk won with Black against Pavel Eljanov, and is now tied for first with Teimour Radjabov with four rounds remaining.
FIDE is publishing the player's contract for the World Cup 2017 to be held in Tbilisi, Georgia from 2 September (player's technical meeting) to 27 September 2017 (tiebreaks/closing ceremony). The...
Viswanathan Anand has won Leon nine times, but while he showed glimpses of his strengths - his preparation was especially good in some games, and he demonstrated his skills as a slippery defender by saving two lost positions in the final match - in other respects his play wasn't so good.
After two uncharacteristically hard fought rounds (by the standards of this year's previous Grand Prix events), a sort of regression to the mean has set in. In both rounds 3 and 4 the draws were both plentiful and - in many cases, sadly - short.