Achilleas Zographos's Music and Chess: Apollo Meets Caissa is a unique chess book - or perhaps it would be better to say that it's a unique book that's partially about chess. The author has a background in both music and chess, and teaches both in Greece.
World Chess Championship for the Disabled
World Chess Championship for the Disabled was held in Dresden (Germany) from 5th to 13th of October.
Official website: www.worldchess-disabled.com
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St. Louis is the entertainment capital of the chess world, and their latest offering is a new edition of the Champions Showdown. It is a vehicle for the United States's Big Three, and in addition there's the biggest of the big: the World Champion.
The main recent event to finish was the European Team Championship in Greece, won by a strong but still overperforming Azeri team, which finished ahead of the Russian team on tiebreaks. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov handled board 1 duties admirably...
The Week in Chess has been around for a long time now - more than 23 years - and the lion's share of the credit goes to Mark Crowther. You can read a bit more about it here (and please follow the link to his discussion of the 1000th issue "anniversary")...
Sorry (but not that sorry), but we'll begin with the inevitable football update. The Fighting Irish - #3 in the country! - defeated Wake Forest in a game that was far more lopsided than the final score suggests.
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Azerbaijan and Russia win European Team Chess Championships 2017
Teams of Azerbaijan and Russia became the European Team Chess Champions for 2017 in Open and Women's section respectively.
There’s been a lot of buzz about what artificial intelligence is capable of doing lately. From writing poetry, to predicting the winner of the Kentucky Derby, and even beating a world champion chess player ...
7th SO Peristeriou C.M. norm 24 games New
European Team Championship 172 games New
Uppsala Young Champions 9 games
Autumn Open ChessSquare 22 games
165th Ambelokipi Open 25 games
European...
The 21st European Team Championship took place in Hersonissos, Greece 28th October to 7th Nov 2017. Leading players: Aronian, Mamedyarov, Grischuk, Giri, Radjabov, Gelfand, Wojtaszek, Nepomniachtchi...
Busy weekend
SCCU U180: Kent 10-6 Essex
At Dartford. Played at Not the Mick Jagger. Kent have a new venue, round the corner from Mick Jagger at St Anselm's Parish Centre. All Kent's home matches will be played at St Anselm's...