Former FIDE Secretary General Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino was elected Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) President at elections held last week at the Century Park Hotel in Manila.
Tolentino got 24 of the 44 possible votes made up of national sports associations...
August 05, 2019
FIDE is pleased to announce yet another step in the direction of openness, transparency and accountability. All submissions received during the public review period of the chess clock bidding procedure (June 2019) were carefully studied.
This won't be an "ask me anything" thread, as I've never been interested in making this blog about me personally and am not about to start doing so now, as the doors are slowly creaking to a close. But I'm open to questions about all sorts of chess matters...
Really, I'm going. But this looks good, so I thought I'd plug it. One book that I've recommended to friends and students since forever is Andy Soltis's Pawn Structure Chess, and the newer, most sophisticated book by Mauricio Flores Rios called Chess Structures...