Alekhine, Alexander (table tennis/ping pong story) C.N. 7973 Alekhine, Alexander (‘thousand years’ remark in the New York Times) C.N. 9374 Alekhine, Alexander (tournament record 1921-27) C.N. 8008 Alekhine, Alexander (treatment in Soviet chess literature) C.N. 5336 Alekhine, Alexander ...
Hnefatafl belongs to a whole family of games collectively known as tafl (“table” games). Other variations include tablut, tawlbwrdd, brandubh, ard rí, and alea evangelii. These games all have different rules and pieces, but the same basic gist. The underlying concept inspired the outdoor ...
At the closing ceremonies after the nationals, as Nakamura nursed a beer at a ballroom table in St. Louis waiting for So to receive his trophy, Nakamura explained to me that his friends generally aren’t top chess players. They’re his competition, after all. I also asked So, over email...
The steerable tailwheel turns out to be even more essential than I had imagined: it allows me to get into the cockpit at my parking position and conduct all pre-flight checks before taxiing onto the runway for immediate takeoff. Upon landing I can clear the runway and steer the glider righ...
an International Master, former U.S. Open Champion, and afiercely aggressive player.Dark-haired, elegant in speech and dress, the 25-year-old Byrne invariably held a cigarette between two fingers, his hand high in the air, his elbow resting on the table, in a pose that gave him an aris...
Le Roy and Cedar, an intersection near the chess site (a Harry Potteresque abandoned schoolhouse) Super Happy Lucky Cat The chess was a bit of a tough slog. In Round 1 I failed to spot a nice win in an ending. Actually I was simply worse (losing, really) in the early middlegame th...
Table of Contents What do chess and investing have in common? This is a guest post by International Master Dmitri Shneider. Dmitri is Chief Financial Officer of Play Magnus Group (PMG), a publicly traded company on the Euronext Growth Oslo market. In his younger days, he was a top ranked...
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s personal space. I found myself reflecting in this situation whether I would prefer to eschew the convenience of having the board record the game electronically and play a completely offline and “analogue” game of chess. Simply, a portable set of a folding silicone board and near tournament...
what are you more comfortable with because I know from my experience if you work with five coaches all together it may be too much information. You are just not able to remember so many things. Normally, Magnus is like, he doesn’t need too many people near him and he feels more comfo...