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Category Archives: amateur chess
Etymologist and Chess Player
Chess and other puzzle-solving activities seem to attract people of the same habits of mind: people who, when faced with a mystery, feel compelled to figure it out (no matter what else they should be doing). I touched on this … Continue reading
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World’s Oldest Chess Club to Celebrate 200 Years
ChessBase today features “The World’s Oldest Chess Club: Part I (1809–1914),” by Dr. Richard Forster & Dr. Christian Rohrer, about the Schachgesellschaft Zürich. The club will be celebrating its 200th anniversary in August with some great tournaments and events to … Continue reading
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Sandi Hutama Wins US Amateur East
There is an article at the USCF website by Steve Ferrero about Sandi Hutama taking the 66th annual US Amateur Championship East title in Somerset, NJ. The crosstable is also up and shows how Hutama dominated the field with 5.5 … Continue reading
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US Amateur East
Max Sherer plays Anna Matlin in Round One Yesterday I dropped by the US Amateur East tournament at the Somerset Ramada, mostly to visit with my chess friends and to see what Fred Wilson had on offer. I was pleased … Continue reading
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Near Upsets at USATE 2009
Higgins (2054) – DeFirmian (2584)White to play. I have posted three annotated games that were “Near Upsets at USATE 2009.” The games feature confrontations between masters and amateurs where the amateurs could have won if only they had not missed … Continue reading
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Howard Stern Plays Chess
NN – Howard SternBlack to play. Howard Stern’s fascination with chess is the focus of today’s New York Times chess column by Dylan Loeb McClain (“Long a Player, Howard Stern Gets Serious About His Game“). I like when McClain discusses … Continue reading
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