Meeting Tuesdays @ 19:00 behind the Goodwood Library, c/o Voortrekker Road & Church Street. Entrance from Church Street through motorised gate diagonally opposite the church (secure parking!!!).
For more information, please feel free to email me.
Doeberl Cup starting to fill up
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The entry list for the 2012 O2C Doeberl Cup is starting to fill up, with
the number of entries passing the 100 mark. More importantly there are only
28 spa...
Simmons - Zilbermintz with Newark Gambit
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Candidate master Lev Zilbermintz [pictured] describes one of his games,
from a Newark Gambit thematic tournament at *Chess.com*.
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NSUBUGA IN COMMANDING LEAD
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National Junior Chess Champion, Haruna Nsubuga beat Rajab Kamoga in the
fourth round of the Olympiad Qualifiers (Second phase) to lead by a full
point wit...
Ancient Arabic Writings Plot Climate Change
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Ancient Arabic writings help scientists piece together past climate
February 26, 2012
Ancient manuscripts written by Arabic scholars can provide valuable...
Let's Play
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To all bloggers and readers ...
From March 11 to March 14, my evenings are wide open. I'd love to have
some long games scheduled each night.
Let me know ...
Ohm Chess for iPad
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White will lose his queen A daunting array of free chess playing apps have
become available in Apple's App Store for iPads/iPhones and similar
devices. Oh...
New Video Tour for The Chess Drum
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Drum Visitors, After accumulating more than 9,000 pages at The Chess Drum,
it becomes important to make the navigational strategy less cumbersome.
Given th...
Considering the possibility
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Anybody who's read The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, as I did recently,
will recall the Duke and the King, the pair of chancers who hitch up with
Huck an...
Questions of Modern Chess Theory - Book Review
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I heard about the book Questions of Modern Chess Theory a long time ago –
back in the nineties, when I was still studying chess in Russia. Reading it
tod...
The Stonewall in Black and White
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The dream of a "universal system" is revived by GM David Smerdon in his
blog post Revolutionise Your Tragedies, where he offers two of his games
with th...
Is one plus one actually two?
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According to Munich and Aox one plus one equals two. If you know all the
constituent parts of a combination, you will be able to find the whole
combination...
13th annual Paramount
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For some people spring is signaled by the start of Red Sox reporting to
spring training, by groundhog day, by the returning swallows to
Capistrano...
But ...
Next Best of Chess Blogging Post Coming Soon...
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I am finally getting on the second "Best of!" Carnival post. It should be done this weekend. I have always felt these posts should have lots of cool images a...
Leap Day Special
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Leap Day gives me one more chance to write a blog post in February this
year, and also one more chance to show a game from the U.S. Amateur Team
West. Yest...
fnot
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a new font for dyslexics:
"Recognizing that dyslexics tend to rotate letters as well as mix them up,
Dyslexie incorporates numerous features to help keep su...
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I can see that it has been over a year since my last post. Obviously, my
mind has not been on chess for a while. I have actually stopped playing
actively ...
Still Life In This Bag Of Old Bones
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Just a short blurb.
Didn't expect much for the competition as I've not been actively playing
for nearly 1 year but ended up at least with a trophy/prize, h...
ACP Women Cup 2012
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The ACP Women Cup is taking place from February 17th-21st, 2012 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Round robin tournament with twelve participants will be played with the ...
Prédateur 2.2.1 "Bugfix" released
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Because of constant pressure from Ruxy, Leo and Graham, and because the x32
version of Prédateur 2.2 was consistantly outplayed by Fernando Villega's
Mor...
My Last Blunder of 2011
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....did not occur on December 31st. I passed on my usual New Year's Eve
"cracktion" fix at "Your Last Blunder of ____". That's because I had to
make a ch...
Endgame Caveat #5: Space Invaders
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Researching for this post, I came across this 80's music video at YouTube.
Cross-links at YouTube eventually led me to this free online Space Invaders
ga...
January 27--Wahrheit Jumps into the Saddle
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Thanks to Wahrheit for taking the reigns of the chess improvement carnival.He has a great idea for the first one: post your best post ever. We should see som...
Occupy Sydney Grammar
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So these two boys are getting the boot for doing what they love and what
they're good at. In the spirit of the times, there's only one thing to do.
Occupy ...
I am curious
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I was sitting around the mansion and thinking about this blog. It has been
over a year since my last post. Does anyone actually read it? I don't get
any co...
NH vs Maine – Chess Border Battle
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Yesterday (Sat, Sept 10) I competed in my second NH vs Maine Team Chess
Challenge, also known as the “Border Battle,” now an annual event, at the
Portsmout...
A Game Lost In History
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The 1886 London International Chess Tournament played host to some of the
greatest players of its day and left us with many interesting games
to analyze ov...
Chess Books on Kindle
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I am learning about the awesome resource of chess books on Kindle.
I think we all -- whether we like it or not -- have to accept the fact that
paper books ...
3rd New York International - Final Results
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Grandmasters Jaan Ehlvest and P. Harikrishna won the 3rd New York
International, held at the Marshall Chess Club from June 18 to 22, 2010,
with a score of ...
Mike Tyson Video Webliography
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Iron Mike Tyson turns 44 next week, and I’ve been learning about the life of this fascinating human being. The goal is not to promote hero-worship by any me...
Manual for Chess Trainers now available to download
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Information for CHESS COACHES In South Africa MANUAL CONTENTS SUMMARY Chess
Training in general The School Chess Supervisor Syllabus Syllabus for the
Entry...
Stoyko and Phaedrus combined
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This afternoon I struggled with the position below. If you want you can use
it yourself as a Stoyko exercise. The position is taken from Khmelnitsky's
Ches...
The New Website is Up!
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As I mentioned some time ago, PowerBlogs is shutting down, permanently, on
November 30, so I've had to pack my bags and find new lodgings. The new
location...
Debriefed: Anna and Camilla
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Anna Zatonskih and Camilla Baginskaite finished first and second in St.
Louis. After the last round, both players answered questions for the live
Chess.FM ...
The Daily Mate: Harmonic Attack
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Checkmate 485 In the game Ram Segal-elgaxton black placed his pieces very
well around the white king. How could he give the checkmate? Solution of
the last...
66 Days Later...
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A few of you probably wonder, "What ever became of likesforests?"
- I have not studied any chess.
- My baby's doing well.
- I lost 45 lbs, but inj...
The Player's Laboratory
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*A.S. Suetin* wrote a seminal book titled "Three Steps to Chess Mastery",
Pergamon Press, 1982. Here are some excerpts (in some cases, not verbatim)
from...
Pawned! 400!
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Here it is – wow – the 400th post on Pawned! I’ve always loved the game of
Chess, and always will. Having said that, and with this post, I will now
bid a ...
Cheat-No-More
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As ChessCube approached the 250,000 mark, we had noticed an increased
number of cheats on the system. Cheating on the Internet is not new and
ChessCube ha...
What's the plan?
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So what is the plan in this position? I worked hard to get a good bishop,
pawn structure, space and opponents passive pieces. Isn't a B vs N endgame
with...
One Jump Ahead
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Earlier this summer checkers had been solved. This was solved using what is known as a "weak" solve. It was not a complete tablebase of all the positions, ...
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