Sparkling rapid chess
In the Age of COVID chess has been reinvented. In March (I think it was) the Candidates Tournament was dramatically ended a few rounds in...
The logic of the inevitable (nuclear) apocalypse. Can the Gods save us?
The probability of a massive nuclear war the next 10 years between any of the 8 current nuclear powers (US, UK, France, Russia, India, Pakistan,...
And now for some complete madness
https://youtu.be/LHrvQ7qaadE If you're a chess player who's touched with the human weakness of impatience or just liked to be engaged and see things develop – as...
More fully human
https://youtu.be/tXlM99xPQC8 Well there's been a frisson of excitement in the chess and AI world lately with the extraordinary performance of AlphaZero – essentially the computer that...
Blitz and bullet chess: Carlsen v Nakamura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuehyRf88ac If you've got a bit of an appreciation of chess, this is a lot of fun. I've been watching it on and off today giving myself...
From the Department of Woops!
Both of the players of this game are pretty good. In the illustrated position it's black's move. Black won the game, but only because white managed to...
Magnus Magnus Clever Clever
Black to play Stefansson vs Carlsen 21. ...? See game for solution. about our puzzles