Carlsen and the world championship
After a very gruelling 11 rounds of classical chess which produced nine draws and one win for either side, Magnus Carlsen surprised most people by...
It’s a Puzzle
Black to play N Batsiashvili vs N Zhukova 22. ...? See game for solution. This may be a two star puzzle, but I couldn't get it out....
Anton Smirnov: Year 9 Australian kid currently playing better than all but 36 other human beings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf6z5gkv3Ls Anton Smirnov, who turned 15 this year even if he looks a fair bit younger than that, has been playing in the Australian team in the...
Smerdon v Carlsen 1/2-1/2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=56&v=ELmoNHljCKk Australian Chess Grandmaster and one time Treasury economist David Smerdon is at the Chess Olympiad in Baku and managed to get Magnus Carlsen into a fair bit of...
Some stimulating debate on the sensitive subject of gender differences in specific cognitive abilities
https://youtu.be/n3AeM3Q9mU4 On a difficult subject, let's throw the conversation over to some people who know nothing about it, but who have flawless makeup on and...
Banter Blitz
https://youtu.be/lGn8ZLMU1-Q Something that’s fun for chess patzers like me is watching really good players play blitz and seeing how much further their chess intuition goes. This...
D’oh
http://youtu.be/vmHPUtHlIXU Funny how, even though you've developed the mental skill and discipline to be the World Chess Champion, you can make a simple mistake. But...