The chess website Chess.com has been named in TIME Magazine's prestigious list of 100 Most Influential Companies of 2023.
“For the last 17 years we have been focused on our mission of serving and growing the chess community. It’s a huge and humbling honor to have this recognized. Chess has the power to impact and improve lives, and I’m incredibly happy to see that recognized by TIME.”- Erik Allebest, Co-founder and CEO of Chess.com
With much of social life on hold during the pandemic and the overwhelming success of the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit, the amount of people who started playing chess online skyrocketed. As the world's leading online chess platform, Chess.com has seen such an explosive growth that it is named in the (formerly print; now digital only) magazine TIME's prestigious 100 Most Influential Companies of 2023 list.In the same category of "Disrupters" (new dominant players in existing fields) we find companies such as Canva (graphic design tools with artificial175
This book review by Matthew Sadler was published in New In Chess magazine 2023#4
I was chatting with Michael Adams recently during a dinner and we started to discuss the process of analysing positions with engines and annotating games. He made the funny but very astute observation that what engines say is often not very useful but unfortunately you can’t ignore what they say either, so you end up not really knowing what to do! For example, you ideally want to generalise key moments in game annotations to provide the reader with knowledge that can be reused in subsequent games. Engines have a way of crossing this goal, most often by highlighting a series of specific exceptions to the narrative you are trying to build. It can cost a substantial amount of effort to discover the reason a specific exception works...and then you still need to figure out how to explain this succinctly to your readers, or whether it’s even possible without confusing them! Ideally, tools should simplify your work175
For New In Chess 2023/4 (published last Friday) I interviewed brand-new World Champion Ding Liren. I was expecting to learn more about the match in Astana than I had heard and seen so far, but of course I could not know what news and revelations I’d manage to extract from him. Ding did not disappoint. Speaking with the openness and frankness that the chess world came to love at the press conferences in Astana he provided fascinating details about the match.At one point, however, he hesitated. When he was speaking about the great help he received from his second Richard Rapport – who not only prepared his openings, but had also proven such a great friend – Ding suddenly said that another grandmaster had been working for him as well. But he’d rather not reveal his identity.(Photo by Lennart Ootes)As might have been expected, the encounter between Ding Liren and his second Richard Rapport in Round 8 of the recent Bucharest Classic was a bloodless affair that soon ended in a draw.
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This article was published in New In Chess Magazine 2023#4
What would you play?
Club players, test your decision-making skills!
Streamers mostly work from home, but at times they also play in tournaments. To feel the excitement of in-person chess, meet fans and, of course, to keep streaming!
Last April, I participated in the 2023 Reykjavik Open – a popular tournament that reserved a separate corner for a group of well-known streamers to share their live games with their fans. I was impressed to see how these professionals could focus on their games while staying in tune with the many chess enthusiasts in between the rounds.
I have selected one of the games of Alexandra Botez, the popular American-Canadian streamer with more than a million followers, and created four exercises in which you can think along with her. It was a complex game, in which her opponent, Steven Wollkind, had to show active piece play to compensate for his damaged pawn structure.
I hope you will enjoy these exercises175
'Each new story of Genna Sosonko is the preservation of grains of our chess life', says Garry Kasparov in the foreword.
We proudly present a one-volume collection of Genna Sosonko's best stories - essential reading for every chess fan interested in the history of chess and the heart and soul of chess players.
No other writer can tell you more about legends such as Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, and David Bronstein or unforgettable personalities such as 'Chip' Chepukaitis and Sergey Nikolaev.
This monumental book is a collection of the portraits and profiles Sosonko wrote for New in Chess, plus 100 pages he has published elsewhere. Included is everything from his four New In Chess books (from Russian Silhouettes to The World Champions I Knew).
We would like to share two of these complete stories in separate blog posts.
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Sergey Nikolaev (1961-2007)
The heart of a soothsayer
In the reputable British newspapers you can find extensive obituaries of completely unknown175
'Each new story of Genna Sosonko is the preservation of grains of our chess life', says Garry Kasparov in the foreword.
We proudly present a one-volume collection of Genna Sosonko's best stories - essential reading for every chess fan interested in the history of chess and the heart and soul of chess players.
No other writer can tell you more about legends such as Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, and David Bronstein or unforgettable personalities such as 'Chip' Chepukaitis and Sergey Nikolaev.
This monumental book is a collection of the portraits and profiles Sosonko wrote for New in Chess, plus 100 pages he has published elsewhere. Included is everything from his four New In Chess books (from Russian Silhouettes to The World Champions I Knew).
We would like to share two of these complete stories in separate blog posts.
***Genrikh Chepukaitis (1935-2004)
Smart Chip
The 1958 Leningrad Blitz Championship was won by Viktor Korchnoi. Second place was shared by Boris Spassky175
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