Into the human light
NIC’s Café
Your Move
Infographic
Fair & Square
New York
Magnus Carlsen strikes in extra time with a brilliant finish – 50.♕h6– on his 26th birthday.
Celeb 64
John Urschel
Secret Yalta Conference
Did you know that in 2003 Nigel Short played a secret training match against Ruslan Ponomariov?
Maximize Your Tactics
Having fun in St. Louis
Vishy Anand was on a roll at the Champions Showdown.
Judit Polgar’s column
The Queen of Chess has always felt attracted to the King’s Gambit.
‘What would Mark think?’
Jacob Aagaard remembers Mark Dvoretsky, a great trainer, a brilliant author and a dear friend.
The pawns are coming
Parimarjan Negi shows that it makes sense to keep a clear head when you’re faced by connected passed pawns.
Russian Super Final
In Novosibirsk, Alexander Riazantsev and Alexandra Kosteniuk became the new Russian champions.
S.O.S.
Play like Carlsen and Grischuk in the Queen’s Gambit.
Bohemia as a luxury
As he was reading Timman’s Titans, Hans Ree took a walk down memory lane.
Chess Pattern Recognition
Bishops that don’t budge.
Sadler On Books
Experience prevails.
Hoogeveen
Jan Timman explains why Nigel Short and Ivan Sokolov defeated Hou Yifan and Jorden van Foreest in Hoogeveen.
Just Checking
Who is Richard Rapport’s favourite chess player?