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Friday, January 25th, 2008

Bobby Fischer’s Death and Corus 2008 Update

So the last couple weeks I’ve been a little bit too busy to update my Blog, and I couldn’t have picked a worse 2 weeks to be busy since there has been so much action!
Fischer died last week the day I was heading down to the Liberty Bell Open in Philadelphia (Report Coming Soon). Before […]


Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Corus Chess 2008 Round 1 Report, Radjabov beats Anand!

We had a couple of big upsets today. Radjabov beating Anand with the white pieces was probably the biggest one of the day. It seems to me that once Radjabov was able to build this pawn chain with d6 and e5, Anand had very little chance of saving the game.

Notice the pawn can not be […]


Friday, January 11th, 2008

Corus Chess Tournament 2008 Preview

The Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk Ann Zee starts tomorrow and the field is extremely strong this year. There are a few players who I’d love to see in the tournament who are absent this year, but it’s tough to fit everyone into a single tournament. The players who I was hoping to see play […]