The Chess Files: What is the best way to determine the next challenger...
The Chess Files: What is the best way to determine the next challenger for the world chess championship?
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The Chess Files: At what age can you begin to teach chess to a child?...
The Chess Files The answers are out there. By Jim Eade At what age can you begin to teach chess to a child? According to Dr. Alexey Root, a former U.S. women’s champion and a senior lecturer at UT Dallas, you can begin a...
The Chess Files: What is the optimal amount of time for a serious gam...
The Chess Files The answers are out there. By Jim Eade The US Game/30 and Game/60 Championships were held in Pleasanton earlier this month. In the former event each player gets 30 minutes for the entire game, while in th...
The Chess Files: What do you do after you’ve learned the basic?...
The Chess Files The answers are out there. By Jim Eade I’ve supplied partial answers to the question: “What do you do after you’ve learned the basic?” in previous columns. A recommendation from the first half of the 20th...
“Is it worth it to keep playing chess, if you find it stressful?”
The Chess Files The answers are out there. By Jim Eade Thanks to the generosity of Tibor Weinberger, the Mechanics’ Institute of San Francisco held the Third Imre Konig Memorial on September 22-23. The event, which bega...
Question of the Month: Who Was Your Favorite Player in 2011?
GM Hikaru Nakamura Interview, Tata Steel 2012 Who Was Your Favorite Player in 2011? I would choose Nakamura. He has clearly established himself as one of the world’s best players. In all honesty, some of his outsta...
Question of the Month: Have You Changed Openings in the Past? If Yes...
The first book I studied seriously featured a number of Nimzo-Indians and French defenses. That’s what I played in my earliest tournament games. I noticed that the King’s Indian and Sicilian were far more p...
Question of the Month: Is There Such A Thing As A Chess Player’...
Video/Frames Courtesy of: Macauley Peterson We’ve all heard of the “runner’s high”, which occurs when endorphins are activated by strenuous exercise. Does something similar happen to chess players...
Question of the Month: Where Do You Place Fischer On The List of Grea...
Bobby Fischer is back in the news, partly due to the September opening of the World Chess Hall of Fall in St. Louis, but mostly because of the new documentary “Bobby Fischer Against the World.” This has rekin...
Question of the Month: Which Sacrificial Theme Has Appeared in the Mo...
by Jim Eade, President of the U.S. Chess Trust The following position occurred after the 14th move of the game Lasker-Bauer, Amsterdam, 1899. Bauer almost certainly expected 15. Qxh5, when 15…f5 makes Black’s position qu...