Friday, July 8, 2016

Pestaño: Prelude to the world championship

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THE Bilbao Chess Grand Slam Masters Final 2016 will be held on July 13 to 20, a week earlier than usual to assure the participation of the ...
Friday, July 1, 2016

Pestaño: Chess computers better than humans

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A LONG time ago I had a dinner date with GMs Eugene Torre and Jaime Sunye–Neto of Brazil. Eugene then was still considered the best player ...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Pestaño: Chess memorial tournaments

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MEMORIAL tournaments are more common in chess unlike other sports. Almost every country has one and there are probably close to 100 worl...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Pestaño: Accolades for Victor Korchnoi in memoriam

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LAST June 6,Victor Korchnoi--born in Leningrad, Soviet Union on March 23, 1931--died at 85. He is considered the strongest player never to ...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Pestaño: Grand chess tour and Gashimov memorial Thursday, June 09, 2016

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THE Grand Chess Tour is a series of four events where players earn grand tour points in accordance with their final rank in each event. At ...
Friday, June 3, 2016

Pestaño: Yifan gives up title due to disagreement with Fide

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IT'S rather surprising that despite being in the limelight now for more than a decade, I have not written extensively about Hou Yifan, ...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Pestaño: Busy month for Cebu chess

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IN a previous article, I reminded Cebuano players that they are quite lucky as there are plenty of tournaments here because of chess patron...