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"I still haven't recovered from Uzbekistan, a lot of people got sick [...] I don't know what I got but I've been under the weather" - Hans Moke Niemann

u/FirstEfficiency7386 — 4 days ago
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"Hans DID Cheat [...] I can validate Magnus' feelings in that he wishes (maybe) we were able to catch him cheating" - Danny Rensch (Mustreader Podcast)

u/FirstEfficiency7386 — 16 days ago
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Happy 50th Birthday to Judit Polgar!

An absolute legend of the game!

The only woman to ever cross 2700, the only woman to ever be Top 10 and the only woman to ever play at the candidates.

A class act and one of my personal favourite players from a stylistic point. An excellent commentator too.

A nice game: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1111195

u/FirstEfficiency7386 — 3 months ago
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"Hypermodern Theory is merely the application, during the opening stages generally, of the same old principles through the medium of somewhat new tactics. There has been no change in the fundamentals. The change has been only a change of form, and not always for the best at that." - J.R. Capablanca

Capablanca on Hypermodern Chess:

Chess Fundamentals was first published thirteen years ago (1921). Since then there have appeared at different times a number of articles dealing with the so-called Hypermodern Theory. Those who have read the articles may well have thought that something new, of vital importance, had been discovered. The fact is that the Hypermodern Theory is merely the application, during the opening stages generally, of the same old principles through the medium of somewhat new tactics. There has been no change in the fundamentals. The change has been only a change of form, and not always for the best at that.

In chess the tactics may change but the strategic fundamental principles are always the same, so that Chess Fundamentals is as good now as it was thirteen years ago. It will be as good a hundred years from now; as long in fact as the laws and rules of the game remain what they are at present. The reader may therefore go over the contents of the book with the assurance that there is in it everything he needs, and that there is nothing to be added and nothing to be changed. Chess Fundamentals was the one standard work of its kind thirteen years ago and the author firmly believes that it is the one standard work of its kind now.

J. R. CAPABLANCA

New York

Sept. 1, 1934

u/FirstEfficiency7386 — 3 months ago
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"Genuinely he cared about what other people thought and to some extent I think it was his blessing and his curse because he cared too much what other people thought" - Dina Belenkaya on Daniel Naroditsky

Video Credits: ChessBase India

u/FirstEfficiency7386 — 3 months ago