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The Kibitzer
by Tim Harding
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- January 2012
Chess in the Years 1862 and 1912
- December 2011
The Double Life of Adolphus Zytogorski, Part Two
- November 2011
The Double Life of Adolphus Zytogorski, Part One
- October 2011
A Visit to Scheveningen
- September 2011
Which are the Oldest Chess Clubs?
- August 2011
Computer Chess: The State of the Art
- July 2011
Time to Change Your Opening Repertoire?
- June 2011
Endgames on the Table
- May 2011
Slaying the Spanish and Other Matters
- April 2011
Remembrances of Endgames Past
- March 2011
New In Chess Just Got Newer
- February 2011
On the Trail of a Forgotten Victorian Expert
- January 2011
One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in the Year 1911
- January-December 2010
- December 2010
Winter Reading Recommendations
- November 2010
The Myth of Celtic Chess
- October 2010
Farewell to Bent Larsen
- September 2010
Ponziani Opening: Other Critical Lines
- August 2010
Can the Ponzi Fly Again?
- July 2010
Chess Books for Summer
- June 2010
Thoughts on the World Championship
- May 2010
The Ratings Game: Meet Mr. Fifty Percent
- April 2010
Vasily Smyslov, The Career of a World Champion
- March 2010
Playing the Morphy Number Game
- February 2010
Masters and Patzers in the Biographical Dictionaries
- January 2010
One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in 1910
- January-December 2009
- December 2009
Judging Bobby Fischer
- November 2009
Books for the Darker Evenings
- October 2009
John Littlewood, The Man Who Lived Tactics
- September 2009
The Databases are Reloaded
- August 2009
The Cincinnati Commercial Correspondence Tournament
- July 2009
Women and Chess: the Debate is Revived
- June 2009
Philidor in the Press: the Final Years
- May 2009
Philidor in the Newspapers
- April 2009
New Chess Books for Spring
- March 2009
Erik Larsson: A Lifetime in the Service of Correspondence Chess
- February 2009
The Career and Legacy of Bob Wade
- January 2009
Chess in the Year 1909
- January-December 2008
- December 2008
Chess Books for Christmas
- November 2008
World Title Shenanigans
- October 2008
The "What If...?" Game; Some New Case Studies
- September 2008
New Investigations in the Two Knights Defence
- August 2008
Summer Books and a New Chess Library
- July 2008
Untruths and Mysteries about The Chess Player’s Chronicle
- June 2008
The Boden-Kieseritsky Gambit
- May 2008
Tolstoy and his Biographer
- April 2008
Informator’s First Hundred Volumes
- March 2008
Trials of a Touring Chess Master: Zukertort in Dublin,
1879
- February 2008
Bobby Fischer, R.I.P.
- January 2008
Chess in the Year 1908
- January-December 2007
- December 2007
How Many World Champions?
- November 2007
Books for Christmas
- October 2007
The Private World of the Chess Problem
- September 2007
The Family Life of Grandmaster Gunsberg
- August 2007
The Chess Career of King Canute - or not?
- July 2007
Has the Morra Gambit been Revived?
- June 2007
Some Thoughts on Books
- May 2007
The World's Greatest Chess Library
- April 2007
The Poisoned Pawn Lacked Venom
- March 2007
Snippets from Chess History
- February 2007
The Spanish Marshall Revisited
- January 2007
Chess in the Year 1907
- January-December 2006
- December 2006
Chess Books for Christmas
- November 2006
Chess Book Heaven at the Royal Dutch Library
- October 2006
Early Games of Chess by Telephone
- September 2006
Another Blast from the Postal Past
- August 2006
The First Oxford-Cambridge University Match
- July 2006
The Poisoned Pawn is Still Looking Tasty
- June 2006
The Last Homecoming of Mars
- May 2006
Sir George Thomas: The Early Years
- April 2006
Evans Gambit Reloaded
- March 2006
The Giuoco Piano Revisited
- February 2006
In the Footsteps of Harold Murray
- January 2006
Chess in the Year 1906
- January-December 2005
- December 2005
The Two Knights Revisited: the d4 Lines
- November 2005
Open Games Revisited: The Two Knights
- October 2005
A Tale of Two Conferences
- September 2005
The House of the Setting Sun
- August 2005
The First Women's Championship: The Decisive Rounds
- July 2005
The First Women's International Tournament
- June 2005
Queens of Chess: Not Deadlier than the Male?
- May 2005
World Champions Play Correspondence Chess
- April 2005
The Pierce Brothers and the "English Mechanic"
- March 2005
Amos Burn Revisited
- February 2005
Chess Treasures at the British Library
- January 2005
The Chess World in the Year 1905
- January-December 2004
- December 2004
The Center Game takes Center Stage
- November 2004
The End of the Black and White Column
- October 2004
It's all Down in Black and White
- September 2004
The Changes I Have Seen
- August 2004
Berserkers & Logicians
- July 2004
Playing the "What If...?" Game
- June 2004
Some Theory of the Pierce Gambit
- May 2004
Introduction to the Pierce Gambit
- April 2004
Was there a “Golden Age” of Correspondence Chess?
- March 2004
Is There Such a Thing as “Chess Culture?”
- February 2004
Correspondence Chess at a Crossroads
- January 2004
One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in the Year 1904
- January-December 2003
- December 2003
How Much Longer Can Man Match the Computer?
- November 2003
The Evans Gambit (Part 2): Chigorin’s Experiences with
the Evans Gambit
- October 2003
The Evans Gambit (Part 1): The Search for Truth in the
Evans Gambit
- September 2003
Goodbye to the Friendly Orang-Utan
- August 2003
Who was Winawer?
- July 2003
Significant Games in the Sokolsky Opening
- June 2003
How Sokolsky Played the Sokolsky
- May 2003
A Little Tutorial on PGN
- April 2003
Once more unto the Urusov, dear friends, once more...
- March 2003
Interview with a (Chess-playing) Vampire
- February 2003
A Blast From The Postal Past
- January 2003
One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in 1903
- January-December 2002
- December 2002
Last Rites for the Allgaier Gambit?
- November 2002
Not Quite Winning with the Allgaier Gambit
- October 2002
Does Chess Have A Future?
- September 2002
Materialism in Chess
- August 2002
A Second Dram of the Scotch Gambit
- July 2002
A Glass of Scotch
- June 2002
A Golden Jubilee of British Chess
- May 2002
The Not-so-fine Art of Game Annotation
- April 2002
Is the Najdorf Poisoned Pawn Edible?
- March 2002
The Giuoco Piano on Trial: White Wins the Case!
- February 2002
The Giuoco Piano on Trial (Part 3): The Summing-Up
- January 2002
One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in 1902
- January-December 2001
- December 2001
I Have Seen the Future — and It Works!
- November 2001
Shakhmatny Bulletin: An Old Friend Revisited
- October 2001
The Giuoco Piano (Part 2): The Case for the Defence
- September 2001
Swansong of the Giuoco Piano (Part 1)
- August 2001
The London-Vienna Correspondence Match (Part 2)
- July 2001
The London-Vienna Correspondence Match (Part 1)
- June 2001
Desert Island Chess Books
- May 2001
Two Knights Defence, Part 3: Berliner Variation Busted?
- April 2001
Two Knights Defence without Tears: Part 2
- March 2001
Two Knights Defence: See the Wood, Not the Trees!
- February 2001
FIDE, the World Championship and the Art of Boxing Promotion
- January 2001
One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in the Year 1901
- January-December 2000
- December 2000
A Portion of Sugar Tart
- November 2000
Playing the Budapest in Budapest
- October 2000
It's One Small Step for a Pawn
- September 2000
Remembering Cenek Kottnauer
- August 2000
A Pot-Pourri of d4 Openings
- July 2000
Forty Years A Kibitzer
- June 2000
A History of The City of London Chess Magazine (Part 2)
- May 2000
A History of The City of London Chess Magazine (Part 1)
- April 2000
À la Recherche des Échecs Perdus (or Remembrance of Chess
Times Past)
- March 2000
Interesting Byways in the Classic Open Games
- February 2000
New Thoughts on Power Play in the Chess Opening
- January 2000
One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in the year 1900
- January-December 1999
- December 1999
Thoughts on the Millennium
- November 1999
The Cold Heaven of Rook Endings
- October 1999
A Royal March to Death or Glory
- September 1999
Is Khalifman the Real World Champion?
- August 1999
The Vampire Gambit: Can We Bury It Now?
- July 1999
Hennig-Schara Gambit Revisited
- June 1999
Have a Hack with the Hennig-Schara
- May 1999
Transpositions
- April 1999
The Openings at New York 1924 (Part II)
- March 1999
The Openings at New York 1924 (Part I)
- February 1999
Some Opening Topics Revisited
- January 1999
100 Years Ago: The Return of Lasker
- January-December 1998
- December 1998
Bring Back Free Castling!
- November 1998
"He could have been a contender..."
- October 1998
Is the Urusov Gambit Sound?
- September 1998
The Eternal Appeal Of The Urusov Gambit
- August 1998
What Exactly Is the Bishop's Opening?
- July 1998
Who was the strongest Irish player of all time?
- June 1998
Who Dunst It?
- May 1998
Has The Marshall Attack Been Refuted On The Internet?
- April 1998
Who Is the Real World Champion?
- March 1998
Putting Dracula Back in His Coffin
- February 1998
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave - or Has He?
- January 1998
One Hundred Years Ago: Head-to-Head in Vienna
- January-December 1997
- December 1997
How Stands the "Faj"?
- November 1997
Bobby Fischer, Twenty-five Years On
- October 1997
Chess Games Belong To The World
- September 1997
A Difficult Postal Game
- August 1997
We're Going On An Elephant Hunt
- July 1997
Winning by One Tempo: Clever or Not?
- June 1997
Anyone for the Franco-Benoni?
- May 1997
Chess Computers Aren't Really So Clever
- April 1997
The Kibitzer and the Even More Complete Najdorf
- March 1997
The Kibitzer Goes To War
- February 1997
Power Play in the Correspondence Chess Opening
- January 1997
The Kibitzer Turns the Clock Back
- June-December 1996
- December 1996
Kilkenny Open
- November 1996
The Lost Heroes of Chess
- October 1996
Two Knights Defence, the Amazing Counter-Attack
- September 1996
Time To Gamble On A Gambit
- August 1996
The Two Worlds of Correspondence Chess
- July 1996
Noteboom Or Abrahams: Whose Variation Is It Anyway?
- June 1996
Frankenstein and Dracula at the Chessboard
An Arbiter's
Notebook
by Geurt Gijssen
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- January 2012
FIDE Laws vs. USCF Laws
- December 2011
Browsing the Bookstall During Play
- November 2011
Hide the Scoresheet!
- October 2011
When are Ratings Unpublished and Draw Offers Too Many?
- September 2011
Article 10.2: Here we go again!
- August 2011
Must a Touched Piece Always be Moved?
- July 2011
The Never-Ending Story of Article 10.2
- June 2011
Leave the tournament? Lose points!
- May 2011
What is a Theoretical Draw?
- April 2011
The Mexico & Yucatan Cases
- March 2011
What Shall We Do with an Annoying Spectator?
- February 2011
What Qualifies as a Distraction?
- January 2011
What Shall We Do with a Talking Player?
- January-December 2010
- December 2010
Again Blitz and Rapid!
- November 2010
Formulas and Figures
- October 2010
Blitz, Blitz, Blitz
- September 2010
Does a draw claim stand for the entire game?
- August 2010
Do we need to change the Laws of Chess?
- July 2010
Something's Wrong with Buchholz
- June 2010
Define Same Positions
- May 2010
10.2 Again
- April 2010
What is a Valid Claim?
- March 2010
Taking Notes
- February 2010
When is a Legal Move Illegal?
- January 2010
I Claim I Touched a Piece
- January-December 2009
- January-December 2009
(In Italian)
- December 2009
The Tal Memorial and Blitz Chess
- November 2009
Time Scrambles
- October 2009
What is the result after a flag fall?
- September 2009
Fifty-move Rule Confusion
- August 2009
Declare to Resign
- July 2009
When is an Illegal Move Illegal?
- June 2009
Rob Hartoch, R.I.P.
- May 2009
Title and Rating Regulations
- April 2009
Article 6.6
- March 2009
FIDE Presidential Board Meeting
- February 2009
FIDE Forfeitures
- January 2009
Changes to the Laws of Chess
- January-December 2008
- January-December 2008
(In Italian)
- December 2008
In Memoriam Bob Wade
- November 2008
Bothered by Buchholz
- October 2008
Wil Haggenburg, R.I.P.
- September 2008
Stop the Clock!
- August 2008
Search and Seizure
- July 2008
When is a Move "Made"?
- June 2008
The Arbiter is My Opponent’s Mother
- May 2008
Revisions to the Laws of Chess
- April 2008
Draw Claims
- March 2008
Ratings!
- February 2008
Is the Arbiter Always Right?
- January 2008
Intervention
- January-December 2007
- January-December 2007
(In Italian)
- December 2007
Revising the Laws of Chess
- October 2007
Controversial Decisions
- September 2007
Strange Cases and 10.2
- August 2007
IA Willi Knebel (1936-2007)
- July 2007
Laws on the Internet
- June 2007
What are the Correct Laws of Chess?
- May 2007
Interpreting the Rules
- April 2007
Unobserved Illegal Moves
- March 2007
Is Fischer Random the Solution?
- February 2007
Disputed Rulings
- January 2007
Legacy
- January-December 2006
- January-December 2006
(In Italian)
- December 2006
MonRoi and Other Matters
- November 2006
Unusual Incidents
- October 2006
Elista 2006
- September 2006
MonRoi
- August 2006
Ringing Mobiles & 10.2 Never Die
- July 2006
The Turin Olympiad
- June 2006
Illegal Moves
- May 2006
The Fifty-move Rule
- April 2006
"Normal Means"
- March 2006
Recording Moves, Mobiles, and Article 10.2
- February 2006
Writing Moves in Advance
- January 2006
Rapid Rules in Dubai
- January-December 2005
- January-December 2005
(In Italian)
- December 2005
Istanbul
- November 2005
What Shall We Do with a Stinking Player? - Redux
- October 2005
New Rules
- September 2005
Dresden 2005
- August 2005
What Shall We Do with a Coughing Player?
- July 2005
Arbitrating Draws
- June 2005
10.2 is Back!
- May 2005
Team Spirit
- April 2005
Those Cheating Ways
- March 2005
The 2005 Aeroflot Festival
- February 2005
The New Rules Revisited
- January 2005
Breaking the Law
- January-December 2004
- January-December 2004
(In Italian)
- December 2004
Castling
- November 2004
The 75th FIDE Congress
- October 2004
Claims
- September 2004
Does Canada Exist?
- August 2004
Touching Pieces with a Pen
- July 2004
Swiss Master for Windows is Available!
- June 2004
Long Moves
- May 2004
Where was the Chief Arbiter?
- April 2004
Forbidden Pairings
- March 2004
The Aeroflot Festival, Clocks, Mobiles, and Much More
- February 2004
Did a Player Touch a Piece Deliberately?
- January 2004
Are Arbiters Almighty?
- January-December 2003
- January-December 2003
(In Italian)
- December 2003
My Cell Phone Vibrates!
- November 2003
Kallithea!
- October 2003
Salekhard!
- September 2003
Perpetual Check Doesn't Exist
- August 2003
Falling Flags!
- July 2003
I would like to propose a draw, but where is my opponent?
- June 2003
Hello St. Petersburg, Hello Paris…
- May 2003
More King Capturing
- April 2003
Challenged
- March 2003
From New York to Moscow
- February 2003
Can I Win after Overstepping the Time Limit?
- January 2003
Unusual Events or Are There Still Normal Games?
- January-December 2002
- January-December 2002
(In Italian)
- December 2002
Capricious Captains
- November 2002
The 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled
- October 2002
Playing with the Ratings
- September 2002
Rapids in Moscow
- August 2002
Bled Awaits
- July 2002
Caller Waiting
- June 2002
Losing a Game after Mating the Opponent
- May 2002
Capturing the King – Recording the Moves
- April 2002
Leave the King Alone!
- March 2002
10.2-10.2-10.2: It Never Stops
- February 2002
Capturing the King
- January 2002
How to Get a Title?
- January-December 2001
- January-December 2001
(In Italian)
- December 2001
From Moscow with Love
- November 2001
The King En Prise Redux
- October 2001
Promotion Problems
- September 2001
Do You Know the Time Limit?
- August 2001
And the Talks Go On
- July 2001
The Laws Are Enacted
- June 2001
Poll Position
- May 2001
Paradise
- April 2001
The Time Limits They Are a-Changin' - Again
- March 2001
Swiss Gambit
- February 2001
The New Laws
- January 2001
Falling Flags
- January-December 2000
- January-December 2000
(In Italian)
- December 2000
Istanbul
- November 2000
Rules, Rules, Rules
- October 2000
A Pressing Matter
- September 2000
Touché
- August 2000
Flying Rooks
- July 2000
Conflicting Captains
- June 2000
Silicon Silliness
- May 2000
What Shall We Do with a Stinking Player?
- April 2000
Standing Pat
- March 2000
Button It Up
- February 2000
What Shall We Do with a Sleeping Player?
- January 2000
Again, Article 10
- January-December 1999
- January-December 1999
(In Italian)
- December 1999
Report from Batumi
- November 1999
Touched Pieces
- October 1999
The Rules Committee
- September 1999
Las Vegas - Surprise, Surprise!!
- August 1999
Digital vs. Analog
- July 1999
J'adoube...
- June 1999
The Right Hand
- May 1999
All the King's Horses
- April 1999
Time Scrambles
- March 1999
New York 1924: The Arbiter's View
- February 1999
Simul Standards
- January 1999
Through the Eyes of a Spectator
- April-December 1998
- April-December 1998
(In Italian)
- December 1998
The Case of the Hidden Queen
- November 1998
More Events in Elista
- October 1998
Events in Elista
- September 1998
Readers' Questions
- August 1998
Does Anyone Know the Score?
- July 1998
More Rapid Rules
- June 1998
Rapid Rules
- May 1998
The Time Limits They Are a-Changin'...
- April 1998
The King En Prise!
Opening Lanes
by Gary Lane
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Checkpoint
by Carsten Hansen
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The Q & A Way
by Bruce Pandolfini
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- January 2012
Too Many Teachers Can Spoil the Broth
- December 2011
The Beauty of Chess
- November 2011
Chess Book Writing
- October 2011
Chess Games for the Classroom
- September 2011
Sing Me a Song
- August 2011
And Now for Something Different
- July 2011
The More the Many-er
- June 2011
Pursuing a Dream
- May 2011
Sizing up a Chess Club
- April 2011
Keyboard or Chessboard?
- March 2011
Existential Constraints
- February 2011
When White is Black
- January 2011
Book Draws and Drawbacks
- January-December 2010
- December 2010
Losing Appetite
- November 2010
The Laws of Chess
- October 2010
Placement Possibilities
- September 2010
Booking Back
- August 2010
Self-Analysis of Games
- July 2010
The Dragon Wagon
- June 2010
Rock and Roll High School
- May 2010
Bored Games
- April 2010
Malice Through the Rooking Pass
- March 2010
Books or Software?
- February 2010
Stop and Face the Monster
- January 2010
This and That
- January-December 2009
- December 2009
Standing on the Feet of the Past
- November 2009
The Art of It
- October 2009
The In-laws of Competition
- September 2009
Structure and More Structure
- August 2009
Compute This
- July 2009
Teaching the Teacher
- June 2009
Notable Notes
- May 2009
What if "Endgame" Were "End Game"?
- April 2009
Capping and Topping Capa
- March 2009
It’s All in the Translation
- February 2009
Struggling with Mastery
- January 2009
Teaching Odds and Ends
- January-December 2008
- December 2008
Basic Fairness
- November 2008
Think of the Whole
- October 2008
Sitting in on Lessons
- September 2008
Beware of Regimens
- August 2008
A Cure for the Common Bold
- July 2008
Point for Point
- June 2008
Go with the Flow
- May 2008
Look But You Better Not Touch
- April 2008
Understand What You’re Playing
- March 2008
Analysis and All That
- February 2008
Teach the Children Well
- January 2008
If You Don't Know What to Do, Don't Do It
- January-December 2007
- December 2007
Opening, Middlegame, Endgame
- November 2007
All and Everything
- October 2007
Let the Games Begin
- September 2007
Play it Again, Al
- August 2007
It's Never Too Late
- July 2007
Losing Doesn't Matter?
- June 2007
Raging Rating Rants
- May 2007
First: Find Out Who you Are
- April 2007
Opening Book Overload
- March 2007
That Special Book
- February 2007
Think Before you Think
- January 2007
It all Gets Back to Tactics
- January-December 2006
- December 2006
Restricting Opponents
- November 2006
Principle Distinctions
- October 2006
Teach Thinking
- September 2006
Head Work
- August 2006
For the Love of Chess
- July 2006
Some Things Don't Need Analysis
- June 2006
It's Hard to be Good
- May 2006
Know Thy Chess Self
- April 2006
There's Strength in Numbers
- March 2006
We All Make Mistakes
- February 2006
Keep it Simple
- January 2006
Fun is Where it's At
- January-December 2005
- December 2005
Let Them Be Kids
- November 2005
The IM Quest
- October 2005
You Must Remember This
- September 2005
It's Only a Movie
- August 2005
Knowing What's Right
- July 2005
We All Need Routines
- June 2005
No Rule is Absolute (Except This)
- May 2005
We'll Get to That
- April 2005
How High is Up?
- March 2005
Piece Be With You
- February 2005
Chess Puppetry
- January 2005
How Big is Big
- January-December 2004
- December 2004
Tactics Is A Good Strategy
- November 2004
The Play's the Thing
- October 2004
Botvinnik Smartvinnik
- September 2004
Numb in Number
- August 2004
Test the Best
- July 2004
In General Be Specific
- June 2004
There's Gold in the Golden Mean
- May 2004
Teach the Children Well
- April 2004
Sometimes You Just Have to Try
- March 2004
Before the Ideal the Gods Have Placed the Real
- February 2004
We All Need Goals – Reasonable Ones
- January 2004
Rating the Ratings
- January-December 2003
- December 2003
The Caro Can Can
- November 2003
You Already Have a Coach - You!
- October 2003
Some Highs Are New Lows
- September 2003
Sometimes Those Who Can Need To Be Checked By Those Who
Can’t
- August 2003
It's Not All In The Cards
- July 2003
It’s Not In That Book - Chico Marx
- June 2003
Stopped By One of Three
- May 2003
Cornered in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Corner
- April 2003
There’s No One Wrong Way
- March 2003
It’s Not So Much What, But How
- February 2003
Do It by the Book - Theirs
- January 2003
Exclam This!
- January-December 2002
- December 2002
A Draw Is Not So Terribly English
- November 2002
No Opening Is Worth It
- October 2002
The Postman Always Zings Twice
- September 2002
Whose Term Is It?
- August 2002
Choose Your Weapons Wisely
- July 2002
It's Only a Movie
- June 2002
The Read Not Taken
- May 2002
The Grandmaster as Gipper
- April 2002
The Queen in a Sum-Zero Universe
- March 2002
Winning Coaches Get Fired Too
- February 2002
It's A Material World
- January 2002
Don't Hurry or Worry
- January-December 2001
- December 2001
A Question Of Age
- November 2001
Play Studiously and Study Playfully
- October 2001
There Is Nothing to Fear
- September 2001
The Play's the Thing
- August 2001
Thirty Something
- July 2001
Memory Schmemory
- June 2001
Too Practical Is Not Practical
- May 2001
Play to Please
- April 2001
Two Much or Two Little
- March 2001
Touch Move
- February 2001
Ratings: It's What's Happening
- January 2001
It’s Not What, It’s How
- January-December 2000
- December 2000
Either Or
- November 2000
It's Got To Be Fun
- October 2000
Perfect, All Too Perfect
- September 2000
Young At Any Age
- August 2000
It's Simple ToSymbol
- July 2000
Compute This
- June 2000
Larry or Larry D?
- May 2000
Write or Wrong
- April 2000
This and That
- March 2000
Surprise, No Prize
- February 2000
Relatively Speaking
- January 2000
Books, Books, and More Books
- July-December 1999
- December 1999
Are You A Number Or A Letter?
- November 1999
We All Have To Start Somewhere
- October 1999
No One's That Old
- September 1999
Do This, Don't Do That
- August 1999
Computers, Bughouse and Beyond
- July 1999
Answer the Question and Question the Answer
The Instructor
by Mark Dvoretsky
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The Problem is Not the Time Control
- December 2011
An Absence of Deep Ideas
- November 2011
Recent Analytical Finds
- October 2011
The Process of Elimination, Part Three
- September 2011
The Process of Elimination, Part Two
- August 2011
The Process of Elimination, Part One
- July 2011
Mikhail Tal's "Unknown" Game
- June 2011
The Queen Exchange, Part Four
- May 2011
The Queen Exchange, Part Three
- April 2011
The Queen Exchange, Part Two
- March 2011
The Queen Exchange, Part One
- February 2011
My Last Game
- January 2011
First Steps
- January-December 2010
- December 2010
Lessons from a Loss
- November 2010
A Poor Queen Position
- October 2010
Transit Square
- September 2010
Pay Attention to your Opponent's Resources, Part Three
- August 2010
Pay Attention to your Opponent's Resources, Part Two
- July 2010
Pay Attention to your Opponent's Resources, Part One
- June 2010
Practicing Positional Sacrifices
- May 2010
Destroying the Material Balance
- April 2010
Determine the Best Defense
- March 2010
There's Always a Defense!
- February 2010
All that Glitters is not Gold
- January 2010
Emotions and Playing Strength
- January-December 2009
- December 2009
"Tasty" Tactics
- November 2009
The Logic of a Grandmaster
- October 2009
Enlarging Your Strategic Arsenal
- September 2009
The Superfluous Piece
- August 2009
Enriching Your Strategic Arsenal
- July 2009
A Lesson in Positional Play
- June 2009
Solid Endgame Knowledge
- May 2009
The Worst-Piece Principle, Part Two
- April 2009
The Worst-Piece Principle, Part One
- March 2009
A Battle of Equals
- February 2009
Wing Attack with an Open Center, Part Two
- January 2009
Wing Attack with an Open Center, Part One
- January-December 2008
- December 2008
Extra Pawn on the Side
- November 2008
When to Trade
- October 2008
Two Misfortunes
- September 2008
Critical Moments, Part Three
- August 2008
Critical Moments, Part Two
- July 2008
Critical Moments, Part One
- June 2008
Rook and Bishop vs. Rook
- May 2008
When Technique Fails
- April 2008
Swimming in Theory
- March 2008
Unjustified Greed
- February 2008
Greed is Good
- January 2008
Polemic Thinking, Part Two
- January-December 2007
- December 2007
Polemic Thinking, Part One
- November 2007
A Lotta Wotawa, Part Two
- October 2007
A Lotta Wotawa, Part One
- September 2007
Studies for Practical Players
- August 2007
Chess Botany - "Variational Debris," Part Two
- July 2007
Chess Botany - "Variational Debris," Part One
- June 2007
Chess Botany - The "Shrub"
- May 2007
Chess Botany - The "Trunk"
- April 2007
Intermediate Moves in the Endgame
- March 2007
Control Work
- February 2007
A Trainer's First Steps
- January 2007
New Surprises in Calculating Variations
- January-December 2006
- December 2006
The Power of Subtle, Quiet Moves
- November 2006
Chaos on Board
- October 2006
Simagin's Exchange Sacrifices
- September 2006
To Take a Pawn or Attack?
- August 2006
An Ideal Game
- July 2006
Study Composing Tourney
- June 2006
Patient Defense
- May 2006
Surprises in Calculating Variations
- April 2006
An Invitation to Analysis
- March 2006
Grandmaster Technique, Part Four
- February 2006
Grandmaster Technique, Part Three
- January 2006
Grandmaster Technique, Part Two
- January-December 2005
- December 2005
Grandmaster Technique, Part One
- November 2005
Saving Combinations, Part Two
- October 2005
Saving Combinations, Part One
- September 2005
Barcza Rampant
- August 2005
Sending the Rook to the Opposite Wing
- July 2005
Reverberating "Quiet" Moves
- June 2005
Castling on Opposite Sides
- May 2005
A Game with Questions
- April 2005
Combinative Discoveries
- March 2005
The Test of Objectivity
- February 2005
A Battle of Opposites
- January 2005
Paradox
- January-December 2004
- December 2004
The Advance of the Rook Pawns
- November 2004
Going Deep Into Analysis
- October 2004
Working on your Mistakes
- September 2004
The Effects of Replaying
- August 2004
Bavarian Impressions
- July 2004
The Two Weaknesses Principle
- June 2004
Going for the Throat
- May 2004
Lessons from Lilienthal
- April 2004
Lilienthal's Strategic Victories, Part Two
- March 2004
Lilienthal's Strategic Victories, Part One
- February 2004
Ripples in the Water, Part Two: "Comparison" While Calculating
Variations
- January 2004
Ripples in the Water, Part One: Playing the Symmetrical
Position
- January-December 2003
- December 2003
Theoretical Discoveries, Part Two
- November 2003
Theoretical Discoveries, Part One
- October 2003
An Historical Serial, Part Two
- September 2003
An Historical Serial, Part One
- August 2003
Classical Immersion
- July 2003
Studies for Grandmasters
- June 2003
Pay Attention to Details
- May 2003
Standard and Non-Standard Combinations
- April 2003
Mate on the Back Rank
- March 2003
Attack Training
- February 2003
Active Rooks
- January 2003
Supreme Technique
- January-December 2002
- December 2002
Opening Catastrophes
- November 2002
Endgame Training: Expert Use of the Rooks
- October 2002
The Usefulness of the "Bad"Bishop
- September 2002
Some Reti Studies
- August 2002
An “Easy” Win
- July 2002
Lawless Pawns
- June 2002
Non-Standard Combinations
- May 2002
In Search of Chess Truth
- April 2002
Active Defense
- March 2002
Should He Have Sacrificed?
- February 2002
The Positional Exchange Sacrifice
- January 2002
Training with Grandmasters
- January-December 2001
- December 2001
Anthony Miles’ Endgame Technique
- November 2001
The True Meaning of “Quality”
- October 2001
A Chessplayer and How He Grows
- September 2001
Tragicomedies in Pawn Endgames
- August 2001
Discoveries in Rook Endgames
- July 2001
Discoveries in Minor-piece Endgames
- June 2001
A Battle of Equals
- May 2001
Passivity in the Opening
- April 2001
Blockading Passed Pawns
- March 2001
The Value of “Elementary” Endgame Knowledge
- February 2001
Averbakh
- January 2001
Irrational Complications
- October-December 2000
- December 2000
Dvoretsky on Berliner
- November 2000
Battle of the Heavy Pieces
- October 2000
Candidate Moves
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Attack it with Something Worth Less
- December 2011
What Would Houdini Do?
- November 2011
The Seven Percent Solution
- October 2011
Don't Know What to Do? Try Dan's Dirty Dozen
- September 2011
The Bain Rating Tactics Quiz
- August 2011
Adjusting Your Thought Process for Faster Time Controls
- July 2011
The Goldilocks Principle
- June 2011
The Three "Times" for Checks, Captures, and Threats
- May 2011
Speeding Up
- April 2011
Learning from Andy
- March 2011
The Curious Case of MrBoejangles
- February 2011
Annotated Game Collections vs. Instructive Anthologies
- January 2011
A Decade of Novice Nook
- January-December 2010
- December 2010
Counting Material
- November 2010
Nunn, Chernev, and Learning Chess
- October 2010
Understanding Chess Puzzles
- September 2010
Walk Before You Can Run
- August 2010
Intermediate Time Controls Hinder Improvement
- July 2010
Not All Bads are Equal
- June 2010
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- May 2010
When Adults Learn Basic Material
- April 2010
Hand-Waving is Worse than Hope Chess
- March 2010
Luck in the Sport of Chess
- February 2010
Tactical Sets and Goals
- January 2010
What's in a Name?
- January-December 2009
- December 2009
Spend Time on the Move Chosen
- November 2009
The Most Common and Important Use of Tactics
- October 2009
Openings vs. Opening Systems
- September 2009
The Three Show Stoppers
- August 2009
Principles of Analytical Efficiency
- July 2009
More Pawns in the Center are Good
- June 2009
The Mind Reading Fish
- May 2009
The Best Novice Nook Ideas
- April 2009
The Endgame Bind
- March 2009
The Improvement Feedback Loop
- February 2009
Accidental and Purposeful Errors
- January 2009
The Five Ways to Make a Piece Safe
- January-December 2008
- December 2008
Chess is Decisions
- November 2008
The Fun of Pros and Cons
- October 2008
The Room Full of Grandmasters
- September 2008
The Safety Table
- August 2008
Strong Principles vs. Important Principles
- July 2008
Anders' Game
- June 2008
Bootstrapping Analysis Skills
- May 2008
Similar Positions, Different Evaluations
- April 2008
The Fundamental Theorem of Safety and Activity
- March 2008
The Three Types of Reasonable Threats
- February 2008
Acquiescing
- January 2008
The Inadequately Guarded Piece
- January-December 2007
- December 2007
Critical and Principal Variations
- November 2007
The Margin for Error
- October 2007
Getting the Edge
- September 2007
Don't Allow the Floobly!
- August 2007
How to Use MCO-14
- July 2007
Trading When Ahead or Behind
- June 2007
Beginner Misconceptions
- May 2007
Novice Nook Quiz
- April 2007
The Two Types of Counting Problems
- March 2007
Criticality Quiz
- February 2007
Slowing Down
- January 2007
Trading Pawns When Ahead
- January-December 2006
- December 2006
Chess Principles and Common Sense
- November 2006
The Most Common OTB Mistakes
- October 2006
Breaking Down Barriers
- September 2006
The Four Homeworks
- August 2006
Making Chess Simple
- July 2006
Odds and Ends
- June 2006
Is it Safe?
- May 2006
The Principle of Symmetry
- April 2006
Activity is the Real Goal
- March 2006
The Most Common Opening Inaccuracies
- February 2006
The Two Move Triggers
- January 2006
Breaking a Slump
- January-December 2005
- December 2005
Initial and Final Candidate Moves
- November 2005
The Most Important Strategic Decisions
- October 2005
The Principle of Tactical Dominance
- September 2005
When is a King Safe?
- August 2005
Quiescence Errors
- July 2005
The Theory of Chess Improvement
- June 2005
Opening Principles
- May 2005
Time Management Tales
- April 2005
Evaluation Quiz
- March 2005
Reviewing Chess Games
- February 2005
Every Good Chessplayer...
- January 2005
A Guide to P-R3
- January-December 2004
- December 2004
The Big Five
- November 2004
Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur
- October 2004
Improving Analysis Skills
- September 2004
A Defense Primer
- August 2004
Chess, Learning, and Fun
- July 2004
Enhancing your First Tournament Experience
- June 2004
Examples of Chess Logic
- May 2004
The Case for Time Management
- April 2004
A Planning Primer
- March 2004
Is There a Win?
- February 2004
Learning Opening Lines & Ideas
- January 2004
The Goal Each Move
- January-December 2003
- December 2003
The Most Important Tactic
- November 2003
Traits of a Good Chessplayer
- October 2003
Excerpt: Looking for Trouble
- September 2003
Chess Exercises
- August 2003
Novice Nook’s Chess Lists
- July 2003
A Fistful of Lessons
- June 2003
Learning from Dr. de Groot
- May 2003
A Tactics Quiz
- April 2003
Evaluation Criteria
- March 2003
King and Pawn vs. King
- February 2003
Using the Computer to Improve
- January 2003
Revisiting the Seeds of Tactical Destruction
- January-December 2002
- December 2002
The 10 Biggest Roadblocks to Improvement
- November 2002
K&P&? vs. K
- October 2002
Finding a Good Instructor
- September 2002
A Positional Primer
- August 2002
An Improvement Plan
- July 2002
It’s Not Really Winning a Tempo!
- June 2002
Break Moves: Opening Lines to Increase Mobility
- May 2002
The Road to Carnegie Hall
- April 2002
A Counting Primer
- March 2002
A Generic Thought Process
- February 2002
When You're Winning, It's a Whole Different Game
- January 2002
Analysis and Evaluation
- February-December 2001
- December 2001
Techniques
- November 2001
Real Chess, Time Management, and Care: Putting it All Together
- October 2001
The Six Common Chess States
- September 2001
The Underrated Removal of the Guard
- August 2001
The Most Common Opening Tactics
- July 2001
Chess Books and Prerequisites
- June 2001
The Seeds of Tactical Destruction
- May 2001
A Different Approach to Studying Tactics
- April 2001
Going to Sleep in the Endgame
- March 2001
Understanding Improvement and Elements of Chess Strength
- February 2001
Helping You Through the Jungle
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S.W.I.F.T. World Cup I, Part Two
- December 2011
S.W.I.F.T. World Cup I, Part One
- November 2011
Xie Jun Regains Women's World Crown
- October 2011
1997 World Team Championship, Part Three
- September 2011
1997 World Team Championship, Part Two
- August 2011
1997 World Team Championship, Part One
- July 2011
1999 Interplay U.S. Championship, Part Three
- June 2011
1999 Interplay U.S. Championship, Part Two
- May 2011
1999 Interplay U.S. Championship, Part One
- April 2011
Inside Track: Center Counter with 2...Nf6
- March 2011
Georgia Peaches Bloom
- February 2011
Slavic Requiem and Rebirth
- January 2011
Inside Profile: Asa Hoffmann
- January-December 2010
- December 2010
Inside Track Theoretical, Meran 8.Be2 Bb7
- November 2010
The Two Knights Defense, Part Three and Four
- October 2010
The Two Knights Defense, Part Two
- September 2010
The Two Knights Defense, Part One
- August 2010
Speelman-Seirawan, St. John 1988, Game Five
- July 2010
Seirawan-Speelman, St. John 1988, Game Four
- June 2010
Speelman-Seirawan, St. John 1988, Game Three
- May 2010
Seirawan-Speelman, St. John 1988, Game Two
- April 2010
Speelman-Seirawan, St. John 1988, Game One
- March 2010
Inside Interview by GM Larry Evans
- February 2010
In Search of the Elusive TN
- January 2010
The Schacknytt Festival in Malmö
- January-December 2009
- December 2009
1987 United States Championship, Part Three
- November 2009
1987 United States Championship, Part Two
- October 2009
1987 United States Championship, Part One
- September 2009
Alburt-Seirawan, U.S. Championship 1990
- August 2009
Piket-Shirov, Aruba 1995
- July 2009
Anand-Kamsky, Las Palmas 1995
- June 2009
Shirov-Topalov, Madrid 1997
- May 2009
Beliavsky-Tiviakov, Linares 1995
- April 2009
Karpov-Kamsky, FIDE-Wch Elista 1996
- March 2009
Fedorowicz-Gulko, U.S. Championship 1987
- February 2009
Portisch-Timman, Candidates 1989
- January 2009
Andersson-Hübner, Ter Apel 1997
- January-December 2008
- December 2008
Benjamin-Kaidanov, US-ch sf 1995
- November 2008
Ivanchuk-Topalov, Linares 1995
- October 2008
Christiansen-Seirawan, U.S. Championship 1997
- September 2008
Gelfand-Kasparov, Linares (5) 1992
- August 2008
Kasparov-Karpov, Seville (24) 1987
- July 2008
Karpov-Kasparov, Seville (23) 1987
- June 2008
Seirawan-Christiansen, U.S. Championship 1997
- May 2008
Seirawan-Hjartarson, Barcelona 1989
- April 2008
De la Riva Aguado-Morozevich, Pamplona 1999
- March 2008
Nunn-Seirawan, Wijk aan Zee 1992
- February 2008
DeFirmian-Shabalov, Denver 1998
- January 2008
Sadler-Forster, Lucerne 1997
- January-December 2007
- December 2007
Portisch-Timman, Candidates Match 1989
- November 2007
Yusupov-Karpov, Candidates Semifinal 1989
- October 2007
Morovic-Seirawan, Novi Sad 1990
- September 2007
Ivanchuk-Seirawan, Novi Sad 1990
- August 2007
Short-Topalov, Linares 1995
- July 2007
Kasparov-Karpov, Linares 1992
- June 2007
Damljanovic-Seirawan, Belgrade 1991
- May 2007
Christiansen-Gurevich, World Open 1989
- April 2007
Fedorowicz-Seirawan, U.S. Championship 1998
- March 2007
Timman-Nikolic, Dutch Championship 1997
- February 2007
Van der Wiel-Ehlvest, Rotterdam 1989
- January 2007
Topalov-Kasparov, Las Palmas 1996
- January-December 2006
- December 2006
Seirawan-Yusupov, Rotterdam 1989
- November 2006
Anand-Karpov, Lausanne 1998
- October 2006
Seirawan-Ftacnik, Thessaloniki Olympiad 1998
- September 2006
Anand-Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1998
- August 2006
Topalov-Kasparov, Yerevan 1996
- July 2006
Seirawan-Lein, World Open 1998
- June 2006
Sokolov-Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1996
- May 2006
Christiansen-Alburt, Jacksonville 1990
- April 2006
Dreev-Shirov, Wijk aan Zee 1996
- March 2006
Van der Wiel-Ehlvest, Rotterdam 1989
- February 2006
Gelfand-Dreev, Tilburg 1993
- January 2006
Kasparov-Sokolov, Sarajevo 1999
- January-December 2005
- December 2005
Anand-Ivanchuk, Dortmund 1997
- November 2005
Short-Speelman, London qf 1988
- October 2005
Karpov-Timman, Jarkata 1993
- September 2005
Topalov-Seirawan, Biel 1993
- August 2005
Short-Gelfand, Brussels cm 1991
- July 2005
Kasparov-Anand, PCA World Championship 1995
- June 2005
Anand-Sokolov, Brussels 1992
- May 2005
Beliavsky-Karpov, Brussels 1998
- April 2005
Kortchnoi-Timman, Brussels 1998
- March 2005
Karpov-Anand, Linares 1991
- February 2005
Yermolinsky-de Firmian, Parsippany 1996
- January 2005
Seirawan-Shabalov, Key West 1994
- January-December 2004
- December 2004
Shirov-Khalifman, Amsterdam 1995
- November 2004
Karpov-Anand, Brussels 1991
- October 2004
Seirawan-Kasparov, Skelleftea 1989
- September 2004
Fischer-Spassky, Sveti Stefan 1992
- August 2004
Fischer-Spassky, Sveti Stefan 1992
- July 2004
Gurevich-Kamsky, Los Angeles 1991
- June 2004
Timman-Karpov, Hoogeveen 1999
- May 2004
Two from Lugano 1989
- April 2004
Timman-Nikolic, Dutch Championship Playoff 1997
- March 2004
Kasparov-Short, Amsterdam 1994
- February 2004
Karpov-Gelfand, SanghiNagar 1995
- January 2004
Seirawan-Gurevich, Biel 1993
- January-December 2003
- December 2003
Browne-Seirawan, 1987 American Open
- November 2003
Karpov-Anand, Wijk Aaan Zee 1998
- October 2003
Karpov-Kasparov, Linares 1993
- September 2003
Kasparov-Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999
- August 2003
Adams-Seirawan, Bermuda 2000
- July 2003
Kasparov-Nikolic, Linares 1997
- June 2003
Shabalov-Seirawan, 1998 U.S. Men's Championship
- May 2003
Seirawan-Dzindzichashvili 1999
- April 2003
Kasparov-Kramnik Linares 1997
- March 2003
Kramnik-Topalov, Monte Carlo 1998
- February 2003
Svidler-Kasparov, Tilburg 1997
- January 2003
Anand-Ivanchuk, Dortmund 1997
- January-December 2002
- December 2002
Timman-Piket, Wijk aan Zee 2000
- November 2002
Morozevich-Aleksandrov, Shenyang 2000
- October 2002
Piket-Van Wely Amsterdam 1994
- September 2002
1997 Rematch: Kasparov versus Deep Blue
- August 2002Kasparov-Kraceck,
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- July 2002
1997 Rematch Kasparov versus Deep Blue
- June 2002
Vladimir Kramnik-Garry Kasparov Novgorod 1997
- May 2002
1997 Rematch, Kasparov versus Deep Blue
- April 2002
Shirov-Polgar, Madrid 1997
- March 2002
2002 U.S. Championships, Part 2: Yasser Annotates
- February 2002
2002 U.S. Championships: An Insider’s Perspective
- January 2002
1997 Rematch: Kasparov versus Deep Blue
- September-December 2001
- December 2001
1997 Rematch: Kasparov versus Deep Blue
- November 2001
Wijk aan Zee 2000, Corus
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Japfa Classic, Bali 2000
- September 2001
1997 Rematch: Kasparov versus Deep Blue
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The Most Important Novelty of Chess Informant 110
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The Best of the Best: The Next Chapter by
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Forty-fifth Anniversary Edition by Josip Asik
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The Chigorin Defence is in Trouble by Josip Asik
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Trustworthy C.I. Labs by Josip Asik
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The Last Human Chess Book on Earth by Josip Asik
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The Ten Best Games of Chess Informant 109 by
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A Fine Old Gentleman is Back by
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- November 2010
The Most Important Novelty of Informant 107 by
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The Ten Best Games of Chess Informant 107 by
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Small ECO: Ruy Lopez Exchange by Sasa
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- August 2010
Small Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings by Sasa
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- July 2010
Studies from Chess Informant 107 by Zdenko Krnic
- June 2010
Modern Chess Theory: Grünfeld Defense by Zdenko Krnic
- May 2010
The Most Important Novelty of Informant 106 by Sasa Velickovic
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The Ten Best Games of Chess Informant 106 by Sasa Velickovic
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The Best of Chess Informant: Magnus Carlsen by Zdenko Krnic
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The Greatest Tournaments 2001-2009, Part Two by Zdenko Krnic
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The Greatest Tournaments 2001-2009, Part One by Zdenko Krnic
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The Most Important Novelty of Informant 105 by Zdenko Krnic
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The Ten Best Games of Chess Informant 105 by Zdenko Krnic
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Small Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, 3rd Edition by Zdenko Krnic
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The Most Important Novelty of Chess Informant 104 by Sasa Velickovic
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The Ten Best Games of Chess Informant 104 by Sasa Velickovic
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Top TNT 3 by Zdenko Krnic
- June 2009
The Most Important Novelty of Chess Informant 103 by Milan Bjelajac
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The Ten Best Games of Chess Informant 103 by Zdenko Krnic
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Sicilian Defense: Lasker/Sveshnikov Variation B33 by Milan Bjelajac
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Caro-Kann B12 by Sasa Velickovic
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Top TNT 2 by Zdenko Krnic
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The Ten Best Games of Volume 102 by Zdenko Krnic
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The Most Important Novelty of Chess Informant 102
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Top TNT by Zdenko Krnic
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The Most Important Novelty of Chess Informant 101
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The Most Important Novelty of Chess Informant 100
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The 1,000 Best of the Best, Part One by Zdenko Krnic
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The Best of Chess Informant – Viswanathan Anand
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The First Hundred Informants by Aleksandar Matanovic
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A Brilliant Attack by Milan Bjelajac
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The Best of Chess Informant – Viswanathan Anand
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Kramnik – Topalov, Elista 2006 by Zdenko Krnic
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The Best of Chess Informant – Anatoly Karpov by
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The Fighter: Topalov by Zdenko Krnic
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Who will Win? by Zdenko Krnic
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World Champion Kramnik Annotates by Zdenko Krnic
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Ponomariov Recommended – Karjakin Applied by Milan
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What a Victory! by Milan Bjelajac
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Chess Informant and the Olympiads by Zdenko Krnic
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The Best of Chess Informant – Garry Kasparov by
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The Birth of a Novelty by Ivan Markovic
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The Most Important Novelty of Volume 93 by Milan
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The Ten Best Games of Volume 93 by Zdenko Krnic
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The Year of Veselin Topalov by Zdenko Krnic
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Viktor Bologan Annotates by Zdenko Krnic
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The Most Important Novelty of Volume 92 by Milan
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The Ten Best Games of Volume 92 by Zdenko Krnic
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Highlights from the Anthology of Chess Combinations
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Veselin Topalov: Bulgaria's Newset Sports Star by
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9.Nbd2!? in the C02 French Defense by Milan Bjelajac
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The Ten Best Games of Volume 91 by Ivan Markovic
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The Most Important Novelty of Volume 91 by Ivan
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Peter Leko Annotates by Zdenko Krnic
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The Most Important Novelty of Volume 90 by Tomislav
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The Ten Best Games of Volume 90 by Ivan Markovic
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Andrey Volokitin and Lenier Dominguez Annotate by
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The Ten Best Games of Volume 89 by Ivan Markovic
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The Ten Most Important Novelties of Volume 88 by
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Sacrificing in Sarjevo by Ivan Markovic
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B12: Caro-Kann Defense, The Advance Variation by
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A Preview of the Anthology of Chess Combinations, 3rd Edition
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ECO D, 4th Edition by Ivan Markovic
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B 12: Caro-Kann Defence, The Advance Variation by
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The Ten Most Important Novelties of Volume 87 by
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Viswanathan Anand & Viorel Bologan Annotate by Ivan
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The Best Ten Games of Volume 86 by Ivan Markovic
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The Most Important Novelty of Volume 86 by Milan
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A Peek into Chess Informant #87: Viktor Korchnoi Annotates
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The Sicilian Dragon: Yugoslav Attack (B 78) 10... Rb8!?
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The Best Game of Volume 85 by Ivan Markovic
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The Most Important Novelty of Volume 85 by Milan
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Viswanathan Anand Annotates by Ivan Markovic
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Michael Adams Annotates by Ivan Markovic
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Loek van Wely Annotates by Zdenko Krnic
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2010 Grade Nationals
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Starting a Scholastic Chess Club
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Pan Am, World Juniors, and Denker
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Sam the Man
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Tanuj Vasudeva and Fred Goldhirsch
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Alisa, David, and Rochelle
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Two New National Masters
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David Adelberg
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SuperNationals IV
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Kayden Troff
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Tournament Preparation
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Understanding the Philidor Position
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2008 Grade Nationals and Pan Am Intercollegiate
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Summer Junior Championships
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Understanding the Lucena Position
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Josh and Ray in May
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Iceland & Indiana
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World Youth Championships
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World Junior and North America Youth Championships
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The Right Move
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WFM Abby Marshall
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The Kings of New York
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Chess: Texas Style
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Year-End Tournaments 2006, Part One
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Tatev and Alisa Continued
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World Junior Girls and World Youth Championships
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Teen Titans
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Chimi
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Inside the U.S. Chess School
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Knights of the South Bronx
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St. Louis "Young"sters
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Annotated Scholastic Games
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Polgar Invitational, Denker Tournament, and U.S. Chess
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Powerful Polgars and Chess in the Sculpture Barn
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Does Crime Pay?
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SuperNationals III
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Scholastic Chess Thrives in Pittsburgh
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Queens of Chess
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Inside the National K-12
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Heraklio, Hershey, and Toronto
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An Inquisitive Mind
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A Scotch Gambit Repertoire
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A Portuguese Jungle
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A Botvinnik Variation Sideline
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The Lazard Gambit
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A Latvian Specialty: The Baltic Defense
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Sicilian Alapin Three Pawns Gambit
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Botvinnik Variation 10...Be7!
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Sicilian Defense: Myers Variation 2 a4
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More than a Footnote: 2…Qa5
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A Modest Novelty
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Steiner's Variation vs. the Caro-Kann
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How Safe is Fort Knox?
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The Antique Attack in the Modern Defense
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The Paulsen Attack
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Not the Aleppo Gambit
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Main Lines Never Lead to a Significant Advantage
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Minor Systems to Last a Lifetime
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Nimzowitsch and the Dutch Defense
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The Hippopotamus, a Universal Defense
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Rook with a View, for Two Knights
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Back to the Ice Age: Myers' Defense
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Just a Game
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Pachman's Verdict
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Asymmetry and More Chaos
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Repairing the Englund Gambit
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Leningrad Fashions
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Lower Life in the Latvian Gambit, Part Three
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Paralyzing the Sicilians
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How to Detect a Novelty
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An Academic Question
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Overlooked by the Classics
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Olympic Experiments
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Marxism and Shocking Chess Discoveries
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The Chinese Dragon Refuted?
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Kieseritzky Gambit: The Discussion Continues
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Kieseritzky Gambit: A Patient Novelty
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Fashionable or Ailing?
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The North Sea Defense
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Poisoned Pawn for Tarriers
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Switching Colors, Part Two
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Switching Colors, Part One
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Readers' Reactions
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The French Attack: Pirc or Philidor?, Part Three
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The French Attack: Pirc or Philidor?, Part One
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Grob's Attack: Not for Beginners
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Ahead of his Time: Ladislaus Baron Döry
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Seven Ways to Refute the Traxler
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The Comeback of the ...e5 Sicilians
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Don't Name the Gambit after Me
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Building a Fortress
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High-Flying Maneuvers
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The Cheeky Mokele Mbembe
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The Roulade Game
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Velvet Revolution in the French Defense
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The Second Ice Age
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The Magic of Move Orders
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Symmetry and Chaos: Balogh's Defense
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Repairing the Steiner Variation
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Only a Storm in a Teacup?
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A Knight on the Edge: Part Two
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A Knight on the Edge: Part One
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Something Old, Something New
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Visiting Planet Englund
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The Impoliteness of Ice Age Openings
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The Mousetrap Gambit
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Vulture's Wing Play: Part Three
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Vulture's Wing Play: Part Two
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Vulture's Wing Play: Part One
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Chess King with Houdini 2
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Houdini 2 Aquarium
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Sending Games and Position to IDeA
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A New Approach to Infinite Analysis
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Introduction to the Aquarium Directory Structure
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CT-ART: Mating Combinations
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Aquarium 4.0.6 Released
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Using IDeA in Correspondence Chess
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Rybka Aquarium: Using IDeA with Infinite Analysis
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Rybka Aquarium: A Guide to Basic IDeA Usage
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IDeA Master Trees and IDeA Game Links
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New Features in Aquarium 4.0.6
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Starting a New IDeA Project
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Using the Rybka 4 Aquarium Opening Book
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The New Rybka 4 Aquarium Opening Book
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Getting More Out of IDeA in Aquarium 2010
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New Features in Aquarium 2010
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Correspondence Chess with Aquarium 2010
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Networked Computers with Aquarium 2010
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Aquarium's Hidden Treasures, Part Two
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Interactive Deep Analysis (IDeA) With Rybka Aquarium 2010
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Aquarium's Hidden Treasures, Part One
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iBook Examples
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Handicap Play in Rybka Aquarium
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Introduction to Writing Aquarium iBooks
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Peshk@ Training Courses
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Analysis Presets in Rybka Aquarium
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Analysis Presets in Rybka Aquarium
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Peshk@: For Training and Improvement
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Rybka Aquarium's New Opening Book
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Interactive Chess Books in Rybka Aquarium
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Large-scale Analysis with Rybka Aquarium
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Find Blunders with Rybka Aquarium
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Game Analysis with Rybka Aquarium
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Creating Tree Configurations
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Introduction to Tree Configurations
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Rybka Aquarium FAQ
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Infinite Analysis with Rybka Aquarium
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Interactive Deep Analysis with Rybka Aquarium
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Interview with the Developers of Rybka 3
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Interview with the Developers of Rybka Aquarium
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Play Chess on your Mobile
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Refuting Fischer
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Rybka vs. Benjamin: Match at Draw Odds
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CQL Queries in Chess Assistant
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Chess for Networks, Part Two
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Chess for Networks, Part One
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Advanced Chess School
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Dinosaur Chess
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Rybka Triumphant
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Annotating Games with Chess Assistant 9
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Game Analysis with Chess Assistant 9, Part Two
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Game Analysis with Chess Assistant 9, Part One
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Infinite Analysis with Chess Assistant 9, Part Two
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Infinite Analysis with Chess Assistant 9, Part One
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