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  • The Life, and Death, of PC Gaming's Most Famous Cover Star
    "He was 70 when he appeared on the cover of The Chessmaster 2000, and that same image was used on Chessmaster games for the next 16 years. A professional actor to the very end, Hare passed away in 1997, not in a hospital but on stage, during a rehearsal at Manhattan's famous Actor's Studio"
    Sun 21 Nov 2021 05:24:07 PM MST - permalink -
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    - https://kotaku.com/the-life-and-death-of-pc-gamings-most-famous-cover-st-5939503
    chess
  • BBC World Service - The Interview Archive, Jeff Sarwer, Former Child Chess Prodigy
    Jeff Sarwer was the intimidating 8-year-old chess prodigy who drew against Josh Waitzkin to share a US Junior Chess championship title (the basis for the dramatic finale in the film "Searching for Bobby Fischer"). He's a professional poker player now.

    Jennifer Shahade also interviewed him for the USCF website a few years ago: http://www.uschess.org/index.php/January/Lost-and-Found-An-Interview-with-Jeff-Sarwer.html
    Mon 28 Jun 2021 04:55:53 PM MDT * - permalink -
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    - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00cdz33
    audio chess interview poker
  • Complete list of chess related movies and TV series
    Tue 20 Apr 2021 04:52:06 PM MDT - permalink -
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    - https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/mdq6y3/complete_list_of_chess_related_movies_and_tv/
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  • Blind Tactics - Listudy
    A neat twist on chess tactic puzzles where you have to do a bit more visualization to solve the tactic.

    They've also recently added pieceless tactics for even better blindfold practice: https://listudy.org/en/pieceless-tactics/1203
    Sun 11 Apr 2021 09:47:31 AM MDT - permalink -
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    - https://listudy.org/en/features/blind-tactics
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  • Inspirational adult improvers : chess
    A list of chess masters who didn't get great at chess until they were adults.
    Tue 05 Jan 2021 09:27:32 PM MST - permalink -
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    - https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/krbmqw/inspirational_adult_improvers/
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  • Elo Win Probability Calculator
    A very useful calculator for determining win/draw/loss probabilities for two players given their ratings.
    Wed 15 Jul 2020 02:52:53 PM MDT - permalink -
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    - https://wismuth.com/elo/calculator.html
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    Chess State on Vimeo
    A documentary about scholastic chess in Illinois.
    Mon 30 Mar 2020 05:56:55 PM MDT - permalink -
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    - https://vimeo.com/192430803
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  • Better Chess Training: 4-Steps to Analyzing Your Game for Improvement
    Short guide to analyzing chess games.
    Sun 08 Mar 2020 11:30:13 AM MDT - permalink -
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    - http://www.betterchesstraining.com/2014/07/4-Step-Game-Analysis.html
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  • Won Dee Fore: My First Ever USCF Rating!
    An online players account of their first otb tournament.
    Wed 04 Mar 2020 07:48:48 PM MST - permalink -
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    - https://wondeefore.blogspot.com/2020/02/my-first-ever-uscf-rating.html
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  • Magnus Carlsen, world chess champion, plays online speed chess under pseudonyms and livestreams his matches.
    There’s something hypnotizing about watching a guy known as “the Mozart of chess”—a player who is quantifiably better than Bobby Fischer—taking a big gulp of beer, announcing his position as “completely winning,” then singing along to Dr. Dre saying “motherfuck the police” while coasting into another quick checkmate.
    Mon 24 Feb 2020 08:27:37 PM MST - permalink -
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    - https://slate.com/culture/2020/02/magnus-carlsen-speed-chess-drdrunkenstein-pseudonyms-twitch-youtube.html
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  • Fast-and-loose culture of esports is upending once staid world of chess
    Chess streaming getting some more coverage
    Mon 17 Feb 2020 09:29:06 AM MST - permalink -
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    - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/video-games/fast-loose-culture-esports-upending-once-staid-world-chess-n1137111
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  • Calculate ELO difference from record or winning percentage
    Useful Elo calculator.
    Fri 14 Feb 2020 01:16:56 PM MST - permalink -
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    - https://www.3dkingdoms.com/chess/elo.htm
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    Banter Blitz with World Champion Magnus Carlsen
    Magnus's Banter Blitz sessions on chess24 are very good.
    Wed 01 Jan 2020 06:47:33 PM MST - permalink -
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    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li-D6mXwql8
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  • François Labelle's Homepage
    computational geometry, chess, running, programming...
    Thu 12 Dec 2019 08:11:25 PM MST - permalink -
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    - https://wismuth.com/
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  • Pal Benkö and the Fischer challenge | ChessBase
    Benko's mate in 3 puzzle.
    Thu 29 Aug 2019 11:10:45 AM MDT - permalink -
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    - https://en.chessbase.com/post/pal-benkoe-and-the-fischer-challenge
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    xkcd: Game AIs
    Difficulty of various games for computers.
    Fri 17 May 2019 12:25:31 PM MDT - permalink -
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    - https://xkcd.com/1002/
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  • WXF: Annotated Games
    Some Xiangqi games annotated in English!
    Fri 17 May 2019 10:48:18 AM MDT - permalink -
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    - http://wxf.ca/wxf/index.php/2-uncategorised/9-annotated-games
    chess xiangqi
  • Shogi
    And a short intro to shogi for western chess players.
    Fri 17 May 2019 10:33:32 AM MDT - permalink -
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    - https://www.crockford.com/shogi.html
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  • Xiangqi: Chinese Chess
    A very short introduction for western chess players, but includes an English bibliography that looks good.
    Fri 17 May 2019 10:32:55 AM MDT - permalink -
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    - https://www.crockford.com/xiangqi.html
    chess xiangqi
  • At Play in Chinatown's Backyard; Eastern Chess Meets Western Basketball Under the Mulberries - The New York Times
    More on Xiangqi in Columbus Park
    Fri 17 May 2019 10:07:41 AM MDT - permalink -
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    - https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/13/nyregion/play-chinatown-s-backyard-eastern-chess-meets-western-basketball-under.html?pagewanted=1
    chess xiangqi
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