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Raul Capablanca, at the Semmering/Baden tournament, played in September 1937.

Austria hosted this event sponsored by its main casinos. It was a double round-robin, won by Keres with 9/14.

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Semmering/Baden (1937)

Semmering/Baden (1937) chess tournament: games, players, results, crosstables, discussion forums, etc.

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"Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement..."

🔸 Stanley Kubrick

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Bogdan Sliwa vs Bobby Fischer at the 1962 USA-Poland match.

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Bogdan Sliwa vs Robert James Fischer
Warszawa tt (1962) · Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange. Reshevsky Variation (D36)

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Bogdan Sliwa vs Bobby Fischer at the 1962 USA-Poland match. @UnityChess

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NEW BLOG POST: With details of a project that I have been working on with Chess_Informant- a fully-revised & greatly extended 50th-anniversary edition of Petrosian & Matanović's book on the 'Match of the Century' (Belgrade, 1970).

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The ‘Match of the Century’ – USSR v. Rest of the World, Belgrade 1970.

A blog post dedicated to a forthcoming work on the ‘Match of the Century’, written in collaboration with ‘Chess Informant’, featuring some background to the event and extrac…

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This piece, dated 12th century, is an example of the representational chess design found in Northern Europe. Made of walrus ivory. Perhaps from Trondheim.

It's a wonderful King whose beard is longer than his sword!

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Cabinet card image of chess robot Ajeeb the Wonderful 1886

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Emanuel Lasker Misses Stunning Brilliancy?! - Lasker vs. Mieses, 1889

In the same year as his immortal double bishop sacrifice against Bauer, future world chess champion, Emanuel Lasker, played a wonderful game against Jacques Mieses. Had he finished with a flourish, perhaps this would have been one of Lasker's most famous…

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Move of the Day!