Ultimate Moves in Saint Louis

10/27/2024 – The Chess 9LX tournament, organised by the Saint Louis Chess Club, starts on Monday. On Sunday, the event is inaugurated with the Ultimate Moves exhibition match. The players take turns in two teams: Team Rex v. Team Monopoly. Among those taking part will be Garry Kasparov (pictured, 2023) and main sponsor Rex Sinquefield. | Follow the action live from 19.00 CET (14.00 ET, 23.30 IST).

ARTE: Film on Kasparov vs Deep Blue

10/7/2024 – ARTE, the French-German film production and TV channel, has made a six-part dramatic re-enactment of the epic 1997 match between Garry Kasparov and the super-computer Deep Blue. The movie, due for broadcast on October 17, can already be viewed in full on the ARTE Internet web site. Mind you, it will take almost five hours to watch, but it is definitely worth the invested time.

60m How to fight Queen's Pawn Openigns

After 1.d4 d5 many players with White avoid the great amount of theory in the Slav, Semi-Slav, QGA and Orthodox Queen's Gambit and do not therefore play 2.c4. This is not very ambitious, but the painful experience of many chess players has been that the Colle System, the Trompowsky Attack, the Torre Attack and the London System are nevertheless extremely dangerous. Black has to be prepared for each of these openings and IM Valeri Lilov offers you some help with his six instructive videos, in which he demonstrates for each single opening a relevant plan for Black. In addition to the openings mentioned, the Bulgarian trainer also delves into the Catalan, the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit and the Richter-Veresov Opening.