Vladimir Kramnik. Photo by Misha Savinov

Did Bobby ever complain about Spassky’s toilet? Here are the key moments and the most entertaining positions from the October reunification World Championship match, which featured enough off-the-board shenanigans to make Fischer proud.

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Joel Benjamin. Photo by Chris Bird

Periodically, we will be highlighting material from the redesigned uschess.org. "Ask GM Joel" is on the Chess Life Online portion of the website, where original material is posted on a regular basis.

Boris Gulko. Photo by Irina Krush

This August, Montreal was the site of the second-strongest round robin tournament held in North America since Montreal 1979 (the 2005 Morelia event was stronger). Who would’ve guessed that Montreal was such a chess center?

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Part II of this series (see December 2005) was named “Best Instructional Article” by the Chess Journalists of America. We think this installment is just as good.

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GM Susan Polgar with her son Tommy. Photo by Paul Truong

Curious about celebrity chess motherhood, our author asked GM Susan Polgar to tell about her two sons’ chess lives and to predict whether they would follow her into the chess “major leagues.”

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