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Archives April 2007
Akopian Triumphs in Gibraltar (Members Only)

By GM Ian Rogers | 2007-04-01 01:15:00
Hikaru Nakamura places second in the Gibraltar Chess Festival while Irina Krush defeats GMs Akopian and Korchnoi, just missing her second grandmaster norm. GM Ian Rogers reports.
Chess Problems of the Champions

By Dr. Steven B. Dowd | 2007-04-01 01:14:00
“Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity.” —Vladimir Nabokov, Poems and Problems, 1969
Daaim Shabazz: Playing to the Beat of a Different Drummer

By Gregory S. Kearse | 2007-04-01 01:13:00
While dancing on the edge of the global village, Daaim Shabazz has created and maintained a valuable and unique chess news website, thechessdrum.net.
Sarkar Gets GM Norm at Marshall

By IM Justin Sarkar | 2007-04-01 01:12:00
The 90th Marshall Chess Club Championship was a 100 Grand Prix point, nine-round Swiss which featured 19 Masters, including five GMs and four IMs. For IM Justin Sarkar, the venerable club was the location of his first GM norm.
Sunny Side Up

By Joel Benjamin | 2007-04-01 01:12:00
Book of the Year in England last year and finalist for ChessCafe.com Book of the Year this year, this endgame book is being bandied about as an instant classic.
First Moves

By | 2007-04-01 01:11:20


USCF Executive Board Candidate Statements
By | 2007-04-01 01:11:00


Levelling the Field (Members Only)
By GM Andy Soltis | 2007-04-01 01:10:00
“ ... the true essence of the contest ... was really between men in two different roles: man as a performer and man as a toolmaker.” Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Behind Deep Blue

Examining the Past
By GM Larry Evans | 2007-04-01 01:08:00


The Unknown Marshall
By GM Lev Alburt | 2007-04-01 01:07:00
I always thought there was just one Marshall Gambit, in the Ruy Lopez. First unleashed by the American champion on Jose Capablanca (Capa won), the gambit is quite popular today among the world’s elite. Then, I received this letter.

The Development of Development
By Bruce Pandolfini | 2007-04-01 01:06:00
In Morphy’s day, he usually won because he grasped modern principles his contemporaries did not. Here he puts his superior knowledge to work and Morphy’s opponent is soon lost, possibly before he even knew what hit him.

Reader Improvements (Members Only)
By GM Pal Benko | 2007-04-01 01:05:00
This month, GM Benko looks at reader attempts to improve compositions that either have a fault or that can simply be improved.

Counterplay
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USCF Affairs
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Solutions
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