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https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2009/12/orpen-at-ashmolean.html Chess for All Ages: Orpen at the Ashmolean 'Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE, RA, RHA (27 November 1878 - 29 September 1931) was an Irish portrait painter. He studied ar... chess for all agesat theorpenashmolean https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2011/12/chess-for-free-chess-for-fun.html Chess for All Ages: Chess for Free, Chess for Fun Next on the list for Been There, Done That is Chess for Free , which I added to my page on Chess for Fun . The references are somewhat date... chess for all agesfreefun https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2007/05/missed-opportunities.html Chess for All Ages: Missed Opportunities? This is the first game from a new series called Smyslov's Sparklers . In the diagrammed position, Smyslov played the very pretty variation 2... chess for all agesmissedopportunities https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2013/08/china-and-india.html Chess for All Ages: China and India The two powerhouses of Asian chess are China and India. How do they compare to each other? I returned to my database derived from the Januar... chess for all ageschinaindia https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2021/03/ Chess for All Ages: March 2021 My place to say things about chess that I can't say in the other places where I say things about chess. chess for all agesmarch https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2015/12/evaluation-anomaly-mass-exchange.html Chess for All Ages: Evaluation Anomaly - Mass Exchange I learned so much from the exercise in Evaluation Anomaly - Long Combination that I decided to repeat it on another position from TCEC Sea... chess for all agesevaluationanomalymassexchange https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2013/05/stlouis-chess-mural.html Chess for All Ages: St.Louis Chess Mural I'm always impressed when I see a new chess mural. This one is located in St.Louis, the current 'chess capital' of the USA. Chess Mural o... chess for all agesst louismural https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2006/05/shrinking-range-of-openings.html Chess for All Ages: Shrinking range of openings This recent comment by GM David Marciano caught my eye: 'Modern chess is very different from the chess of the 1990s, and even more so than t... chess for all agesshrinkingrangeopenings https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2006/05/note-about-blogrolls.html Chess for All Ages: A note about blogrolls Just like you have to send mail to get mail, you have to give links to get links. If outgoing links breed incoming links, why don't I link t... chess for all agesnoteblogrolls https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2021/03/us-chess-service-awards.html Chess for All Ages: U.S. Chess Service Awards In last week's post, The U.S. Chess Awards (March 2021), I did a small analysis of those awards:- I started to wonder how many different ... chess for all agesuserviceawards https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2021/06/key-moments-in-video.html Chess for All Ages: Key Moments in Video In last week's post on my chess960 blog, An Underused Resource (June 2021), I discovered an aspect of Google search results that I hadn't n... chess for all ageskey momentsvideo https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2009/01/image-galleries-standardized.html Chess for All Ages: Image Galleries Standardized Building on the work started for Chess History Index , I converted all existing image galleries... Chess Tactics Illustrated Photos from the... chess for all agesimage galleriesstandardized https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2019/06/cards-for-chess-champions.html Chess for All Ages: Cards for Chess Champions I've seen these cards many times on eBay, but I never thought they were suitable material for Top eBay Chess Items by Price (March 2010). ... chess for all agescardschampions https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2011/03/accomplishing-multiple-objectives.html Chess for All Ages: Accomplishing Multiple Objectives Continuing with More Capablanca , the followup to a series on Capablanca's Games 'To be studied very carefully' , the position I discussed i... chess for all agesmultipleobjectives https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2000/01/ Chess for All Ages: January 2000 My place to say things about chess that I can't say in the other places where I say things about chess. chess for all agesjanuary https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-different-kind-of-fischer-bio.html Chess for All Ages: A Different Kind of Fischer Bio When I saw the title of this month's featured video, I immediately thought of Joseph Ponterotto, last seen in The Real Bobby Fischer? (Febr... chess for all agesdifferent kindfischerbio https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2020/07/flickr-series-hat-trick.html Chess for All Ages: Flickr Series Hat Trick What is it about chess that attracts so many artists? Maybe it's just easier to paint someone who sits patiently for hours. Martinus Rorb... chess for all agesflickrserieshattrick https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2014/05/kasparov-tmer-last-updated-2014-05-19.html Chess for All Ages: Kasparov TMER: Last updated 2014-05-19 Continuing with Kasparov TMER 2003++ w/TWIC , I merged the table shown there with the previous version of the TMER, tweaked the formats to ... chess for all ageslast updatedkasparov https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2009/03/fischer-and-euwe-at-olympiads.html Chess for All Ages: Fischer and Euwe at the Olympiads Continuing with Fischer - Euwe, OL 1960 , I had planned to do a summary of the players' records at the different Olympiads in which they par... chess for all agesat thefischereuweolympiads https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2018/06/june-1968-on-cover.html Chess for All Ages: June 1968 'On the Cover' Fifty years ago the covers of the two leading American chess magazines featured the nation's premier open tournament and the world's premier... chess for all ageson thejunecover https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2017/12/light-is-magical.html Chess for All Ages: Light Is Magical Like another, recent Flickr Friday post, Chess in the Sky (September 2017), the question here is 'How were these chess pieces created?' ... chess for all ageslightmagical https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2016/07/chess-champion-trading-cards.html Chess for All Ages: Chess Champion Trading Cards In Mystery Card Series , I wrote, The card shown on the left [Korchnoi] is one of a series. How many different cards were produced? When a... chess for all ageschampiontradingcards https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2016/09/antonio-banderas-maybe-plays-chess.html Chess for All Ages: Antonio Banderas (Maybe) Plays Chess From the same photographer featured in the previous edition of Flickr Friday , USA Gold! , this little discovery was mixed in with his more ... chess for all agesantonio banderasmaybeplays https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2010/09/few-careless-seconds.html Chess for All Ages: A Few Careless Seconds A couple of months ago, commenting on the game in Symmetry Misjudged , I mentioned, It is rare for competent correspondence players to blund... chess for all agescarelessseconds https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2025/03/dadaist-chess.html Chess for All Ages: Dadaist Chess In the previous post, What Is Dadaist Chess? (February 2025), I quoted from Wikipedia, Dada or Dadaism was an anti-establishment art move... chess for all agesdadaist https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2012/02/american-in-havana.html Chess for All Ages: American in Havana Pictured below is one of a small series of photos, currently being offered on Ebay, all showing GM Larry Evans in Havana 1964. The item's de... chess for all agesamericanhavana https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2018/04/caruanas-twic-debut.html Chess for All Ages: Caruana's TWIC Debut In the recent post, Carlsen's Next Challenger , I ended with an action:- There's much more to be said about the next challenger to World C... chess for all agescaruanatwicdebut https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2017/03/chess-in-conceptual-art.html Chess for All Ages: Chess in Conceptual Art The upside about a category like Posts with label zFLUP (where FLUP = followup), is that it's always there when I need it. The downside is ... chess for all agesconceptualart https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2013/10/ Chess for All Ages: October 2013 My place to say things about chess that I can't say in the other places where I say things about chess. chess for all agesoctober https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2012/10/1946-alekhine-botvinnik.html Chess for All Ages: 1946 Alekhine - Botvinnik Let's set the historical stage for Another Fictitious Match , the 1946 match that never was between Alexander Alekhine (b.1892) and Mikhail... chess for all ages https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2010/ Chess for All Ages: 2010 My place to say things about chess that I can't say in the other places where I say things about chess. chess for all ages https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2010/09/so-cool-and-interesting.html Chess for All Ages: So Cool and Interesting Maurice Ashley: 'We have a great match in store -- World no.1 Magnus Carlsen about to play against the world -- but they get a litle help: ... chess for all agesso coolinteresting https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2015/03/street-art-spectators.html Chess for All Ages: Street Art Spectators Compare this photo with round two of the 2014 Candidates Tournament as shown in An Empty Arena . Maybe FIDE should consider decorating playi... chess for all agesstreet artspectators https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2016/10/worldfidecom.html Chess for All Ages: Worldfide.com Before Fide.com , there was Worldfide.com . The earliest traces of that early FIDE web domain returned by Archive.com date to end-1999. ... chess for all ages https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2016/10/chess-and-social-trends.html Chess for All Ages: Chess and Social Trends This blog's association with Chess Club Live (CCL) has been running for 4 1/2 years now. It started with one of those messages in the rare ... chess for all agesand socialtrends https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2017/06/ Chess for All Ages: June 2017 My place to say things about chess that I can't say in the other places where I say things about chess. chess for all agesjune https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2016/10/stats-for-bored-people.html Chess for All Ages: Stats for Bored People I could have titled this post New Stats for M-W.com , but since that title was already used (October 2015), I had to think of something else... chess for all agesstatsboredpeople https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2014/01/gone-fishing.html Chess for All Ages: Gone Fishing CFAA will return in a week or two. In the meantime, expect occasional light blogging if anything. Bye for now! chess for all agesgonefishing https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2012/01/wobbling-in-early-morning-light.html Chess for All Ages: Wobbling in the Early Morning Light For the first Flickr Friday of 2012, I had the uninspiring choice of a Chess Cemetery , a Chess Bathroom , and a wobble chess set. Chess ... chess for all agesin theearly morningwobblinglight https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-chess-remedy.html Chess for All Ages: The Chess Remedy? Ever since I started this series on 'The Sociology of Chess', it seems that whenever I work up a short list for Video Friday (last seen in ... chess for all agesremedy https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2014/07/how-reliable-am-i.html Chess for All Ages: How Reliable Am I? Have you ever overheard a conversation where people are talking about you? Seen on Wikipedia Talk... Talk: List of World Chess Championshi... chess for all agesreliable https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2023/03/chessify-resources.html Chess for All Ages: Chessify Resources A couple of months ago, in Chessify Progress Report (January 2023), I ended the post saying, I'll continue to evaluate the [Chessify] ser... chess for all agesresources https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2013/01/things-i-learned-from-wcf.html Chess for All Ages: Things I Learned from the WCF (*) The last time I featured Stan Vaughan on my blogs was for a couple of posts in November 2009: Who Owns the World Championship? and Counting... chess for all agesthings i learnedfrom thewcf https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2014/05/ Chess for All Ages: May 2014 My place to say things about chess that I can't say in the other places where I say things about chess. chess for all agesmay https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2013/11/anand-carlsen-missed-opportunity.html Chess for All Ages: Anand - Carlsen, Missed Opportunity? Magnus Carlsen pushes out his chest and bites his lip just seconds before stealing a Pawn with 18...Bxa2! , against Vishy Anand. The move re... chess for all agesanandcarlsenmissedopportunity https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2014/05/another-najdorf.html Chess for All Ages: Another Najdorf Maybe it's my imagination, or maybe it's because of eBay's security problems (as in eBay Hacked, Urges All Members to Change Passwords Immed... chess for all agesanothernajdorf https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2016/10/animating-controversy.html Chess for All Ages: Animating a Controversy For this edition of Video Friday , I had the choice between two topics that were exceptionally popular over the past fortnight: the flap ove... chess for all agesanimatingcontroversy https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2023/05/2023-cja-awards-announcement.html Chess for All Ages: 2023 CJA Awards Announcement The May 2023 issue of Chess Life (CL) carried the annual kickoff announcement for the Chess Journalists of America (CJA) awards. 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I could have picked almost any photo from the album... chess for all agesmultidimensionalimagery https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2007/06/ruy-lopez-steinitz-deferred.html Chess for All Ages: Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Deferred Continuing with Smyslov's Sparklers and Ruy Lopez Same Old, Same Old? , why the interest in the Lopez? 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Bradford Chesstival ... chess for all agesdressing up https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2015/05/another-capodimonte-figurine.html Chess for All Ages: Another Capodimonte Figurine Here on Top eBay Chess Items by Price , the name 'Capodimonte' has already been seen once before, in Capodimonte Figurines (September 2011... chess for all agesanothercapodimontefigurine https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2016/08/soviet-propaganda-porcelain.html Chess for All Ages: Soviet Propaganda Porcelain? Talk about summer doldrums! For this edition of Top eBay Chess Items by Price , I had very few items to choose from, except giant chess sets... chess for all agessovietpropagandaporcelain https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2006/12/marshall-lasker-1907-match-game-1.html Chess for All Ages: Marshall - Lasker, 1907 Match, Game 1 Second-best moves sometimes win. 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One eBay post last year, Morphy CDV (Septemb... chess for all agesshe isserious https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2016/09/september-1966-on-cover.html Chess for All Ages: September 1966 'On the Cover' In last month's 'On the Cover' , I boldly forecast, I predict that next month's 'On the Cover' will feature the Piatigorsky Cup for both m... chess for all ageson theseptembercover https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2012/08/missing-video-fridays.html Chess for All Ages: Missing Video Fridays I missed a few episodes of Video Friday while I was on vacation earlier this summer. Since each episode features one video from new YouTube... chess for all agesmissingvideofridays https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2014/03/short-list-is-longer.html Chess for All Ages: Short List Is Longer Looks like I goofed. In last week's post, Short List for an Online Chess Database , I reported that the last database in my list ('6: chess-... chess for all agesshort listlonger https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2010/05/every-move-explained-more-proofreading.html Chess for All Ages: Every Move Explained - More Proofreading! What's every writer's least favorite job? I imagine it's proofreading. For reasons I explained last year in Every Move Explained - Proofread... chess for all ageseverymoveexplainedproofreading https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2024/12/is-2025-dystopian-year.html Chess for All Ages: Is 2025 a Dystopian Year? A week after this blog's Christmas post, Inside Santa's Workshop (December 2024), let's follow up with a New Year's post. 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Left: '1968 Player of the Year' Right: 'Phan... chess for all ageson thefebruarycover https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2013/12/chess-history-cat-fight.html Chess for All Ages: Chess History Cat Fight In these final days of year-end revelry, finding the time for a serious blog post can be a tough task. I was overjoyed today when, during my... chess for all ageshistorycatfight https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2008/08/ Chess for All Ages: August 2008 My place to say things about chess that I can't say in the other places where I say things about chess. chess for all agesaugust https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2014/03/soviets-8-americans-0.html Chess for All Ages: Soviets 8 - Americans 0 A few years ago, in Fisching for Fischer , I noted, 'we have a real bull market in Fischer autographs'. 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What will this month's edition ... chess for all ageson thejulycover https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2013/09/how-to-decorate-camel.html Chess for All Ages: How to Decorate a Camel Full title: 'Just what you'd expect to find in the Middle East - a camel wearing a chess piece hiding behind a billboard' Just what you'... chess for all ageshow to decoratecamel https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2013/08/china-and-india-top-20.html Chess for All Ages: China and India Top-20 In my first post comparing Asian chess powerhouses China and India , I looked at the number of titled players in both countries. Although t... chess for all ageschinaindiatop https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2006/08/marshall-iqp.html Chess for All Ages: The Marshall IQP The August Chess Life had an interesting article by GM Andy Soltis, 'The Marshall Variations of the Sicilian and French Defenses'. Soltis' ... chess for all agesthe marshall https://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2014/07/kasparov-tmer-early-games.html Chess for All Ages: Kasparov TMER: Early Games Continuing with Kasparov TMER: Early Years , where I identified seven early Kasparov games not on my TMER (*) file, I created the games and ... chess for all ageskasparovearlygames