I put together a video that that showed how the number of grandmasters in the top countries has grown over the years. It's essentially a visual representation of a familiar historical theme, one we discussed recently. Chess.com created a video fro...
Written by Alexey Zakharov In the last hundred or so years, Russia became almost synonymous with chess. The country in its many incarnations—Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and now “just” Russia—produced more grandmasters a...
The games don't get adjourned anymore due to the possibility of computer analysis. Nevertheless, the ability to analyze complicated position is an important measure of a chess player's class. So Keres's lecture is still of much interest.Each chess...
