What we can learn from AlfaZero?
What we can learn from AlfaZero As a coach for some top level players I study chessgames played by computers regularly and generated some of my own. There is […]
Pühajärve handicap tournament 2017
Tbilisi World Cup second part
How to beat a weaker opponent? This was the question I asked myself during my career very often. This was the drawback of being too strong. I played a lot […]
Tbilisi World Cup part one
128 players started the World Cup and at the end there was a sole winner. The knock out format is cruesome, but in my opinion most democratic system used to […]
Liepaja chess festival 2017
How to lose a game-in 20 moves or in the endgame
Screening the tournaments in different levels There are a lot of tournaments going on around the World. Recently I got my eye on the supertournament in Norway and the […]
Mikhail Tal memorial
Ivanchuk in action
Ivanchuk won the rapid World Championship in Doha at the end of last year. I first played against Vassily in 1986. In 1988 he was already rated among the top […]