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GM Rogers: Chess Train – The Movie

by Ian Rogers One of the highlights of the 2016 Chess Festival in Prague was the premiere of the short feature film Chess Train. The Chess Train has been travelling around central Europe each October since 2011. The five day trip begins and ends in the Czech capital Prague,...

GM Rogers: Korchnoi – The Fighter

by Ian Rogers     Viktor Korchnoi, who died last week aged 85, was not only the greatest player never to win the world title, but also the only defector from the Soviet Union whose name could not be extinguished from official media.   A cantankerous fighter on and...

GM Rogers: Praggnanandhaa!

By Ian Rogers   Chess Gurukul, the legendary chess school in Chennai run by Grandmaster Ramachandran Ramesh and his WGM wife Aarthie Ramaswamy, has another reason to celebrate with one of their students becoming the youngest International Master of all time.   R.Praggnanandhaa (cover and top), at just 10...

GM Rogers: Gods and Mortals

by Ian Rogers   Back in the 1980s and 1990s, Garry Kasparov (pictured cover and top)and Anatoly Karpov were seen as gods.   The twin World Champions could do no wrong, and arbiters and organisers bent over backwards to ensure that the two Ks stayed onside, to the extent...

GM Rogers: Olympiad Teams and Dreams

by Ian Rogers   The Australian teams for the Chess Olympiad to be held in Azerbaijan in September, have been selected with no great surprises but three unlucky candidates.   Australia’s Olympic teams are chosen by five selectors working independently ranking the candidates in order of playing strength. The...

GM Rogers: Ballarat Open turns 50

  by Ian Rogers     The Begonia Open, which coincides with the Begonia Festival held on the second weekend in March each year in Ballarat, began in 1967 as a small club tournament but was thrown open to the professionals two years later and has attracted some of...

GM Rogers: Hou A Class Above

When Hou Yifan (cover and top left) won the second game of her Women’s World Championship match against Mariya Muzychuk in Lviv, the many pundits who had predicted a walkover for the Chinese star appeared to have been vindicated.   Hou, 22, entered the match ranked far higher than...

GM Rogers: Howell Versus the Zombie

by Ian Rogers   Australia has produced some top players with unusual playing styles.   Former Australian Champion Guy West taught himself to play with his knights pointed backwards, Grandmaster Darryl Johansen presses the chess clock so softly it is hard to believe he has touched it at all,...

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