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Irish news (updated on 15 March)

Steinitz book and game fixes

We have found and corrected many database errors in Steinitz games.

7-man endgames

Seniors news and calendar updated yet again

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UltraCorr2024 version 2

Version 2 of our giant game database, with more than 2,570,000 games, is available for 60 Euro, exclusively from this website. This is much better value than ChessBase's offering. In version 2 we added more than 20,000 extra games and made some corrections.

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