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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 calendar has some new entries

Our Seniors pages have again been updated with the latest news, now including details of the European individual championships in October.

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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