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Irish news (Updated 2nd November)
Steinitz book
See our pages with many corrections to late-career Steinitz games. Several involve Lasker too.
7-man endgames
These instructive articles remain available.
World Senior Championships are now started in Serbia
We have a special page for the World Senior Championships which began today. Our Seniors pages are widely read by competitors from many countries in 50+ and 65+ events. The Seniors news page and our senior tournament calendar are usually updated at least once a week.
Hastings 1895 revisited
Our series of articles about the Hastings 1895 tournament should be finished this week. It has now reached Round 21 with a concluding article to come. This is part of our research into the career of GM Carl Schlechter.
Samarkand olympiad
Host nation Uzbekistan won the Open olympiad in Samarkand. China are the Women's champions, Kazakhstani entrepreneur Timur Turlov was elected the new FIDE President.