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J. H. Blackburne
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Irish news (Updated August 27th)

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.

European Senior Team Championships begin

Round 1 was played today, Thursday 27th August,  in the European Senior Team Championships for players 50+ and 65+ at Hersonissos in Crete. See our Seniors news page and our senior tournament calendar for other news and details of upcoming events for older players later this year and in 2027.

Our database research

We continue to explore the career of Carl Schlechter and have many new findings, some of which we hope to post here later this year.

When we return from holiday, we intend to begin with the Hastings 1895 tournament (in which he played) because there are many problems about the record of that event which we are working to resolve. All the tournament books have mistakes.