Frederic Friedel
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- 15
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- Sep 25, 2026
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- Jul 27, 2026
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7/7 points, rating performance 2955! (opens the original)
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Here are the players I have known since they were ten, eleven and twelve years old, young talents I have looked after for almost a decade. They are participants at the Olympiad in Samarkand, and are fulfilling – nay exceeding – my expectation. Especially one of them... This is Praggnanandhaa. In 2019 we invited him to a training camp in Chens Sur Leman, France, where I first got to know him. It was stunning watching the 13-year-old discuss complex chess positions with trainer Vladimir Kramnik, a
Quo vadis, Fischer Random Chess? (2) (opens the original)
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In almost every chess game there comes a moment when you just can’t go on without tactics. You must strike to not giving away the advantage you have worked for the whole game. In our previous article, we described how Fischer Random chess came about, how it was promoted by Bobby Fischer, shortly before his death, how it came to Europe and then spread into the world chess scene. We spoke about Garry Kasparov's ideas on the game, how its name changed to Chess 960 with the Fischer rules there are 9
25 years ago – ChessBase news (opens the original)
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Michael Kotyk presents a complete repertoire after 1.e4 e5, built around creative ideas, surprising move orders, and practical weapons designed to catch your opponents off guard. Initially, back in 1996, during the dawn of the Internet, our chess database company started off with a static HTML website, in nice yellow, with blinking text! Initially the news page was developed by Frederic Friedel, with substantial assistance from GM Dr John Nunn. Together the two had to find out how the Internet w
Mind vs Machine (opens the original)
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Chess is a concrete game. There is no way around training your calculation skills. Improve your visualization, pattern recognition and learn calculation techniques such as reciprocal thinking with this course. This thought-provoking graphic novel collaboration from first Black chess grandmaster Ashley (The Life-Changing Magic of Chess), Sheinkin (Diamond Fever!), and Pham (Family Style) celebrates human creativity and intuition amid an ever advancing technological landscape. A prologue set in pr
Does AI understand chess humour? (opens the original)
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YOUR PERSONAL CHESS COACH - Whether you’re taking your first steps into the world of club chess, or already playing at a tournament level: with FRITZ, you can train more efficiently, intelligently and with a more personalised approach than ever before. Let us start with the following joke. "What do you think of this cartoon?" I asked. "I think the phrase 'CHECK, MATE!' is doing double duty: in chess, 'checkmate' is the familiar word meaning the king has been trapped and the game is over. In a re
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