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Irish news (Updated 6th September)

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.

Slovenia & England triumph in European Senior Teams

The ninth and final round of the European Senior Team Chess Championships was played in Crete last Friday and our final report is now posted. See our Seniors news page and our senior tournament calendar for other news and details of upcoming events for older players 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 start writing here about the Hastings 1895 tournament (in which Schlechter played) because there are many problems about the record of that event which we are trying to resolve. All the tournament books have mistakes.