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Irish news (Updated 31 March)

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.

Sindarov takes outright lead

Another dramatic day at the FIDE Candidates tournament saw Sindarov defeat Caruana to take a full point lead. Thursday is a rest day.

Seniors pages updated again

Team listings for the upcoming 2026 World Senior Team Championships are discussed on our news page. Visit our senior tournament calendar for listings of events for senior players in Europe later this year.

Our database research

We are spending most of the winter doing research into chess history, hoping to correct more errors in databases concerning major events and masters in the period 1800-1918.

We are now working hard on the career of Carl Schlechter and have many new findings. A book may eventually result but not this year