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Irish news (Updated 22 January)

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.

Introduction to Seniors chess

If you were born in 1976 you are now eligible for many senior chess tournaments, a competitive world that has grown enormously in recent years. Players born in 1961 are now eligible for 65+ events. See our greatly updated senior tournament calendar with numerous listings of upcoming events for senior players in Europe.

Our database research

We intend to spend 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.

No Ultracorr for 2026

We do not intend to publish our correspondence database, Ultracorr, this year.