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Blackburne articles
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Irish news (Updated 3rd October)

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.

Seniors News and Senior Tournament Calendar

We are glad to hear that these pages are widely read by competitorsfrom many countries in 50+ and 65+ events. Our Seniors news page and our senior tournament calendar have again been updated.

Hastings 1895 revisited

Our series of articles about the Hastings 1895 tournament has now reached Round 10. That article was posted on 21st October and more will follow soon.

This is part of our research into the career of GM Carl Schlechter.

Samarkand olympiad

Host nation Uzbekistan won the Open olympiad in Samarkand. China are the Women's champions, Kazakhstani entrepreneur Timur Turlov was elected the new FIDE President.