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Irish news (Updated 13 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.
Seniors pages updated again
Team listings for the 2026 World Senior Team Championships (late next monthl) are discussed on our news page. There is potential for controversy now Russian teams have entered.
Our senior tournament calendar has again added new 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
No Ultracorr for 2026
We shall not publish a new edition of our correspondence database, Ultracorr, this year.