Chess Fever is a 1925 short film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky. The film incorporates actual footage of the Moscow 1925 chess tournament and features cameos by many top chess masters of the time.

Steinitz writing on page 22 of the January 1887 International Chess Magazine
”[…] to make it disagreeable for dishonest parties who are, I believe, even less numerous proportionately in the chess world than in other walks of life, but more crafty, cunning or “smart” as it is called. Chess must be established as a thoroughly straightforward and honest game first of all before it can be made a real gentlemanly one, and unscrupulous trickery, deception and fraud must be “warned off the track”. But it requires a strong arm to accomplish that, and war on dishonest chessists cannot be made with rose water […]”
Steinitz skrev på sidan 22 i januariutgåvan 1887 av International Chess Magazine:
”[…] för att göra det obehagligt för oärliga parter som, jag tror, är proportionellt sett ännu färre i schackvärlden än i andra delar av livet, men mer listiga, slugare eller ”smarta” som det kallas. Schack måste etableras som ett grundligt rättframt och ärligt spel först och främst innan det kan bli ett verkligt gentlemannamässigt spel, och hänsynslösa trick, bedrägerier och fusk måste ”hållas borta från banan”. Men det krävs en stark arm för att åstadkomma det, och krig mot oärliga schackspelare kan inte föras med rosenvatten […]”
Live from The Westin Zagreb, the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz is the fifth edition in our Croatia series and the third of five legs of the Grand Chess Tour. Seven of the Tour players are joined by three wildcards (pairings below) for a rapid round robin and a blitz double round robin. Today is the final blitz round robin, plus playoffs if necessary. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Evgenij Miroshnichenko & Cristian Chirila, IM Jovanka Houska, and WGM Anastasiya Karlovich for the move-by-move.
Live from The Westin Zagreb, the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz is the fifth edition in our Croatia series and the third of five legs of the Grand Chess Tour. Seven of the Tour players are joined by three wildcards (pairings below) for a rapid round robin and a blitz double round robin. Today is the first blitz round robin. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Evgenij Miroshnichenko & Cristian Chirila, IM Jovanka Houska, and WGM Anastasiya Karlovich for the move-by-move.
Live from The Westin Zagreb, the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz is the fifth edition in our Croatia series and the third of five legs of the Grand Chess Tour. Seven of the Tour players are joined by three wildcards (pairings below) for a rapid round robin and a blitz double round robin. Today are the final three rounds of the rapid round robin. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Evgenij Miroshnichenko & Cristian Chirila, IM Jovanka Houska, and WGM Anastasiya Karlovich for the move-by-move.
Live from The Westin Zagreb, the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz is the fifth edition in our Croatia series and the third of five legs of the Grand Chess Tour. Seven of the Tour players are joined by three wildcards (pairings below) for a rapid round robin and a blitz double round robin. Today are the middle three rounds of the rapid round robin. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Evgenij Miroshnichenko & Cristian Chirila, IM Jovanka Houska, and WGM Anastasiya Karlovich for the move-by-move.
Live from The Westin Zagreb, the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz is the fifth edition in our Croatia series and the third of five legs of the Grand Chess Tour. Seven of the Tour players are joined by three wildcards (pairings below) for a rapid round robin and a blitz double round robin. Today are the first three rounds of the rapid round robin. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Evgenij Miroshnichenko & Cristian Chirila, IM Jovanka Houska, and WGM Anastasiya Karlovich for the move-by-move.
GM Vladimir Kramnik and qualified mathematicians are trying to figure out GM Hikaru Nakamura’s winning streaks using mathematical probabilities.
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