75 years ago, on 28 May 1947, the American Grandmaster and renowned writer Andrew "Andy" Soltis was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. In an extensive interview Soltis talks about his chess and his writing career, chess in New York, the Marshall Chess Club, playing blitz against Bobby Fischer and about Fabiano Caruana and Magnus Carlsen. | Photo: Marcy Soltis
Remembering Evgeny Sveshnikov on The Spectator Australia | There be dragons! What we now call the Sveshnikov variation of the Sicilian defence was, in the…
Five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand mourned the demise of renowned Russian GM Evgeny Sveshnikov, who passed away at the age of 71 on Wednesday. He also said that he always admired his love for the game."Very sad to hear about .
He sent me a note once when one of his students showed him an endgame study quiz that ran in this space, while noting casually that there was a massive flaw in one of the composer’s variations, basically ruining the whole thing. His tone was friendly and understanding, but it was a bit mortifying to have to run a correction the next week “based on information supplied by The Washington Post.”
Over the board, Kavalek like Newton and Einstein before him saved his best for first, playing one of the most anthologized games of the 20th century when he was just 15 against fellow future GM Eduard Gufeld at the 1962 World Student Team Championships.