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Women’s Chess World Championship 2025, 3

JU HAS HAD to endure five World Championship Events since May 2018. She grittily took it all in and didn’t quit Women’s Chess, as...

Women’s Chess World Championship 2025, 2

CHALLENGER Kateryna Lagno played three tie-breaks, winning two mini-matches in classical games and three in tie-breaks. The final was the only match with four...

Women’s Chess World Championship 2025, 1

THE WOMEN’S Chess World Championship 2025 was held on April 3 to 20 in China between two Chinese women, Ju Wenjun the title holder...

Chess matters, 6

5. On ratings: Elo ratings reflect relative and not absolute chess strength. Chess players are naturally arranged in populations partitioned by geopolitical regions and time...

Chess matters, 5

4. Computers and Humans of Different Generations. Another related question is how history's top masters would fare against computers. It's obvious from Kasparov's time that...

Chess matters, 4

3. The greatest chess players in history? The answer depends on the criteria one uses. If the criterion is the ability to play world...

Chess matters, 3

SECOND and more important, I believe that we can rationally compare chess players from different eras by using objective computer analysis of their middlegames...

Chess matters, 2

2. The strongest chess players in chess history? First, it’s possible to compare chess players from different eras by “using” players with long careers whose...

Chess matters, 1

A FRIEND and I did extensive studies on Chess World Championship matches using a computer. To our great surprise the computer revealed that pre-WW2...

How Christianity saved many minority languages in the world, 2

GOD ENCOURAGED the apostles, in the most direct of ways, to use the languages of the world. Now why would God do that? Just what...