The Life & Games of Vasily Smyslov wins the Averbakh/Boleslavsky Award
The Yuri Averbakh/Isaac Boleslavsky Award for best book published in 2020 goes to “The Life & Games of Vasily Smyslov (The Early Years: 1921-1948)”, written by Andrey Terekhov, and published by Russell Enterprises. The runners up were “Think Like a Machine”, by Noam Manella and Zeev Zohar (published by Quality Chess), and “Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships: Volume I (1920-1937)”, written […]
International Chess Day celebrated on July 20
“Dear chess friends, This Tuesday, July 20th, we will celebrate International Chess Day. As you probably know, this date also marks FIDE’s 97th anniversary. Last year, many of you joined us when we made an appeal to the members of our chess community and asked you to teach someone how to play chess to mark this day. This campaign turned into […]