Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com. GM Yuri Averbakh , the oldest living grandmaster in the world, turns 100 today. After recovering from Covid last summer, he seems to be back in shape again and says he still analyzes endgames to keep his mind sharp. Born February 8, 1922, in Kaluga, a […]
As soon as elite chess grandmasters fighting for the right to challenge the World Champion finish their games during the FIDE Grand Prix in Berlin next month, the positions on the boards (called FENs in chess-speak) will be fed into a complicated AI-algorithm that will turn the data from […]