[Hwan Cho] For those of you who watched or read Harry Potter’s first novel, “The Philosopher’s Stone” there is a chess scene at the end. This article describes the struggles and careful planning it took for Jeremy Silman who planned the chess sequence in the movie of “The Philosopher’s Stone”

For those of you who don’t speak chess terminology, IM stands for International Master, the second highest title after GM; Grand Master. The official chess governing body, FIDE, gives out the IM title to a player who has achieved two criteria. 1) A certain rating, built up by good […]

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