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2021 Women and Girls Southeastern Championship.

Oct 17, 2021Davide Nastasio1 CommentChess Interview, Chess tournaments, Georgia ChessAlisa Scherbakova, CCSCATL, chess tournament, Georgia Chess, Girls chess, Karen Boyd, US Women Chess, Women Chess

October 2nd and 3rd were the dates for this great tournament which gathered a record number of players: 17! The winner was the strong Alisa Scherbakova who dominated the event with a great performance: 4.5 out of 5 points! These are the games she played: Scherbakova in 2018 won the Georgia Women’s Chess Champion title,

Training Match with Lorenzo!

Jul 15, 2021Davide NastasioChess Match, Chess tournamentschess engine, chess match, chess.com bot, Chessmaster, rapid play

To get ready for my first tournament OTB, I thought of playing some rapid training matches. Under USCF rules for playing a match the difference between the two players cannot be over 400 points. A rapid match would have as longest time control: G25 d3 (game in 25 minutes with delay 3 seconds) anything above

The 14th Czechoslovak Championship

May 13, 2021Davide Nastasio1 CommentChess History, Chess Sets, Chess tournaments14th Czechoslovak Championship, alekhine, Chessbase, flohr, vera menchik

When chess games and the history of a chess set come all together – By Holger Langer and Davide Nastasio This is a rare Czech tournament chess set similar to the ones used in the 14th Czechoslovak Championship which was held at Poděbrady from July 5-26, 1936. The tournament was organized as an international event,