Perpetual Chess Linkfest #51, September 8, 2023
Happy Friday everyone! Here are this week's chess links...
Chess News
Sad news for US Chess- Jen Shahade is leaving the organization due to her frustration with how they handled the allegations of sexual assault against GM Alejandro Ramirez) “Instead of support, I was greeted with hostility.” Be Sure to Subscribe to Jen’s substack to keep up with her work! (Jen Shahade’s Substack) (Tarjei Svensen for Chess.com)
The FIDE Women’s World Team Championship is in its Early Rounds (JJ Lang for US Chess)
The Tata Steel India Rapid was won impressively by MVL (IM Saravanan for Chess.com)
Chess Improvement
Great post from Dr. Nick Vazquez about the nature of errors in chess, and life. “While the game of chess is no where near the same stakes (as when working in emergency room) , those of us who have taken up the game sometimes feel like it is.” (Chess in Small Doses)
FM Nate Solon proposes a “1-1-1 framework” for working on chess. (Chess.com)
GM Alex Colovic on what he has observed about GMs who regularly win tournaments. “If you see these players in person you will notice that all of them have an enormous energy – you could see the deep calm in their eyes and if you’re attentive maybe you will feel the energetic field that emanates from them.” (GM Alex Colovic’s Blog)
Books
Chris Wainscott recently reviewed Spassky’s Best Games (On the Road to Chess Master Blog)
An Interesting Looking Endgame Study Book is coming soon from Quality Chess (Quality Chess Blog)
Nick Visel reviews Steinitz Move by Move by IM Craig Pritchett (Nick’s Substack)
Chess History
Sam Kahn writes poetically on the legacy of Siegbert Tarrasch “If there was a mercy in his later years, it may well have been that he died in 1934, before the German-Jewish bourgeois existence, of which he was the personification, was utterly destroyed. “ (Chess.com Blog)