Perpetual Chess Linkfest #89, July 19, 2024

This week's news

Hello there reader! Just a quick note that there will be no linkfest next week, I will be recording (or attempting to record) the video for my forthcoming Chessable course. I will be back with another two-week catch-up on August 2. Until then, good luck in your games! - Ben

Chess News

The New York Times wrote an enjoyable feature on the young British star Bodhana Sivanandan ““At end of the day, she is a kid, right?” Mr. Velayutham (her father) said. “I don’t want to set the milestones. Let her set her own milestones.” (Isabella Kwai for the New York Times)

Jennifer Shahade has filed a complaint against US Chess, alleging discrimination and retaliation (Jennifer’s Substack)

Via Anish Giri’s X . Catch the Latest on the CrunchLab Masters via NM Anthony Levin’s Chess.com write up

The lineups for the Chess Olympiad have been released. The U.S. is the top seed despite the absence of Hikaru Nakamura (Colin McGourty for Chess.com)

International Chess Arbiter Arild Rimestad was banned for 2 years by FIDE for sexual harrassment during competitions (Tarjei Svensen for Chess.com)

Several US Championship events are in the early stages in St. Louis. Get the details from Chessbase here. Photo of the playing hall by Crystal Fuller via St. Louis Chess Club

Congrats to Sharma Yisrael who became the first African American woman USCF Master! (FM Jack Rogers for Chess.com)

Lichess provided a half-year update on all of the improvements they are working on. “We cannot reiterate enough that Lichess runs due to the generous contributions of the chess community and exists to serve the chess community. Your donations and support are invaluable.” (LiChess Blog)

Julian at the Chess Engine Lab looks at whether one can use a computer like “Maia” to predict what a human might do in a given position. (Chess Engine Lab)

Chess.com issued a report detailing the frequency of fair play violations during Titled Tuesdays (Chess.com Blog)

Books

Andrew Greet of Quality Chess shares an excerpt and some background about the upcoming book, Tiger’s Chaos Theory by GM Tiger Hillarp Persson (Quality Chess Blog)

Chess Improvement

(White to Move) Smyslov missed a Mate-in-4 here, can you spot it? You won’t find the answer in MrPushWood’s LiChess Blog post, but you will find some backstory

GM Noel Studer shares some helpful tips for how to procrastinate less (Next Level Chess)

Black to Move and Win (To find the solution, sub to FM Dalton Perrine’s Chess Chatter)