NICK BARNETT CHESS

If you are bored over the Easter weekend, and you have data, there are some things you can do:

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on www.twitch.tv/CalvinKlaasenChess. Most recent was Gordon Meyer interviewed by Dr Lyndon Bouah.

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flavour at https://chesshub.org.za/events.

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perpetualchesspod.com. Episode 220 is an interview with Bruce Pandolfini, well known as a top scholastic coach, prolific author, and consultant on landmark chess productions like the 1993 movie, Searching for Bobby Fischer, and the 2020 smash hit Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit. Bruce even served on the announcing team for PBS in the legendary 1972 Fischer vs. Spassky World Championship match.

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chess24.com/en/events

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Championship, presented by Chess.com with Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG). The qualifiers will happen on March 31 and April 1, while the main event will run from April 5-April 7. The All-Star event will be held on April 8. During the championship, top players will face each other in

1|0 matches to compete for their piece of a $32,000 total prize fund. This year, reigning champion GM Hikaru Nakamura will fight to defend his title against elite players.

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GM HIKARU NAKAMURA was born December

9, 1987. He is an American chess player, Twitch livestreamer, and content creator. A chess prodigy, he became the youngest American to earn the title of Grandmaster (at the time), aged 15 years and 79 days. Nakamura is a five-time United States champion.

His currents ratings are: Standard 2736; Rapid 2829; Blitz 2900 and he is 18th on the FIDE ratings list. He recently posted an interesting YouTube illustrated talk entitled: How To Earn A Living Playing Chess.

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SPENDING TIME improving your chess this week, will not be a waste. This advice from Chess.com (edited):

1. Fast improvers play many more chess games. The key is to play, play, play.

2. Fast improvers analyze most of their games. Just take a few moments to review your Game Report and analyze or retry your mistakes.

3. Fast improvers play more Puzzle Rush. (They say: an 86 percent improvement!)

4. Fast improvers do just a few more Lessons. (Of course, on Chess.com)

Over time, any consistent efforts you make to follow these recommendations even a little bit will result in improvements to your chess game.

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REMEMBER to check facebook.com/ SACHESSPLAYERS for tournaments in South Africa. You need to do it often because notice is usually quite short.

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For comment or news please write to thechessnik@ gmail.com