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njswift
's Blog
13 Feb 2023
The Ambitious Life of Pawns
In the great treasury of chess metaphors there is none so pervasive as that of the insignificant paw…
16 Apr 2022
The Morals of Chess
Benjamin Franklin's essay on chess
11 Apr 2022
The Goddess of Chess
Caïssa: or, the Game at Chess, a poem by Sir William Jones
3 Apr 2022
The Candidates Tournament
Personal reflections, premature excitement, and the Karjakin question
25 Mar 2022
Fearing Dvoretsky
What is an endgame manual and who should use it?
15 Mar 2022
Shakespeare and Chess
Did the bard play the game of kings?
12 Mar 2022
The Advance Caro-Kann
The Botvinnik-Carls as a low-theoretical approach
3 Mar 2022
FIDE contra USCF
Adventures in the rules of chess
26 Feb 2022
Winter is Coming
Kasparov on Putin and Ukraine
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