A magazine of chess composition, a body of the Dutch Union of the Chess Problems Friends- Nederlandse Bond van Problemvrienden, issued since 1944 – once in two months. The editor was Nanning in the period of 1944-56, Visserman 1957-70, Grand 1971-77, and Visben 1978-.
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Quotes of the Day
You only task in the opening is to reach a playable middle game.
Lajos Portisch
We lost the crowns of World Champions, it is sad, of course. But if you look at the rating list of top 100 players, Russia is still dominating. However, the competition is constantly growing stronger.
Arkady Dvorkovich 2011
Tal develops all his pieces in the centre and then sacrifices them somewhere.
David Bronstein
Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw.
Judith Polgar FT, 2014
Carlsen is a combination of Karpov and Fischer style.
Garry Kasparov 2017