THE PROBLEMIST

The Problemist A magazine of chess compositions, the body of “The British Chess Problem Society”, has been published since 1926 in London, once in two months. The editor has been P.Valua since 1981.

One of the most important things in chess is pattern recognition: the ability to recognise typical themes and images on the board, characteristics of a position and their consequences. Magnus Carlsen
2010
Everything is very concrete nowadays. The computer often gives unnatural moves which are correct, but sometimes hard to remember. You know a line is correct, but then your forget something and lose terribly. Daniel Stellwagen
2010
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously. Mihail Tal
1969
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game Siegbert Tarrasch
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

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