During her illustrious career, WGM Valentina M Borisenko-Belova (1/28/1920-3/6/1993) won the Women’s Soviet Championship five times (a record she shares with Nona Gaprindashvili.) Zara Nakhimovskaya was a formidable chess player who won the Latvian Chess Championship for Women four times. In our feature position, Valentina M Borisenko-Belova is playing with the white pieces against ZaraContinue reading “Winning Chess Moves: Borisenko-Belova vs Nakhimovskaya, 1968”
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Honesty is the Best Policy in Chess
The chess community has a very low tolerance for dishonesty. If someone is found to be cheating, their reputation can be permanently damaged, or simply banned from playing competitive chess. But honesty in chess is a much broader topic than FairPlay and recently, some big names have entered the chess community without understanding the prerequisiteContinue reading “Honesty is the Best Policy in Chess “