Day: October 22, 2006

Peter Doggers, Editor-in-chief of Doggers Schaak, has just sent me the video link for today’s round at Essent Super Tournament (Mamedyarov – Topalov and J. Polgar – I. Sokolov). He also has some nice pictures. Here is the link....

Part 1 is located here. Part 2 is located here. Part 3 is located here. Part 4 is located here. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar

The 7th Cap d’Agde tournament is taking place between October 26 – November 2, 2006. The players are: 1 GM Teimour Radjabov AZE (2729)2 GM Etienne Bacrot FRA (2705)3 GM Magnus Carlsen NOR (2698)4 GM Harikrishna Pentala IND (2674)5...

(1) Polgar, Judit – Sokolov, IvanEssent chess tournament 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.Nbd2 Be7 10.c3 0–0 11.Bc2 f5 12.Nb3 Qd7 13.Nfd4 Nxd4 14.Nxd4 c5 15.Nxe6 Qxe6 16.f3...

One of the bloggers just posted the score for the American Kids in Batumi, Georgia. Here are their score: After Round 4, USA: WFM Abrahamyan Tatev 4,0 FM Robson Ray 3,5 Lee Fei-Tzin 3,0 Xiang Evan 3,0 Shen Victor...

The Essent Super Tournament just started. Judit has White against Sokolov in the first round while Mamedyarov has White against Topalov. The format is double round robin. Click here to watch the games LIVE. I will do a wrap...

Here is a video clip of the 30 board simul at the 2006 Texas State All-Girls Championship.  Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar

White to move. Can you find Black’s weakness that White should focus on? How should White proceed?  Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar

Girls competing at the Texas State All-Girls Championship. The winner would receive a nice big chess scholarship to UTD!  Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar

It is very nice to see many girls proudly wearing their school chess team shirts! They just want to play chess!  Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar