Day: October 23, 2006

If you live in New York and want to be in a chess movie, come to Tompkins Square on Avenue A and 7th Street this Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 3 PM. The filming will take place from 3...

I just spoke at length to Mr. Jorge Saggiante, the chief organizer and director of the 2007 World Championship in Mexico City next year. He issued a statement which I will publish shortly. The contract with FIDE was signed...

I would like introduce to you an important chess event: the 10th Corsican Circuit. Born in 1997, the competition has become more and more important each year and is today the most important semi-blitz international tournament with a prize...

Position after 15.Qf2Judit Polgar – Veselin TopalovEssent Super Tournament 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.g4 h6 8.Bg2 g5 9.Qe2 Nbd7 10.0–0–0 Ne5 11.h3 Nfd7 12.f4 gxf4 13.Bxf4 b5 14.Rhf1 Bb7 15.Qf2 Rc8...

I just received some brand new pictures from the Mexico World Record event from davidllada’s photos. You can view them here. Thank you David for sharing them with us.  Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar

2006 Magnet Schools of Texas andNational Association for Educational Equity ConferenceOctober 20-23, 2006Omni Corpus Christi Hotel Marina TowerCorpus Christi, Texas I was the keynote speaker this morning to hundreds of educators nationwide. I explained to them about the many...

Pairings for Round 2 at the Essent Super Tournament: Round 2, Monday October 23, 14.00 hours (8 AM NY Time) Sokolov, Ivan – Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar Polgar, Judit – Topalov, Veselin Judit will play 1.e4. Topalov has not played against...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico City’s largest square was jammed Sunday with some 14,000 chess players who claimed a new Guinness record for the largest number of simultaneously played games.So many showed up, in fact, that nearly as many were...