Month: October 2006

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...

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...