April 8, 2007ChessAs Technology Leaps Ahead, Concerns About Cheating GrowBy DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN Concerns about cheating, and ideas about how to stop it, have become a preoccupation of the chess world in recent months. While cheating is not new...
4 tie for 1st at Cañada de Calatrava Fischer Random
1-4 VALLEJO PONS, FRANCISCO ESP 2666NAJER, EVGENIY RUS 2653ALEKSANDROV, ALEXSEJ BLR 2634MAMEDYAROV, SHAKHRIYAR AZE 2699 7.5 5-9 SADVAKASOV, DARMEN KAZ 2619EPISHIN, VLADIMIR RUS 2565STRIKOVIC, ALEXA SCG 2501GRISCHUK, ALEXANDER RUS 2719VOLOKITIN, ANDREJ UKR 2660 7.0 Here are the full standings....
3-tie for 1st at Cañada de Calatrava Blitz
1-3 MAMEDYAROV, SHAKHRIYAR AZE 2699BAUER, CHRISTIAN FRA 2638VALLEJO PONS, FRANCISCO ESP 2666 7.54-9 DREEV, ALEXANDER RUS 2673RIAZANTSEV, ALEXANDER RUS 2593SHIROV, ALEXEI ESP 2699NAJER, EVGENIY RUS 2653KOROTYLEV, ALEXEY RUS 2618GRISCHUK, ALEXANDER RUS 7.0 Here are the full standings. Chess Daily...
Happy egg hunt!
For those of you who celebrate it, Happy Easter! For those of you who do not, Happy Sunday! And for those of you who do not like Sundays, Happy Blogging! 🙂 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Impossible to tame the Tiger?
Golfers? Golf fans? Will Tiger Woods win his 13th Grand Slam titles today in Augusta and the Masters? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Chess gets math points across
Chess program teaches math, confidenceMedical technician’s initiative wins honors, praise from educators By EDWARD L. KENNEY, The News JournalPosted Sunday, April 8, 2007Lakeysha Skinner didn’t even know how to play chess when she learned she could use the ancient...
It’s all about strategy
Article published Apr 8, 2007Chasing Chess Story By Jacque Hilburn When chess players Clarissa Abella and Gabrielle Mercado stand beside their gleaming first place trophy, it’s not immediately clear who is taller, the girls or the award. The beaming...
Would you swim 3,272 miles?
Man Swims 3,272-Mile Amazon in 65 DaysBy PETER MUELLOAP RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (April 7) – Slovenian Martin Strel completed his swim of the entire 3,272-mile Amazon River on Saturday, a 65-day odyssey in which he battled exhaustion and...
Exciting Games
Kraai, Jesse 2561Nakamura, Hikaru 2755Source “MonRoi“Foxwoods Round 7 1.Nf3 f5 2.b3 d6 3.d4 g6 4.Bb2 Bg7 5.e3 Nf6 6.Bc4 e6 7.O-O O-O 8.Nbd2 Kh8 9.Qe2 Nc6 10.Rad1 Qe7 11.Rfe1 Bd7 12.a3 Rae8 13.b4 Nh5 14.Bb3 g5 15.Ne5 Nxe5 16.dxe5...
Shabalov and Ehlvest lead Foxwoods
Foxwoods Round 7 results: Bd Res White Player Name Res Black Player Name 1 ½ GM Alexander Shabalov (5½) ½ GM Gata Kamsky (5)2 0 GM Alexander Stripunsky (5) 1 GM Jaan Ehlvest (5)3 ½ GM Yury Shulman (5)...