After 9 rounds, here are the leaders: Women’s Section: 1 IM Kosintseva Tatiana RUS 2459 8.02 IM Atalik Ekaterina TUR 2374 7.03 IM Kosintseva Nadezhda RUS 2475 7.04 WGM Korbut Ekaterina RUS 2429 7.0 Men’s Section: 1 GM Volokitin Andrei UKR 2654 7.0and 21 players tie for 2nd with 6.5!! Here is the full crosstable. […]
The Memoir

THE HUNGRY SEAA Memoir of a Modern Odyssey (2002)Paul TruongWith Leslie Alan Horvitz After Saigon fell to the Communists in the spring of 1975, hundreds of thousands of conquered South Vietnamese, desperate to escape the country out of fear of political persecution, slipped out of ports in small, rickety wooden fishing boats, headed into the […]
NY team seeks 5th straight national title

High School Chess Players Attempt To Defend National Title April 11, 2007 Students from Edward R. Murrow High School’s chess team get set to defend their fourth straight national title. After winning the city and state championships, the team left for Kansas City Wednesday to compete in the national tournament. The Brooklyn students practiced their […]
Waitzkin to appear at Hip Hop Chess

International chess icon Josh Waitzkin has joined the rank of stars scheduled to appear at the Hip Hop, Chess & Life Strategies Exhibition on May 19, 2007 at the Omega Boys Club located at 1060 Tennessee St. in San Francisco, California. The Hip Hop, Chess & Life Strategies Exhibition, organized by the Hip Hop Chess […]
Focus hard on each move

HE LEARNED GAME AT AGE 8Chess champ, 12, knows how to get around on squaresSamuel Xin is now ranked in nation’s top 50 for his age groupVERONICA THOMAS Samuel Xin, a nationally ranked state champion chess player, sits perched on the edge of his chair, hands on the table, ready to make his next move. […]
Playing chess with Mr. Vonnegut

Playing chess with Kurt Vonnegut(Kurt Vonnegut died Wednesday night in Manhattan. He was 84.) by Andrew Leonard …My father and Vonnegut were good friends. One trickle-down side effect of this was that, in between devouring Asimov and Heinlein and a score of other lesser science fiction lights, I was also handed by my Dad “The […]
The Hungry Sea – A must read story

I have asked Paul for many years to complete his memoir but it is understandably very difficult for him to do it. Here is the outline: THE HUNGRY SEAA Memoir of a Modern OdysseyPaul TruongWith Leslie Alan Horvitz Table of Contents Prologue: Treading water in the South China Sea, surrounded by debris from a sunken […]
Pattern recognition

White to move. Do you see any familiar pattern for White to win? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Kind comment from the US Treasury Chief of Staff

The following is a post by the Treasury Secretary Jim Wilkinson earlier on this blog. This is Treasury Chief of Staff Jim Wilkinson. Susan was great, and actually several people emailed and called me to say they were going home last night and going to start learning chess. Some people there had little kids that […]