GM Korchnoi giving a simul at the Las Vegas International Chess Festival Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
The trio
That’s Fred Gruenberg (organizer of the Las Vegas International Chess Festival) and Victor Korchnoi Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Gata’s world championship run comes to an end
Picture courtesy of ChessBase Gata tried very hard and perhaps too hard too hard to beat Gelfand. But at the end, he could not break through. Instead of accepting a drawish position today, he sacrificed a pawn to try...
Ballots and other issues
This is according to the USCF website: All told, ballots will have been sent to 39,880 voting members, including 2163 ballots in the supplemental mailing that will go out via first class mail around June 8th. Voting members who...
Grischuk 1/2 Rublevsky (game 5)
This is the final position after 18.Ng3 Grischuk amazingly offered a draw on move 18 in his last game as White. He will now have Black in the final game of the match in regulation. GM Grischuk (2717) –...
Leko advances to Mexico City
This is the final position after 19…Rhe8 Bareev shockingly offered a draw and gave up the match without fighting. He did the same in another game with the White pieces. Leko is now advanced to Mexico City. He will...
Aronian 1/2 Shirov (game 5)
GM Aronian (2759) – GM Shirov (2699) [D89]FIDE candidates Matches Elista, Kalmykia Russia, 11.06.2007 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 c5 8.Ne2 Nc6 9.Be3 0-0 10.0-0 Bg4 11.f3 Na5 12.Bd3 cxd4 13.cxd4...
Kamsky – Gelfand (g5)
Gata Kamsky – Boris Gelfand (game 5) Will it be 1.e4 or 1.d4? 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bxd7+ Qxd7 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 g6 7.0–0 Bg7 8.d4 cxd4 9.Nxd4 0–0 10.f3 Rc8 11.b3 d5 12.exd5 Nxd5 13.Nxd5 e6...
Qualifiers for the SP National Invitational for Girls
This is Sylvia Yang, the best performer in the girls’ sections. Here are the list of the players who qualified for the 2007 Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls in Cherry Hill, NJ by winning or tying for 1st...
Nakamura wins the National Open
Here are the standings of all players with even scores or better: 1 GM Nakamura, Hikaru NY 2738 5.5 W48 W20 W17 D3 W28 W6 2 GM Kortchnoi, Viktor SUI 2664 5.0 D49 W62 W43 W61 W11 D43 IM...