With 5 Black today, the “Experience” team held the “Rising Stars” to 5 draws! Thursday August 23 – Round 2 Smeets – Beliavsky 1/2 – 1/2Stellwagen – Nikolic 1/2 – 1/2Cheparinov – Khalifman 1/2 – 1/2Karjakin – Jussupow 1/2 – 1/2Negi – Ljubojevic 1/2 – 1/2 Therefore, after 2 matches, the “Rising Stars” hold a […]
Endgame precision

White to move. How many moves will it take you to checkmate Black? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Smirin wins Acropolis

Here are the top finishers of the 2007 Acropolis International Tournament: 1 GM Smirin Ilia 2649 ISR 7 2 GM Georgiev Kiril 2663 BUL 6½3 GM Parligras Mircea 2542 ROM 6½4 GM Mastrovasilis Dimitrios 2541 GRE 6½5 GM Malakhatko Vadim 2596 BEL 6½6 GM Banikas Hristos 2567 GRE 6½7 GM Svetushkin Dmitry 2618 MDA 6½ […]
The impossible odd?

What is the chance of getting a hole in one in golf … when you are blind? A blind woman in Pennsylvania did it! Here is the video from CBS news. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Chess blogs

Here are some more chess blogs: http://www.tenchess.blogspot.com/ http://www.chesslodge.blogspot.com/ http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/ http://www.rlpchessblog.blogspot.com/ Please feel free to add more interesting chess blogs to the list. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Thursday morning chess tactic

White to move. How should White proceed? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Tkachiev leads 2007 French Championship

The French Championships is taking place in Aix-les-Bains from August 13 to August 25, 2007. Here are the standings after 9 rounds:1. Tkachiev, Vladislav g FRA 2655 6.5 2-3. Sokolov, Andrei1 g FRA 2582 6.02-3. Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2595 6.0 4-6. Dorfman, Josif D g FRA 2584 5.04-6. Bauer, Christian g FRA 2626 5.04-6. […]
Chess in the Schools and Communities International Conference

Chess in the Schools and Communities International Conference (CISCCON)30 August – 1 September 2007 King’s College Conference Centre, University of Aberdeen Conference Programme Thursday 30 August 09.30 – 10.00 Registration and Coffee 10.00 – 10.15 Welcome Prof. C. Duncan Rice, Principal, University of AberdeenDouglas Paterson, Chief Executive, Aberdeen City CouncilPhil Thomas, Scottish Junior Chess 10.15 […]
Russia ties China in 3rd match

3rd match 1 Jakovenko, D ½-½ Ni Hua1 Zhao Xue 1-0 Kovalevskaya, E2 Wang Yue ½-½ Inarkiev, E2 Kosintseva, T ½-½ Ruan Lufei3 Timofeev, A 0-1 Zhang Pengxiang3 Wang Yu A. ½-½ Korbut, E4 Bu Xiangzhi ½-½ Alekseev, E4 Kosintseva, N 1-0 Shen Yang5 Tomashevsky, E ½-½ Wang Hao5 Huang Qian 0-1 Tairova, E After […]
Chess in Brownsville

CheckmateStudent-teachers schooled in chessBy VICTORIA MANNING, THE BROWNSVILLE HERALDAugust 22, 2007 – 11:36PM It only took one hour for Lucia Suarez to decide she wanted to learn chess. Suarez, along with other student-teachers preparing for a career in education, sat in on the first ever student-teacher chess train-ing at the University of Texas at Brownsville […]