Picture courtesy of ChessBase Nigel Short recently was knocked out by young David Baramidze in the rapid playoff at the World Cup. What is significant is his opponent was more than 24 minutes late in a 25 minute rapid...
Fun way to improve your brain skills
Chess win makes Fillmore student king of castleBy Linda EbbingStaff WriterThursday, November 29, 2007 A sixth-grader at Fillmore Elementary, he likes playing chess even though “it’s sort of hard.” Runner up Alexander Sprague, a fifth-grader at Adams Elementary, said...
Dallas vs Boston for the USCL title
Board 1 – IM Drasko Boskovic 1/2 GM Larry ChristiansenBoard 2 – SM Jorge Sammour Hasbun 1-0 IM Davorin KuljasevicBoard 3- IM Jacek Stopa 1/2 NM Denys ShmelovBoard 4- NM Chris Williams 0-1 WFM Bayaraa Zorigt Score: 2-2 Games...
Golden boy from the Golden State
Foster City boy wins world chess championship in TurkeyJill Tucker, ChronicleStaff WriterWednesday, November 28, 2007 (11-28) 13:43 PST ANTALYA, TURKEY — A Bay Area sixth grader captured the world championship in chess for the under-12 division after a final...
Big WC playoff tomorrow
Matches that will head into rapid playoffs tomorrow: Galkin, Alexander (RUS) 2608 – Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR) 2787Carlsen, Magnus (NOR) 2714 – Naiditsch, Arkadij (GER) 2639Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) 2705 – Wang, Hao (CHN) 2643Tiviakov, Sergei (NED) 2643 – Wang, Yue...
Improving defensive skill
Black to move. It is a very complicated position. What is the best way for Black to proceed here? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
“I would vote for him (Putin) and I support him…”
From Times OnlineNovember 28, 2007 Gorbachev endorses Putin in election and says Russia is serious partner of West Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, called for Russians to vote for President Putin’s United Russia party in parliamentary elections on...
Sandrine Bonnaire to star in The Chess Player
Bonnaire, Ganz make ‘Chess’ movesPic is directorial debut for BottaroBy CHRISTIAN KOEHL COLOGNE — Sandrine Bonnaire (“Intimate Strangers”) will star alongside Swiss-German actor Bruno Ganz (“Downfall”) in scribe Caroline Bottaro’s helming debut. In the French-German co-production “Joueuse” (The Chess...
World Cup round 2 results and games
1 1-1 Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR) ½-½ Galkin, Alexander (RUS) View / Alt2 0,5-1,5 Kozul, Zdenko (CRO) ½-½ Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (AZE) View / Alt3 0-2 Radjabov, Teimour (AZE) 0-1 Macieja, Bartlomiej (POL) View / Alt4 0,5-1,5 Gustafsson, Jan (GER) ½-½...