Study by Robert Pye, 1997 Robert just sent me this puzzle. Enjoy and thanks Robert! White to move and win! Hint: The long pattern is very similar to one of the puzzles I put up recently. Chess Daily News...
Sharma leads Commonwealth Championships
Parsvnath Commonwealth Chess ChampionshipsRound 8 1 IM Rathnakaran K 2433 IND 6 – 6½ IM Himanshu Sharma 2408 IND2 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2585 IND 5½ – 5½ IM Arun Prasad S 2423 IND3 IM Sundararajan Kidambi 2442 IND...
GM Maurice Ashley
There are a number of Grandmasters at the National K-12 in Houston (Gilberto Hernandez, Maurice Ashley, Miron Sher, Joel Benjamin, etc.) Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
National K-6 Blitz Championship Results
1 Harmon, LUKE 3 IDB013 ID 1685 11.0 2-3 Mc Clanahan, GAVIN JACOB 5 ILG005 IL 1788 10.02-3 Yue, BRYAN 6 WAR006 WA 1628 4-6 Hughes, John Lodge 6 OHB002 OH 1625 9.54-6 Bryant, NIGEL 6 NYV001 NY 1584...
Opening Ceremony of the National K-12 in Houston
Houston Convention Center Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Chess unites people
Friday, December 07, 2007Area chess club unites young, oldBy Kevin Caufield Frank Westphal walked into the Burger King in Oglesby looking for a challenge, but didn’t want to get embarrassed either. Once a good chess player in his military...
Philippine’s newest and youngest GM
So newest, youngest GM A 14-YEAR-OLD has finally become the youngest Philippine chess grandmaster, and probably the country’s top player in a few years. Wesley So drew with Iran’s top player, GM Ghaem Maghami, in the final round of...
Kamsky, Carlsen and Shirov to the semi
Quarterfinal results: Kamsky 1-0 Ponomariov (Kamsky wins 1.5 – .5)Cheparinov 1/2 Carlsen (Carlsen wins 1.5 – .5) Jakovenko 0-1 Shirov (Shirov wins 2-0)Alekseev 1/2 Kajarkin (Match tie at 1-1) Semifinal: Kamsky vs CarlsenShirov vs the winner of Alekseev –...
Kamsky eliminated Ponomariov to reach the final 4
Position after 26…Re5 GM Kamsky (2714) – GM Ponomariov (2705) [B97]07.12.2007 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qb6 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Nb3 Bd7 11.0–0–0 0–0–0 12.Be2 h5 13.Rhf1 Be7 14.Rf3 Rdg8...