Puzzle by Vincent (VanGogh?) from France – Merci Vincent 🙂 White to move. What is the best way for White to proceed? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Saturday Open Forum
Kamsky is in the semi. So are the 2 young phenoms Carlsen and Karjakin! Then we have the dynamic Shirov. 1,400 kids are competing for national titles in Houston, Texas. Kasparov was in jail now out for standing up...
The final four is set
The matchups for the semifinals will be the young guns versus the experience: Kamsky USA – Carlsen NORShirov ESP – Karjakin UKR What do you predict? Who will make it to the final? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Karjakin eliminated Alekseev to face Shirov
GM Karjakin (2694) – GM Alekseev (2716) [B90]08.12.2007Rapid Playoff – Game 2 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.f3 Be6 9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.g4 0–0 11.0–0–0 Qc7 12.Kb1 b5 13.g5 Nh5 14.f4...
WC rapid playoff: Alekseev 1/2 Karjakin
GM Alekseev (2716) – GM Karjakin (2694) [C78]08.12.2007Rapid Playoff – Game 1 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Bc5 6.c3 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.a4 Rb8 9.axb5 axb5 10.d3 0–0 11.Bg5 h6 12.Bh4 g5 13.Bg3 Bg4 14.h3...
Friday night brilliancy
This one was sent in by Andreas – Thanks! (Lasker – Capablanca)St. Petersburg 1914 Can White win this? No computer please 🙂 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Super kid and super coach
That is multiple time national champion Christopher Wu and his coach IM Dean Ippolito at the National K-12 in Houston, TX Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Silver medalist Sarah Chiang in action in Houston
Sarah Chang, silver medalist at the recent world youth in Turkey Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Nice chess puzzle by Robert Pye
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...