http://www.chesscafe.com/polgar/polgar.htm Here are the topics that I covered in my Chess Cafe monthly column: – “My Brilliant Brain”– $100K in scholarships and prizes– 2007 SPICE Cup– Chess Champions League – A tournament of Champions– 2007 World Cup, Khanty-Mansiysk– Ivanchuk...
Deccan Herald Interview
INTERVIEW / Susan PolgarPath-breaker hungry for more successJosey Samuelhttp://www.deccanherald.com/ Even as the Hungarian army were struggling to find tactics to tackle the strong Soviet invasion in 1988, a 19-year-old girl was deploying pawns, rooks and knights to tear apart...
King and Pawn endgame
8/8/p7/6p1/4K1P1/4P1Pk/8/8 w – – 0 1 White to move. Is this a win for White, Black or draw? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Chess, one of the best Holiday gifts
www.PolgarChess.com Top Healthy Gift Ideas from ExpertsAndrea Pelin If you don’t have any gift ideas for your loved ones this year, the experts at the Saint Louis University bring you ten unique gift ideas. Gift #1: Workout equipment for...
Corus 2008
Corus (Wijk aan Zee 2008) A-Group Title – Name – Rating – World rank GM Viswanathan Anand 2801 1GM Vassily Ivanchuk 2787 2GM Vladimir Kramnik 2785 3GM Veselin Topalov 2769 4GM Peter Leko 2755 5GM Shakhryar Mamedyarov 2752 7GM...
Another very special endgame pattern
White to move and win. No computer please. Hint: This is not as easy as you think. It is AT LEAST 11-12 moves long and there is ONLY one way to win. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Guy Ritchie, the big chess enthusiast
Interview with Guy Ritchie (Madonna’s husband) ComingSoon.net: I’ve interviewed Jason about five times in the last few years and every time I see him, I ask “When’s ‘Revolver’ coming out?” so I’m glad he’s done with that phase of...
World Cup Elite 8 Matchups
Elite 8 Matchups: Kamsky, Gata USA 2714 vs Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR 2705Cheparinov, Ivan BUL 2670 vs Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2714 The winner of the Kamsky vs Ponomariov match will face the winner of the Cheparinov vs Carlsen match in...
Kamsky knocks out Svidler to reach the elite 8
GM Svidler (2732) – GM Kamsky (2714) [C76]05.12.2007 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 d6 5.c3 Bd7 6.d4 g6 7.0–0 Bg7 8.d5 Nce7 9.c4 Nf6 10.Bxd7+ Qxd7 11.Nc3 0–0 12.c5 Nh5 13.cxd6 cxd6 14.Be3 Rac8 15.Na4 Qb5 16.Nb6...
Alekseev through to the next round
Final position GM Bareev (2653) – GM Alekseev (2716) [A64]05.12.2007 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nc3 g6 7.Nf3 Bg7 8.Bg2 0–0 9.0–0 Nbd7 10.a4 a6 11.Nd2 Nh5 12.Nce4 Ndf6 13.Nxf6+ Qxf6 14.Nc4 Rb8 15.Nb6...