I heard the quote below earlier today from Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and it really touched me. I feel like it was written for me for the upcoming up USCF election. This is exactly how I approached this...
Endgame of the day
White to move. How should White proceed? Is it a win or draw? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
2007 Corus Standings
Standings after 4 rounds: Group A: 1. T. Radjabov 3½2. V. Topalov 33-7. D. Navara, V. Anand, L. Aronian, P. Svidler, V. Kramnik 2½8-9. S. Karjakin, R. Ponomariov 210. A. Motylev 1½11. L. van Wely, S. Tiviakov, M. Carlsen...
Radjabov shines again in Corus
GM Radjabov (2729) – GM Tiviakov (2667) [B35]Corus Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, 16.01.2007 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4 0-0 8.Bb3 a5 9.0-0 Nxd4 10.Bxd4 d6 11.Qe2 Bd7 12.Rad1 a4 13.Bc4 Bc6...
Games from Corus 2007
GM vanWely (2683) – GM Karjakin (2678) [E21]Corus Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, 16.01.2007 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Nf3 c5 5.g3 cxd4 6.Nxd4 0-0 7.Bg2 d5 8.cxd5 Nxd5 9.Qb3 Nc6 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.0-0 Qa5 12.Bd2 Bxc3 13.bxc3 Ba6...
Kramnik – Navara / Corus 2007
Position after 32.Kg2 What is your assessment of this position? Does White have enough to win? 32…g5 33.Kf3 h5 34.h3 (This is the type of position that Kramnik is great with. He will make Navara suffer.) 34…Ke7 35.Ra5 f5...
Icelandic Chess
Christmastime and New Year’s Eve, Icelandic styleRob Terpstra The country’s nomenclature is itself a misnomer, contrary to popular belief, it is not made entirely of a sheet of ice, temperatures are not dangerously below zero and the metropolitan area...
Matchups of the day
Topalov – Shirov [D87]2007 Corus Group A 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 c5 8.Ne2 Nc6 9.Be3 0–0 10.0–0 Bg4 11. f3 Na5 12. Bd3 cxd4 13. cxd4 Be6 14. d5 Bxa1...
Corus Round 4 Matchups
Round 4 matchups – Tuesday the 16th: A. Motylev – L. AronianM. Carlsen – V. AnandP. Svidler – R. PonomariovV. Kramnik – D. NavaraT. Radjabov – S. TiviakovV. Topalov – A. ShirovL. van Wely – S. Karjakin Your prediction? ...
Teenage Chess Whizzes
Ohio chess team checks competition despite cutsMonday, January 15, 2007Associated Press Columbus- A scrappy bunch of teenage chess whizzes are taking down some of the country’s best players in national competitions, all without financial backing from their school. The...