–SPICE, the English Department, the College of Education, the Knight Raiders, Dr. Rich Rice, Dr. Hal Karlsson and Jerry Perez are sponsoring and organizing the Chess and Education workshop for teachers from various schools in Lubbock and nearby areas....
Saturday Open Forum

Corus begins today with most of the top stars in action. The Anna Rudolf event occupied the chess news last week. What would you like to discuss? The forum is yours! Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Corus Round 1 Results

Group A V. Kramnik – L. van Wely ½-½T. Radjabov – V. Anand 1-0S. Mamedyarov – M. Carlsen 0-1P. Eljanov – P. Leko ½-½M. Adams – B. Gelfand ½-½L. Aronian – V. Topalov 1-0V. Ivanchuk – J. Polgar ½-½...
Aronian 1-0 Topalov

GM Aronian (2739) – GM Topalov (2780) [E61]12.01.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Nb6 7.Nf3 Nc6 8.Bf4 0–0 9.e3 h6 10.h4 Bg4 11.Rc1 e5 12.dxe5 Qe7 13.Nd5 Nxd5 14.Qxd5 Nb4 15.Qc4 Be6 16.Qxc7...
Radjabov 1-0 Anand

GM Radjabov (2735) – GM Anand (2799) [D43]12.01.2008 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Be2 Bb7 10.0–0 Nbd7 11.Ne5 Bg7 12.Nxd7 Nxd7 13.Bd6 a6 14.Re1 Bf8 15.Bg3 Bg7 16.Bd6...
Mamedyarov 0-1 Carlsen

GM Mamedyarov (2760) – GM Carlsen (2733) [B30]12.01.2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 d6 6.0–0 Bg4 7.h3 Bxf3 8.Qxf3 Nf6 9.d3 0–0 10.Qd1 Nd7 11.f4 c4 12.dxc4 Na5 13.Nd5 Nxc4 14.c3 Ndb6 15.Qe2 Rc8 16.Kh2...
Corus Update: Kramnik 1/2 Van Wely

GM Kramnik (2799) – GM Van Wely (2681) [D11]12.01.2008 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Qb3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 g5 7.Bg3 Ne4 8.Nc3 Nxg3 9.hxg3 Bg7 10.e3 Nd7 11.Bd3 Rb8 12.cxd5 cxd5 13.g4 a6 14.Ne2 Nf6 15.Ne5 Nd7...
FIDE CIS

Chair Uvencio Blanco has announced the opening of FIDE’s Chess in Schools Committee website. The url for the English website is www.cisenglish.comThe url for the Spanish website is www.ajedrezenlasescuelas.com Special thanks to Dr. Redman for sending in this info....
Eat your way to become a GM?

Eat like a grandmasterBy David R. SandsJanuary 12, 2008 Eat chocolate, sip mineral water, swim for exercise and skip breakfast — and you might become a grandmaster. Just in time for the late New Year’s resolution season, an Argentine...
NATO Chess MVP – This story was discovered to be bogus

Navy Sailor selected MVP of NATO Chess Championship USS Thach Public Affairs 2008-01-12 A Sailor attached to the San Diego-based frigate USS Thach (FFG 43), was recently recognized as the Most Valuable Player at the NATO Chess Championship in...