Zinar, 1990 White to move. How should White proceed? 6k1/8/4P1Kp/8/8/8/p4p2/8 w – – 0 0 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Fischer and Belichick share something in common

Bobby Fischer, Bill Belichick share something in commonBy Michael WeinrebSpecial to Page 2ESPN In the early 1970s, long before he began ranting about Jews who kill Christian children and wield their blood in black-magic ceremonies, long before he had...
Full Corus Round 10 Results

Result chart from ICC Van Wely lost a completely winning position against Carlsen. Ivanchuk played a nice and consistent game to beat Eljanov. Short is rejuvenated after the no hand shake incident and he won again. Group B leader...
A devastating loss for Van Wely

Position after 32…Qb1 White had a completely winning position. This has to be a very painful loss. GM Van Wely (2681) – GM Carlsen (2733) [A58]23.01.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 g6 6.Nc3 Bxa6 7.Nf3...
Asrian wins Armenian Championship

The Armenian Championship has just concluded in Yerevan. GMs Asrian and Minasian tied for 1st with 8 out of 12. However, Asrian won on tie-break. Here are the standings: 1-2. Asrian and Art. Minasian 8 pts in 12 games3-5....
The evergreen Korchnoi strikes again

GM Portisch (2530) – GM Korchnoi (2605) [A90]Corus – 23.01.2008 1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 d5 5.Nf3 Bb4+ 6.Nbd2 Be7 7.0–0 Nc6 8.b3 0–0 9.Bb2 Ne4 10.Qc2 Bd7 11.Rad1 a5 12.a3 Be8 13.Ne5 Nxe5 14.dxe5 Bg6 15.Nxe4...
Judit and the French!

GM Mamedyarov (2760) – GM J.Polgar (2707) [C10]23.01.2008Corus Group A – Round 10 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.g3 b6 6.Bg2 Rb8 7.Ne2 Bb7 8.0–0 Ngf6 9.N2c3 Be7 10.Re1 0–0 11.Bf4 b5 12.Nxf6+ Nxf6 13.Bxb7 Rxb7...
Early day for Anand, Leko, Adams and Aronian

Final position GM Anand (2799) – GM Leko (2753) [C84]23.01.2008 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.d3 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.a4 Bd7 9.Bd2 b4 10.c3 0–0 11.h3 Rb8 12.Bc4 Qc8 13.Re1 Be6 14.Bxe6 Qxe6 15.d4...
Chess and the economy?

One of the members of the www.ChessDiscussion.com forum just raised an interesting point. With a national recession (United States) almost being a given in 2008, and with the unstable scholastic market maintaining its membership base with renewals during times...
Gibraltar underway

The 6th edition of Gibraltar’s Gibtelecom Chess Festival takes place from 22-31 January 2008 at the Caleta Hotel, one of Gibraltar’s best hotels. In 2008, the line-up includes four top Chinese players: Wang Yue, rated 2698 and Bu Xiangzhi,...