White to move. Is this a win, draw or loss for White? No computer please 🙂 8/4p3/5p2/4k1P1/7P/8/8/1K6 w – – 0 0 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
85 players for 85 years
Here is one of the photos from the 85th birthday celebration of GM Svetozar Gligoric. The tournament was played with 85 chess players, the winner in the men’s competition is GM Ivan Ivanisevic and in women’s competition is WGM Irina Coluskina. Other famous chess players include GM Matanovic, IM Karaklajic etc. This is a photo […]
Another flashback
This picture was also sent to me by my sister Judit. How many people in this picture do you recognize? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
A flashback
My sister Judit just sent me this picture. Do you know who was the player standing in front of Sofia and me? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Legendary GM Gligoric celebrates 85th birthday
by GM Alex Baburin http://www.chesstoday.net/ Today Serbian GM Svetozar Gligoric celebrates his 85th birthday. In the 1950s and 1960s Gligoric was one of the world’s leading chess players. He won the Yugoslav championship 12 times. Gligoric made a considerable contribution to opening theory, in particular in the King’s Indian Defence and the Nimzo-Indian Defence. Gligoric […]
Akopian (2700) 1/2 Moskalenko (2402)
Final position GM Akopian (2700) – FM Moskalenko (2402) [E66]02.02.2008Moscow Open 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 d6 5.Nc3 0–0 6.Nf3 c5 7.0–0 Nc6 8.d5 Na5 9.Nd2 a6 10.Rb1 Rb8 11.b3 b5 12.Bb2 e5 13.Qc2 Bh6 14.f4 exf4 15.gxf4 Nh5 16.e3 f5 17.Bf3 Nf6 18.Rbe1 Qb6 19.Ba1 Bd7 20.Ne2 bxc4 21.bxc4 Rbe8 22.e4 fxe4 […]
Big upset in Moscow
FM Okara (2402) – GM Inarkiev (2681) [B45]02.02.2008Moscow Open 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be2 Nf6 7.0–0 Be7 8.Kh1 0–0 9.f4 Qc7 10.f5 a6 11.g4 Nxd4 12.Qxd4 Nd7 13.g5 Re8 14.fxe6 fxe6 15.Bc4 Ne5 16.Bb3 Bd7 17.Bf4 Bf8 18.Rad1 Bc6 19.Qe3 b5 20.Qh3 Qe7 21.g6 Nxg6 22.Bxd6 Qg5 23.Bxe6+ Kh8 […]
Saturday Open Forum
eIt’s Saturday Open Forum. Hikaru Nakamura just won his fourth tournament in a row. Impressive! Irina Krush made a wonderful comeback to finish with a +1 score at Corus C and Fabiano Caruana convincingly won Corus C by a 2 point margin. Magnus Carlsen shared 1st place with Levon Aronian in Corus A. This duo […]
Chess election in the Philippines
FIDE Honorary President Florencio Campomanes congratulates NCFP Chairman and President Prospero Pichay, Jr. on his reelection. NCFP officials are, from left: Executive Officer Wilfredo Abalos, Vice President Romeo Serratubias, Judge Gonzalo Mapili, FIDE Delegate Casto Abundo, Treasurer Red Dumuk, Pichay, NCFP President Emeritus Campomanes, Secretary General Mayor Abraham Tolentino, Auditor Raul Molintas, and Directors Manuel […]