Ivanchuk! Ivanchuk! Ivanchuk! He is the current headline in chess at the moment. Can he sustain this winning streak? What is your prediction? 1. He will score 10-0.2. He will coast the rest of the way.3. He will self-destruct...
2008 All-Army Championship
Title: 2008 All-Army Chess Championship Location: Fort Myer, Arlington, VA Date: 11-17 May 2008 All Army personnel on active duty for 90 days or more are eligible to participate. We look for applicants that are strong players, are actively...
Double the fun puzzle
White to move. How should White proceed using a very common chess tactical theme? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
A soccer game broke out in Sofia
Just as in some other chess tournaments in Europe, sports are usually played during the day off and soccer is a popular choice. Here is a soccer game between the players and the team Levski. Levski – Chess United...
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Pictures courtesy of the official website Mtelmasters.com Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
So how does one celebrate?
So how did Tommy celebrate after he tied for first at the National Elementary Championship (K-3 section) with Danny Angermeir? By going to the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh before we headed to the airport to go back to...
What’s the real secret?
Standings at the half way mark: 1 Ivanchuk Vassily 2740 UKR 5.0 2 Topalov Veselin 2767 BUL 3.5 3 Cheparinov Ivan 2695 BUL 2.04 Radjabov Teimour 2751 AZE 2.0 5 Aronian Levon 2763 ARM 1.5 6 Bu Xiangzhi 2708...
Topalov’s chair
The chair of Topalov was sold for BGN 10 000 (Sofia, 13 May 2008) The chair on which the 19th World Champion Veselin Topalov is sitting during the games of the super chess tournament M-Tel Masters 2008 was sold...
Anand: A modest champion
‘It will be difficult for Vishy, more difficult for Kramnik’ Vijay TagoreTuesday, May 13, 2008 10:40 IST Elizbar Ubilava, who spent 10 years with Anand as a Second, says the unification match will be between Russian’s opening and Indian’s...
Monday night chess tactic
Black to move. How should Black proceed? 2rR4/2P1kp1p/6p1/p3B3/8/1p2P3/n4PPP/6K1 b – – 0 36 Krogius, Nikolai – Aronin, Lev Solomonovich (Yerevan, 1962), presented by Andreas