Ross, Laura – Gurevich, Dmitry (San Diego, 2004), presented by AndreasBlack to move. How should Black proceed? 4r1k1/1b1q2bp/1p1p2p1/4prB1/2P4Q/1PN3PP/1P6/3R1RK1 b – – 0 25 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
SC HS Invitational
HIGH SCHOOL INVITATIONAL IN SOUTH CAROLINA The First Annual Palmetto High School Invitational was held in Clemson, South Carolina, in which the four highest rated active high school players in the state were invited to play in a double...
SCA lecture and simul with IM Finegold
Ben Finegold and Alan AndersonChess Lecture and Simul Ben Finegold leaves Arizona today to go back to Michigan. Before he did that, he gave a lecture and simul, which started promptly at noon. The event was held at Abstrax,...
Famous sibling
Artist Profile: Jim Christiansen – Illustratorlast updated: June 22, 2008 07:18:18 AM Residence: ModestoType of artist: Known forwatercolors, pen and ink, cartoons, acrylics and postersDaily job: Community volunteer, landlord, artist Family: My mother, Virlee Christiansen, lives in Modesto, and...
More US Women’s Championship response
I published about the Q&A related to the recent Frank K. Berry U.S Women’s Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Here is another response from the organizer Tom Braunlich: Hi Phil, Just a quick answer, as I have written about the...
A radical chess idea
Next Year Aerosvit Tournament To Be Played In Airplane?by Chessdom.com Aerosvit general manager comes up with a new idea We stumbled across an interesting item in Ukrainian newspaper “Gazeta” via link from the excellent Russian website e3e5.com. The bottom...
Grandmaster tactic
Source: Chess Today (Czech Grandmaster Pavel Blatny was born on 22 June 1968) Black to move. How should Black proceed? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Mainz Qualifiers
All of last week, qualifiers were held on ICC for the coveted spots in the 16-player KO Mainz Chess Classic online Chess960 finals, to be staged Sunday, June 22, starting at 15:00 EDT. Four players won through from each...
WCL Grand Prix
World Chess Live (WCL) is pleased to sponsor USCF’s 2008 Grand Prix and 2008 Junior Grand Prix. We’re providing prize funds of $20,000 and $7,500 (in cash, merchandise, and memberships), and will also be running Online Grand Prize Satellite...
Middlegame tactic
White to move. How should White proceed? 2r3k1/2nb1p2/3Bp1p1/p1N1P2p/1p1P1n2/3B4/P4PPP/4R1K1 w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar