Boris Gelfand – Vassily Ivanchuk, 1985White to move. How do you assess this position? How should White proceed? 1k5r/3bb1p1/p2pN1p1/1p2r3/4qN2/2R5/PPP2Q1P/1K5R w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Can you believe it? Update: Germany wins 3-2!

Turkey is in a 1-1 tie at half time against Germany in the Euro 2008 semi-final! What is your prediction? Can Turkey pull off one of the biggest upsets ever? LIVE UPDATE! U. Boral 22′ Turkey leads 1-0B. Schweinsteiger 26′ Germany ties up 1-1M. Klose 79′ Germany leads 2-1S. Sentürk 86′ Turkey ties up 2-2P. […]
Plug your chess websites or blogs

We all know some of the biggest and most read chess websites in the world such as: FIDE, ChessBase, ChessCafe, TWIC, Chessville, Chessdom, Chessvibes, etc. What are some of the other chess websites or blogs do you follow or recommend? Feel free to list or plug your site. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Rules and Conditions for the SPNI

Rules and Conditions for the Annual Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls (June 2008) July 27 – August 1 at Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock, Texas The annual Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls, the most prestigious all-girls event in the United States, will be held at the Frazier Pavilion at Texas Tech University […]
Left or right?

With a slumping economy and high rising cost of fuel and just about everything else, which candidate will be better to fix America’s problems? Click here to vote: – John McCain– Barack Obama– You’re too disgusted with politics to vote Should America drill in ANWR, off the coast, construct nuclear power stations (following the similar […]
USCF Calls for U.S. Women’s Championship Bids

USCF Calls for U.S. Women’s Champs BidsBy USCFJune 25, 2008 The United States Chess Federation’s Executive Board announces a call for bids for the 2009 U.S. Women’s Championship. Bids combining the event with the US Championship will be considered. The bidding deadline is August 10, 2008. Contact Bill Hall at bhall@uschess.org with any questions. The […]
Another classic

D. Joseph 1922, presented by Andreas I presented this once before and it is a good one. Let’s see if you can remember it 🙂 No computer please. White to move. How should White proceed? 3K4/kp6/p7/1P6/8/8/7P/8 w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Caruana and Adams join Carlsen and Anand

How would you like to see a chess team with Anand, Carlsen, Adams, and Caruana? Those are some of the names who will play for club OSG Baden-Baden in the German Bundesliga. Amazing! Isn’t it? Fabiano just sent me the following links: http://www.zugzwang.de/ Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Profoundly discriminatory?

The United Kingdom of Many Sporting Entities? GM Jonathan Rowson (Scotland) recently discussed this topic here. Below is the counter view from GM Nigel Short who resides in Athens, Greece: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has five federations in FIDE (England, Scotland, Wales, Jersey and Guernsey) and not four, as stated […]
Kramnik turns 33

Former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik turns 33 today. Here is his brief bio which can be seen on his website (kramnik.com): Born June 25, 1975 in Tuapse (Krasnodar Region/Russia)14th Classical World Chess Champion.Three-time Olympiad winner as a member of the Russian team.Russian Honoured Master of Sport.Three-time winner in World Championship MatchesWorld Chess Champion 2000-2007 Chess […]