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The future of the chess world
Here are the top juniors in the world: 1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2775 16 1990 2 Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2727 27 1990 3 Wang, Hao g CHN 2691 28 1989 4 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2681 35...
Early problems for Pan-Am Youth
The 2008 Pan-Am Youth Championship is held in Cordoba, Argentina from June 29 to July 6, 2008. A number of our players and their parents were not able to get to the playing site of the 2008 Pan-Am Youth...
Russia has 2 new #1
Morozevich became the #2 ranked player in the world and #1 in Russia in the July 2008 list with a rating of 2788, which is the same as Kramnik. However, he is listed higher because of the FIDE tie-break...
29 over 2700 in the July 2008 list
Here are the players who are rated over 2700. There are 29 of them!! Rank Name Country Rating 1 Anand, Viswanathan IND 27982 Morozevich, Alexander RUS 27883 Kramnik, Vladimir RUS 27884 Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR 27815 Topalov, Veselin BUL 27776...
Chess anyone?
Boogie and Lucky getting to know each other in chess 🙂 This was the first ever meeting between them. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
And the players rest
Standings after 2 rounds: 1-3. Kramnik, Leko, Gustafsson 1½4-5. Mamedyarov, Nepomniachtchi 16-8. Ivanchuk, van Wely, Naiditsch ½ I am not sure why there is a need to have a rest day after 2 rounds for a 7 round tournament....
Serbia announced Olympiad Team
Serbian Olympiad Team Announced GM Branko Damljanovic retires from the national team, Ivan Ivanisevic is the new leader Captain of the Serbian men’s national team, FM Moma Vucicevic, has completed the list of players for the upcoming Dresden Chess...
Troitsky brain teaser
Troitsky 1911, presented by Andreas White to move. How should White proceed?8/2B5/p4q2/4N2p/4Pp1k/8/P5PK/8 w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Big turn out in South Carolina Open
Ninety chess players appeared at the South Carolina Open (three sections) held in Greenville, S.C., over the weekend. The improved attendance (65 appeared in 2007) allowed the Greenville Chess Club to pay out 145% of the guaranteed minimum prizes....