White to move. Is this a win or draw? Try not to check with your computer please 🙂 k3r2q/P1Q5/8/1K6/8/8/8/6R1 w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
It’s good for children
Learning chess is no ‘checkmate’ at libraryBy LAURA ARCHAZKI-PACTER4:20 p.m., Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Kings, queens, bishops and knights will command youthful attention during special chess classes at the new Golden Gate Library. A first for the community, the...
Chess, chess, and chess in Lubbock, Texas
The Susan Polgar Foundation / SPICE, the Lubbock Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the City of Lubbock just placed 2 permanent giant chess sets inside the passenger terminal at the Lubbock International Airport (one on each end of the...
WWC history
# – Name – Year – M (Match format) – KO (Knockout) – Country 1. Vera Menchik 1927–1944 (M) Czechoslovakia / United Kingdom2. Lyudmila Rudenko 1950–1953 (M) Soviet Union (Ukraine)3. Elisabeth Bykova 1953–1956 (M) Soviet Union (Russia)4. Olga Rubtsova...
Difficult endgame
Black to move. Can Black hold this or is it hopeless? 5n2/4kP2/8/3K1R2/8/8/8/8 b – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Tight race at Pichay Cup
Pichay chess: Paragua, Bitoon in logjam at secondBy Roy LuarcaPhilippine Daily InquirerFirst Posted 02:28:00 09/17/2008 MANILA, Philippines—Grandmaster Mark Paragua carried the fight for the Filipinos on Monday in the fourth Prospero Pichay Cup international chess championship at the Duty...
Investing serious money for students’ future
Check mate! Chess thrives in Idaho grade schoolsBy JESSIE L. BONNER – 7 hours ago COUNCIL, Idaho (AP) — The elementary school at the edge of this rural town has a playground that boasts little more than a swing...
Kosteniuk draws final game, wins WWC
GM Kosteniuk (2510) – GM-elect Hou (2557) [B45]WWC – Nalchik, 14.09.2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Be2 Be7 8.0–0 a6 9.a4 0–0 10.f4 Qc7 11.Kh1 Bd7 12.Nb3 b6 13.Qe1 Bc8 14.Qg3 Bb7...
One game for all the marbles
GM Kosteniuk (2510) – GM-elect Hou (2557) [B45]WWC – Nalchik, 14.09.2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Be2 Be7 8.0–0 a6 9.a4 0–0 10.f4 Qc7 11.Kh1 Bd7 12.Nb3 b6 13.Qe1 Bc8 14.Qg3 Bb7...