White to move. What is the most effective continuation for White? Can you solve it in 45 seconds or less?2r2r2/1p4kp/5bp1/p2B4/nn2Pp2/3q1PN1/1P5Q/K1R3R1 w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Chess in beautiful Ikaria islands
Beautiful photos from Ikaria islands – report provided by chessdom The Ikaria islands will be the venue of a major chess festival The summer is almost here, the season for combining chess with vacation. A perfect match of those...
25th anniversary of Chess
Players’ ambitious production10 April 2009 ABBA mania continues to dominate the Marina Theatre future line-up as the Lowestoft Players forthcoming musical Chess illustrates what happened to the talented song writing team of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, after the...
Oregon Scholastic Chess Championship
SATURDAYDaily Astorian Oregon Scholastic Chess Federation State Championship, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Seaside Civic and Convention Center, 415 First Ave. in Seaside. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Hungarian Chess Federation denounces organizer
It is sad to see many players suffer from this unfortunate situation. After receiving an email from IM Robert Ris earlier today, I personally offered him an invitation to participate in the 2009 SPICE Cup B group to be...
Positional chess understanding
This is the position I showed yesterday on this blog. Below is the analysis done by world famous chess author IM Mark Dvoretsky for www.ChessCafe.com. The Worst-Piece Principle Secrets of Positional Play, by M. Dvoretsky and A. Yusupov (the...
Macworld Chess
Play chess old school styleby Rob Griffiths, Macworld.comMacworld – San Francisco, CA, USA It’s not hard to count the number of bundled games in OS X (not counting games available via Terminal). The total count is one—Chess, which you’ll...
DC Titletown
Chess Master Larry Kaufman Turns DC Into TitletownPosted by Dave McKenna on Apr. 10, 2009, at 10:15 am In chess, DC has never threatened Moscow or New York as the talent epicenter. But these days our town is as...
Uni High
Uni High chess team takes top honorsBy Paul WoodFriday, April 10, 2009 8:00 AM CDTUrbana/Champaign News-Gazette – Champaign, IL, USA URBANA – They liked winning state so much, Uni chess players decided to go to the nationals. And University...
UCO Chess and Games Club
The VistaChess Club makes a moveBy Caleb McWilliams, Staff Writer Published: Thursday, April 9, 2009Updated: Thursday, April 9, 2009 The UCO Chess and Games Club will host its first annual Chess tournament Saturday, April 18th. The tournament begins at...