DeShawn Williams, left, makes his move as Riley Holman thinks Friday morning during a chess tournament at the Boys and Girls Club in Dothan. Local students compete in chess tournamentBy Jim CookPublished: April 17, 2009 The usual hub-bub at...
Interview with GM-elect Hess
Interview with GM-elect Robert Hess By Jennifer Shahade April 17, 2009 Robert Hess’s Spring 2009 streak began with the SPICE Spring Invitational (March 16-22, Lubbock, Texas), where Robert scored his second GM norm. A week later in Nashville, Robert...
Grischuk takes over sole lead in Nalchik
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 1. Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2748 * . . . . . . . ½ . 1 . 1 . 2½ 2. Karjakin, Sergey g...
Chessdom Karjakin update
Sergey Karjakin moves to Moscow, changes to Russia Chess FederationReport by www.Chessdom.com Grandmaster Dmitry Komarov for Fakti newspaper Following the news that Sergey Karjakin will transfer to the Russian chess federation, “Fakti” correspondent GM Dmitry Komarov spoke with Sergey’s...
Ivanisevic wins Serbian Championship by 3 pts
Final standings: 1. GM Ivanisevic (2649) 11½ / 132-3. GMs Perunovic (2570), Drazic (2489) 8½4-5. GMs Pikula (2524), Vuckovic (2556) 86-7. GMs Miladinovic (2604), Bogosavljevic (2492) 78. GM Antic (2513) 6½9. GM Damljanovic (2582) 5½10-11. GMs Rajkovic (2486), Sedlak...
Friday chess tactic
Black to move. How should Black proceed? Source: ChessToday.net Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Karjakin hands Aronian 1st loss
Round 3 (4-17-09) – Nalchik Grand Prix Grischuk, Alexander – Kasimdzhanov, Rustam 1-0 Karjakin, Sergey – Aronian, Levon 1-0 Alekseev, Evgeny – Eljanov, Pavel 1-0 Bacrot, Etienne – Svidler, Peter ½-½ Ivanchuk, Vassily – Gelfand, Boris ½-½ Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar...
YouTube generation
Another 12 million people saw this video since yesterday! Every day, the interwebs is filled with an interminable supply of crap and one cool thing. Like a jet-powered bloodhound, this blog seeks out and posts that one thing. On...
No tie for Armenian players
No tie for Armenian players11:59 am Today Sports Leading Armenian chess players Levon Aronyan and Vladimir Hakobyan faced off in the 2nd round of the FIDE Gran-Prix tournament taking place in Nalchik. A tied game was foreseen in the...
Aronian was a boy of 14-15
VLADIMIR HAKOPIAN: “WHEN I WAS WINNING, ARONIAN WAS A BOY OF 14-15” In the second round of FIDE “Grand Prix” tournament Levon Aronian and Vladimir Hakopian set was hard enough. In the end, Levon Aronian won his Armenian elder...