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Top US players
Top 10 overall # Name Title Fed Rating G B-Year 1 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2717 22 1974 2 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2710 35 1987 3 Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2699 34 1975 4 Shulman, Yuri g USA...
New FIDE rating lists
Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2813 10 1975 2 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2788 2 1969 3 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2772 12 1990 4 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2768 13 1982...
Italian Youth Chess Championship
Italian Youth Chess ChampionshipReport by Adolivio Capece and Gustavo KuzelChessdom.com The U16 Italian Youth Chess Championship for girls and boys started on Monday June 29th, in Courmayeur, a beautiful mountain town in Aosta Valley. There are almost 900 participants,...
Quebec Invitational
Quebec InvitationalMontreal, Canada Final Standings 1. GM Kovalyov (ARG) – 7½/92. GM Bluvshtein (CAN) – 73. GM Bhat (USA)- 6½4. IM Roussel Roozmon (CAN) – 5½5. GM Sambuev (RUS)- 4½6. FM Barbeau (CAN) – 3½7-8. IM Castellanos (ESP) and...
Former chess world champ to play convicts
Former chess world champ to play convicts30 June, 2009, 12:31 Chess grandmaster and former undisputed champion of the world, Anatoly Karpov, will play an online chess tournament with a Krasnoyarsk prisoner Sergey Bryukhov and his fellow inmates. Bryukhov’s participation...
Young wiz battling it out
Press Release 30 June 2009 Young masters battle it out South Africa hosts the inaugural African Youth Chess Championship The African Youth Chess Championship takes place at the Rochester House in Salt River, Cape Town, from Wednesday to 09...
35th Mercantile Bank National Chess Championship
Final round of National Chess Championship beginsInternet Edition. June 30, 2009,Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM UNB, DhakaThe final round of the 35th Mercantile Bank National Chess Championship, organized by Bangladesh Chess Federation and sponsored by Mercantile Bank Limited, began...
Helping children
Trusting children By Jennifer Rodrigo Mature minds are a product of age, some think. With tears-filled eyes and an aching heart, Karoshee Nathasha Vijayasekere, as a young child, sat before the TV in France watching the hopelessness of children...