White to move. Is it a win or draw? 8/6QK/8/8/8/8/7p/7k w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Chess Olympiad history
I just recently found some very interesting Chess Olympiad statistics: Best individual results in Men’s Olympiads # Player Country Olymp. Games Won Drawn Lost % Medals 1 Mikhail Tal Soviet Union 8 101 65 34 2 81.2 5 –...
Acropolis 2009
INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT ACROPOLIS 2009 Chalkida – Greece 10-18 August 2009 PRESS RELEASE 3 The 24th ICT Acropolis 2009 begins! With the participation of 26 Grandmasters, 20 International Masters, 10 FIDE Masters, 12 Women Grandmasters, 8 Women International Masters,...
My Tromsø experience
Farewell dinner with Arctic chess main organizer, acting Mayor of Tromsø, members of 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad Commitee, and the Norwegian Chess Federation My impression of the city of Tromsø: It is absolutely a beautiful city. It is quite...
More arctic chess tactic
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Garry Kasparov, Karpov, Korchnoi and Judit in Zurich
Press Release / Zurich, 6 August 2009 Celebrating 200 Years of the Schachgesellschaft Zürich — Events Begin on Sunday Sunday, 9 August 2009, heralds the start of the events around the 200-year anniversary of the Schachgesellschaft Zürich. The events...
Interview with European Champ
Interview with the European Chess Champion Evgeny Tomashevskyby WGM Natalia PogoninaChessdom.com The Chessdom.com commentator WGM Natalia Pogonina interviewed the 2009 European Chess Champion Evgeny Tomashevsky in Saratov in the beginning of the month. GM Tomashevsky was happy to share...
3 tie for the lead at Euro Chess 2009
The Euro Chess Tournament is Europe’s largest Open Youth Chess tournament. From the 3th until the 8th of August 2009, over 500 children will battle on the chess board for the 35th Open Dutch Youth Chess Championship titles. Parallel...
High hopes for Pinoy chess team
Pichay has high hopes for Pinoy chess teamabs-cbnNEWS.com 08/07/2009 4:29 PM MANILA — National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) president Prospero “Butch” Pichay Jr. believes the country’s three-man contingent to the World Chess Cup (World Chess Championships) in...
The unstoppable Krasenkow
After 7 rounds, Polish GM Krasenkow is leading the Menu13th Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament by 1.5 point with the score of 7/7!! Here are the leaders after 7 rounds: Rank Name Score M/F Rating TPR W-We BH SB 1 2...