Black to move. Is this a win, draw, or loss for Black? How should Black proceed? No computer analysis please. Source: ChessToday.net Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Karjakin v Shirov, Grischuk v Aronian in round 1
Who is the favorite to win the Bilbao Grand Slam Final? Aronian Grischuk Shirov Karjakin Click here to vote. Here are some additional details of the Bilbao Grand Slam Final: Scoring system3 – Points per win1 – Point per...
HIARCS for iPod Touch
I was invited by Mark to try the HIARCS program for my iPod Touch earlier today. I must say that I am not very adept with the features of my iPod Touch. Once I found the application to download,...
Picture of the day
The litter of four male and four female pups was the first for Rosie, whose full name is Sukanto My Fair Lady. Source: http://www.pawnation.com/ Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Poland ties, USA loses to Russia
Round 4 on 2009/09/05 at 14:30 Bo. 10 American Team Rtg – 7 Russian Team Rtg 1 : 3 1.1 IM Krush Irina 2458 – IM Kosintseva Tatiana 2536 ½ – ½ 1.2 IM Zatonskykh Anna 2462 – IM...
Upcoming FIDE events
World Women’s Team Championship 2009 Ningbo, China 1-Sep-2009 12-Sep-2009 World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2009 Akhisar, Turkey 24-Sep-2009 2-Oct-2009 Women’s FIDE Grand Prix Series Nanjing, China 27-Sep-2009 9-Oct-2009 World Junior Chess Championship B/G 2009 Mar del Plata, Argentina 21-Oct-2009...
Sandipan leads Kolkata Open
Leaders after 5 rounds: Rk. Name FED Rtg Pts. 1 GM Sandipan Chanda IND 2611 4,5 2 GM Safarli Eltaj AZE 2587 4,0 3 GM Panchanathan Magesh Chandran IND 2532 4,0 4 GM Le Quang Liem VIE 2602 4,0...
Saturday Open Forum
The Grand Slam Final will begin tomorrow. Bacrot and Naiditsch are leading a strong Montreal Invitational. Georgia and Poland are leading the Women’s World Team Championship in China. The US Women’s Team is not faring very well after 4...
62nd Higher League Russian Championship 2009
Leaders after 3 rounds: 1. Riazantsev, Alexander g RUS 2646 3 2. Kokarev, Dmitry g RUS 2630 3 3. Shimanov, Aleksandr g RUS 2508 2½ 4. Galkin, Alexander g RUS 2608 2½ 5. Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2668 2½...
Saturday chess tactic
White to move. What is the plan for White? How should White continue? 6k1/5rpn/bpRp3p/p4p2/3NpP1P/2QqP1P1/1P3KB1/8 w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar