Final top 10 standings: # Name Rtng Team Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Tot 1 UMBC-A 2559 UMBC-A W14 [4.0] W13 [3.5] W12 [3.5] W2 [3.0] W5 [2.5] W7 [4.0] 6.0 2-4...
Attacking chess
White to move. How should White proceed?Source: ChessToday.net Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Karpov Chess School Wraps up 2009
Anatoly Karpov International School of Chess106 South Main, Lindsborg, KS 67456 – 785-227-2224www.anatolykarpovchessschool.org Release: Immediate Contact: Wes Fisk – 785-342-1009 Photos Available: Yes – 1 attached – Caption: President Marck Cobb with Anatoly Karpov in Poikovski, Russia Karpov Chess...
FIDE President receives award
FIDE President awarded to the Prize of Government of Russian FederationTuesday, 29 December 2009 07:50 On December 25, FIDE President, Head of Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov took part in a solemn ceremony of prizegiving in the field of...
Wednesday chess tactic
Black to move. How should Black proceed? Source: ChessToday.net Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Grandmaster draws
UTB A and UTD A are the first teams to finish the final round. All games were drawn very quickly. In the mean time, even though UMBC are leading and only need a draw to win the PanAm, they...
Nyzhnyk leads Groningen with 1 to go
Leaders with 1 round to go: 1. Nyzhnyk, Illya 6.5 38.0 30.25 30.5 2494 2702 +2.09 2. Reinderman, Dimitri 6.0 42.0 30.75 31.0 2575 2669 +1.00 Werle, Jan 6.0 42.0 30.00 29.0 2565 2686 +1.25 Deviatkin, Andrei 6.0 32.5...
The Norwegian King
Norwegian teenager to be crowned new chess kingWed Dec 30, 2009 11:25am GMT By Wojciech MoskwaOSLO (Reuters Life!) – The chess world’s new number one 19-year-old Magnus Carlsen plots 20 moves ahead and can remember matches he played six...
Down time
Down Time Finding time to relax key to victory in chessDecember 29, 2009 9:06 PMBy Daniel Perry, Special to the Herald SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — Zachary Sundt can typically be found reading a few pages of a book before...
Practical endgame
White to move. How should White proceed?Source: ChessToday.net Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar