Eighth Gibtelecom Chess Festival 2010Tues 26 Jan – Thurs 4 Feb 2010PRESS RELEASE (CHESS) 29 January 2010TRAFFIC JAM IN GIBRALTAR – AND BORIS STEALS THE SHOW Round four in the Gibraltar Masters started with three leaders, Michael Adams, Laurent...
K & P endgame improvement
White to move. Is this a win or draw for White?2k5/1p6/pPp1K3/2P5/1P6/8/8/8 w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
The Final Corus Showdown
Photo by Fred Lucas for the official Corus website It will come down to the final round in the A group. All top 3 leaders have White in the final game. Carlsen will have White against Caruana. Shirov will...
Gibraltar round 6
GM Movsesian, 1/2 point from the lead Round 6 top board pairings: 1 GM Gustafsson, Jan 4.5 GER 2627 – GM Adams, Michael 4.5 ENG 2694 2 GM Bacrot, Etienne 4.0 FRA 2713 – GM Felgaer, Ruben 4.0 ARG...
Adams & Gustafsson lead Gibraltar
Round 5 top board results: 1 GM Sandipan, Chanda 3.5 IND 2622 GM Bacrot, Etienne 3.5 FRA 2713 ½-½ 2 GM Adams, Michael 3.5 ENG 2694 GM Koneru, Humpy 3.5 IND 2614 1-0 3 GM Edouard, Romain 3.5 FRA...
Chinese early success at Moscow Open
Four Chinese snatch victory at “Moscow Chess Open”English.news.cn 2010-01-31 08:11:45 MOSCOW, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — Four out of five Chinese players won their contest on the first day of the International Chess Festival “Moscow Open 2010” here on Saturday....
Have fun and learn
Grade-schoolers test their chess gambitsBy TaLeiza Calloway• January 30, 2010 WAITE PARK — The hallways at Discovery Community School were packed Saturday for the 2010 Regional K-6 Chess Tournament. More than 100 students from 36 schools came to outthink...
Special endgame
White to move. How should White proceed? 3k4/2p5/8/P1pN4/1bP5/8/8/3K4 w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
KR in action
Texas Tech Knight Raiders chess team road trip. And no, they did not throw the snowball at that the Longhorn which was laughing at them 🙂 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Corus standings after 12
In group A, 4 players still mathematically have chances to win the tournament. In group B, Giri already secured at least a tie for 1st. If he can draw Negi with Black in the final round, he will earn...