Carlsen and Ivanchuk shared 1st place at the 2010 Amber Rapid and Blindfold tournament. Ben Finegold and Mackenzie Molner tied for 1st at the 25th NA Masters. Molner earned his final IM norm and 1st GM norm. Former World...
Smyslov just passed away at 89
Smyslov was a wonderful player and truly a gentleman. He will be missed by our chess community. My condolences to his family. Décès de Vassily Smyslov, 7e champion du monde d’échecs Le champion du monde d’échecs Vassily Smyslov est...
Interview with GM Evgeny Alekseev
Interview with GM Evgeny Alekseevby Alexander Kruglikov for Sankt-Petersburg VedomostyPresented by Chessdom.com The European Individual Chess Championship in Rijeka was not only to determine the best chess players of the continent, they are Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi and Sweden’s Pia...
Lilit to play in Rector’s Cup
Lilit Mkrtchyan to partake in the “Rector’s Cup” tournament Saturday, March 27 The Armenian Grand Master Lilit Mkrtchyan will partake in the “Rector’s Cup” chess tournament which will be held in Kharkov on March 26-29. As the Armenian Chess...
Exceptional strategic intuition
Norwegian phenom baffles his foesSaturday, March 27, 2010 2:51 AM Garry Kasparov once suggested that Bobby Fischer was a modern centaur: half-human and half-chess. A similar metaphor can be used with 19-year-old Magnus Carlsen, the top-rated player in the...
Classic overnight chess tactic
White to move. What is the best continuation for White? 8/5n2/8/p7/k7/B7/1KP1B1n1/8 w – – 0 1 Pogosiants, 1963 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Fan Yun and Andrew Hubbard win WACC
Photo by Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis Fan Yun (Indiana) won the 2010 Women’s World Amateur Chess Champion on tiebreaks over Anu Bayar of Mongolia. For this victory, she is awarded the WFM title, a FIDE...
FIDE Elections 2010
FIDE Elections 2010Friday, 26 March 2010 14:58 For the upcoming FIDE elections in Khanty-Mansiysk this September, the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has announced that he will seek re-election for the term 2010-2014. The former World Champion Anatoly Karpov has...
A mammoth challenge
Karpov for president Anatoly Karpov has announced that he will stand for the FIDE Presidency in a move that could radically change the governance of the game which has been in a parlous state for many years. By Malcolm...
Finegold, Molner win 25th NA Masters
Final standings: 1st – 2nd – GM Ben Finegold, Mackenzie Molner (GM norm and final IM norm) – 6.5/93rd – GM Atanas Kolev – 6/94th – 7th – GM Nikola Mitkov, GM Vladimir Georgiev, GM Mesgen Amanov,Siddarth Ravichandran (Final...