White to move. What is the best continuation for White? 3Q3R/4rqp1/6k1/4Pp1p/1p3P1P/1P2P3/p1n2K2/8 w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
From Victim to a (chess playing) Congressman

From Victim to Congressman By Carlos Isagani T. ZaratePhilippine Daily InquirerFirst Posted 17:43:00 09/18/2010 UNTIL now, he still favors Ruy Lopez, the Spanish Opening in chess popularized by and named after a 16th century Spanish clergyman and chess enthusiast. “I may be progressive and aggressive as a lawyer, but as a chess player, I’m conservative,” […]
GM Naumkin rules Livigno Open

Classifica al turno 9 Pos Pts ID T NAME Rtg PRtg Buc1 BucT ARO 1 7.5 6 GM Naumkin Igor 2483 2691 43.50 47.00 2418.11 2 7.0 8 IM Arnaudov G. Petar 2442 2634 45.50 49.00 2413.56 3 6.0 2 GM Rotstein Arkadij 2542 2501 46.00 49.50 2376.00 4 6.0 3 GM Cordova Emilio 2539 […]
Ready to challenge

All lined up and ready for the world chess challengeBy Jo Hutchison JERSEY is sending what is considered to be its strongest ever team to compete in the World Chess Olympics. Polish players Marcin Mazurkiewicz, Alan Rosenbeiger and Krzysztof Belzo – the Jersey chess champion – and English-born Paul Wojciechowski and Tito Kahn, from Bangladesh, […]
Escape artists

Top performers are escape artistsSaturday, September 18, 2010 02:57 AMThe Columbus Dispatch Defense is supreme in chess – especially in difficult positions, said Anatoly Karpov, world champion from 1975 to 1985. It wins games and leads to world titles. There were, he said, few specialists of the art in his heyday. Veselin Topalov said he […]
Nepali players head to Russia

Chess team off to RussiaAdded At: 2010-09-18 8:00 PMLast Updated At: 2010-09-18 8:00 PM KATHMANDU: An eight-member team of Nepali chess players left for Russia on Saturday to take part in the 39th chess Olympiad. Five players and three officials are in the team. Rajesh Hari Joshi, chairman, and Nabin Tandukar, vice chairman, of Nepal […]
Lahno wins 2010 Women’s World Blitz Championship

My reign as the Women’s World Blitz Champion is now officially passed on to GM Kateryna Lahno of Ukraine. After 29 (of 30 rounds), Kateryna has clinched the title. Congratulations to GM Kateryna Lahno, the new Chess Queen of Blitz Chess! No. Title Name Fed. FIDE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 […]
Lahno continues to dominate WWBC

Standings after 25 (of 30) rounds: No. Title Name Fed. FIDE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total 1 GM Lahno, Kateryna UKR 2539 X 2.0 1.0 1.0 1.5 0.0 1.0 1.5 0.5 1.0 2.0 2.0 1.5 1.0 1.0 2.0 19.0 2 GM Stefanova, Antoaneta […]