Interview with Tania Sachdev Whoever says beauty and brains are unlikely to be found in one place, has to take one look at this 24-year old chess prodigy. Holding titles like Woman Grandmaster and International Master, Tania’s talent is obvious when she is playing this brain sport, which doesn’t make her boring at all! Known […]
Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade. […]
Thursday chess tactic

White to move. How can White save this game? k2rR3/p2q2p1/Bp5p/2pp3Q/3Pb3/6P1/n2r2PK/6R1 w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Opposing views

ECU responds to the Gaziantep offer, TCF unhappy with the answerMr.Yazici commented on the ECU letter and several other topicsProvided by Chessdom The Turkish Chess Federation, originally licensed to host the 2011 European Individual Women Chess Championship in Gaziantep, withdrew from the organization of the tournament on late December. Those events were described in an […]
Ivanchuk wins Gibraltar with 9/10!

Super GM Ivanchuk has just captured the 2011 Gibraltar title after defeating GM Daniel Fridman in the final round. His final score is 9 points with 8 wins and 2 draws. His performance is nearly 3,000!! This is another spectacular result by the amazing Ivanchuk! Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Fighting Alzheimer’s disease

(Photo: Reuters) Roger Ferry, a member of the French chess federation, attends the French-Russian seniors chess tournament in the final round of a giant scientific experiment to see if intellectual activity can help prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease in La Gaude, southeastern France, December 7, 2010. The final match was played by teleconference, with […]
Gibraltar LIVE games – Final round
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Meet the newest Grandmaster

Monday 24 January – Thursday 3 February 2011PRESS RELEASE OFFICIAL BULLETIN 3 FEBRUARY 2011ROUND 9: GIBRALTAR MASTERSJohn Saunders reports: Vassily Ivanchuk and Nigel Short both won their games for the second successive day, so the tournament looks increasingly like a two-man shoot-out between the Ukrainian and the Englishman. Late in the round the darkness returned […]
Special endgame improvement

White to move. Is this a win or draw? How should White proceed? 8/6P1/8/8/3k4/2b2BK1/1p6/8 w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar