What Chess Owes Bobby FischerFebruary 18th, 2011 at 7:45 pm Peter Worthington When Bobby Fischer died in Iceland in 2008, at age 64, it ended one of the most bizarre lives of our times; one that really has no parallels. What most people know of Bobby Fisher is that he was a chess genius (IQ […]
Success in Italy
Filipino GM Salvador shares 1st place in Italy chess tournamentCebu Daily NewsFirst Posted 08:55:0002/19/2011 Final Standings: 7.0 points—GM Aleksey Dreev (Russia/ELO 2694), GM Alberto David (Luxembourg/ELO 2580), GM Roland Salvador (Philippines/ELO 2533) 6.5 points—GM Aleksander Delchev (Bulgaria/ELO 2629), GM Oleg Romanishin (Russia/ELO 2576), GM Ivan Sokolov (Netherlands/2657), GM Eduardas Rozentalis (Lithuania/ELO 2588), GM Michele Godena […]
Early morning coffee chess tactic
White to move. How should White proceed? 1k4r1/2R5/1PP5/3N4/2KP3P/8/7r/6q1 w – – 0 2 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar