Interview with WIM Marina Brunello Frederic Sellier profiled the young Italian star WIM Marina Brunello on his Pokemon Chess blog. Frederic Sellier: Hi Marina, can you introduce you to our French readers? Marina Brunello: Bonjour! I’m Marina Brunello, 17...
CEWN Nr3 is out now!
The 3rd edition of CEWN, written by GM Naiditsch and GM Balogh, is now out. It contains the 4 best games of the week, an interesting endgame study, a surprise section, and a rare game of the great Mikhail...
Top-ranked star just wants some fun
On Chess: Top-ranked star just wants some funSaturday March 17, 2012 7:34 AM Twenty-one-year-old Magnus Carlsen, the highest-rated player in the world, hates to lose. It’s not an unusual mindset for a successful chess player or athlete. It puts...
46 players over 2700
Aronian is only about 10 points lower than Carlsen while Caruana passed Nakamura for the #6 spot on the current LIVE rating list. Current LIVE rating list # Name Rating +/− Games Age 1 Carlsen 2835.0 0.0 0 21...
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Women’s World Rapid and Blitz Championship 2012
REGULATIONSfor the Women’s World Rapid and Blitz Championship 2012Dates: 30 May – 06 June 2012Place: Batumi, Georgia The event is organized and conducted by the ACP and the Georgian Chess Federation and approved by FIDE.Format Rapid Swiss, 11 roundsBlitz...
Kasparov Loses Political Chess Match
Kasparov Loses Political Chess MatchFriday, 16 Mar 2012 06:40 PM By Lev Navrozov Garry Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the greatest chess player of our time. In 1985, at age 22, Kasparov became the youngest-ever...
Robson wins Dallas Invitational by a full point
Ray Robson, an incoming freshman at Webster University / SPICE in August 2012, just won the Dallas Invitational by a full point. GMs Kacheishvili and Lenderman tied for 2nd with 6 points. Final standings 1 Ray Robson 7 26.75...
Businessman holds record with chess-set collection
Businessman holds record with chess-set collectionISTANBUL – DoÄŸan News Agency Turkish businessman Akın Gökyay’s collection of 412 chess sets is in the Guinness Book of Records. Part of the collection, which he has gathered from some 100 countries on...