Ikrom Ilhomzoda suffers setback in Grand Master questDubai-based chess prodigy can only finish fifth in Tajikistan’s National ChampionshipBy Ashley Hammond, Staff ReporterPublished: 14:41 June 28, 2012 Dubai: Dubai-based Ikrom Ilhomzoda may have experienced “the worst moment of his chess...
The art of chess has somewhat lost its influence in Russia lately
Alexander Zhukov: “Calculate your life 20 moves ahead”Igor Siletsky, Olga PshenitsynaJun 28, 2012 16:21 Moscow TimeThe art of chess has somewhat lost its influence in Russia lately. The country no longer has the same standing in the world of...
8 year old lioness
Chess queen is just 8By Grant WelkerPosted: 06/27/2012 06:39:12 AM EDT CHELMSFORD — Percy Yip first taught his daughter chess when she was 6, but she wasn’t supposed to be able to beat him within a year. She did,...
Child’s game
Children engage in a battle of witsBy Linda HarkcomPublished: Thursday, June 28, 2012, 12:34 a.m. On Saturday mornings at the Mt. Pleasant Public Library, children engage in a baffle of wits as they face off against one another in...
Closing out chess tactic
White to move. How should white proceed? Source: ChessToday.net Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Being Chess World’s Youngest (W) Grandmaster
June 27, 2012 Kazakhstan’s chess body has posited a case for making a 12-year-old Kazakh schoolgirl the youngest female grandmaster in the world. Zhansaya Abdimalik, sporting a baseball cap and the composure of a veteran, was introduced to the...
More money for Nigerian players
NBPlc Increases Prize Money of Chess Players28 Jun 2012 The annual Nigerian Breweries International Open Chess Championship received a major boost Wednesday following the upward review in the prizes in all the categories of play by the sponsor. The...
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U.S. News Kicks Off STEM Solutions Summit in DallasBy Jason KoeblerJune 27, 2012 U.S. News & World Report has spent the past year highlighting the complex science, technology, engineering, and math education problem in the United States, in which...
FIDE President and Vitaly Klitschko to have joint press conference
FIDE President and Vitaly Klitschko to have joint press conference in Kiev On June 26 the FIDE President visited Cherkassy in Ukraine and met with the leadership of Virtual Intellectual Products, developer of “Geo-social games” project. A joint press...
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Representing Webster University at the US News & World Report STEM Conference in Dallas. I will be one of the panelists at this event.STEMx National Network Launched at STEM Solutions EventBy Jason KoeblerJune 27, 2012 RSS Feed Print DALLAS—To...