It’s Saturday Open Forum. The Baku Grand Prix is almost half way done and the unexpected leaders are Grischuk and Wang Yue. The #1 seed Carlsen and his rival Karjakin are both tied for 7th to 10th place with an even score. The young Bulgarian star Cheparinov started out with 0 point in the first 4 games.
Speaking of Bulgaria, Plovdiv is hosting the European Individual Chess Championship and GM Sutovsky of Israel is leading with a perfect 4/4 score.
Today is the first annual Lubbock Open. About 100 players are expected to show up. Lubbock Mayor David Miller will be on hand to open this special event.
It’s Saturday Open Forum. The forum is yours.
Lubbock is incredibly lucky to have this chess tournament!
Alisa who just scored her IM norm at the north american fide invitational in chicago. Susan men and women should have the same norm requirements as in they should do away with the womens titles WFM WIM and WGM why you ask well what is the difference between a man and a woman playing chess nothing if you ask me. So get rid of those womens titles and just have universal FM IM and GM titles.
I would like to say that perhaps the previous anon 8:06 am cdt is correct because if that were true we would see Yi FanHou would be an International Master. I suspect that China hasn’t applied for the title. Unrelated; how come there is no coverage of Girls Nationals. Perhaps the USCF will cover but I was hoping for monroi coverage as its founder is female, but alas it was not to be.
is it tru urt leavin to go back to ur country hungry i will cewrtainly miss u
Is it common in European tournaments to allow players to take half-point byes? It looks like Vallejo got a half point in the first round of the European Championship for being tied up elsewhere, but the FIDE handbook C.04.2 would seem to prohibit giving points for unplayed games. The tournament regs don’t make any provision for it.
The girl’s national had something like 200 pre-registered. First prize is a UT Dallas academic scholarship worth $65,000 give or take. Info is at
http://www.dallaschess.com/
“First prize is a UT Dallas academic scholarship worth $65,000 give or take.”
Just $65,000? That is chump change for the University of Texas!
Come on guys! You can do better than that!