This is my friend Amy and her son. Amy was the one who introduced me to the world of blogging back in May 23, 2005. Around 18,000 posts have been made since that day around 4 years ago.
Navara just scored his first win to narrow the score to 2-3 against Ivanchuk. Leko will start another chess match in a few days in Miskolc, Hungary. This time it is against Anand. A category 15 event in Lublin just started 2 days ago. The Fischer chess library will be auctioned off soon. Adn the USCF EB Election is underway.
It’s Saturday Open Forum. What would you like to discuss? The forum is yours.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Have the USCF attorneys report Bill Goichberg, Jerry Hanken and Randy Hough to the authority for bribery? Bill Hall said it’s his job to protect the USCF. How come he’s not doing a thing? How come the USCF attorneys aren’t doing anything while wasting over $500,000 of members’ money to go after USCF members, volunteers, board members and delegates? When will this corruption and pattern of abuse of power end?
http://uscf.fiorechess.org/
http://uscf.fiorechess.org/uscfcandidates.html
Good evening chess-friends all around the world!
Today I want to say how the chess openings have changed since the most players work with computers. There are not many romantic games to see in the chess world.
I think the changing of playing never was so fast than today.
Greetings from germany.
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I read this on the Hoboken Chess Club website (http://hobokenchess.tripod.com/). Unfortunately, the link to the original article on IHT no longer exists. What do you think of this story, Susan. Is the situation for “second tier” players this bad?
Hard-up hustlers of the chessboard (International Herald Tribune, France)
Davor Kolmjenovic, born 60 years ago in Zagreb (Croatia), insists he has beaten the world’s number two player Veselin Topalov, but he still eats with his hands. Kolmjenovic, a grandmaster, makes a living of sorts out of playing chess, but he keeps left-over bread wrapped in a napkin. He takes night trains, sometimes hiding in the toilet; sleeps wherever he can, taking sustenance from little fruit packets he buys in food stores.
He makes between €300 and €900 a month, and participates in around 50 chess contests a year, with prizes that range from €20 to €1,500 for the winner. This “fortune” is shared between the 100 or more grandmasters who currently play the chess circuit in Spain. Most of them are Russians, Argentines, Cubans, Serbs, Croats, and from various former states of the Soviet Union.
All of them are ranked among the world’s top 300 players, in a sport which requires at least four hours daily practice. Chess is a mental activity that also demands “soul and spirit, like playing an instrument,” according to Chilean Daniel Barría. Barría plays no instrument. He’s married and has a child. He barely gets by. Barría says that this fight for survival at minor tournaments that give small cash prizes but no points to help climb the international ranking is “a cesspit.”
The “moderators” on FICS (freechess.org) still stink. When your opponent on FICS insults you and you say something back, YOU get banned!
Susan,
What would the fallout be if a chess master was discovered using an electronically implanted device in thier body to cheat at chess?
Has this ever happened in your 38 year career?