2008 is winding down.
Anand became the undisputed World Champion. But Topalov ends the year with the #1 ranking. Carlsen excites the fans and media with his meteoric rise. Morozevich and Ivanchuk also had their incredible moments.
Armenia captured Gold again at the Dresden Olympiad while Georgia regained the top spot in the Women’s Olympiad.
Linares? Corus? Bilbao? Nanjing? What are some of the other biggest global chess stories in 2008?
It’s Saturday Open Forum. The forum is yours. What would you like to discuss?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
for me, the most interesting event in chess is Bilbao and Casino Barcelona 2008, the matches are very exciting’s and is a pleasure nice to meet you (susan).
biggest event has to be Bonn match
The biggest story is the near bankrupt USCF under the hands of Goichberg, Bauer, Berry, Hall and Hough. They’re the biggest abuser of USCF members’ funds in history. I’d like to see Bauer, Goichberg and Hough paying for legal fees from their own pockets instead of milking from members and hiding the USCF wall.
USCF Lifer
USCF Lifer
The biggest story of the year is the crazy net kooks who wish to harass and destroy chess.
Let it be on the record that one man is responsible for destroying the the US Cycling Federation is deiscovered to be attacking the US Chess Federation’s board members.
USCF Members should unite to form a class action lawsuit against this man. An attack on a USCF Board Member is an attack on the USCF.
Members unite!
Susan:
I think the biggest story was here on your blog when in April you fooled everyone about moving back to Hungary and representing them in the Olympiad. Also that your SPICE program was changing to MICE.
It ruffled alot of feathers, but we all got a laugh about the entire situation.
🙂
I find it interesting that the kooks with the biggest mouths are fighting like crazy to avoid testifying in court in Texas. I wonder why? What a bunch of loud mouth cowards.
As they say, don’t mess with Texas. The entire USCF membership is looking forward to the day when these thugs are nailed to the wall.
If Laugherty is a man, he wouldn’t run from Texas. Of course we all know that he’s a nobody in chess. I wonder what the school board is saying after they read 106 pages of his disgusting posts.
Why do you guys waste your time talking about this idiot? He’s nothing but a jackass troll.
The biggest story of the year is the discovery that the fur between Chucky’s eyes is actually his fraternal siamese twin brother who only developed as an eyebrow. The eyebrow’s rating is well over 2700 and can only be activated when Chucky is enebriated. Other cases of fraternal siamese twins have been discovered. It is rumored that Laugherty has a siamese twin brother too, here is a video of it: CLICK HERE!
I think the little guy is cuter than the jackass.
The biggest story is the fact the New York Times is going bankrupt.
Maybe McLame can get his old job back at his high school newspaper.