Cape man is South Africa’s first chess grandmasterSeptember 11 2012 at 10:01amBy Aziz Hartley Cape Town – A Mitchells Plain father who grew up in the township and played his first game of chess at 13, has become South...
Congratulations to Sevillano for earning GM title!
3rd GM NORM FOR CEBUANO ENRICO SEVILLANO AT 21ST METROPOLITAN CHESS FIDE INVITATIONALBy Marlon BernardinoPhilBoxing.comMon, 13 Aug 2012FILIPINO Enrico Sevillano (ELO 2526) won the 21st Metropolitan Chess FIDE Invitational and a Grandmaster norm during the 10-player round-robin tournament held...
New Indian GM
Sahaj Grover becomes Grandmaster Athens (Greece), Aug 12, 2012, (PTI): Former under-10 world champion Sahaj Grover completed the formalities to become a Grandmaster defeating Jorge Cori of Peru in the ninth round of the World Junior Chess Championship here....
Webster SPICE added another 2600+ GM
The SPICE program at Webster University has just added another 2600+ (FIDE rated) GM and Olympian to the team. He will be the 8th Grandmaster (from 8 different countries) in our current roster of titled players. This represents Webster...
Aiming for the GM title
Aiming for international grandmaster July 05, 2012, 05:00 AM By Heather Murtagh Daily Journal Staff Height isn’t normally an attribute one associates with playing chess well, but it’s come in handy for 16-year-old Daniel Naroditsky in recent years. Naroditsky’s...
Battling for a spot in the Olympiad team
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...
Grandmasters March to Skokie
Chess Grandmasters March to SkokieBy Kyel MatthewsSaturday at 5:10 p.m. Without question Skokie is the epicenter of chess in the Greater Chicagoland area. The vibrations felt in the cities surrounding it are caused by elite chess Grandmasters marching their...
Grandmaster at 15
Grandmaster at 15, Vaibhav makes rapid movesShivani Naik : Mumbai, Fri May 04 2012, 00:13 hrs It’s difficult to guess the voice on the other end is of a 15-year-old. Or, 15 years, 2 months, and 22 days-old to...
Vaibhav Suriis India’s latest GM
Vaibhav Suriis India’s latest GMMay 01, 2012 – S. Sujatha Vaibhav Suri is like a whiff of fresh air to Indian chess. The 10th standard student of Modern School, Barakhamba Road, joined the grandmaster club in the country by...