Pitching a Perfect Chess Game Posted: 8/21/11 08:54 PM ET Lubomir Kavalek International Chess Grandmaster Asked to name his best game, the legendary Bobby Fischer pointed to his encounter with Donald Byrne from the Rosenwald Trophy in New York...
Long Live the Chess King

Long Live the Chess KingPosted: 7/22/11 03:12 PM ET Chess sometimes becomes a beautiful game even in the eyes of those who don’t play it. Find a charming town, bring back its glorious past, turn people into chess pieces,...
No chest-pounding, no cheerleaders, just win quietly

Texas Tech Wins Final Four of ChessPosted: 04/ 4/11 08:38 PM ETLubomir KavalekInternational Chess Grandmasterwww.huffingtonpost.com You don’t see spectacular hoops and dunks and scoring is not done in twos or threes. No chest-pounding, no cheerleaders. The four-corner offense or...
The new, the old, and following the footsteps of a legend

Lubomir KavalekInternational Chess GrandmasterPosted: January 12, 2011 03:50 PM New and Old Chess ChampionsAs we enter the new decade, the chess world is ruled by a middle-aged man and a teenage girl.A twenty-something phenom presides over the world’s ratings...
The Man With Too Much Chess Talent

The Man With Too Much Chess TalentLubomir KavalekInternational Chess GrandmasterPosted: December 2, 2010 11:32 AM Dragoljub Velimirovic used to be one of the world’s most feared attackers, always looking for the impossible. His imaginative play was compared to the...
One of the best

Chess Great Bent Larsen DiesLubomir KavalekInternational Chess GrandmasterPosted: September 11, 2010 12:57 AM Just one day before the world’s top-rated grandmaster Magnus Carlsen of Norway shone in New York, winning the RAW World Chess Challenge, another great Scandinavian chess...
King among Chess Kings

Lubomir KavalekInternational Chess GrandmasterPosted: June 27, 2010 09:08 PM Magnus Carlsen: King Among Chess KingsImagine Usain Bolt, the fabulous Jamaican sprinter and world record-holder, running a 100 meter dash against some of the world’s best contenders and winning by...
Almost Human Chess Machines

Lubomir KavalekInternational Chess GrandmasterPosted: June 6, 2010 11:26 PM Almost Human Chess Machines Precision, mistake-free play and machine-like calculations were the highest accolades for the top chess players. Remember what the former world champion, Tigran Petrosian, said after he...
New hybrid format was confusing

Lubomir KavalekInternational Chess GrandmasterFormer U.S. Champion Posted: May 26, 2010 01:23 PM Chess Champ Kamsky Wins in Overtime Chess is different than most other sports. A draw, not a win, is the most common result of a chess game...
Recapturing Iran on the Grand Chessboard

Bishop to Queen 4: Recapturing Iran on the Grand ChessboardPye IanCorporate strategic planning consultantPosted: May 26, 2009 02:21 PM One of the potentially more daring and unique foreign policy mandates of the Obama Administration involves a pivotal shift in...