Top 25 active players in New England Source: http://www.wachusettchess.org Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
New England Top 25
New England top 25 GM LARRY M CHRISTIANSEN 2657 MA GM SERGEY KUDRIN 2607 CT GM ALEXANDER IVANOV 2606 MA GM ILDAR IBRAGIMOV 2597 CT GM EUGENE PERELSHTEYN 2587 MA GM JOSHUA EDWARD FRIEDEL 2581 NH IM DAVID VIGORITO 2532 MA IM MARC R ESSERMAN 2516 MA IM ROBERT ANDREW HUNGASKI 2512 CT IM IGOR […]
Krasik tops Holiday Cheer Open
Sunday, January 3, 2010Krasik tops Holiday Cheer OpenCHESS STEPHEN DANN Ilya Krasik, 29, of Newton won the 89-player Holiday Cheer Open in Natick, finishing a full point ahead of any rival, 4.5-.5. John Curdo, 78, of Auburn tied for second, with Igor Foygel, Arthur Bisguier, Derek Slater and Todd Chase. Nikita Konovalchuk of Ashland shared […]
Adults, kids battle wits at chess tournament in Nashua
Published: Tuesday, September 8, 2009Adults, kids battle wits at chess tournament in NashuaBy PATRICK MEIGHANStaff Writer Adults and higher-level players competed for an impressive trophy with a lineage going back decades. Young players were themselves impressive as they vied for medals at the New England Open chess tournament held over the holiday weekend. On Monday […]
New England Top 25
MA GM LARRY M CHRISTIANSEN 2680 CT GM ILDAR IBRAGIMOV 2627 MA GM ALEXANDER IVANOV 2611 CT GM GM SERGEY KUDRIN 2605 MA GM EUGENE PERELSHTEYN 2598 NH IM JOSHUA EDWARD FRIEDEL 2572 RI JORGE SAMMOUR HASBUN 2563 MA IM IGOR FOYGEL 2476 MA IM JONATHAN YEDIDIA 2447 MA IM DAVID VIGORITO 2429 MA DENYS […]
Fan tribute to chess legend John Curdo
Picture by Cranston Chess – John Curdo (dark shirt) vs GM Ivanov FIDE Master John Curdo (was rated over 2500 at his peak) was born in November 14, 1931 in Lynn, Massachusetts. He is about to achieve a milestone in chess which will be incredibly hard to duplicate. Extra bonus trivia: What incredible chess milestone […]
New England Masters
New England Masters Chess Tournament August 13-17, 2007 Peabody (Boston), Massachusetts, USA The New England Masters is a 9 round FIDE Swiss tournament designed to provide the maximum potential for chess players to obtain both Grandmaster and International Master norms. To help with this, it is only open to players with a FIDE rating of […]
Family sharing the love for chess in New England
Chess matesFamily shares love, talent for gameBy Susan Chaityn Lebovits April 22, 2007 If you see more chess wizards emerging from the area, thank members of an extended family, transplants from the former Soviet Union. Valery Frenklakh of Newton teaches chess full time; his son, Dmitry, is president of his college chess club; and nephew […]
New England lost a bright young star
Chess star dies of viral meningitis 04/03/2007By: David Casey , Times staff writer PAWTUCKET – Last week the southern New England chess community lost one of its brightest and fastest-rising stars at the tender age of 25. Max Malyuta, a self-taught chess wizard who, by all accounts, was a generous, unselfish, hard-working, blue-collar guy, died […]