An End to a Chess Grandmaster’s Eviction Battle Could Be Near The Appraisal By MATT A.V. CHABAN MARCH 14, 2016 William J. Lombardy was in the midst of explaining the virtue of the Philidor Defense when a knock came...
Breaking News: NY City will host 2016 World Championship for 1st time in 21 years
For the first time in 21 years, NY City will host the 2016 World Championship. 8 players, Anand, Topalov, Caruana, Nakamura, Giri, Aronian, Karjakin, and Svidler, will compete in the double round robin Candidates Tournament shortly to determine a...
8th New York International
The Marshall Chess Club is organizing the 8th New York International which will be held in two sections: Championship on July 15-19 and U2200 on July 23-26. In honor of the Marshall’s 100-year anniversary (the club was established in...
Bridging the Generation Gap With Chess
PHOTO: KEVIN HAGEN FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Bridging the Generation Gap With Chess Zachary Targoff started an intergenerational chess program with his bar mitzvah money By RALPH GARDNER JR. May 20, 2015 8:15 p.m. ET Zachary Targoff is...
Freedom Tower
This is the first time I visited the Freedom Tower and the 9/11 Memorial since they were completed. It brings back a lot of memory as I was scheduled to be at the area that morning.
Once a Lost Boy of Sudan, Now a U.S. Chess Master
Majur Juac: Once a Lost Boy of Sudan, Now a U.S. Chess MasterThe Former Security Guard Taught Himself How to Play and Now Teaches the Board Game to Students in New York CityBy RALPH GARDNER Updated Nov. 24, 2014...
NY Central Park Chess
http://www.centralparknyc.org/calendar/events/chess-simul.html Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Oooops, we did it again!
Final Four Report by Frank Niro, President of Chess Journalists of America www.twchesssafari.blogspot.com The Webster University chess team defeated a tough team from Texas Tech University, 3 games to 1, in the third and final round of the 2014...
Learning, one move at a time
Learning more, one move at a timeBY Smriti Sinha More than 600 chess enthusiasts gathered at Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain in late September and took their places at long communal tables covered with hundreds of shiny plastic chess boards...