Susan Polgar: Little Known Feminist Icon By ALICIA COLON NY Sun (July 2006) The woman I met two years ago at the Congress of Racial Equality’s annual Martin Luther King gala certainly deserves to be a feminist icon. Yet when I checked the Web site of the National Organization for Women for anything on Susan […]
Little Known Feminist
This article was actually published shortly before I moved to Texas to run Texas Tech SPICE Susan Polgar: Little Known Feminist IconBy ALICIA COLON http://www.nysun.com The woman I met two years ago at the Congress of Racial Equality’s annual Martin Luther King gala certainly deserves to be a feminist icon. Yet when I checked the […]
Victory through cumulative effect
Flights of ImaginationChessBy BORIS GULKO and GABRIEL SCHOENFELDFebruary 29, 2008William Steinitz, the first world chess champion, was the great expositor of positional play, the idea that the steady acquisition of small and subtle advantages would lead to victory from their cumulative effect. As influential as this school of thought has been over the 20th century, […]
Chess analysis by GM Gulko
Top-HeavyChessBy BORIS GULKO and GABRIEL SCHOENFELDFebruary 15, 2008At the Corus super-tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Viswanathan Anand played his first competitive chess as world champion. The weight of the title is no doubt heavy and under its pressure he lost his very first game to Timur Radjabov. As the tournament drew to an end, it […]
The other Bulgarian star
A Mighty BulgarianChessBy BORIS GULKO and GABRIEL SCHOENFELDJanuary 4, 2008NY Sun Five of the eight grandmasters who made it into the quarterfinals of the World Cup were younger than 20. The least well-known of them was Ivan Cheparinov of Bulgaria, who for the past several years has been working as an understudy to his countryman […]
The Great Migration by Boris Gulko
The Great Migration By Boris Gulko and Gabriel Schoenfeld American chess is spreading from the rimland to the heartland. The driving force in this tectonic shift is Susan Polgar, the oldest of the three famous chessplaying sisters. Polgar is the former women’s world champion and the current chairman of the United States Chess Federation. For […]
Sport, Art and Science according to Botvinnik
The Scientific MethodChessBy BORIS GULKO and GABRIEL SCHOENFELDNovember 16, 2007 The long-reigning world champion Mikhail Botvinnik once memorably described chess as a combination of sport, art, and science. In examining the playing styles of the world’s top grandmasters, we can see elements of each of these three components. Usually, in a given player, one element […]
King dethroned
I.S. 318 Youngsters Dethrone New York Chess ‘Kings’BY ELIZABETH WEISS GREEN – Staff Reporter of the SunMay 21, 2007URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/54866 Steven Cardenas ate four slices of pizza, two more than usual, while Michael Peguero simply took his trophy and went home. Some jumping up and down might have been more fitting: The boys and two […]