Tech chess tourney draws world’s best, including 13-year-oldReported by: Jaime Gerik Last Update: 10:35 am Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/SPICEChess/TexasTechKnightRaiders On most any nice day you can catch some of Texas Tech’s finest chess players near the Student Union Building perfecting their...
CBS TV with Darwin Yang
Reported by: Mitch Carr Friday, March 19 2010 Chess players from all over the state and the world were in town Friday competing in an elite-level tournament. Texas tech is hosting the SPICE Spring Invitational’ Chess Tournament. Among the...
The final numbers
Final crosstable from TWIC: 1. Becerra Rivero, Julio g USA 2538 * ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 1 1 1 6½ 2651 2. Antal, Gergely m HUN 2511 ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1...
The hunt for the elusive chess norm
The hunt for the elusive international grandmaster chess normLubbock Avalanche-JournalSunday, March 21, 2010Story last updated at 3/21/2010 – 12:26 am This week, Dr. Rich Rice and Dr. Hal Karlsson, are contributing to this column. Both are associate professors at...
More fun videos from SPICE Spring Invitational
Here is the link to more than 460 pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/SPICEChess/SPICESpringSelect Here is the link to many videos during the SPICE Spring Invitational: http://www.youtube.com/user/chessmarketing#p/u Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
World’s chess warriors descend on Lubbock in fight for titles
Battle of Wits: World’s chess warriors descend on Lubbock in fight for titlesBy Matthew Mcgowan AVALANCHE-JOURNALSaturday, March 20, 2010Story last updated at 3/20/2010 – 12:31 am It all came down to silent blows on miniature battlefields. Some of the...
More SPICE Spring Video
More videos can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/user/chessmarketing#p/u Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Big fun after SPICE Spring Invitational
After the final round, Ippolito headed to New Jersey, Becerra to Miami, Finegold to Chicago and Yang to Plano. The rest went to eat together, followed by a game of soccer. After soccer, everyone headed to Main Event for...
Becerra wins SPICE Spring Invitational
Final standings: 1. Becerra, Julio g USA 2538 6½ 2-3. Antal, Gergely m HUN 2511 5½ 2-3. Finegold, Benjamin m USA 2534 5½ 4. Ippolito, Dean m USA 2466 5 5-6. Kuljasevic, Davorin m CRO 2552 4½ 5-6. Papp,...
SPICE Spring Final Round
Friday, March 19 10:00 am – 2:30 pm Round 9 Kraai 1/2 Antal (Antal needs to win for his GM title. He is going all out but Kraai has the upper hand. An intense hard fought 77 move draw....