The Crosstable 2008 US Women's Championship
2008-05-23 08:56:28
This is the final crosstable of the 2008 US Women
's Championship with performance rating, courtesy of TWIC.
Davao kids need help to fund Vietnam chess stint
2008-05-23 08:53:37
by Marianne Saberon-AbalayanDAVAO City young woodpushers John Ray Batucan and Rowelyn Joy Acedo are ready to do battle in the Asean Age-Group Chess Championships in Vietnam
on June 11 to 20, but funding constraints might jeopardize their campaign abroad.Batucan of Don Juan dela Cruz Elementary School in Toril said he is ready, although he won't assure of bringing home the bacon."Ready nako magdula
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ACP Statement
2008-05-23 08:48:21
Statement on tournament fees problem at the European Individual Championship 2008Dear friends,We would like to draw your attention to the problems which occurred with tournament fees during the recent European Individual Championships in Plovdiv.According to the Tournament Regulations, published on the official website of the Championship www.eicc2008.com, all participants had to pay an organizati
Leinier Dominguez champion at Capablanca Chess Memorial
2008-05-23 08:46:06
Capablanca Memorial
Cuban GM Leinier Dominguez won on Saturday the Elite Group of the 43rd Capablanca Chess Memorial that took place at the Neptuno-Triton hotel complex in Havana. Dominguez, the best-placed Latin American player in the world ranking of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) with an ELO rating of 2695 points, on Saturday beat compatriot GM Walter Arencibia after 46 moves of a F
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2008 POF Mindanao Qualifying Games Chess Competition
2008-05-23 08:43:28
CDO chessers in hot startsunstar CDOORO woodpushers made their presence felt at the start of the 2008 POF Mindanao Qualifying Games
chess competition in Tubod, Lanao del Norte.Lennon Hart Salgados, the 14-year-old standout from Corpus Christi School and last year's champion in the 14-under level, breezed through the opening round matches at the expense of Misamis Oriental bet, Francisco Porras II.
Super GM Kuzobov vs GM Wesley So in 9th round
2008-05-23 08:39:28
Round 8 Results Bo. Name IRtg FED Pts Res. Pts Name IRtg FED1 GM Kuzobov, Yuriy 2603 UKR 5 1 - 0 6 IM Gonzales, Jayson 2468 PHI2 Andador, Rolando 2201 PHI 5 1 - 0 5 GM Megaranto, Susanto 2561 INA3 IM Wynn, Zaw Htun 2542 MYA 5 ½ - ½ 5 GM Villamayor, Buenaventura 2425 PHI4 Barbosa, Oliver 2403 PHI 5 ½ - ½ 5 GM Torre, Eugenio 2519 PHI5 IM Aung, Aung 2491 MYA 4½ 0 - 1 5 GM So,
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Bridging Racial Gap
2008-05-23 08:37:11
Black and Brown Week Bridges Racial
GapWritten by Joseph Young - WI Staff WriterThursday, 15 May 2008There is a widely held notion that Blacks and Latinos do not get along. Impact studies show racial divides in some high schools in Los Angeles and small disruptions of gang violence in Virginia. Even some media analysts insist this will have an effect on the Democratic presidential campaign.In an t
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Leon Chess 2008
2008-05-23 08:34:55
Anand, Ivanchuk, Vallejo, and Shirov The countdown to the 21st edition of the “Magistral Ciudad de León” started yesterday, April 15th, at the headquarters of Sports newspaper Marca, in Madrid. The host was Roberto Palomar, editor-in-chief of Marca, with the presence of political representatives of Leon, like the Sports council of Leon - Natalia Rodríguez Picallo, The General Director of S
Picture of the day!
2008-05-25 06:11:29
Polgar and Topalov in blindfolds
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Nielsen, Hector, Klimov win active chess slugfest
2008-05-25 06:04:56
Tournament winners with 6/7 (left to right): IM Sergey Klimov, GM Peter Heine Nielsen and GM Jonny Hector
with local ‘poster girl’ Emma HowesTop final standings (59 players participated) 1 GM Hector, Jonny 2542 6 2 GM Nielsen, Peter Heine 2633 6 3 IM Klimov, Sergey 2484 6 4 GM Vitiugov, Nikita
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Kasparov's chess view
2008-05-25 06:00:50
'Chess organisers made wrong moves'By M. Satya Narayan, Senior ReporterPublished: May 25, 2008, 00:11Abu Dhabi: Garry Kasparov
said that chess
failed to cash in on the famous rivalry between him and Anatoly Karpov in the '80s and '90s of the last century to catapult it into a modern and professional sport."Great rivalries help push sport like the [Mohammad] Ali-Foreman [George] duel in boxing and
ROMGAZ Bazna King's chess tournament 2008
2008-05-25 05:57:24
Legendary chess
players in RomaniaThe Bazna King's has collected 11 living chess legends in the 2008 edition of the tournament. Khalifman, Vaganian, Beliavsky, Portisch, Andersson, Mecking, Sokolov, Suba, Timman, Short, and Andrei started playing the round robin tournament today, May 24. The time control is 40 moves in 90 minutes with additional 30 seconds per move followed by other 30 minutes wit
Virtual Learning
2008-05-25 05:50:00
A virtually perfect excuse not to go to schoolBy Aimee Greaveson Saturday, May 24, 2008For many years, laptops, Blackberrys and mobile phones have allowed people to live a nomadic existence.In today's busy world businessmen can be in London in the morning and Los Angeles in the afternoon.And there are a few places where this is more apparent than in the UAE where people come and go at a rapid pace
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Morozevich, Dominguez lead Bosnia
2008-05-25 05:46:12
Round 2 (May 24, 2008)Predojevic, Borki - Morozevich, Alexander 0-1Dominguez, Lenier - Timofeev, Artyom ½-½Movsesian, Sergei - Sokolov, Ivan ½-½Standings after 2 rounds:1-2 Morozevich, Dominguez 1.53-5 Movsesian, Sokolov, Timofeev 1.06. Predojevic 0.0
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Stevenson again triumphs at chess tourney
2008-05-25 05:41:10
May 24, 2008 The Stevenson chess
team once again has brought back team and individual trophies from the National Burt Lerner Elementary (K-6) Chess Championship. The school won the first place team title in K-3 championship section, first place team trophy in K-5 U900 section
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Rapid Match Leko-Carlsen Starting Next Week
2008-05-25 05:38:21
28th May through 1st June in Miskolc, Hungary The City of Miskolc, in northeastern Hungary, continues its fine tradition of organizing strong rapid matches for nation's top player Peter Leko. This year, his opponent is absolute hit of the season, joint winner of 2008 Corus, Linares and Baku, Magnus Carlsen from Norway. The eight-game rapid event takes place from 28th May through 1st June. It is f
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The Sands' Report
2008-05-25 05:36:04
Shulman wins U.S. chess titleBy David R. Sands
May 24, 2008He came up just short the last two years, but Chicago GM Yury Shulman wouldn't be denied this time.With a dominating midtournament stretch, the Belarus-born Shulman won his first U.S. national title, winning the Frank K. Berry U.S. Championship tournament outright with an undefeated 7-2 score, a half-point ahead of GM Alexander Onischuk.Shu
Chess Tips
2008-05-25 05:31:42
ON CHESSFine-tuning any part of game will bear fruitSaturday, May 24, 2008 2:59 AMBy SHELBY LYMANImproving at chess can seem a daunting task. But it needn't be.It's not like dunking a basketball or performing gymnastics. Both have undeniable physical prerequisites.The great world champion Emanuel Lasker was convinced that virtually any intelligent, motivated person could become an expert chess pla
Happy birthday to Peter Heine Nielsen !
2008-05-24 05:39:41
Peter Heine Nielsen was born May 24, 1973 is a Danish chess player.He became an International Grandmaster in 1994. By September 2005 his ELO rating in the FIDE list was 2668, at the time the highest rating for any player from the Nordic countries.On January 30th, 2004 he played against Chessbrain - which earned the world record for the largest distributed chess computer. He currently is a second f
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Trading Off
2008-05-24 05:27:14
Trading
pieces of equal value in chess is a normal during the progression of the game. sometimes though a chess player wonders when it is appropriate to trade off pieces and what pieces are relatively equal. the obvious trade off would be a bishop for a bishop, a rook for a rook, but what about a bishop for a knight? is this a good trade off? to answer this lets look at the values of the pieces
Bosna 2008 has started
2008-05-24 05:13:18
GM Dominguez Perez victorious in round 1, Morozevich drawsThe strong Bosna 2008 tournament has started today featuring GM Morozevich, GM Movsesian, GM Dominguez Perez, GM Sokolov, GM Timofeev, and GM Predojević.The 2008 edition of Bosna is a copy of last year's tournament, the only player missing is GM Short who is substituted by the Capablanca Memorial winner GM Dominguez Perez. Exactly the Cuba
S P I CE
2008-05-24 05:04:47
Two questions which I receive quite often are what SPICE is and what has SPICE done? Here is a short description of the mission of SPICE and what this institute has accomplished in the past 12 months:1. Texas Tech created SPICE, the first institute of its kind in the world, with an annual budget well over $250,000. SPICE focuses on 3 very important areas: Chess Education, Chess Research, and Chess
Checkmated on Vancouver's streets
2008-05-24 04:58:12
Samar Halarnkar - Monday, May 19, 2008 10:53 AMThere's a chess champion in this photo.The portly man on the right is David Strauss, known and feared on Vancouver
's vibrant street chess scene. He plays upto 100 opponents at the same time. This is his modus operandi: David sets up his table and his chess boards and distributes leaflets titled, "Go ahead, make your move." He plays on "a donation-only
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Morozevich top billing at Sarajevo
2008-05-24 04:51:33
Bosnia Sarajevo Tournament starts today. Here is the 6-player field:Morozevich Alexander GM 2774Movsesian Sergei GM 2695Dominguez Perez Leinier GM 2695Sokolov Ivan GM 2690Timofeev Artyom GM 2664Predojevic Borki GM 2651
Happy birthdays to Friso Nijboer and Valery Salov!
2008-05-26 08:20:31
Valery Salov 2644Valery Salov was born on the 26th of May 1964. Awarded the IM title in 1984 and the GM title in 1986 he was World under 16 Champion in 1980 and European Junior Champion in 1983-84. He finished 1st= with Alexander Beliavsky in the 1987 USSR Championship but lost the play-off match (+0, =2, -2) so gaining the Silver Medal. He became a Candidate in 1988 but lost to Jan Timman (+0, =5
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Portisch leads Bazna
2008-05-26 07:59:42
Round 1Beliavsky, Alexander - Portisch, Lajos ½-½Suba, Mihai - Timman, Jan ½-½Short, Nigel - Mecking, Henrique ½-½Sokolov, Andrei - Vaganian, Rafael ½-½Murariu, Andrei - Andersson, Ulf ½-½Round 2Portisch, Lajos - Murariu, Andrei 1-0Timman, Jan - Short, Nigel ½-½Vaganian, Rafael - Beliavsky, Alexander ½-½Andersson, Ulf - Suba, Mihai ½-½Khalifman, Alexander - Sokolov, Andrei ½-½Her
PARAGUA TOPS ST JOHN'S MASTER IN USA CHESS TILT
2008-05-26 07:57:54
FILIPINO GM Mark Paragua split the point with American GM Alexander Stripunsky in the final round to emerge over-all champion in the recently concluded St. John's Masters Chess Championships last May 20 at the famous Marshall Chess Club in New York, New York, USA.The former 2003 Vietnam Southeast Asian Games most bemedalled athlete with three golds, finished undefeated here in Marshall Chess Club
A novelty by Loek!
2008-05-26 07:56:29
L. Van Wely – S. DyachkovRussian Team ChampionshipDagomys King’s Indian Classical1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 0–0 5.Be2 d6 6.Nf3 e5 7.0–0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.b4 Nh5 10.g3 f5 11.Ng5 Nf6 12.f3 f4 13.b5 (This move looks pointless but it is designed against the move c7-c6 by Black which he will want to play after the moves Ng5-e6 Bxe6 dxe6 when the d5 square beckons for a white knight)13...fxg3
Chess and Draughts Festival in Moldova.
2008-05-26 07:55:15
On 17 May 2008 Republican Chess and Draughts Festival
dedicated to Youth Year and Sports Day took place at the territory of the National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Chisinau, Moldova. The Festival was held on the initiative of the Agency of Sports of Moldova with technical assistance of the Ministry of Education and Youth, by the Republican Chess and Draughts club together with the Federations of
Wesley So
2008-05-26 07:52:22
Wesley So’s FIDE rating reached 2590 after the Subic Open, Super GM dream within reachby DiliosWorld’s youngest grandmaster Wesley So is fast approaching his target, to be the RP’s newest super Grandmaster. This was after Wesley’s additional 5.6 ELO rating added after his 2nd place finish in the 1st Subic Bay International Open Chess Championship.With unofficial calculation, Wesley already
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