Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:16am.
The young American chess player, Ray Robson (pictured), has just achieved his third and final GM-norm result, and therefore qualifies as a Grandmaster at just 14 years, 11 months and 16 days!
It's a close run thing, but it looks like Robson might... Read more »
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Submitted by
Phobetor on Fri Sep 4, 2009 5:59am.
In the third round of the 4th Kolkata Open in India, French GM Vladislav Tkachiev (2669) turned up drunk for his game and dozed off after just 11 moves, losing the round on technical grounds, domestic media reported on Friday.
Tkachiev arrived fo... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Sep 1, 2009 1:14am.
Do not adjust your set...it's not three months since the last list was published, but today marks the start of FIDE's new bi-monthly rating lists.
Since the advent of the unofficial live rating list for players over 2700 Elo, there has been pre... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sat Aug 29, 2009 11:31am.
US Chess prodigy IM Ray Robson earned his second GM norm at the recent 23rd North American FIDE Invitational.
The 14 year-old Robson from Florida won the event with a score of 7/9. His exciting round 7 game against Benjamin Finegold is shown b... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:11pm.
Shocking and sad news from a recent tournament in Greece, where local amateur player Nikolaos Karapanos played a brilliant game against Israeli IM Dan Zoler in the first round, but collapsed and died following a time scramble at the end.
By remar... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sat Aug 1, 2009 6:17am.
Ukrainian chess has great strength in depth at the top levels of chess, with four players rated over 2700 Elo (Ponomariov, Karjakin, Eljanov and Ivanchuk), and another 12 over 2600 Elo.
However, 19 year-old Sergey Karjakin will henceforth be play... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Jul 8, 2009 11:21am.
No, it's not a badly timed April fool's joke. Reliable reports state that retired former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov (pictured) is to play a 12-game match against his great rival Anatoly Karpov.
Before we get over-excited, it should be ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sat May 9, 2009 8:42am.
No, this has nothing to do with the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences. Anand's acting skills are not going to make Tom Hanks worry (see advert below), but his chess skill is worthy of recognition.
The Chess Oscar is an award given by Ru... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue May 5, 2009 2:46pm.
An interesting interview with Vishy Anand is available at the Chess Classic Mainz website. In August, Anand wil be defending his 'Rapid World Championship' title that he won in the German city last year. A snippet:
Q. Next year, 2010, you w... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:46am.
Alexandra Kosteniuk is the current Women's World Chess Champion - a title she won in September 2008, beating Hou Yifan in the final match.
Kosteniuk was born in Perm, Russia on 23 April 1984 and was taught to play chess by her father when she was... Read more »
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Submitted by
PerfectGent on Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:19am.
Keti grant formerly of Georgia but now resident in Scotland has become Scotland's first female GM (not to be confused with WGM) and one of only 15 in the world.
There is too much information to copy here but if you google "keti grant" you will ge... Read more »
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Submitted by
sandeepg on Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:11am.
In this interview with Alisa Maric, she talks about managing sports as well as academics career, chess in schools, Judith Polgar, role of glamour in chess etc. In the end she has a special message for Indians!
Alisa Maric was introduced to chess ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:48pm.
Today (March 18th) is Vassily Ivanchuk's 40th birthday. Ivanchuk has been one of the best chess players in the world since the late 1980's.
'Chucky' as he is affectionately known, was born in Ukraine and earned the title of Grandmaster in 1988.... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:49pm.
Azeri Grandmaster Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (pictured) has repeated his serious accusations of cheating against GM Igor Kurnosov, relating to the recent Aeroflot tournament. Previous news items are here and here.
A translation of his letter to an A... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:43am.
At the recent FIDE Presidential Board meeting held in Istanbul, new chess titles were awarded to the players achieving the necessary results. The new Grandmasters included Scotland's top female player, Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (originally from Ge... Read more »
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Submitted by
Galion on Sat Mar 7, 2009 2:36am.
Denis Kadric, 14-year old player from BiH, is making his biggest progress in career. His elo is 1981 but In this rating period he is +118.35. He was 27nd in 14th Open Bosnjaci 2009(+37.20, best win vs Miro Pandurevic(2253)), winner of 23e Open In... Read more »
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Submitted by
takodori on Mon Mar 2, 2009 5:18pm.
Japan Shogi Association unveiled the list of top 20 shogi professional player list regarding their annual earnings from professional shogi tournaments for 2008(in Japanese). I'm picking up the top 10 from that here. The amount of each player is ob... Read more »
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Submitted by
IM dpruess on Sun Mar 1, 2009 2:27am.
It is a great pleasure to welcome Grandmaster Gregory Serper as chess.com's Sunday columnist.Gregory is a strong Grandmaster, and the most experienced among our current staff of columnists. His experience extends not only to tournament play, but a... Read more »
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Submitted by
IM dpruess on Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:18am.
I am very pleased to announce a new columnist for chess.com, Grandmaster Vinay Bhat.
I have a very special personal relation to Vinay: he's one of the two individuals who are in the running for having beaten me the most times in USCF tournament ... Read more »
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Submitted by
IM dpruess on Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:22am.
Julio Becerra is the #6 ranked active player in the U.S. and hungry to become #5.Julio grew up in Cuba, where he did not learn chess until the ripe age of 13. He fell in love with the game immediately and, playing constantly, made up for the lost ... Read more »
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Submitted by
IM dpruess on Fri Feb 6, 2009 5:02pm.
One of chess.com's big plans for the year 2009 is to bring top players into our community, to further improve the quality of our learning materials, and to provide inspiration to all of us pursuing excellence (within the royal game and without). T... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:43am.
The FIDE Doping Hearing Panel has unanimously decided that Vassily Ivanchuk will not face a ban as a result of his failure to take a drugs test at the end of the Dresden Olympiad.
The announcement in full:
Decision of the FIDE Doping Panel
Wijk... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:37pm.
Imagine yourself in this situation: You're playing in an big Open tournament and are paired against a GM rated nearly 600 Elo points higher than you. After 19 moves your illustrious opponent seems to hang a rook for no reason whatsoever. Wou... Read more »
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Submitted by
Planinc on Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:18pm.
Slovenian grandmaster Albin Planinc died 11.12.2008, forgoten.
http://www.mladina.si/tednik/200901/v_pozabi_umrli_genij Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:52am.
The American Grandmaster Walter Browne is 60 years old today. Browne was born in Sydney to his Australian mother, but his father was American and the family settled in New York when Walter was just 3 years old.
Browne represented both Australia... Read more »
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