The spirit of Marcel Duchamp is taking over Saint Louis just in time for the final countdown to the U.S. Championship (live coverage link) . Check out photos from the Duchamp book panel discussion on Tuesday night, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess...
At first glance, Charles Lawton displays nothing extraordinary: deliberate gait, quiet voice, slight smile."Call me Charles," he says on introduction.But around St. Louis chess boards, he is "The Man."Lawton, 56, of University City, is the only lo...
Round 1Friday, May 8, 2:00 pm CST The first round of the U.S. Championship has begun and it is in progress now. Hikaru Nakamura and Alexander Shabalov will be an interesting battle. Several players will make their debut including hometown favor...
Are you ready for a truly spectacular 2009 U.S. Championship that’s set to get underway at the new Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis? The 24 contenders include the “big three” of Gata Kamsky, Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Onischuk and d...
Pal Benko was born July 14, 1928 in Amiens, France to Hungarian parents and raised in Hungary. Benko won the Hungarian Championship in 1948. In 1957, after playing board 1 for Hungary in the World Student Team Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland, B...
What can I say about Paul Morphy that my readers don't already know? Imagine, my audience knows as much of the man as anyone can know which is unfortunately very little. Perhaps because the man, the chess player, appeared out of nowhere, captured ...
Everybody knows about Adolf Anderssen's combinations: "the Immortal" and "the Evergreen"... but, who knows about the positional games from Anderssen?! Yes, its true, Anderssen was a great positional player! Of course he shines in combinational pla...
Ray Robson of Largo, Florida, a fourteen year old International Chessmaster (“IM”), has been awarded thetwenty-fourth FRANK P. SAMFORD, JR. CHESS FELLOWSHIP. Ray is home-schooled and is able to devote four or more hours per day to chess study. ...
Leonid Stein was born near Lvov, Ukraine, then in the Soviet Union, on Nov. 12, 1934 and died July 4, 1973. At the time, Stein was a world class player. He won the Soviet Armed Forces Championship in 1955. He became a master as a result of his 3rd...
Siegbert Tarrasch was born March 5, 1862 and died February 17, 1934. He was one of the best players of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Around 1890, he may have been the best. World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz offered him the opportunity to p...
Nine years later after the match between Labourdonnais and Mac Donnell, the same situation occurred but this time, in Paris, with an Englishman challenging a Frenchman, and in both cases the guest triumphed. The match Saint Amant – Staunton ha...
Tony Miles (April 23, 1955-November 12, 2001) became the first over-the-board grandmaster born in the United Kingdom in 1976. His best results were in the 1970s and 1980s. He was able to win games against several former world champions. His most f...
I felt bad for all those people (non rated) in chess tournaments so this article is about them! This article shows what is your real rating suppose to be? 0-500 rating If you lost many games. Never got a troph...
In this article, as a continuation from last week, we will discuss the lives and games of Labourdonnais and Mac Donnell and their epic match, a match we consider to be the first battleground in chess. The match also constitutes a turning poi...
Samuel Reshevsky was born in Russian ruled Poland Nov. 26, 1911 and died in New York April 4, 1992. After learning to play at age four, Reshevsky was a celebrated prodigy who gave simultaneous exhibitions at the age of eight. His family came to th...
The fame of invincibility that Capablanca had in his younger years is general knowledge. After his 8-1 victory in the match against Frank J. Marshall in 1909, there followed an almost uninterrupted series of successes until his crowning as World C...
This is another one of Adolf Anderssens greatest games. It is absolutely beautiful and it has a similar look to the Immortal Game
Eugene Torre is part of Philippine history because of his skills in playing the game of CHESS.He is known as Asia's First Chess International Grand master.He competed and won in many competitions abroad.He is best known for his victory over Anatol...
Sergey Karjakin wrapped up his Corus win yesterday by winning his last round game. Here is the game from the 12th, penultimate game, which put him into the leader group tied with 5 others. His more active pieces make all the difference. (btw, i e...
What a day for Corus. The last round was filled with surprises, as 3 solo winners emerged from the pack. In the A Group, 6 came into the round tied for the lead. 4 of those leaders drew, but Sergey Karjakin emerged victorious in his game with Dom...
This game was good. It consisted of good tactical and strategical planing. The ending was a total, total blunder. I hung a peice with while giving him mate.
For my next set of articles I am going to feature the greatest chess player of all! Capablanca! I believe his games will be an excellent source of knowledge for all levels of play.
Given the ongoing articles concerning Bobby Fischer, I was reflecting on how we could tangibly remember him.A few possibilities come immediately to mind: [1] A de novo Bobby Fischer biography. It may be that the American-based fans m...
You might remember Wesley So as a Promil kid a couple of years back, but now he’s more known as one of Philippine chess’s rising stars. Last year, at the tender age of 12 years, he became the youngest-ever Pinoy to get the rank of International Ma...
