Paul Keres Memorial 2013 Jan 9, 2013 The Estonian Sports Association Kalev organizes the 22nd International Rapid Chess Tournament Paul Keres Memorial on 11-13 January at the Sokos Hotel Viru, 4 Viru Square, Tallinn, Estonia. Rapid Chess Tourna...
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Interview with Judit Polgar Judit Polgár on chess parents, beating Kasparov and female competitorsA conversation with the best-ranked woman chess player by Katie Engelhart on Friday, January 4, 2013Judit Polgár is the best-ranked female chess ...
Dubai - UAE http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LO8G5jUp9KA Sydney - Australia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHRxHMNcEoQ Hong Kong - China http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQL9uVNaFkE London, New York, Dubai, Mosc...
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A rare breed Fischer needed little time to winSaturday December 15, 2012 9:32 AMGreat chess players have exceptional, rapidly adjusting vision at the board. This ability allows them to excel at speed chess as well as much slower traditional ...
14.12.2012 – Records are meant to be broken. On Sunday the Argentinean soccer superstar Lionel Messi broke a 40-year-old record, scoring 86 goals in one season. On Monday Norwegian chess superstar Magnus Carlsen broke Garry Kasparov's 13-year-old ...
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Vishy Remembers – Part II24.12.2012 – In 2008 Viswanathan Anand, who has been the undisputed World Champion since 2007, recorded two DVDs for ChessBase. Prof. Nagesh Havanur has reviewed these gems. In part one he looked at Anand's early career; i...
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01.10.2012– The lead of world's number one Magnus Carlsen over number two Levon Aronian has decreased from 27 to 22 points, after the Armenian gained five in ten games played last month. The biggest climber (by far) in the past month was Czech GM ...
04.10.2012– Recently the northern German city of Lüneburg saw a festive chess event. Guests of honour was Garry Kasparov and the Culture Minister of Lower Saxony Dr. Bernd Althusmann. Kasparov used the opportunity to pressure the minister into mak...
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Welcome to the Anatoly Karpov International School of Chess Seven-time World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov established his first U.S. school in Lindsborg, Kansas. Anatoly Karpov has numerous chess schools throughout the world. World...
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25.04.2012 – We know he is the strongest in the world, but did you know this was true about rock-paper-scissors? Magnus Carlsen was on the Colbert Report (pronounced Coll-bair Re-por) last night, and after obediently answering the chess questions ...
Book about Bobby Fischer released by Icelandic chess GrandmasterPosted on03 May 2012 Helgi Ólafsson, an Icelandic chess Grandmaster and a good friend of the late Bobby Fischer, has released a book about his encounters with the American chess geni...
Alekhine memoriesPosted on April 26, 2012 08:40:44 PMBy Bobby AngNo, we are not talking about the 4th World Chess Champion Alexander Alekhine. We are talking about the defense he introduced in the 1921 Budapest tournament in games against Endre St...
Fischer vs Kasparov – The Sicilian Najdorf: 6. Bg5 Posted on April 25, 2012 by William in All Articles w/ Videos, Chess Openings, Strategy & Game ReviewThe 6. Bg5 Main Line of the Sicilian Najdorf is one of the most thoroughly researched and ...
A (More) Yiddishe Bobby FischerBy Adam Soclof · April 28, 2012 Samuel Reshevsky was a child chess prodigy who routinely whooped older opponents.A Polish-born Orthodox Jew, Reshevsky arrived in the U.S. in November 1920, around the age of 9.In 192...
Recently it has become fashionable to criticize FIDE. Indeed, some of the FIDE inventions could be featured in the "you cannot make this up" column. But they definitely managed to achieve one goal: chess is 'rediscovered' by the media. Whether ...
