Yelena Dembo is a Russian born Women's Grandmaster and International Master currently rated at 2429 Elo, which places her at 43rd in the women's chess world rankings. She is also one of the top rated players at Chess.com! I...
Here are some chess tactics to know, the first move should, take out pawn diagonal to queen, then take bishops, knights, and rooks out, then attack with all pieces at once, who knows how good your opponent will be, that will determine if it will ...
Fischer's 'widow' and nephews in legal tussle for £1m estate As a chess mastermind Bobby Fischer was capable of executing manoeuvres as complicated as they were brutal. Now, following his death, the tussle over his million-pound ...
Grandmaster Wesley So continued to amaze the chess world by dominating Indonesia’s top player right on his turf. So posted three straight wins in his six-game duel opposite GM Susanto Megarant...
Russian chess Grand Master and former world champion Anatoly Karpov will take part in a gigantic 4,000 chess board simultaneous match on April 21 at the University of Computer and Informatics Sciences (UCI) in Havana. Karpov was welcom...
Nigel Davies is a Grandmaster from England, a popular and prolific chess author and an experienced coach. He also authored the recent Chess Mentor course, "Understanding the Colle-Zukertort" and is currently playing in a vote chess...
On April 13th, 1963 a baby boy called Karri Kimovich Weinstein was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. He went on to become better known as Garry Kasparov and dominated the chess world for decades - being recognised as the World Champion from 1985 to ...
In 1973 the Brazilian Chess Grandmaster Henrique Mecking was ranked 3rd in the World, only headed by the greats Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi. The strength of his play at a young age even drew comparisons with Bobby Fischer. However, Me...
Interview with Grandmaster Alexandra KosteniukAlexandra Kosteniuk is a Russian chess Grandmaster with a FIDE rating of 2523, presently ranked eighth in the women chess world (according to April 2008 FIDE rating list). Her most notable chess achiev...
The latest quarterly update to the FIDE ratings list has been published and the top 100 players and top 50 women players are shown below. Vishy Anand is the undisputed number 1 again. The 17 year-old Magnus Carlsen is a stunning 5th! ...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-01-18-fischer-obit_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip Bobby Fischer is the greatest player in the world. The link above was a news story from USA Today. Ray Duque III (GM-IBD) New York City
Robert James Fischer (1943 - 2008) was brilliant at the game of chess, but not so much with the game of life. However, we should remember his genius at the board, and better understand the person. He said many things that upset a lot of peo...
Tathagat Avatar Tulsi is a scientist and is most well known as a child prodigy. He is a Guinness World Record holder. He has the special distinction of being one of the world's youngest scientists. At the age of 17, he wrote a research pape...
Italian-American GM Fabiano Curuana wins Italian championship an article about Caruana at chessbase.com http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4187 official website http://www.scacchierando.net/dblog/articolo.asp?a...
Markus Ragger (born Feb 5, 1988 in Klagenfurt) is tied as the top Austrian chess player. He learned chess at the age of two from his grandparents. At six, he began playing at the club where he plays today. He plays in the German Bu...
Friedrich (Fritz) Saemisch was born on the 20th of September 1896 in Berlin, Germany. Awarded the GM title in 1950 he was the (unofficial) Austrian Champion in 1921, their first championship. His most notable match win also in 1921 was against Ric...
Wesley So (born October 9, 1993) is a Filipino chess International Master who was the youngest member of the national men’s team to the Chess Olympiad (2006 - Turin, Italy) at the age of 12. He also holds the record of being the youngest Nat...
Fabiano Caruana is the youngest US and Italian GM in history. He was born in Miami, Florida, in 1992, went to school in Brooklyn, played in Queens in the Susan Polgar Club, trained with Pal Benko, defeated a GM at the age of ten, m...
Corsica Masters 2007 check it out http://www.echecs.asso.fr/(jnrmvqilopeqzji32itxvp55)/Resultat2.aspx?URL=Tournois/2007/Bastia/CorsicaMaster2007&Action=Cl
Magnus Carlsen plays an amazing combination to a winning position in the first round of the European Cup for clubs, this was without a doubt a computer like combination
Teimour Radjabov was born March 12, 1987 in Baku. He started playing chess when he was four years old and won the European Under-18 Championship in 1999. In 2001, at the age of 14 years and 14 days, he became the youngest International Grandmaster...
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Hikaru Nakamura was born December 9, 1987 in Osaka, Japan. When he was two years old he and his family moved to the United States. Hikaru began playing chess at the age of seven and was coached by his Sri Lankan stepfather, FIDE Master Sunil Weera...
