Scholastic chess is the lifeblood of our wonderful game. Most of us learned to play while in school and once bitten by the bug it stays with us for life! Despite it's demonstrated benefits to young people, chess is not usually a priority for sc...
Magnus Carlsen is still a teenager, but he is now officially the top ranked chess player in the world. The January 2010 FIDE rating list puts Carlsen at #1 with 2810, just ahead of Veselin Topalov on 2805. That makes Magnus Carlsen the youngest ...
So how well did you do in the 2009 Chess.com Holiday Puzzler? There were 20 chess related questions, and a total of 32 marks to earn, but how many did you answer correctly? The standard of entries was extremely high, and Chess.com would like to ...
It's not uncommon for films to feature scenes with chessboards on display, or even games being played (don't expect the board to be set up correctly, however). Far more unusual is for a film to use chess as its main theme... Queen To Play is a F...
Fans of Chessbase software will no doubt be pleased to hear that the release of the latest version of their flagship playing program Fritz, is due in October. So what is new in Fritz 12? Well, the menu layout has been completely re-designed for...
ABC's WIFE SWAP CASTING FOR A CHESS ENTHUSIAST AND FAMILY $20K ABC's primetime series "Wife Swap" is currently casting its fifth season and looking for unique, outgoing families with a defined family philosophy to take part in the show. Families ...
The basic laws of chess hardly change at all through the years, but there can be a great deal of tinkering around the edges. The latest official FIDE laws of chess were published on 1 July, and contained a few changes which have been much discus...
Veselin Topalov (pictured) is still ranked the world's number 1 player on the latest quarterly official FIDE ratings list, gaining a single point to stand at 2813 Elo. World Champion Viswanathan Anand is second on 2788 Elo and Magnus Carlsen is t...
We reported back in February that the first Bobby Fischer biopic 'Bobby Fischer Live', was in production. Now a trailer for the film has been released by Amamdeus Pictures. The whole project is very much the work of one man, Damian Chapa (pictur...
May 15, 2009 The Los Angeles Chronicle St. Louis, Mo. - The leaderboard flipped Thursday in the seventh of nine rounds of the 2009 U.S. Chess Championship held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. At the end of the day, the ...
By Joe Holleman ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 05/15/2009 The leader board at the U.S. Chess Championship, being held this year in St. Louis, is occupied by the pre-tournament favorites -- and a high-school football player.As of Friday, a rest day for t...
Chess elite check in for 7th round By Joe Holleman ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 05/14/2009 After six of nine rounds in the U.S. Chess Championship, defending champion Yury Shulman of Chicago is tied for the lead with fellow grandmaster Varuzhan Akobia...
Contact: John Henderson847-347-9593 For immediate release: SHULMAN AND AKOBIAN HOLD LEAD AT U.S. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP St. Louis, Mo., May 13, 2009 -- Defending champion Yury Shulman, of Barrington, Ill., and Varuzhan Akobian, of North Hollywood,...
By Travis H. Brown They called him one of the best closers of all time in St. Louis Cardinals history. But today, his opening game was hard enough – on the chess board. Over his major league baseball career as a hard-throwing reliever, Todd Wo...
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Immediate ReleaseContact: John Henderson847-347-9593 SHULMAN AND AKOBIAN MAKE THEIR MOVE FOR TITLE St. Louis, MO, May 12, 2009 -- Defending champion Yury Shulman, of Barrington, Ill., and Varuzhan Akobian, of North Hollywood, Calif., broke from ...
Many studies have claimed that the introduction of chess tuition to young children helps them achieve better progress in their academic and personal development. Now the government of the Philippines has taken the plunge and agreed to introduce ch...
In 1997 IBM's custom built chess supercomputer Deep Blue beat the reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov in a 6-game match and IBM's share price rocketed. Now in 2009, IBM has announced plans to unleash it's latest experiment in artificial...
The latest official FIDE quarterly rating list has been published today, with Veselin Topalov (pictured) maintaining his #1 spot and surpassing the magic 2800 Elo barrier once more. World champion Vishy Anand is a clear #2 and Magnus Carlsen is a...
Chess will never be the same again. Until now, many mathematicians claimed it wasn’t possible to ‘solve’ chess due to the exponentially large number of possible games (10^120). However, in a dramatic development today...
Second mover's winning percentage has exceeded that of First mover for the professional Japanese chess games of the fiscal year 2008(April 2008 through March 2009). It's the first time since Japan Shogi Association started stats since 1967. Here i...
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