CORPORATE NORWAY SUPPORTS CHESS Law firm Simonsen announced today that they are sponsoring Magnus Carlsen with NOK 2 millions. Carlsen’s extreme focus, discipline and determent are an example and an inspiration for our company, says Simonsen. Recently, investment bank Artic Securities also gave him NOK 2 millions. Magnus is breaking new ground here. None of the companies have signed any similar...
Sergei Movsesian is the strongest player who already has to leave the World Cup after two days of play. After losing the first game to Yu Yangyi, the Slovak GM was held to a draw in the second game today. Zahar Efimenko was eliminated 1.5-0.5 by Gilberto Milos; Yannick Pelletier beat Bu Xiangzhi with the [...]
Paper Chess by Kell Black would make the perfect holiday gift for a crafty chess-playing friend or teen. There have been a couple interviews (see " APSU Artist Releases Book of Paper Chess Pieces " and " APSU Professor Engineers Paper Chess Set for Ivy Press in England ") with designer Black, an art professor at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, who talks about how he fell...
Laptop steering wheel desk: the perfect holiday gift for all the homicidal multitaskers on your list! You live in a real-time world, where everything demands your immediate attention. Why wait till you get home or to the office to answer that e-mail? And what about that brilliant tweet that just popped into your head? You might forget it by the time you’re off the road. Send it now , while you’re...
Official website http://ugra-chess.ru The Opening Ceremony of the III World Cup 2009 took place in the House of Culture "Oktyabr" on 20 November in Khanty Mansiysk. The governor of Khanty Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra Alexander Filipenko and the Vice Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Zhukov warmly welcomed the participants of the World Cup 2009. Alexander Zhukov called Khanty...
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Fritz 12 (Chess) 2009 | Puzzle games | PC | Excalibur | En | 3.8 GB About: If you need to prepare for a serious meeting at the chessboard, Fritz 12 can help you train with a real master! Fritz provides over 12 hours video lessons for each level of the game, where you will see a detailed analysis of game masters, discussions about the types of traps or the stunning debut of the winning combinations....
The day of the FIDE World Cup saw few surprises. The biggest upset was Yu Yangyi beating Sergei Movsesian, while e.g. Ponomariov, Shirov, Grischuk and Dominguez were held to a draw by their lower-rated opponents. The FIDE World Chess Cup takes place November 20th-December 15th inn Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. It’s a seven-round knockout with six rounds of [...]
In the World Youth Championship, two of our youngest competitors, Tanuj Vasudeva and Samritha Palakollu scored impressive 8.5/11 scores. Both were on the top boards all event and earned silver medals due to superior tiebreaks!
In round 1 of the World Cup defending champion Gata Kamsky and GM Alexander Onischuk advance to round 2. GMs Shulman, Akobian and Shabalov both tied their matches, and will contest playoffs tomorrow
The University of Texas at Dallas GM and IM Invitational (November 21-29) tournaments have begun. The top group features GMs Kachieshvili, Ramirez, Simutowe, Izoria and six IMs hunting for GM norms.
Since I created the Chess Imager script for dynamically generating chessboard images online, several people have asked me if they could have the source code so that they could install it on their own web server. I’m happy to announce that Chess Imager is now available in open-source form.
The National Youth Action is in full swing in Oakbrook, Illinos from November 20 to 22. See the official website for tournament details, pairings and results.
ON CHESS Match generated fan participation Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:10 AM By SHELBY LYMAN The move-by-move coverage by PBS of the 1972 Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world-title series evoked an extraordinary response despite the apparent chess illiteracy of the American public. Viewers quickly learned the moves and basic rules. Those who didn't could at least follow the ebb and flow of each game...
At the moment, ChessBase 10 is not generating the desired diagrams for my HTML pages. I suspect its "Green Marble" board is the problem. Never had any trouble with the "Cherry" board or my custom purple & gray job . I'll try to correct the situation early next week. Until then... sorry for the lack of visuals.
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