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Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Fischer never quit looking for an edge Saturday, March 13, 2010 2:51 AM One can imagine a game between the eternal spirit of Bobby Fischer and God. Familiar with Fischer's insatiable love for chess, we aren't surprised to learn that it's the 1,000th game they have played this week. The first 999 have ended in draws. A distracted Almighty is looking at Fischer. "Bobby, why are we still playing...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2010
Local students to compete in chess tourney Tuesday, March 09, 2010 The Hillsboro Argus Chess for Success will host Oregon's largest scholastic chess tournament Friday and Saturday at the Oregon Convention Center. Students from W.L. Henry, Lincoln Street and Patterson elementary schools will be among more than 500 students competing to be 'king or queen of the boards.' Students at all levels - elementary,...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 03/09/2010
Mar 09, 2010 Happy Birthday Bobby Fischer Source: USA Today On this day in 1943, one of the greatest chess players in history was born. Bobby Fischer 's talent, known in the chess world for decades, would become evident world-wide when he defeated Russian Boris Spassky for the world title in 1972. Later, Fischer's erratic personality and anti-Semitic rants would dominate his life. Click here for his...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 03/08/2010
Kasparov - Caruana perhaps in October at Milano It could take place in October at Milano - a mini-match between the number one Italian player Fabiano Caruana, who will be 18 years old on the 30th of July, and the ex-champion of the world Garry Kasparov, who is the trainer of the number one FIDE rated player in the world, Magnus Carlsen. Valerio Luciani, whose publishing house Ediscere has published...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 03/06/2010
Judit a shining example of women’s competitiveness in chess world A few women players like Vera Menchik, the Polgar sisters, Maia Chiburdanidze, and more recently Koneru Humpy and Hou Yifan are the ones who have made their own place in Open Chess tournaments and defeated top Grandmasters and World Champions alike. Judith Polgar is the highest ever woman rated player in the World and just a day...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 03/05/2010
Here is the list of the youngest GMs in the world according to Chessbase: No. Player Nat. years months days year 1 Sergey Karjakin UKR 12 7 0 2002 2 Parimarjan Negi IND 13 3 22 2006 3 Magnus Carlsen NOR 13 3 27 2004 4 Bu Xiangzhi CHN 13 10 13 1999 5 Richard Rapport HUN 13 11 15 2010 6 Teimour Radjabov AZE 14 0 14 2001 7 Ruslan Ponomaryov UKR 14 0 17 1997 8 Wesley So PHI 14 1 28 2007 9 Etienne Bacrot...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 03/03/2010
A priest to represent the Vatican State at the European Individual Chess 2010 Don Valerio Piro from Neapolis to represent the country Report by Chessdom.com For the first time in the history of FIDE and ECU, there will be a 'priest' to represent the Vatican State at the European Individual Chess Championship in Rijeka 2010. This is Don Valerio Piro , from Neapolis. He got the formal authorization...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 03/03/2010
‘Karpov candidate for FIDE President’ 2 March 2010, 8.57 CET By Peter Doggers Anatoly Karpov will put forward his candidacy to become FIDE President, according to reporters of Russian news agency SarInform. “It is necessary to restore order,” the 12th World Champion reportedly said yesterday. Sunday night Anatoli Karpov landed at the airport of Saratov, Russia for a simul and...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 02/27/2010
On Chess: Royal game worthy of term 'sport' Saturday, February 27, 2010 2:54 AM In 2006, the 15th Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, included chess among the 40 official medal sports. How is this so when the visual appeal of a chess contest often seems a notch or two below that of grass growing? The physical demands of the five- or six-hour battle that constitutes a chess game were revealed most dramatically...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
Posted on Wed, 24/02/2010 @ 13:12 by: Paul Martin Gary Ross, the man behind Pleasantville and Seabiscuit, as well as one of the writers embroiled in the saga of the Spider-Man 4 that never was, is the man set to issue directorial diktats in the direction of Damon's RFK, while the script is being penned by Steve Knight, the British screenwriter of Eastern Promises and co-creator of the Who Wants to...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 02/19/2010
Me & Bobby Fischer Product Description Run Time: 82 minutes Available on Amazon A documentary about Bobby Fischer's last years as his old friend Saemundur Palsson gets him out of jail in Japan and helps him settle in Iceland. A ringing telephone awakes Sæmi in the middle of the night. He receives emergency call from an old friend, Bobby Fischer, who called "collect" from a public...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
One of the most important problems concerning young people in our age is "bullying" (acting tough). Chess may become an embankment (do not forget, for example, that Bobby Fischer was said to have received his first chessboard by his sister, who wanted to avoid that he went with the tough guys in the street). To speak about the problem of "bullying" (acting tough) a conference was...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
Doesn't compute By ANDY SOLTIS Last Updated: 8:26 AM, January 31, 2010 Posted: 12:51 AM, January 31, 2010 It's been four years since a top grandmaster dared cross pawns with a strong computer -- and it's not likely to happen again. Garry Kasparov, who should know, declared the era of Man vs. Machine matches "a thing of the past." The former world champion, who famously lost to Deep Blue...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 01/27/2010
So blows chance to win, settles for draw with Sutovsky 01/27/2010 01:18 PM GMANews.TV WIJK AAN ZEE, Netherlands - GM Wesley So of the Philippines threw away an excellent chance to win for the third time in four games when he allowed former world junior champion GM Emil Sutovsky of Israel to escape with a draw in the ninth round of the 72nd Corus chess tournament at the De Morian Community Centre....
Jim West On Chess (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010
On Friday, the United States Chess Federation settled its lawsuits with Susan Polgar and Paul Truong.
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