Archive for June, 2011
Gawain Jones is leading the Commonwealth Championship with 6.5/7. With four rounds to go, the English grandmaster is half a point ahead of a group of sixteen players, including three times winner Nigel Short. The tournament also sees a few excellent
New: Invisible Chess Moves
Jun 30
New: Invisible Chess Moves – discover your blind spots and stop overlooking simple wins.
Every chess player knows that some moves are harder to see than others. Why is it that, frequently, uncomplicated wins simply do not enter your mind?
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FIDE VICE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH DURING THE 2011 COMMONWEALTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS OPENING CEREMONY The Deputy Minister of Sport, Ministry of Sport and other Government representatives, members of the Gauteng Provincial Government, representatives of t
The International Computer Games Association (ICGA) has disqualified and banned Rybka and its programmer Vasik Rajlich from previous and future World Computer Chess Championships. The ICGA accuses Rajlich of plagiarizing two other programs, Crafty an
Ilya Levitov, President of the Russian Chess Federation Board, broke two pieces of news Monday. The crucial one was that despite the dark musings of many, and above all the FIDE President himself, we now have at least one bid for the Anand-Gelfand ma
Ilya Levitov, President of the Russian Chess Federation Board, broke two pieces of news Monday. The crucial one was that despite the dark musings of many, and above all the FIDE President himself, we now have at least one bid for the Anand-Gelfand ma
A performance rating over 2800 is usually not saying that much, but when it’s close to 2900, and based on ten games, maybe it is. Radoslaw Wojtaszek yesterday won the 9th György Marx Memorial in Paks, Hungary most convincingly, scoring a stunn
At the Airports Authority of India (AAI) International Grandmasters Chess Tournament 2011, Fabiano Caruana leads at half-time. The Italian grandmaster is half a point ahead of Viktor Laznicka of the Czech Republic. This six-player, double round robin
On 26 June, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was guest of honour in the International Centre of Chess Education of the Russian State Social University. He was welcomed by Mr. Vasily Zhukov, President of the Chess Federation of Moscow, Rector of th
Alexander Morozevich yesterday won the Higher League of the Russian Championship. The former world’s number 2 finished clear first with 8/11, half a point more than Artyom Timofeev and Alexander Galkin, who also qualified for the main champion