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6-30-2007
Chess Quote of the Week from CBS News reports on 2 kids from Texas. Even though Brownsville is in the second-poorest county in the nation, it's actually known for producing chess champs.
Your local, on the 8x8s:
TCW Associate
Editor - New On the Net Interested persons should visit the page URL above, review the detail, and follow the link to begin a discussion to discover if we have a fit together! The World Open began last Thursday June 28th and runs 'til Jul 4th in Philly, with the CCA as organizer - this year there are chess political messages on the same page as tournament info. Live games can be viewed at the MonRoi site, http://www.monroi.com/tournamentgate/WorldOpen07/games.html which on the first day lacked any other information except "Prizes at $400,000 based on 1450 paid entries."
US Women's Championship:
First of all !! kudos!! to Alpheta, a Chessville Forum regular, who has made a contribution to the Brilliancy Prize. Through the website Goddesschess a $300 Brilliancy Prize has been donated. [See Chessville Forums] On July 16-20, 2007. A total prize fund of $25,000 is up for grabs in Stillwater, Oklahoma, with the winner taking home $7,000. There are also 3 qualifying places for the American Zonal Tournament and various players have the opportunity to score WGM and WIM norms. A website put up by sponsor Mr. F. Berry is here http://www.uswcc2007.com/ and live games will be shown at http://www.monroi.com/tournamentgate/07USW/.
70,000 children competing in 2,300 schools throughout the UK make for the world's largest chess tournament. Malcolm Pein reports in the Telegraph that The British Land UK Chess Challenge is now approaching its final stages, still with over two thousand children remaining. Those qualifying go on to the Terafinal on 18th and 19th August, along with the runners up from the Gigafinal, who will play in two Challengers sections. The Terafinal, to be held at North Leamington Arts and Technology College, has a £2,000 prize for the winner who receives the title of The Strat. In addition there is £1,000 for the top girl, £1,000 for the top under 11 player and £300 for the top under 9 player, as well as many other prizes for high scorers. Fan Mail: "Chessville is the best way to learn chess online. Thanks this Site is exciting, the !BEST! on the net. Miklos from Hungary." Thanks Miklos!
This puzzle is just for you! That is, the puzzle is if you can
understand a language just to the South-East of you.
NE(OCEKIVANA) POBJEDA
Readers might remember that Sergey Karjakin is still only 17 years old, and also note his 2860 performance rating, so far! Here is playing Loek van Wely. And Sasikran is playing Rublevsky. Official site: www.ukrchess.org.ua/aerosvit2007.
Born January 18, 1966, in Leningrad; was taught chess by his father when he was six years old. He achieved the IM title in 1986 and became a GM at the New York Open in 1990. He is best known for becoming FIDE World Champion in 1999 by winning a knockout tournament in Las Vegas. He lost the title in the next knockout, held the following year in New Delhi. Viswanathan Anand eliminated him in the quarterfinals. Khalifman's other successes include the Russian Championship of 1996 and first place in Essent 2000 with 5.5 points out of 6. According to the January 2007 edition of the FIDE ratings list, he has a rating of 2619, placing him joint 97th in the world. Final
standings: The Sparkassen Chess Meeting takes place 23rd June - 1st July 2007 in Dortmund. Participants: Viswanathan Anand 2786 IND, Vladimir Kramnik 2772 RUS, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2757 AZE, Peter Leko 2738 HUN, Boris Gelfand 2733 ISR, Magnus Carlsen 2693 NOR, Evgeny Alekseev 2679 RUS, Arkadij Naiditsch 2654 GER. Round 4 standings: Kramnik leads over Anand, Leko and Carlsen - Alekseev, the Petersburgh player is playing well to hold 2nd place. Official site: www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de 1 Kramnik - 3.0
6-23-2007
Your local, on the 8x8s: The New
Marshall Chess Club has issued a press release about its new
President, Dr. Frank Brady, an International Arbiter of the World Chess
Federation (FIDE), was unanimously elected. The Marshall is recognized as one of the largest and most prestigious chess clubs in the world, with over 25 International Grandmasters and scores of other Masters among some 300 members. It was founded by Frank J. Marshall, a Grandmaster and U.S. Champion. The club has been housed in a landmark brownstone building since 1931. Dr. Brady is the Chair of the Mass Communications Department of St. John's University. He is the author of ten books, including the perennial chess bestseller, Profile of a Prodigy: The Life and Games of Bobby Fischer. See www.marshallchessclub.org, though it contains much old information, and some new sections are unavailable as 'under construction'.
Honorable Chess Gossip: The US Woman's Championship: the top 10 people from the May list qualify. Mr. Frank Berry, Stillwater, Virgina, has written with the current list of actually signed-up players: Krush, Irina 2512 Quite obviously,
Irina Krush must be considered the very clear favorite, with her 150
point rating lead plus her recent Euro-tour result when she held Carlsen to
a draw, must be a huge confidence boost to a continuously improving player. Nigel Short has something say this week about FIDE:
From an interview: http://www.latestchess.com/showInterview.php?id=3 Annual Chessville GM Poetry Competition: Important Notice: Event CANCELLED! Poems have been dribbling in, but are so .um, so. Therefore, the all-new GM Blitz painting competition has been launched instead. See Rare Chess Pics, below. Another Chess Conference may be of great natural interest to American players: The International Scholastic Chess Convention discussion will contain the following sections: 1. Chess at Schools, 2. Chess in Education, 3. Chess and Technology, 4. Chess for Peace. The Convention's special guests are invited to be: World Chess Champions GM Anatoly Karpov and GM Susan Polgar. The International Scholastic Chess Forum will be organized by the International Educational and Cultural Services, Inc., a 501-c3 non-profit organization that established Chess for Peace program in 2005. The site lists its board of directors: Dr. Mikhail
Korenman - President - Orland Park, Il For more information please contact Dr. Mikhail Korenman, the event organizer at intecsus@yahoo.com or visit their web site: http://www.intecsus.org/.
Round 4 standings: 1-3 Shirov,
Karjakin, Ivanchuk - 2.5 Official site: www.ukrchess.org.ua/aerosvit2007 The Gorenje
2007 tournament in Valjevo took place 13th-21st June 2007.
Participants are: Karpov Anatoly g RUS 2668, Georgiev Kiril g BUL 2660,
Nikolic Predrag g BIH 2631, Ivanisevic Ivan g SRB 2614, Roiz Michael g ISR
2605, Stojanovic Mihajlo m SRB 2588, Iordachescu Viorel g MDA 2587,
Damljanovic Branko g SRB 2585, Atalik Suat g TUR 2584, Pavasovic Dusko g SLO
2567. Round 3 standings: 1-3 Atalik,
Ivanisevic, Roiz - 2.0 Mikhail Roiz took first place on tie-breaks. Official site: www.chessdom.com Coming up is one of the annual strongest tournaments in northern Europe, Politiken Cup 2007, July 21-29, Copenhagen, is 10 rounds Open Swiss tournament. The rate of play is 40 moves for 2 hours and 1 hour is added after move 40. In case of equal points, a tiebreak is applied: 1. Middle Buchholz, 2. Sonneborn-Berger.
6-16-2007
The Parrot didn't appear last week because of molting problems too personal to mention, so last week's Squawwk on women in chess now appears at the bottom, and this week's is a Guest Squawwk! By GM Susan Polgar.
But the Bronx loses chess clubs in schools, says a report; "Four other schools announced the certain demise of their programs last week. Citywide, the loss of funds will cripple 118 schools, affecting 20,000 children. Some 62 schools across the city face losing their programs."
1 GM Nakamura,
Hikaru NY 2738 5.5
The US Woman's Championship: the top 10 people from the May list will qualify, whenever the May list is published. And the Parrot asked this week and last, if anyone at all knows who will do so? No answers yet, just checking.
They're off Gain! The World Candidates Matches round 2 starting Wednesday, June 6, 2007: Round 1: (games
1,2,3,4,5,6 + tie-break) Round 2 Official site: www.globalchess.eu And they're off again in Hungary in the latest series of norm-seeking tournaments. Spotted in the GM group is US hopeful IM Paschall, William M. USA, 2353, and Canadians GM Bluvshtein, Mark CAN 2520 and IM Roussel-Roozmon, Thomas CAN 2422. In the IM-A group there is an Englishman FM Eggleston, David J ENG 2301 who is doing well, and in IM-B FM Kaufman, Raymond USA 2319, and FM Kaufman, Raymond USA 2319 who is also doing well. In FM-B there is Brooke, John ENG 1887. Featuring big wins for Canadian players! GM Bluvshtein, Mark CAN rating 2520 scored 8 performance rating 2607. IM Roussel-Roozmon, Thomas CAN rating 2422 scored 6.5 performance rating 2506.
6-9-2007 There was no Parrot published this week. 6-2-2007
Your local, on the 8x8s Letter to the Parrot:
The Parrot notes that the forum where much abuse occurs is USCF's own rather troubled one, and in investigating noticed this interesting statistic: Most users ever online was 31 on Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:44 pm. At the time of looking there were 25 online, plus, so it said [!] 4 moderators. The US Woman's Championship: the top 10 people from the May list will qualify, whenever the May list is published, and then we can see which qualifiers sign up. Chess Gossip: Now complete are 71 studies from Bron plus 71 paintings, see the URL below, although in cruising the site I found a study by Otto Titusz Blathy Mat en 290 coups, which for those of you less linguistically gifted than moi, means Mate in 290 moves. http://www.jmrw.com/Chess/Bron/base.htm
They're off! The World Candidates Matches take place May 26th - June 14th, 2007 in Elista, Kalmykia. Each match will consist of six games, and, if necessary, tie-break rapid games. Reader's Challenge of the Week: Adams gets a stupendous attack - but its not quite enough. Any improvements anyone? GM Adams (2734) - GM Shirov
(2699) [C78]
Elista game of the Week: GM Carlsen (2693) - GM
Aronian (2759) [A05] 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 b6 3.g3 c5 4.Bg2 Bb7 5.0-0 e6 6.Nc3 Be7 7.Re1 d5 8.cxd5 Nxd5 9.d4 Nxc3 10.bxc3 Be4 11.Ne5 Bxg2 12.Kxg2 0-0 13.e4 Qc8 14.Qg4 Bf6 15.Nf3 Kh8 16.h4 Nc6 17.Bg5 cxd4 18.Bxf6 gxf6 19.cxd4 e5 20.Qxc8 Raxc8 21.d5 Na5 22.h5 Nc4 23.Nh4 Nd6 24.h6 Rc3 25.Rac1 Rfc8 26.Rxc3 Rxc3 27.Nf5 Nxf5 28.exf5 Kg8 29.Re4 Kf8 30.Rg4 Rc7 31.Rg7 b5 32.Rxh7 Kg8 33.Rg7+ Kh8 34.d6 Rd7 35.Kf3 b4 36.Ke4 Rxd6 37.Rxf7 Ra6 38.g4 Kg8 39.h7+ Kh8 40.g5 fxg5 41.f6 White wins 1-0 A huge confidence booster for Carlsen. After that questionable 19.e5 the very next question was how to win an endgame with even material against a 2759-rated opponent? They should put this one in the books to demonstrate the 'rook lift' and also the shock of that 39.h7. The 1st World Women's Team Chess Championship took place May 19th- 30th 2007 in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Ten women's teams participated in the event: Armenia, Botswana, China, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam.
Whereas her team Captain Zhao Xue (Caption 2, left) had another favorite, "I like to read Karpov's books and Russian history!" The program for the US Women's Team, who won a silver medal two years ago, was terminated and so the US did not compete. Official site: www.chesswomen.com The traditional 37th Bosna tournament took place May 18th-28th 2007 in Sarajevo. Double round robin with: Alexander Morozevich RUS 2762, Nigel Short ENG 2691, Artyom Timofeev RUS 2658, Ivan Sokolov NED 2655, Sergei Movsesian SVK 2642, Borki Predojevic BIH 2609. Official site
The Fifth International chess tournament among juniors - "Young Stars of the World - 2007" Vanja Somov's memorial took place 16th-27th May in Kirishi (Leningrad's region) with Yan Nepomnjashchy becoming the winner.
5-26-2007
Alexander Borisovich Roshal, one of the best chess journalists, the editor-in-chief of the magazine "64-Chess Review ", a merited chess trainer of Russia, a merited art worker died on May, 21st in Moscow. Three Memories: I woke this morning with a phrase on my mind. It was something written by a German in the psychological line who ran an arts rehabilitation center, and followed a newsgroup discussion about the effects of legal and illegal stimulants in chess. He said: “The brain makes chemicals of its own”. Sometimes profoundly simple observations like this put things in context, and is certainly the way that both the creative and analytical effects of playing chess can address some societal problems. I was then trying to think of anything equally simple and profound, when the single instance of something Garry Kasparov wrote in the New York Times a month or so ago emerged from my memory. He asked: “What do kids do with their aggression?” Which I think is another address to American mainstream culture, which recommends our game as a useful, and even as Konrad Lorenz might like it, an essential, cultural artifact. I had only brief contact with Mr. Roschal before his illness effectively ended the correspondence, yet he was actively interested in furthering cross-cultural exchanges, America & Russia, and we worked on some ideas for citizen exchanges in chess, certainly with young players, but which also including the military in both countries. If that project ever comes about, I will remember to put his name on it.
Your local, on the 8x8s The Parrot’s spies in NY State have reported that Steve Gore is a speed-demon! Steve dominated a round-robin of 9 players event, scoring 8 points. Meanwhile, says the Vassar Newsletter, in the premier event Ernie Johnson won the Duchess County Championships with a 4.5-0.5 score, yielding a draw to 2nd Place winner Scott Strattner. This year’s event had 24 players who participated. In the Poughkeepsie Double Quads Scott Strattner won the Top Section with a perfect 6-0 and continued his winning ways with a 3.5-.5 score ahead of two Experts - Larry Wagner and Ernie Johnson in the Vassar-Chadwick Memorial Tournament. Hey! I can’t resist Johnson & Johnson! Here they have a go at each other at USATE: E.Johnson-Chris
Johnson 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.g3 Bc5 4.Bg2 Ng4 5.e3 Nf6 6.Nf3 d6 7.a3 a5 8.0-0 Nc6 9.d4 exd4 10.exd4 Ba7 11.Re1+ Ne7 12.Qe2 (Bg5 probably better) Bg4 13.Be3 0-0 14.Bg5 Nc6 15.Qd3 h6 16.Be3 Ne7 17.b4 Bf5 18.Qd2 ab 19.ab c6 20.Nh4 Bh7 21.Ra5 g5 22.Nf3 c5 23.dxc5 Nc6 24.Ra4 dc 25.Qxd8 Raxd8 26.b5 Nb4 27.Rxa7 b6 28.Ne5 Nc2 29.Rd1 Nd4 30.Bxd4 cxd4 31.Nd5 Nxd5 32.Bxd5 d3 33.Nxf7 Rde8 34.Nxg5+ Kh8 Rxh7 1-0
Texas Tech University And the new blog for
the SPICE program is:
Headline! Alexander Shabalov, by winning in the Final Round vs Sergy Kudrin, wins the US Championship outright as Alex Onischuk was held to a draw by Boris Gulko. www.monroi.com has the results, games etc... Though its less clear what is happening with the Woman’s Championship, does anyone know who is playing in it?
The Wonder kid of Karnataka became World Chess Champion by defeating second seed Irakli Beradze of Georgia. He was declared as champion after the 8th round, three rounds prior to completion of the Tournament.
Half A Letter from England: Ray Keene wrote this week to say the police came to see him. In fact, they wanted his help in solving a murder. He agreed, consulted, and solved it! Now… I think the gentleman should share more on this subject, and we wait the other half of the anecdote – which would be, ‘and how did you do that, Ray?’ Ray has agreed to share, and the Parrot would like the movie rights.
They’re off! The World Candidates Matches take place May 26th - June 14th, 2007 in Elista, Kalmykia. Each match will consist of six games, and, if necessary, tie-break rapid games.
Aronian Levon (ARM) - Carlsen Magnus (NOR) Further details: www.fide.com
China 3.5 - .5 Vietnam The MTel Masters, a double round robin event, took place in Sofia 9th-20th May 2007.
But the Final picture looked like this: Official site: www.mtelmasters.com but beware! <aargh> None of the site links worked when the Parrot tried last week, and they don’t work this week either. So I can’t report who this is: American won the Play like Topalov game or Kamsky’s comments: Gata Kamsky: Worrisome things are happening in chess.
Morozevich and Short need to eat their Wheaties or something! Since I would have put them as favorites to lead the whole way. Which is perhaps why the local press are delighted to announce MOROZEVICH IZGUBIO U MINIJATURI ! and also PREDOJEVIĆ NADIGRAO SHORTA ! Which, as any fool can see, means they bombed. Official site
Round 6 standings: The Fifth International chess tournament among juniors - "Young stars of the world - 2007" Vanja Somov's Memorial takes place 16th-27th May in Kirishi (Leningrad's region).
1 Nepomniachtchi - 5.5
Final standings: GM Sakaev was the only player to win with the black pieces over 10 rounds of chess! And he managed to do that twice. 5-19-2007
The Parrot liked 2 articles particularly, Bent Larsen en Gijón, 1956; also Una hermosa partida de ataque which follows Dizdarevich,E - Miles,A [E14]. There is also a review of a new book in Spanish El Arte Del Ajedrez [from Anderssen to Karpov], which seems well worth a look:
“This is a seismic event in the chess world,”
Texas Tech University announced Saturday (May 12) that it will establish the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) and hire chess powerhouses Susan Polgar and Paul Truong to head the program. The university announced Saturday (May 12) that it will establish the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) and hire chess powerhouses Susan Polgar and Paul Truong to head the program.
“We are obviously very excited about SPICE and the opportunities it will provide,” said Polgar. “We plan to build one of the world’s premier centers for chess research and outreach while solidifying Texas Tech as a national chess contender.” The institute will include academic and outreach components and provide an almost unprecedented forum for academic research on the game. Situated under the Office of the Provost, SPICE will allow researchers across disciplines to study chess from angles as diverse as artificial intelligence, cognition, and women’s studies. Research could probe the influence of chess on learning, for example, or tap the university’s High Performance Computing Center to create sophisticated computer programs. Institute developers also intend to use SPICE as a way to promote and support collegiate-level competitive chess and to promote chess outreach to players of all ages. Recruiting chess
champions will benefit the university academically, said Jim Brink, senior
vice provost for academic affairs, noting that chess requires a combination
of intellect, spatial thinking and other skills that often translate into
classroom success. “Smart people play chess,” he said. “There is a very close correlation between chess excellence and academic capability.” Creating an institute devoted to chess and hiring two of the game’s top personalities will increase Tech’s profile in the chess scene, said Haraldur Karlsson, the current team coach and mentor who helped found the Knight Raiders and was a key player in building Texas Tech’s relationship with Polgar and Truong. “This is a seismic event in the chess world,” Karlsson said. “This institute is a unique opportunity to apply the resources of a major research university to promoting and understanding chess.” Polgar has a lengthy list of credentials, including being the only person – male or female – to win chess’ Triple Crown, comprised of Rapid, Blitz and Classical world championships. She currently is the top-ranked woman player in the United States and, at the age of 21, was the first woman to earn the Grandmaster title. Truong is an eleven-time national champion in Vietnam and was the captain and business manager of the 2004 U.S. Women's Olympiad Team. And the new blog for the SPICE program is: http://texastechchess.blogspot.com. Not only… but also … 1st Annual
Susan Polgar World Chess Challenge for Boys
“We recognize,” says Joel Berez, President and CEO of ICC, “that both the World Chess Network and Chess Live communities have cultures and traditions that are much more similar to each other than they are to the ICC community. Therefore keeping them together in a new service with an atmosphere similar to what they already enjoy makes more sense than forcing them to move to ICC and will undoubtedly be appreciated.” Founded in 1995 ICC has more than 35,000 paying members from all over the world regularly playing casual or tournament chess games against each other. Chess Jokes:
Round 3 standings:
Though its less clear what is happening with the Woman’s Championship, though the Parrot understands it may be held sometime in July, even though the top contestants were not consulted. The USCF site continued to say nothing until today, when this announcement was made U.S. Women's Championship Schedule: Opening Ceremony-
Monday 11 AM One correspondent even wrote to the Parrot with a contribution to a brilliancy prize – but where to send it? And don’t ask me who is playing. I’ll tell you when …
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Her
Brilliant Brain: Susan Polgar wrote this week about her beginnings
in chess for a forthcoming National Geographic film:
The
Association of Chess Professionals, the ACP, have found themselves a
sponsor: The Bank Pivdenny has officially announced its eagerness to
stage the 2nd ACP World Rapid Cup in January 2008, who made this additional
announcement "The total prize fund will amount to 136,000 $US. 16
participants will take part in this KO tournament. The time control
will be 20 minutes with an increment of 5 seconds for each move. Best
players of the 3rd ACP Tour 2006/07 (
GM Larry Evans u
svojoj knjizi Modern Chess Brilliancies, na 175. strani opisuje jedan
neobican slucaj sa turnira u Havani 1952. godine: "... U Havani 1952, na
jednom od mojih prvih velikih medjunarodnih turnira naucio sam iz prve ruke
sta znaci Tartakoverova izjava da "ne mozes dobiti partiju predajom".
Holandski majstor Prins je imao figuru manje protiv jednog od manje poznatih
kubanskih sahista, Quesade; njegova pozicija je bila ocigledno beznadezna,
ali je on insistirao da partiju prekine. Kada sam upitao Prinsa zasto
odmah nije predao, odgovorio mi je da se sve moze desiti. I zaista njegov
protivnik je sutra dozivio srcani udar i umro. Takvo dramaticno rjesenje
spasavanja izgubljene partije je mucno. Kao i tako tvrdoglavo ponasanje
naseg dragog majstora prema svojim kolegama." Lodewijk Prins, (1913-1999),
pobjednik turnira u Wijku 1948. godine. Pozicija Quesada-Prins u kojoj je
Prins prema tekstu Larry Evansa prekinuo partiju
The
2nd International Chess Tournament "Aerosvit-2007" took place in
Crimean Foros, Ukraine 17th-30th June 2007. Participants: Svidler
Peter g RUS 2736, Ivanchuk Vassily g UKR 2729, Jakovenko Dmitry g RUS 2708,
Shirov Alexei g ESP 2699, Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter g ROM 2693, Sasikiran
Krishnan g IND 2690, Eljanov Pavel g UKR 2686, Karjakin Sergey g UKR 2686,
Rublevsky Sergei g RUS 2680, Dominguez Perez Lenier g CUB 2678, Van Wely
Loek g NED 2674, Onischuk Alexander g USA 2663. The average rating is
2693.5. 17th June is arrival day, the 1st round 18th June. Chief
arbiter - International arbiter Leonid Bodankin (Ukraine). The Shahcom
Company provides live coverage of games of this tournament in the playing
hall and via internet on the official site and the
Coming
up is one of the annual strongest tournaments in northern Europe,
Politiken Cup 2007, July 21-29, Copenhagen, is 10 rounds Open
Swiss tournament. The rate of play is 40 moves for 2 hours and 1 hour
is added after move 40. In case of equal points, a tiebreak is
applied: 1. Middle Buchholz, 2. Sonneborn-Berger. Politiken Cup will
be the most important tournament in Denmark for 2007. Up to now over a
hundred players have signed up and, besides the fantastic prizes, the
organizers have prepared fun simul and blitz events. Moreover, the
Danish brewery Wiibroe will provide over 300 bottles of its finest beer.
See 
And
USCF have released preliminary financials of an annual deficit of
$57,000, which some observers think a tad understated underneath the
forthcoming election, but added to the $130,000 deficit from last year, its
starting to sound like real money.
"As
to chess politics: it is well known that I supported the Right Move
campaign of Bessel Kok in the last FIDE Presidential election. I
have come to the conclusion that FIDE is unreformable in its
current state and that corruption and incompetence are deeply entrenched.
Due to the manner with which this election was won, with cash-stuffed
envelopes being handed out to the more flexible delegates, I cannot
see myself wishing to get involved again in such an ugly process for many
years to come. I will confine myself to rather more modest attempts
to promote chess throughout the Commonwealth."
I
know Chessville sells Rybka, and avoids self-serving advertising, but this
is News Anyway - Rybka wins 15th World Computer Championship, with a
score of 10/11 after shredding Shredder in the last round. Defending
champion Junior didn't compete, and second place Silver went to Zappa with
9/11, and 3rd Bronze to Loop. IM Vasik Rajlich, is the author
of Rybka, 2007 world champion.
Your
local, on the 8x8s visits Vegas:
Texas
Tech officially sponsor Polgar and Denker youth tournaments.
Signed by Dr. James Brink, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Mr.
Dewain Barber, Chairman of the Denker Committee and authorized
representative of the United States Chess Federation and Mr. Paul Truong,
Chairman of the Polgar Committee. One of the main features of the new
arrangement seems to be off-setting $50,000 of costs for participants.
Quite an improvement!
Nakamura
won the National Open. Top scorers:
Honorable
Chess Gossip : Pulitzer Prize Winner Michael Chabon's has a new
book, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and we're in it! Of all
chess sites Chessville was chosen. Many chess references occur in the
title, and are listed on page 414. Thanks to reader Lawrence Totaro
for the mention.
The 7th
European Individual Senior Championship takes place 2nd-10th June 2007
at Hockenheim (Germany). The event is 9 rounds Swiss system. I count
158 participants. The tournament is currently led by Jacob Murey with
18.0, 2nd is 2499-rated Vlastimil Jansa with 16.5, and 3rd Boris Khanukov
[round 5] Norman Hutchinson is the only British player I saw in 75th place
with 13.5 points, and no Americans seem to be taken part in this large
tournament composed mostly of people from Germany and Russia. Official
site:
Caption
1 (above, right): Rising Star Hou Yifan is a Fischer fan. "-I
was born in a Chinese town Tianschu; but at the moment together with my
mother I am living in Beijing, where there is the National Chess Centre with
a boarding school for young talented chess players which are selected
throughout the country. My coach is Grandmaster Ye." She
answered who was her favorite player? "Well, I wouldn't single out any
among women. I like many players, but it's hard to name an idol.
As for men - it's certainly Robert Fischer."
In
memoriam:
National
Traffic: US Championship … they’re done!
LookIt!
This is a World Champion folks!
Now,
B.G. Mahesh writes A Letter from India to tell us how he is doing:
Girish Koushik, a nine and half year-old chess prodigy from Karnataka,
nurtures a dream of becoming the youngest grandmaster ever in India before
he turns 13. And to realize his dreams, the World Champion in U-10, needs
specialized training and testing competitions in Europe. But paucity of
funds and lack of support from governmentt, the corporate sector and from
fellow citizens, leaves his career in stalemate. The Parrot has
written a friend in India undertaking a serious chess study there to see if
help is possible, but is interested in helping this young Winner at Batumi,
and those like him!
In
the World Women's Team Championship, the Chinese women are ‘doing a
Fischer’ – having scored 11.5 points out of 12 so far, and blanked the Euro
champions Poland 4-0 <gulp> And I think they just went 3.5 to 0.5
against Ukraine <double-gulp> With one round to go against Armenia on
Saturday, this is the trail they traced to completely dominate the world:
Here
was the drama at Round 7:
The
traditional 37th Bosna tournament takes place May 18th-28th 2007 in
Sarajevo. Double round robin with: Alexander Morozevich RUS 2762,
Nigel Short ENG 2691, Artyom Timofeev RUS 2658, Ivan Sokolov NED 2655,
Sergei Movsesian SVK 2642, Borki Predojevic BIH 2609.
Konstantin
Sakaev became the winner of the Grandmaster rapid chess tournament
G.E.Nesis's Cup which took place during the main event 21st-22nd May.
It was a double round robin tournament with the time control 20 minutes for
the whole game with an increment of 10 seconds per move. The
participants were: Evgeny Alekseev 2679 RUS, Konstantin Sakaev 2633 RUS,
Alexander Khalifman 2624 RUS, Dimitri Komarov 2539 UKR, Sergey Janovsky 2496
RUS and Maxim Novik 2466 RUS. 
Welcome to the
Net: Especially for Spanish readers, a new Spanish Chess Blog has been
created at 
“Editorial
Fundamentos. Con el ajedrez se puede disfrutar jugando, pero también
leyendo interesantes libros escritos con este fin. Este es el caso de la
obra que reseñamos hoy, escrita por L. W. Cámara en 1982. A lo largo de
algo más de doscientas páginas defiende la tesis del ajedrez como arte, y
nos muestra su belleza en todo su esplendor. El libro está dividido en dos
partes: en la primera el autor justifica el por qué el ajedrez es un arte
y en la segunda lo demuestra con numerosos ejemplos de hermosas partidas,
bonitas posiciones y preciosos finales compuestos. En resumen toda una
delicia para saborear por cualquier ajedrecista. Para nosotros ha
resultado notablemente interesante el capítulo quinto dedicado a los
finales compuestos. Acostumbrados como estamos en la actualidad al ajedrez
rápido, al juego restringido por horarios implacables, resulta admirable
la cantidad talento, creatividad y esfuerzo reflexivo que emplearon los
compositores en estas obras.”
Anyone wanting to
put a little spice into their chess life should check out
C-SPAN and here is when: Dr. Polgar’s commencement speech at
Texas Tech University during their
Polgar, four-time
women’s world chess champion and five-time Olympic chess champion, has been
hired as director of SPICE and coach of the Knight Raiders chess team.
Truong, 11-time national champion, is the institute’s business manager and
assistant coach.
ICC buys two
competitive online chess services, World Chess Network, from Master
Games International, and Chess Live, from GamesParlor. The two
services will be merged together to form a new service, separate from ICC,
to be called World Chess Live.
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