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Chess News for January - June, 2010
 

• Ennis Congress Open 2010, May 14-16 (Limerick, Ireland.):    Official site

• Kings Tournament (Medias, Romania): A Category XX event, average rating 2742, was won by GM Magnus Carlsen, a full two points ahead of the 2nd place finishers.  Official Site.

Final Ranking crosstable after 10 Rounds
 

• (6/30)  The Chess Drum » Blog Archive » FIDE sends chess sets to Haiti  By Daaim Shabazz
  Some of these were chess organizations and individuals who raised funds for relief efforts. The Chess Drum held a fundraiser for Sabine Bonnet, the President of the Chess Academy of Haiti. Bonnet, who has settled in Miami, recently told ...
   

• (6/30)  Texas Tech Chess Player Earns Grandmaster Title
  Newswise
  A Texas Tech University Knight Raiders chess team member [Davorin Kuljasevic]attained the chess world's highest ranking by earning the final norm for a grandmaster ...
   

• (6/29)  A White Day at the Women's Grand Prix
  New York Times (blog) By DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN
  Everyone knows that playing White is an advantage in chess (though curiously it was not during the last round of the King's Tournament ...
   

• (6/29)  More Twists and Turns in Fight for Federation Presidency
  New York Times (blog) By DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN
  The slate of candidates for the top offices of the World Chess Federation were officially announced Tuesday. ...
   

• (6/29)  Life squared - Viswanathan Anand
  The Hindu
  He started playing chess when he was all of six years and became the youngest international grandmaster at 14. The soft spoken Viswanathan Anand has won the ...
   

• (6/29)  Historic Chess Set for Sale
  New York Times (blog)
  By DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN With all the hoopla and fanfare surrounding the 1972 World Championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, it would make ...
   

• (6/29)  Portrait of a Bronx Chess Champion, Age 12
  Wall Street Journal (blog)
  By Joy Resmovits When Bronx student Justus Williams started third grade at PS 70, his mother, Latisha, urged him to take on chess. ...
   

• (6/28)  Two Weeks in Philadelphia
  New York Times (blog)
  By DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN For some chess players, July 4th is more than a holiday, it is the time of year for the World Open, which has been held in ...
   

• (6/28)  Bratto, the green chess heart of Italy : Chess news by ChessVibes
  By Peter Doggers
  Bratto, the green chess heart of Italy Summer is back and it's time to look for a place to play chess, possibly without sacrificing the vacation side. In your annual quest to combine 'work and pleasure', chess and holiday fun, ...
   

• (6/28)  Numberplay: Maximum Protection On Board
  New York Times
  By PRADEEP MUTALIK Justin Thyme The 35 squares protected by the eight white chess pieces sitting in the home rank are shown using red markers. ...
   

• (6/28)  Chess notes
  Boston Globe
  By Harold Dondis and Patrick Wolff The contest over control of the international chess federation, Fédération Internationale des Échecs, is getting to look ...
   

• (6/27)  Indian summer
  New York Post
  By ANDY SOLTIS Four of India's strongest grandmasters took top prizes at the third annual Marshall Chess Club International in Greenwich Village this week. ...

• (6/27)  Two new chess tournaments for the Caribbean
  Stabroek News
  If one tournament is geared towards strengthening the chess talents of our region, then Guyana should accelerate its development of the ancient game. ...
   

• (6/27)  Polgar: Campers having a blast at Texas Tech's chess summer camp
  LubbockOnline.com
  The first Texas Tech Chess Summer Camp of 2010 just concluded. It was held at the College of Education building. In addition to the local youngsters, ...
   

• (6/27)  Variations on a theme
  Telegraph.co.uk by Malcolm Pein
  Qxh7# The Winton Capital British Chess Solving Championship begins again with the starter problem above right. White, playing up the board, is to play and ...
   

• (6/26)  Chess Notes
  Boston Globe, By Harold Dondis and Patrick Wolff
  Rather, they are examples of Aronian's free spirit in chess matters. Here, however, his unorthodoxy does not help him, as he picks up a pawn but is saddled ...
   

• (6/26)  Cosmopolitan teen a top-notch analyst
  Columbus Dispatch by Shelby Lyman
  Giri is a product of the digital age who works largely by himself using computer chess programs and, I presume, feasting on the rich chess materials ...
   

• (6/21)  Chess notes
  Boston Globe, By Harold Dondis and Patrick Wolff
  News on the national front of chess is that the US Chess League (USChessLeague.com) is expanding. ...

• (6/20)  Caribbean Chess Sub Zonal Begin Friday
  The Bahama Journal
  HISTORY NOTE Back in the 1960s a few men with interest in Chess playing founded the Bahamas Chess Association as a vehicle to promote the game of Chess in ...
   

• (6/20)  HBO's Real Sports premieres episode about Brownsville Chess
  Brownsville Herald
  By LAURA TILLMAN, The Brownsville Herald Brownsville's inspiring story of children overcoming obstacles to become chess champions continues to broaden its ...
   

• (6/20)  Amazing Dad: Orrin Hudson
  ParentDish (blog)
  Orrin Hudson explains the strategies of chess to at-risk youth, who make the bigger connection to life's wins and losses. Credit: John Glenn Why Orrin Is ...
   

• (6/20)  Master mind: Viswanathan Anand
  Economic Times
  Talking about how he maintains his proverbial cool, the king of chess says that he has not done any serious work on the game since May 11—after he won what ...
   

• (6/19)  A Player Steps Up His Game and Wins the National Open
  New York Times
  By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN Chess players often talk of the creative aspect of chess — the role of imagination in conceiving strategies. ...
   

• (6/19)  On Chess: Nixon's snub added to Fischer story
  Columbus Dispatch by Shelby Lyman
  One of the conundrums of the 1972 chess explosion was Richard Nixon's failure to invite Bobby Fischer to the White House. Fischer, of course, had dealt an ...
   

• (6/19)  Fischer expresses fatherly love for daughter
  Manila Bulletin
  It took nearly a year before the Youngs were able to visit Fischer's tomb during a visit last December in the company of Estimo and chess grandmaster Eugene ...
   

• (6/19)  Chess Notes
  Boston Globe
  By Harold Dondis and Patrick Wolff.  Sergey Karjakin was the winner of the ACP World Rapid Cup held in Odessa, the Ukraine, in late May. ...
   

• (6/17)  Making the right moves
  Alexandria Echo Press
  JJ Foster fell asleep on the way home from his first chess tournament – in his car seat. That's because he was only 5 years old. ...
   

• (6/17)  Bobby Fischer: chess legend's body to be exhumed 'after bitter love child ...
  Telegraph.co.uk (photo courtesy ChessBase.com)
  The remains of Bobby Fischer, the former world chess champion, are to be exhumed to settle a bitter dispute over his £1million estate, Iceland's Supreme ...
   

• (6/16)  Why I Hate Chess « Not Drowning, Mothering.
  By TheNDM
  Chess is time-consuming. I read somewhere that if there are 50 consecutive moves without any piece taken, you can call a draw. So even if I got my opponent to agree not to take any of my pieces, we'd have to sit through 50 moves before ...
   

• (6/16)  Texas Tech Wins Design Competition with Microscopic Chess Set
  Texas Tech University (press release)
  The world's smallest chess board, about the diameter of four human hairs and designed by Texas Tech University engineering students, was a winner in this ...
   

• (6/15)  Clearwater chess grandmaster conquers game he grew up with
  Tampabay.com
  By Drew Harwell, Times Staff Writer CLEARWATER — Ray Robson was 3 when his dad, Gary, brought home a checkers-chess set. He had bought it for a few dollars ...
   

• (6/14)  The Chess Hall of Fame is saved
  Boston Globe
  By Harold Dondis and Patrick Wolff The US Chess Hall of Fame had its origins in a dank basement of the US Chess Federation in New Windsor, NY It had a few ...|
   

• (6/13)  Monster Chess - from The Robotics Posse
  We had 3 “build parties” where we built large segments of the Monster Chess project. We'd like to thank everybody involved in helping bring Monster Chess to ...
   

• Seirawan Chess - GM Yasser Seirawan's new site, dedicated to his 'new' version of the game
   

• Lubomir Kavalek - GM Kavalek's famous column has found a new home on The Huffington Post

- Saint Louis Open (April 10 - 11 / St. Louis, USA)

* Hikaru Nakamura, Robert Hess & Ben Finegold have confirmed their participation

* Official site

- Anand vs. Topalov World Chess Championship (April 23 - May 12 / Sofia, BULGARIA)

- U.S Chess Championship (May 13 - 25 / St. Louis, USA)

* Official site

Judit Polgar vs. Gregory Kaidanov Sicilian Theme Match (February 22 - 25 / South Carolina, USA)
Final score: Judit Polgar won the match (2-2 classic, 2-1 tiebreaks) // Official site
 

- Linares Chess Tournament (February 12 - 25 / Linares, SPAIN)

* Veselin Topalov (6.5/10) won the tournament after defeating Boris Gelfand during the last round, Alexander Grischuk finished in second place

* Official site (Spanish)

- 8th Gibtelecom Chess Festival (January 26 - February 4 / Gibraltar)

* Michael Adams beat Paco Vallejo (1.5-0.5) in the final of the playoff

* Results & standings
* Official site

- Corus Wijk aan Zee (January 16 - 31 / Wijk aan Zee, NETHERLANDS)

* Magnus Carlsen (8.5/13) won the tournament, Kramnik & Shirov shared the second place while Anand & Nakamura shared the third place

* Official site

- 9th Marienbad Open (January 16 - 23 / Marienbad, CZECH REPUBLIC)

* IM Dominik Orzech (6.5/9) won the tournament

* Standings
* Official site

- 9th Prague Open (January 8 - 15 / Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC)

* Viacheslav Zakhartsov (7/9) won the tournament

* Final standings
* Official site

- World Team Chess Championship (January 4 - 13, Bursa, TURKEY)

* 1st place: Russia // 2nd place: United States // 3rd place: India

* Standings
* Official site

- FIDE Rating List (January 2010)

* Top 10: Carlsen, Topalov, Anand, Kramnik, Aronian, Gelfand, Gashimov, Ivanchuk, Wang Yue & Svidler

* Check the lists
* FIDE.com

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