Submitted by
SonofPearl on Fri Aug 1, 2008 7:00am.
Part one of this interview can be found here.
Q. You are an experienced chess coach. Can you tell us what level of students you train and how you conduct lessons? Do you have a particular pedagogical approach that you think works best?
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:15pm.
Judit Polgar is comfortably the strongest female chess player in the history of the game. Born on 23 July 1976, she has been successfully playing the top male chess players on equal terms for over a decade.
She achieved the Grandmast... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:31pm.
Pal Benko (pictured) turned 80 years of age on 14th July 2008. He was raised amongst poverty in Hungary and emigrated to the US in 1958 by defecting when attending a chess tournament in Iceland. He went on to finish first, or shared first, i... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:56pm.
Wesley So (pictured) isn't a 'household' name in the chess world - yet, but this young Filipino player is making waves with his attacking play and strong results. In December 2007, he became the 7th youngest Grandmaster i... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:12pm.
Vishy Anand still number 1 FIDE have published the latest official rating list and despite some early misleading reports from FIDE, the Aerosvit tournament was deemed (correctly, according to the rules) to be too late for the results to be include... Read more »
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Submitted by
kg221 on Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:25pm.
This may be old news by now, but I'll post it anyway for those pawn jockeys that missed it. http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1815747_1815707_1815674,00.html Read more »
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Submitted by
Waldemar on Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:18am.
Ha, nice video with Anand! http://www.chess.com/video/view/anand-closes-deal-with-amd I suppose it is a good deal for him since AMD is the second-largest global supplier of microprocessors. WaldemarChessedelic.com, mind boggling chess blogging... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:30am.
Vladimir Kramnik (pictured) was born on 25 June 1975 in Tuapse, on the shores of the Black Sea in Russia. His father was Boris, a renowned sculptor and his mother was Irina, a music teacher. He learnt to play chess at the age of 5 and ... Read more »
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Submitted by
Waldemar on Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:00am.
Hi all, Magnus Carlsen has just finished another fantastic tournament in Foros, Ukraine. He managed to remain undefeated and chalked up five wins. In this field that means a 2877 performance rating. Now, virtually he is the number 2 in the world w... Read more »
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Submitted by
WGM RusudanGoletiani on Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:24pm.
Anna Zatonskih, winner of the 2008 U.S. Women's Championship last month in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was recently interviewed by Tom Braunlich for a report on the event in next month's USCF Chess Life magazine. Due to space restrictions and because... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Jun 9, 2008 12:53pm.
There was very sad news today as the young Armenian GM Karen Asrian (pictured) died suddenly and unexpectedly. Early reports say that Asrian, who was just 28 years old, felt ill whilst driving in Verevan, the Armenian capital, and pulled ove... Read more »
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Submitted by
kohai on Mon May 26, 2008 11:04pm.
When Boris Spassky said he'd take on twenty chess opponents at Hay Festival, i doubt he thought one of his opponents would be playing from 8'000 miles away!One of the lucky twenty was Ian McNab, a field technician with the British Antartic... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon May 26, 2008 1:14pm.
Gentleman Spassky charms Hay-on-Wye Individuals who achieve greatness and fame in sports are normally remembered for their sublime skills and dramatic triumphs. It is Boris Spassky's tragedy to be forever remembered as the man who ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon May 12, 2008 2:24pm.
Chess fans in the UK will have the chance to see two giants of the game at the Hay Festival in Wales later this month. Boris Spassky (pictured) is giving a simultaneous exhibition (fully booked - I tried! ) and is also being interviewed by Ronan B... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu May 8, 2008 12:58pm.
Yelena Dembo is a Russian born Women's Grandmaster and International Master currently rated at 2429 Elo, which places her at 43rd in the women's chess world rankings. She is also one of the top rated players at Chess.com! I... Read more »
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Submitted by
DJ571 on Sat May 3, 2008 1:20pm.
Here are some chess tactics to know, the first move should, take out patn diagonal to queen, then take bishops, knights, and rooks out, then attack with all pieces at once, who knows how good your opponent will be, that will determine if it will ... Read more »
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Submitted by
whistleblower on Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:07am.
Fischer's 'widow' and nephews in legal tussle for £1m estate As a chess mastermind Bobby Fischer was capable of executing manoeuvres as complicated as they were brutal. Now, following his death, the tussle over his million-pound ... Read more »
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Submitted by
Masakari on Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:54am.
Grandmaster Wesley So continued to amaze the chess world by dominating Indonesia’s top player right on his turf. So posted three straight wins in his six-game duel opposite GM Susanto Megarant... Read more »
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Submitted by
Masakari on Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:23pm.
Russian chess Grand Master and former world champion Anatoly Karpov will take part in a gigantic 4,000 chess board simultaneous match on April 21 at the University of Computer and Informatics Sciences (UCI) in Havana. Karpov was welcom... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:10pm.
Nigel Davies is a Grandmaster from England, a popular and prolific chess author and an experienced coach. He also authored the recent Chess Mentor course, "Understanding the Colle-Zukertort" and is currently playing in a vote chess... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:20am.
On April 13th, 1963 a baby boy called Karri Kimovich Weinstein was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. He went on to become better known as Garry Kasparov and dominated the chess world for decades - being recognised as the World Champion from 1985 to ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:42am.
In 1973 the Brazilian Chess Grandmaster Henrique Mecking was ranked 3rd in the World, only headed by the greats Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi. The strength of his play at a young age even drew comparisons with Bobby Fischer. However, Me... Read more »
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Submitted by
sandeepg on Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:16pm.
Interview with Grandmaster Alexandra KosteniukAlexandra Kosteniuk is a Russian chess Grandmaster with a FIDE rating of 2523, presently ranked eighth in the women chess world (according to April 2008 FIDE rating list). Her most notable chess achiev... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Apr 2, 2008 11:15am.
The latest quarterly update to the FIDE ratings list has been published and the top 100 players and top 50 women players are shown below. Vishy Anand is the undisputed number 1 again. The 17 year-old Magnus Carlsen is a stunning 5th! ... Read more »
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Submitted by
RayDuqueIII on Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:42pm.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-01-18-fischer-obit_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip Bobby Fischer is the greatest player in the world. The link above was a news story from USA Today. Ray Duque III (GM-IBD) New York City Read more »
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