WHO: Touch Move Chess Center WHAT: Chess Lecture WHEN: January 8,2009 (every Thursday 7pm -8:30pm) TOPIC: Opening theories + sample games+ Q & A WHERE : 5639 N. Ashland ave. Chicago IL. 60660 PHONE: 773-627-2759 FORMAT: 1:30 hrs Limit...
Master the French volume 1-3
Brand new 3-volume Opening DVD! They just came out and are now available on www.PolgarChess.com. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Master the French volume 1-3
Brand new 3-volume DVD! They just came out and will be available on www.PolgarChess.com shortly. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Unorthodox and Tormented World of Chess Champions
New Book Illuminates the Unorthodox and Tormented World of Chess Champions Newton Highlands, MA, October 02, 2008 –(PR.com)– The eccentricities of performers and academics are well-established. Many have been known to blaze their own peculiar path in life, going...
FIDE and ChessBase News
2008 SPICE Cup International Invitational TournamentTexas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, September 19-28, 2008 http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/3329-2008-spice-cup-winners http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4930 Organisers: Susan Polgar, SPICE, and the Susan Polgar FoundationCategory: XVFIDE Average: 2605.5USCF Average: 2666.5Highest rated 10-player round robin chess tournament in U.S. history!www.susanpolgar.blogspot.comwww.SPICE.ttu.edu...
1927 World Championship Clock
I was recently in Buenos Aires and had the pleasure to visit Club Argentino. The club management showed me the tables, sets, and clocks used in the 1927 World Championship match between Alekhine and Capablanca. My friend Jon Crumiller...
Rybka joins Chessbase family
Rybka 3.0 – Not just the strongest chess program in the world18.07.2008 – Developed by IM Vasik Rajlich, Rybka is the shooting star amongst chess programs. It won the 2007 world championship and leads easily in all computer rating...
3,000 year old chess pieces
3000 yr-old burial ground found Cairo, July 11: Archaeologists have uncovered ancient wooden coffins in what appears to be a royal burial ground near the necropolis of Abydos in southern Egypt, a state-run news agency reported. The agency said...
Alice through the Looking Glass
A Chess Set inspired by the novel ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’ where the pieces magically turn transparent when they touch the board. In ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’ by Lewis Carroll, Alice falls through a mirror and on...
Unite or Divide?
Photo and story from ChessBase Extract from Herald Chess Column, Scotland, Saturday June 28. Which country are you in? ‘Scotland’, I imagine, is the reflexive answer for most Herald readers; ‘Britain’ for a few others. Neither answer seems wrong....