GRANDMASTER Wesley So will spearhead the Philippine campaign in the Asian Zonal 3.3 Chess Championship starting today at Tagaytay International Convention Center. The 19-year-old So, the country’s highest-ranked player and the tournament’s top seed with an Elo rating of...
SPNO to return to beautiful New Orleans! Over $100,000 in scholarships and prizes!
Information and online registration for the main event here. Mar. 1-3 SPNO Boys & Girls Championships at Holiday Inn Downtown/Superdome, New Orleans, LA. 6 Rd. SS G/45 d/5 scholastic up to 9 sections: USCF Rated Secs. grades K-2, 3-5,...
Asian Zonal Championship starts tomorrow
Tagaytay stages Asian zonal chess tomorrow By Roy Luarca Philippine Daily Inquirer 9:29 pm | Sunday, January 20th, 2013 INDONESIAN Grandmaster Susano Megaranto will be back to defend his title as Tagaytay City stages the Asian Zone 3.3 Chess Championship from tomorrow to...
SPNO to return to beautiful New Orleans! Over $100,000 in scholarships and prizes!
Information and online registration here. Mar. 1-3 SPNO Boys & Girls Championships at Holiday Inn Downtown/Superdome, New Orleans, LA. 6 Rd. SS G/45 d/5 scholastic up to 9 sections: USCF Rated Secs. grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8 & 9-12, sep....
Practice makes perfect
Internet practice spurring bigger fields Saturday January 19, 2013 11:06 AM A new crop of young, full-time professional chess players is appearing in international tournaments. The Internet can take substantial credit as a pipeline that fosters and feeds competitive...
Webster U freshman GM Wesley So to compete in Zonal Championship
Webster University freshman GM Wesley So, who recently played board 1 for the Webster A team at the 2012 PanAm Collegiate Championship, has agreed to participate in the Zone 3.3 Zonal Championships 2013. The event will take place from...
To coach or to compete?
I was asked an interesting question earlier today. The question is why I do not compete on a world stage while being the head coach of the Webster University chess team, the #1 ranked division I college chess team...
Webster University in the College Chess Final Four
These 9 players from Webster University are from the two teams which tied for 1st at the 2012 PanAm Intercollegiate Championship (December 27-30, 2012 at Princeton University). According to college chess rule, only one team (of 6 players) per...
GM norm for 13 year old Karthikeyan
Untitled 13-years old Murali Karthikeyan scored his maiden Grandmaster norm after securing a draw with Commonwealth champion M R Lalith Babu in the ninth and penultimate round of the premier section of Parsvnath International chess tournament now underway here. ...