Scholastic chess championship invites kindergartners through high schoolersPosted: December 28, 2011 – 10:56amBy BRITTANY HOOVERAVALANCHE-JOURNAL The fifth-annual Lubbock Open & Scholastic chess championship will be hosted by Texas Tech’s Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence, The Susan Polgar Foundation...
Knight Raiders at the World Series of College Chess
20 members of the Knight Raiders visiting the Stockyards prior to round 1 of the 2011 PanAm Intercollegiate Championships (World Series of College Chess). As a SPICE tradition, we train hard from the beginning of the year. However, when...
Knight Raiders in Ft. Worth for the World Series of College Chess
PanAm Intercollegiate Chess Championship 2011 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
SPICE student GM Meier wins Buenos Aires
GM Georg Meier Winner in Buenos Aires The 3rd Magistral Internacional Marcel Duchamp 2011 was held on 14-23rd December at the Club Argentino de Ajedrez, Paraguay 1858, Buenos Aires. The 13th FIDE category event was played as a double-round...
Old veteran Kramnikstill showing spunk
On Chess: Old veteran Kramnikstill showing spunkSaturday December 24, 2011 8:20 AMShelby Lyman At 36, Vladimir Kramnik is at a turning point that is problematic for many grandmasters. Faced with an onslaught of energetic younger players, the veteran competitors’...
Game is brainy mix of theory, practice
Game is brainy mix of theory, practiceSaturday December 17, 2011 9:32 AMShelby Lyman The frequent emphasis on rote learning is decried by critics of formal education. Learning is often reduced to reproducible sound bites amenable to multiple-choice testing. The...
Olena Boytsun elected to ACP Board
Ukrainian Olena Boytsun elected to ACP BoardHead of the International Cooperation Commission at the Chess Federation of Ukraine Olena Boytsun was elected to the Board of the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP), the official website of the organization said....
Norms for Sevillano and Aleskerov
13th & 14th Metropolitan Chess FIDE Invitationals Metropolitan Chess, Inc. hosted an International Master norm and a International Grandmaster norm round robin tournament in tandem from December 7th to December 11th of 2011. The tournaments were sponsored by California...
Bringing top notch players to Chicago suburb
Local organizer to bring in best young chess players in the world to suburbsBy Jeff Vorva Tribune reporter Today at 6:00 a.m. Now that Mikhail Korenman is finished running the Illinois Class Chess Championships in Orland Park, he is...
Good day for Knight Raiders
Senior Master Faik Aleskerov won his last round’s game to win the 14th Metropolitan Chess FIDE Invitational (IM Norm Tournament) in Los Angeles, CA. He lost his first game but scored 6.5 points in the final 8 games to...