Norwegian phenom baffles his foesSaturday, March 27, 2010 2:51 AM Garry Kasparov once suggested that Bobby Fischer was a modern centaur: half-human and half-chess. A similar metaphor can be used with 19-year-old Magnus Carlsen, the top-rated player in the...
FIDE Elections 2010
FIDE Elections 2010Friday, 26 March 2010 14:58 For the upcoming FIDE elections in Khanty-Mansiysk this September, the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has announced that he will seek re-election for the term 2010-2014. The former World Champion Anatoly Karpov has...
Incredible growth in college chess
In just two short years, Texas Tech University SPICE (Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence) has grown leaps and bounds. In our first full recruiting year, we have about 20 students, including 3 over 2500 FIDE. In our second...
Knight Raiders earn top community award
Members of the Texas Tech Knight Raiders (Brett James, Zach Haskin, Ananya Roy, and Rebecca Lelko) earned the Lubbock Boys and Girls Club Program Excellence Award. They donate their time weekly to help teach chess to young boys and...
Martha Fierro chess simul
50 Detroit Chess Hopefuls to Challenge Grandmaster Martha FierroPublished March 24, 2010by: Cornelius Fortune On Friday, March 26, at least 50 students will compete against Martha Fierro, one of the highest ranking female grandmasters of chess. The event will...
Knight Raiders Weekly Training
One of the many activities of the Texas Tech Knight Raiders chess team is the weekly chess training. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
2010 Lubbock Open
The competition is expected to be very strong this year TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYSusan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE)The Susan Polgar Foundation and the Knight Raiders present 3rd Annual Lubbock Open Chess Championship Saturday, March 27, 2010A 4 Round...
Press release of Turkish Chess Federation
FIDE Elections 2010 FIDE elections are upon us once again and our current President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is once again being challenged, this time by former World Champion Anatoly Karpov, who declared his candidacy on 13 March 2010 in a...
2010 SPICE Cup Dates Set
The 2010 SPICE Cup will take place on Thursday, October 28 – Sunday, November 7. To make the event a lot more exciting, the SPICE Cup committee has unanimously voted to adapt the following new rules for the A...