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Dmitry Schneider, former winner of the prestigious Samford Fellowship, has confirmed his participation in the Reshevsky Memorial International Invitational Tournament at Texas Tech Univeristy in Lubbock, Texas.
Dmitry, an International Master, was a member of a number of UTD national college championship chess teams. He is from New York and was born in Chernigov, Ukraine. He arrived in the U.S. in 1991 and since then has captured numerous chess titles, including the 1998 U.S. Cadet Champion, the 1999 Marshall Chess Club Champion (the youngest ever, at age 14), the 2000 New York State co-champion and the 2001 National Chess Congress Co-Champion.
Between 1996 and 2002, Schneider represented the U.S. in six world championships – finishing 4th in 2000 and 6th in 2002 – and four Pan-American championships, winning a gold and two bronze medals. Schneider represented the U.S. in the 2001 and 2002 U.S.-China Chess Summits and tied for 9th in the 2002 U.S. championship. (Info by UTD)
I first met Dmitry back in 2001 when I invited him to the first NYC Mayor’s Cup Invitational Tournament. He earned his first IM norm in that event. Since then he has made tremendous progress and I have no doubt that he will be a Grandmaster in the near future. He is also an excellent student. His current USCF rating is 2515 and his FIDE rating is expected to be at 2502 on the October FIDE rating list.
Also confirmed are legendary GM Boris Gulko, reigning US Open Champion and former Soviet and US Champion, and GM Gilberto Hernandez (head coach of the UTB chess team), one of the top Grandmasters from Mexico for many years, reigning US Women’s Champion and my 2004 Olympiad teammate Irina Krush.
SPICE and the Susan Polgar Foundation (SPF) are very thankful for the generous donation by Dr. Eric Moskow to make this outstanding event possible. He is not only a generous sponsor to various chess events around the world, but a formidable opponent to anyone as well. Dr. Moskow will personally take part in this inaugural International tournament at TTU.
More names will be announced as they are confirmed.
Good luck Dima! Hope you and Irina can get your GM Norms and IM Norm for Dr. Moskow. Way to go Susan!
Good luck Dr. Moskow. How come Moskow is spelled with a K?
Great thanks to Eric for the sponsorship, and good luck also to Dmitry with whom I played an entertaining long draw in Buffalo last year.
To answer the last question, it’s the same reason Krakow is spelled with 2 K’s :-). Well, the London Times online style guide still says here to write “Cracow”, but my sense is that “Krakow” is winning everywhere. The Times isn’t perfect: under “chess names” on that page, they get Judit Polgar right, but say “FIDE” should be written “Fide”, quite at variance with how FIDE themselves write it!
A general idea for problem-tactics sites or books, when positions come from actual games: also show the position 3 or so moves before the tactic, to give practice seeing how the patterns develop.
Gulko, Schneider, Krush, Moskaw (all USA), Hernandez (Mex),
Susan – you need more foreigners for GM and IM norms! Probably it is not a problem in Texas with theirs strong College teams, which are full with foreigners.
actually ken, you forget your youth and our travels. my grandfather from moscow was asked his name and he said thinking the ellis island guy said where are you from moscow, the american in classic style named us moskow. spelling not linquistics and aricept works ken try it. be good my friend, see my argentina games on website google works go for it.