World newest GMsHansen, Eric CANMa, Qun CHNAlonso Rosell, Alvar ESPFeygin, Michael GERFodor, Tamas Jr. HUNShyam, Sundar M INDVidit, Santosh Gujrathi INDDarini, Pouria IRIPopilski, Gil ISRZagorskis, Darius LTUGundavaa, Bayarsaikhan MGLDemchenko, Anton RUSKharchenko, Boris UKRHungaski, Robert Andrew USAConditional IMs (once reach...
Congrats to GM-elect Mogranzini!
I would like to congratulate IM Roberto Mogranzini for earning his third and final GM norm at a tournament in Padova! He will be Italy’s next Grandmaster! Congratulations!More info here: www.scacchirandagi.com Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Aiming to be a GM soon
IM Diptayan wants to be GM soon Archiman Bhaduri, TNN Nov 7, 2012, 04.29AM IST KOLKATA: Grandmasters of the chequered board are getting younger day by day all over the world and city boy Diptayan Ghosh is right on the...
A beautiful game
Chess — the new ‘beautiful game’ for SAby Penny Haw, 29 October 2012, 06:20 KENNY Solomon was seven when his oldest brother, Maxwell, taught him to play chess. But, while he — the sixth of eight children — quickly...
Chess was going to be my career
‘Chess just took me’ October 11 2012 at 01:05pm By Esther Lewis Cape Town – Kenny Solomon has made history and fulfilled his dream by becoming the first South African chess grandmaster-elect. And he dreams of opening a chess academy. Solomon...
World’s newest GMs and IMs
GM Gabuzyan, Hovhannes ARM Stojanovic, Dalibor BIH Ninov, Nikolai BUL Bacallao Alonso, Yusnel CUB Pozo Vera, Sandro CUB Munoz Pantoja, Miguel ESP Perez Mitjans, Orelvis ESP Charnushevich, Aliaksei FRA Paichadze, Luka GEO Kraemer, Martin GER Milov, Leonid GER Grover,...
It is so enormous for South Africa to have a Grandmaster
SA man reaches exalted Grandmaster statusRebecca Davis17 September 2012 01:58 (South Africa) Kenny Solomon perfectly fits the theory that, other than a few outliers, chess players peak between 30 and 38. Mitchell’s Plain-born Solomon is 32, and following his...
Grover wins jr national title
After final GM norm, Grover wins jr national titlePress Trust of India : Ajmer, Thu Sep 13 2012, 00:33 hrs Grandmaster Sahaj Grover won the National Junior Chess Championship defeating overnight sole leader Debashish Das of Orissa in the...
South Africa’s first Grandmaster
Cape man is South Africa’s first chess grandmasterSeptember 11 2012 at 10:01amBy Aziz Hartley Cape Town – A Mitchells Plain father who grew up in the township and played his first game of chess at 13, has become South...