What Does It Feel Like To Play Grandmaster Level Chess?2/22/2012 @ 9:54AMJohn Fernandez, 2156 FIDE It’s really hard. Grandmasters are very good. I’m only going to speak to my “classical” tournament games (6 hour time control) games versus Grandmasters....
Another female earns GM title: Anna Muzychuk
New titles approved by FIDE GM Gozzoli, Yannick FRA Huschenbeth, Niclas GER Lalith, Babu M.R. IND Neiksans, Arturs LAT Tomczak, Jacek POL Domogaev, Sergey RUS Muzychuk, Anna SLO Sebenik, Matej SLO Onischuk, Vladimir UKR WGM Ohme, Melanie GER Severiukhina,...
New Grandmaster Interview with Mikhail Krasenkow and latest from OnlineChessLessons.NET
Latest Video – Mikhail Krasenkow – 1992 Tal Memorial The Latest From Our Chess Blog **NEW** Tal Memorial 2011 – Carlsen and Aronian Tie for 1stPosted on November 27, 2011 by William in All Articles w/ Videos, Classic Games...
Profile of a super coach: GM Babakuli Annakov
Babakuli Annakov, first Grandmaster of Turkmenistan (formerly over 2600 when he was playing actively), now lives in Frisco, Texas. He is currently coaching many of the top young talents in the United States. In this past World Youth in...
Who is the greatest player to represent the U.S. in chess?
Artwork by Mike Magnan Who is the greatest player to represent the U.S. in chess? Fischer Reshevsky Morphy Marshall Kamsky Kavalek Nakamura Seirawan Onischuk R. Byrne Christiansen Caruana Browne Benjamin Another player not on this list Chess Daily News...
It’s official for Barbosa and Bitoon
FIDE confers Grandmaster titles to Barbosa, BitoonBy Jasmine W. PayoPhilippine Daily Inquirer 8:37 pm | Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 MANILA, Philippines — The World Chess Federation (Fide) has conferred the Grandmaster title to Oliver Barbosa (2571) and Richard Bitoon...
New FIDE titles
FIDE is publishing the list of titles approved at the 82nd FIDE Congress which was held on 15-22 October in Krakow, Poland. GM BLR Romanenko, VladimirCHN Lu, ShangleiCZE Krejci, JanIND Harika, DronavalliISR Baron, TalISR Zoler, DanNED Janssen, RuudNED Van...
Female Grandmasters
Artwork by Mike Magnan A friend recently asked about how many female grandmasters are there in the world? Here is the list I compiled. Am I missing anyone? Inactive 1 Polgar, Susan g USA (HUN) 25772 Xie, Jun g...
Barbosa, the newest GM from the Philippines
Barbosa now a Grandmaster The work seems to have been done for the leaders going into the rest day as on the fourth day of play, Round 7 only saw one decisive result when top seeded Filipino International Master...