The 40th Carroll Capps Memorial will be held on 3-4th November as a 6-round Swiss at the Chess Club Mechanics Institute, 57 Post St., San Francisco. Carroll Mather Capps (1917-1971) was an American science fiction author. He was also...
Shankland and Naroditsky win Third Imre Konig Memorial
The Mechanics’ Institute Chess Club of San Francisco held the Third Imre Konig Memorial on September 22-23, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of International Master Konig, the first top-rate player to reside in San Francisco. The...
2012 Northern California International – round 2
Round 2 top 10 board pairings Bd Res White Player Name Res Black Player Name 1 GM Georg Meier (2671 : 1.0) – IM Sam Collins (2426 : 1.0)2 FM Farai Mandizha (2404 : 1.0) – GM Bartlomiej Macieja...
Northern California International
Round 1 pairings 1 FM Shivkumar Shivaji (2295) – GM Georg Meier (2671)2 GM Bartlomiej Macieja (2617) – WGM Tatev Abrahamyan (2287)3 NM Yian Liou (2283) – GM Yury Shulman (2598)4 GM Alejandro Ramirez (2594) – FM Erik Santarius...
Vision Academy teaching kids to make all the right moves — in chess
Vision Academy teaching kids to make all the right moves — in chessBy: Amy Crawford | 11/24/11 6:58 PMExaminer Staff Writer Cameron Smith was about to lose his knight. “Please don’t do it! Don’t do it, Kian,” the boy...
Det. Carroll’s message to Dyhemia
Detective Carroll’s message to Dyhemia Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Front page of the LA Times today: Cinderella finds her chess slipper at Texas Tech
It takes many moves to find missing young chess whiz When news came that Dyhemia Young had been invited to a prestigious chess tournament, the 16-year-old San Franciscan had vanished. Her mentor, founder of the Hip-Hop Chess Federation, was...
Bart Simpson joins Hip Hop Chess
Bart Simpson, Hieroglyphics Join Hip-Hop Chess FederationPosted May 11th 2011 4:15PM by Theo Bark Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, has been announced as a featured guest at the annual Hip-Hop Chess Federation’s annual Spring Classic this Saturday...
Wolff: Grand Master Capital
Clarium’s Amazing Chess Player Is Leaving Peter Thiel To Start A New Hedge FundCourtney ComstockNov. 29, 2010, 3:58 PM Clarium’s Patrick Wolff is spinning out of the fund to form his own hedge fund, Grand Master Capital. The fact...