Chess News > Misc

Search News
Keywords: Category:
Sort by:
« Previous | 1 2 3 4 | Next »

FIDE Rating List July 2009

Submitted by SonofPearl on Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:56pm.

Veselin Topalov (pictured) is still ranked the world's number 1 player on the latest quarterly official FIDE ratings list, gaining a single point to stand at 2813 Elo.  World Champion Viswanathan Anand is second on 2788 Elo and Magnus Carlsen is ... Read more »

» posted in Misc

Bobby Fischer Film Trailer

Submitted by SonofPearl on Fri May 29, 2009 11:07am.

We reported back in February that the first Bobby Fischer biopic 'Bobby Fischer Live', was in production.  Now a trailer for the film has been released by Amamdeus Pictures. The whole project is very much the work of one man, Damian Chapa (pictu... Read more »

» posted in Misc

TOP 3 SEEDS, RISING STAR, SIT ATOP U.S. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS

Submitted by chessfan007 on Fri May 15, 2009 3:32pm.

May 15, 2009 The Los Angeles Chronicle  St. Louis, Mo. - The leaderboard flipped Thursday in the seventh of nine rounds of the 2009 U.S. Chess Championship held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. At the end of the day, the... Read more »

» posted in Misc

High school football player is on chess tourney's leader board

Submitted by chessfan007 on Fri May 15, 2009 3:26pm.

By Joe Holleman ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 05/15/2009 The leader board at the U.S. Chess Championship, being held this year in St. Louis, is occupied by the pre-tournament favorites -- and a high-school football player.As of Friday, a rest day for ... Read more »

» posted in Misc

Chess elite check in for 7th round

Submitted by chessfan007 on Thu May 14, 2009 2:45pm.

Chess elite check in for 7th round By Joe Holleman ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 05/14/2009 After six of nine rounds in the U.S. Chess Championship, defending champion Yury Shulman of Chicago is tied for the lead with fellow grandmaster Varuzhan Akobi... Read more »

» posted in Misc

SHULMAN AND AKOBIAN HOLD LEAD AT U.S. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Submitted by chessfan007 on Thu May 14, 2009 12:51pm.

Contact: John Henderson847-347-9593 For immediate release: SHULMAN AND AKOBIAN HOLD LEAD AT U.S. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP St. Louis, Mo., May 13, 2009 -- Defending champion Yury Shulman, of Barrington, Ill., and Varuzhan Akobian, of North Hollywood,... Read more »

» posted in Misc

Chess Club Delivers Major League, All-Pro Sports Opening for St. Louis

Submitted by chessfan007 on Wed May 13, 2009 4:55pm.

By Travis H. Brown They called him one of the best closers of all time in St. Louis Cardinals history.  But today, his opening game was hard enough – on the chess board. Over his major league baseball career as a hard-throwing reliever, Tod... Read more »

» posted in Misc

MISSOURIAN BROOKS CONTINUES TO SHINE AT CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Submitted by chessfan007 on Wed May 13, 2009 2:18pm.

For more information contact:Laura Slay, Slay and Associates314-504-0081 or lslay@slayandassociates.comorJack Naudi, Slay and Associates636-751-4965 or jnaudi@slayandassociates.comFor immediate release:  MISSOURIAN BROOKS CONTINUES TO SHINE AT ... Read more »

» posted in Misc

ALL PARTICIPANTS AT U.S. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP NOW OFFICIALLY INELIGIBLE FOR $64,000 FISCHER MEMORIAL P

Submitted by chessfan007 on Wed May 13, 2009 11:35am.

For more information contact:Laura Slay, Slay & Associates                                    314-504-0081  or  lslay@slayandassociates.com Mark Bretz, Slay & Associates314-838-9371 or  mbretz@slaya... Read more »

» posted in Misc

Students to Compete on Off-Day at U.S. Chess Championships

Submitted by chessfan007 on Wed May 13, 2009 11:19am.

For more information contact:Laura Slay, Slay & Associates314-504-0081 or lslay@slayandassociates.com Mark Bretz, Slay & Associates314-838-9371 or mbretz@slayandassociates.com                  For Immediate Release: Â... Read more »

» posted in Misc

SHULMAN AND AKOBIAN MAKE THEIR MOVE FOR TITLE

Submitted by chessfan007 on Wed May 13, 2009 11:02am.

Immediate ReleaseContact: John Henderson847-347-9593  SHULMAN AND AKOBIAN MAKE THEIR MOVE FOR TITLE  St. Louis, MO, May 12, 2009 -- Defending champion Yury Shulman, of Barrington, Ill., and Varuzhan Akobian, of North Hollywood, Calif., broke fro... Read more »

» posted in Misc

Philippines Introduce Chess To School Curriculum

Submitted by SonofPearl on Sun May 3, 2009 12:11am.

Many studies have claimed that the introduction of chess tuition to young children helps them achieve better progress in their academic and personal development. Now the government of the Philippines has taken the plunge and agreed to introduce ch... Read more »

» posted in Misc

IBM Swaps Chess For Jeopardy

Submitted by SonofPearl on Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:48pm.

In 1997 IBM's custom built chess supercomputer Deep Blue beat the reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov in a 6-game match and IBM's share price rocketed. Now in 2009, IBM has announced plans to unleash it's latest experiment in artificial... Read more »

» posted in Misc

FIDE April 2009 Rating List

Submitted by SonofPearl on Wed Apr 1, 2009 12:38pm.

The latest official FIDE quarterly rating list has been published today, with Veselin Topalov (pictured) maintaining his #1 spot and surpassing the magic 2800 Elo barrier once more.  World champion Vishy Anand is a clear #2 and Magnus Carlsen is ... Read more »

» posted in Misc

Google Solves Chess!

Submitted by SonofPearl on Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:59pm.

Chess will never be the same again.  Until now, many mathematicians claimed it wasn’t possible to ‘solve’ chess due to the exponentially large number of possible games (10^120).  However, in a dramatic development today... Read more »

» posted in Misc

White pieces had better win-rate in last year's shogi events

Submitted by takodori on Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:22am.

Second mover's winning percentage has exceeded that of First mover for the professional Japanese chess games of the fiscal year 2008(April 2008 through March 2009). It's the first time since Japan Shogi Association started stats since 1967. Here i... Read more »

» posted in Misc

Emory Tate at HHCF event in SF

Submitted by FM FM_Eric_Schiller on Mon Mar 2, 2009 1:49pm.

I have written up the HHCF event from the perspective of one of my strudents (and chess.com member). It is at http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/1/175050/5056/366/703416. (because I wanted to post at a site that isn't just chess) There will ... Read more »

» posted in Misc

Fischer Film In Pre-Production

Submitted by SonofPearl on Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:04am.

Possible films about Bobby Fischer's life have been mooted for a long time, but following his death just over a year ago, the time is now ripe for it to happen at last. Producer Damian Chapa is due to start filming an Amadeus Pictures biopic of B... Read more »

» posted in Misc

What Deep Blue Did Next

Submitted by SonofPearl on Mon Feb 16, 2009 3:38am.

In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue computer won a 6-game match against the legendary Garry Kasparov and made headlines around the world.  The match was billed in some quarters as humanity's last stand against the machines. Was this proof that computers wou... Read more »

» posted in Misc

Building Chess.com: Part 14 - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Submitted by erik on Thu Feb 5, 2009 4:23pm.

I feel compelled to write today about the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I'm going to break form though and start with the ugly and end with the good! The Bad Sometimes things are outside of our control. There are weeks where everything on Chess... Read more »

» posted in Misc

Source file of the engine of Bonanza became downloadable

Submitted by takodori on Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:09am.

According to the toppage in Japanese of Computer Shogi(Japanese chess) Association, the source file of the engine of Bonanza developed by Hoki Kunihito became downloadable from its library on January 27. I'm not sure how big this is to people in c... Read more »

» posted in Misc

Building Chess.com: Part 13 - Growing Up Today!

Submitted by erik on Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:48pm.

It's been a while since I last wrote about "Building Chess.com", and I thought today would be a good day to post :)As most of you know, we (Jay and I) first started working on Chess.com in 2005. We had the vision and we thought we had the know-how... Read more »

» posted in Misc

Top Chess Country Rankings

Submitted by SonofPearl on Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:49am.

News of the recent publication of the 1 January 2009 FIDE rating list prompted some discussion in the comments about the numbers of GMs from particular countries. Well, for those who like to analyse these things statistically, the official FIDE w... Read more »

» posted in Misc

January 2009 FIDE Rating List Published

Submitted by SonofPearl on Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:51am.

FIDE have published their latest official quarterly rating list for January 2009.  The list includes all tournaments up to 15 December, but also includes FIDE organised events that finished later i.e. the Elista Grand Prix which concluded just 2 ... Read more »

» posted in Misc

2008 Scholastic Nationals

Submitted by fgm351 on Thu Oct 9, 2008 1:21pm.

The 2008 Scholastic National Championships are in Lake Buena Vista, FL and are from December 12-14. More information is at 407-939-1000 or cbruce@uschess.org. Read more »

» posted in Misc
« Previous | 1 2 3 4 | Next »

Outside News


Times Online

Andy Roddick and His "Wimbledon Final" Chess Game Strategy
Bleacher Report
These past few days, Roddick's game has started resembling a chess board with the coins neatly arrayed across a chiaroscuro of 64 squares, with every next ...
Nick Bollettieri's Wimbledon Dossier: Roddick leaps from frying ...Independent

all 5,513 news articles »

New York Times

Big July 4th in Philadelphia for Two American Teenagers
New York Times
Lenderman, who lives in Brooklyn, and Shankland, of California, have both been successful at the World Youth Chess Championships. In 2005, Lenderman was the ...

and more »

Chess Notes
Boston Globe
Annotations by grandmaster Patrick Wolff, a two-time US champion who offers chess exercises and more at www.wolffchess.com.

and more »