The battle of wits should be seen in the true spirit of team competition. I HAVE been either an observer or participant in a chess team tournament for almost as long as I have been playing the game, and that’s going back a very long time. Team tournaments can be fun, if you don’t take [...]
Filipino Grandmaster (GM) Wesley So opted to save his strength for a final title push in the 73rd Tata Steel-Corus Group B chess championship when he settled for a draw against French GM Vlad Tkachiev on Wednesday. With six points from four wins, five draws and one loss, the 17-year-old So still shares the top [...]
The battle of wits should be seen in the true spirit of team competition. I HAVE been either an observer or participant in a chess team tournament for almost as long as I have been playing the game, and that’s going back a very long time. Team tournaments can be fun, if you don’t take [...]
Published: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 1:00 PM Â Â Â Updated: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 2:12 PM By Barnett Wright — The Birmingham News Follow Share Jefferson County Commissioner George Bowman’s chess match challenge to Alabama state Sen. Scott Beason: “This challenge, Sen. Beason, is anytime, anyplace, anywhere.” (Special/Stock.xchng) A Jefferson County Commissioner today challenged an Alabama [...]
By James Greenberg Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:30pm EST PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) – In his heyday in 1972, when he beat Russian Boris Spassky for the World Championship, chess prodigy Bobby Fischer was like a rock star, as famous and revered as Muhammad Ali. His rise from a shabby Brooklyn apartment to the [...]