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 [...]
By Our Chess Correspondent Anand”s victory came about the same time when AmericanHikaru Nakamura triumphed over Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and thetwo maintained their co-leader status moving to an identicalseven points out of a possible 10. In another major surprise of the tournament world numberone Magnus Carlsen suffered his second defeat with whitepieces in the tournament bowing [...]
If it sometimes appears Cal forward Harper Kamp can see a play or two ahead on the basketball court, consider that as a young, nationally ranked chess player he often would play out 15 moves in his head before maneuvering one of his pieces on the board. Could the two be related? “Absolutely,” said Kamp, [...]