From IM Kostya Kavutskiy @ the USCF website: Last week one of my favorite yearly events, the Spice Cup Open, concluded in Saint Louis, Missouri. This is a small but densely packed tournament open to about 50 players, organized by Susan Polgar & Paul Truong and Webster University. With both […]
St. Louis Missouri USA FRENCHMAN MAXIME VACHIER-LAGRAVE (AGE 26) SHOCKS THE CHESS WORLD … WINS THE MONSTER 9 GAME $300,000 SINQUEFIELD CHESS CUP TODAY … Mr. Lagrave (already long known world wide as “MVL”) rode a fantastic come from behind victory against world chess champion Magnus Carlsen … added two other […]
FORMER WORLD NUMBER ONE/ TAGGERING FORMER WORLD CHESS CHAMPION /AUTHOR … GARRY KASPAROV SHOCKS CHESS WORLD … WILL PLAY 27 WORLD RATED GAMES in 5 days VERSUS WORLD’S BEST … vs. WORLD CHESS CHAMPION CARLSEN /THE SINQUEFIELD CUP FIELD … AUGUST 14-19TH, 2017 … $100,000 ST. Louis INTERNATIONAL RAPID/BLITZ TOURNEY GRAND TOUR […]
CHESSLAB TOLD YOU FIRST … Pro author/ELECTRIFYING journalist and monster chess promoter/”CHESSFEST” INVENTOR MICHAEL TISSERAND of NEW ORLEANS GOES GLOBAL NEW YORK TIMES /MAY 9, 2017 — New Orleans, Louisiana MICHAEL TISSERAND, the man known everywhere in Louisiana as the inventor of THE MAMMOTH post-Hurricane Katrina LIBRARY CHESS PROGRAM “Chessfest,” […]
ARTHUR BISGUIER DIES AT 87 … THIS JUST IN FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES … America’s chess legend is gone. Chess grandmaster Arthur Bisquier, the last living witness to the entire 1950-2000 fabulous era United States grandmaster team of chess giants (RESHEVSKY, FINE, DENKER THE BYRNE BROTHERS, ROSSOLIMO, BENKO FISCHER, […]
Via WorldChess.com, here’s Jude Acers’ comment on the matter: Another Dylan Loeb McClain blowtorch- in- prose which stages the naked OVERNIGHT horrifying choice everyone faced in the Baku 2016 world Fide congress ..do we stage the Olympic contest in Berlin 1936 , win some gold with Jesse Owens, move everything […]
WIJK AAN ZEE, Holland — AMERICAN WESLEY SO AGAIN (9-4 UNDEFEATED) SHOCKS THE CHESS WORLD, WINS 14 player TATA STEEL INTERNATIONAL ONE FULL POINT AHEAD OF WORLD CHESS CHAMPION MAGNUS CARLSEN TODAY … Tremendous wild west games in the final round featured a murderous piece sacrifice, endgames that were sending […]
San Francisco, California — THIS JUST IN FROM 2016 WORLD CHAMPION CHESS OLYMPIAD TEAM CAPTAIN MR. JOHN DONALDSON–“THE DEAN OF AMERICAN CHESS” and DIRECTOR OF THE MECHANICS INSTITUTE CHESS ROOMS, 57 POST STREET, 4TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO–it really is true … and the 5 mega event “Grand Tour” chess circuit’s […]
New York City, NY — Shocking with the black pieces with the all time great classical defense of the golden Ruy Lopez opening … World Chess champion MAGNUS CARLSEN at last after 20 MURDEROUS days roared into the one game lead over the tremendous defensive miracle Houdini … S. Karjakin […]
Michael Ciamarra quotes Jude Acers in his latest chess column at Al.com: A number of very memorable, instructive games were played at the 42nd World Chess Olympiad in Baku. But there was one game that bordered on extraordinary. In Round 7 of the Olympiad, the American team defeated the […]
BAKU 2016 WORLD 42ND CHESS OLYMPIAD GOLD TEAM CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP WON BY MONSTER TEAM USA CHESS TODAY … Baku, Azerbaijan … THEY ARE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD! CARUANA … SO …NAKAMURA … SHANKLAND … BENSON CAME THROUGH UNDEFEATED … THAT IS RIGHT … NEVER LOST A TEAM MATCH DURING THE ENTIRE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP […]
FANTASTIC USA CHESS TEAM WINS VERSUS GEORGIA TODAY… ROLLS ON TO THE FINAL WORLD OLYMPIAD 4 GAME ROUND 11 tomorrow Tuesday … USA MASSIVELY FAVORED TO WIN THE WORLD CHESS TEAM 42ND OLYMPIAD CHAMPIONSHIP TUESDAY … live free internet broadcast Round 11 BEGINS (“BAKU 2016 CHESS OLYMPIAD”) 2 am New […]
Baku, Azerbaijan — The awesome absolutely undefeated in every single game … UNITED STATES OF AMERICA chess team (CARUANA , NAKAMURA, SO, SHANKLAND) today shocked India’s world number one team … and roared into world number one ranking in the 42nd World Chess Olympiad with 16 games and four rounds […]
AMERICANS NAKAMURA-SO … SHOCK KASPAROV, WIN THE “ULTIMATE” 18-GAME SPEED BLITZ 4 GRANDMASTER TOURNEY … St. Louis, Missouri … WELL, FOLKS … Chesslab told you what was going to happen long ago… THE MONSTER AMERICAN CHESS BOOM OF ALL TIME IS NOW ON FOR REAL … Today 20 thousand dollars […]
SUDDEN DEATH FINAL ROUND WINS — CARUANA IS 2016 UNITED STATES CHESS CHAMPION … St.Louis, Missouri – Fabulous Fabiano Caruana, 23 year old chess lightning (world rated number two chess grandmaster) scored a tremendous 6 wins/ 5 draws… became US Chess Champion today via a sudden death final round endgame […]
IT IS $500,000 extra plus $100,000 of the candidates prizes for 26 year old S. KARJAKIN, super Russian grandmaster today … winning a 42 move thriller versus go-for-it-all F. CARUANA of St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Karjakin needed just a draw much less a stunning last round victory to win on […]
MOSCOW, RUSSIA — WITH A TREMENDOUS THREE GAME WINS TO TWO TIEBREAK ADVANTAGE THE WORLD CHESS CUP CHAMPION S. KARJAKIN PLAYS WHITE FIRST MOVE TOMORROW VERSUS F. CARUANA OF THE UNITED STATES TO DETERMINE WHO WILL GO TO THE WORLD TITLE MILLION DOLLAR NEW YORK WORLD TITLE MATCH VERSUS WORLD […]
If you haven’t already watched this video, or even if you have, here’s “New York Chess Hustler Talks a Lot of Trash, Doesn’t Realize His Opponent Is a Grandmaster”:
Norway million Dollar Grand Tour Sponsor Altibox Leaves Grand tour London, England … THEY ARE GONE … faced with elitism, UNKNOWN TO TENNIS, GOLF, SOCCER … (just 10 great players and no women), horrific long, impossible to broadcast worldwide time controls … ALTIBOX OF NORWAY has suddenly pulled totally out […]
