H. NAKAMURA wins $45,000 … IS 2015 US CHESS CHAMPION … St. Louis, Missouri … H. Nakamura today employed a rare Jude Acers “ITALIAN GAMBIT SYSTEM” SIDELINE to defeat A. ONISCHUK … winning the US National Chess Championship undefeated with a tremendous 8-3 score … world top ten grandmaster W. […]
EXCESSIVE PENMANSHIP FORFEITS TOP CHESS GRANDMASTER … ST. Louis, Missouri, APRIL 11, 2015 … THE FORFEIT STANDS … IN AN UNBELIEVABLE, ABSOLUTELY UNPRECEDENTED DEVELOPMENT … WORLD TOP-10 CHESS GRANDMASTER WESLEY SO WAS FORFEITED FOR WRITING NOTES TO HIMSELF AMIDST THE FIRST 6 MOVES OF HIS ROUND NINE ($100,000 PLUS IN […]
GREATEST CHESS TOURNEY OF ALL TIME SET FOR GASHIMOV MEMORIAL April 17-27, 2015 … ALSO … SO and NAKAMURA HAVE EARLY REGISTERED … WILL RUMBLE SHOWDOWN IN LAS VEGAS “MILLIONAIRE CHESS” October 8-12, 2015 … Shamkir, Azerbaijan February 26,2015. The genial grandmaster V. GASHIMOV (1986-2014) who shocked his nation by dying of a brain tumor amidst a million dollar smile for […]
AMERICAN NAKUMURA SHOCKS WORLDS BEST … WINS 2015 ZURICH BLITZ/RAPID/CLASSICAL SUPER GRANDMASTER CHESS TOURNEY … THIS JUST IN … Gimme all that money, honey! IT ALL OVER AND THE HOTTEST CHESS GRANDMASTER ON THE GLOBE HAS WON HIS SECOND TOURNEY IN THREE WEEKS … coming world chess champion HIKARU NAKAMURA […]
Virgin Airlines mega billionaire Branson calls Chess “the greatest game” … played thousands of opponents around the globe … HAMBURG, GERMANY… top chess publisher Chessbase has confirmed an electrifying love story with chess and a dynamite woman to boot direct from Virgin airlines mega billionaire mogul R. Branson (Richard Branson […]
Zurich Switzerland … Fabulous U.S. Grandmaster HIKARU NAKAMRUA of St.Louis, Mo. was for the first time rated ELO 2800 plus in daily world FIDE “live“ ratings here. We have said it once, we will say it again … NAKAMURA to be world champion simply because world title (FIDE WORLD CHESS FEDERATION […]
104 YEAR OLD CHESSPLAYER FINISHES THE TATA STEEL AMATEUR INTERNATIONAL … Wijk Ann Zee, Holland — Our many correspondents on Chessbase News blogs report a sprightly 104 year old Mr. Johan Hulst competed in the 2015 amateur Tata Steel chess tourney … he may have been rusty … his last tourney […]
World Chess Champion Carlsen Wins monster Tata Steel 14 grandmaster tourney today… Wijk ann Zee, Holland — with 6 wins, one loss, 6 draws, World rapid,classical and blitz triple crown world chess champion M.Carlsen of Norway, highest elo rated chess grandmaster of all time, rolled to first place with easily […]
Polish Grandmaster shocks world #1-2 Carlsen and Caruana in Holland Tata Steel 15 grandmaster event Wijk ann Zee, Netherlands … talk about the experience of a lifetime! … in just 72 hours Polish grandmaster RADASLAW WOJTASZEK mowed down the world’s top two rated players — Norway’s Carlsen (world champion) and […]
MASSIVE 20 MILLION DOLLAR RENOVATION OF PAUL MORPHY CHESS HOUSE, i.e. “BREAKFAST AT BRENNAN’S” HITS NEW YORK TIMES JANUARY 20, 2015 New Orleans, Louisiana … Chesslab readers we told you all about it first! … It is true and it is big … despite a family feud, a real war […]
Acers v. Soltis, 1978 – a great game from the past In our continuing series, The Unpublished Files, we have another first. For your review, we present to you a game that has not seen light of day since 1978. The Acers v. Soltis game was played in the National […]
Yes, you may now play an online game of chess against “a Duchampian ghost.” Makes me wonder what a chess set of readymades would be like. Update: And for Duchamp information, check out this artsy.net page. h/t Dish
NEW YORK TIMES HITS WITH MONSTER ARTICLE ON CHESS … CARLSEN AND WORLD #2 CARUANA … New York, NY … Ben Greenman in the New York Times yesterday released a major article, “Young Grandmasters Try To Make Chess Cool.” You have to read it to believe how wonderful these times are a-changing! […]
Jude Acers in 2015-2016 World Chess Federation Championship (FIDE) tourneys … New Orleans, Louisiana Chess lab monster road machine Jude Acers confirmed he will definitely play two FIDE World Senior Chess Championship tourney events … Nov 9-23, 2015 Aqui Terme, Italy 11 game grandmaster title qualifier followed by the Nov […]
New Orleans, Louisiana December 10, 2015 TWO NEW ORLEANS CHESSPLAYERS NAMED TO THE 43RD PAUL MORPHY MEMORIAL FIELD A legendary and mysterious anonymous donor … indeed … all the cash behind 43 straight Paul Morphy chess events … today listed two New Orleans chessplayer invitations to the November 1, 2015 […]
US great H. Nakamura (St. Louis , Mo.) … shock and awe performance today … beats world #2 ranked Caruana, Anand, Giri, Adams … rolls to victory with 9.5 points from 10 games … wins World London Rapid Chess Tourney . Hear the sound of drumbeats! — Jude Acers BONUS: […]
WORLD CHESS CHAMPION CARLSEN OF NORWAY RETAINS TITLE TODAY WITH FEROCIOUS “SMALL BALL” ENDGAME SOCHI, RUSSIA November 23, 2014 … FINAL SCORE OF THREE GAMES TO ONE … TIME RAN OUT TODAY IN THE 12 GAME WORLD TITLE REMATCH WITH V. ANAND OF INDIA … WORLD CHESS CHAMPION NORWEGIAN WONDER KID […]
New Orleans, Louisiana LEGENDARY WORLD CHESS CHAMPION PAUL MORPHY’S HOUSE GETS $20 MILLION DOLLAR FACELIFT … REOPENS WITH MORPHY MOMENTO MEMORIAL CHESS SET AND TABLE ROOM IN BRENNAN’S RESTAURANT NOVEMBER 25,2014 … Brennan’s is already serving people daily with construction merrily progressing non stop … Paul Morphy (1837-1884) … the […]
World Chess Champion Gets Miracle save after blundering …Goes one game up with 6 to go … Sochi, Russia It all coming together for the chess golden boy — the Norwegian chess champion of the world, MAGNUS CARLSEN, notched a miraculous, precious one game lead with 6 world chess championship […]
