LEGENDARY DAN MAYERS, 92 YEAR OLD WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNEY COMPETITOR, DIES IN SUN VALLEY, IDAHO … MR. DAN MAYERS, the world traveling, nearly blind expert chess player, who gave chess exhibitions 70 years ago versus fellow scientists at the Los Alamos New Mexico Oppenheimer World War II atomic bomb […]
Legendary NEW ORLEANS 41ST PAUL MORPHY MEMORIAL ‘BIG KAHUNA’ CHESS EVENT INVITEES ANNOUNCED TODAY … New Orleans, Louisiana … The invitees for the 41st Paul Charles Morphy Memorial chess event … the ’BIG KAHUNA’ SECTION A tournament (SUNDAY 6-11PM OCTOBER 19, 2014 AT THE NEW ORLEANS FRENCH MARKET SEAFOOD RESTAURANT […]
WORLD CHESS CHAMPION CARLSEN IN MEGA BUCK TOP 6 today … SHORT RAPID/BLITZ TOURNEY STARTING TODAY … ZURICH – ORGANIZERS OF THE WORLD CLASS BLITZ/RAPID 10 games CHESS SUPER GRANDMASTER TOP SIX (WITH WORLD CHAMPION M. CARLSEN, US CHESS GREAT NAKAMURA blazing away for the next week) have heard the […]
WIJK ANN ZEE, HOLLAND Armenian super world #2 ranked player L. ARONIAN crushed the 7th annual TATA STEEL 2014 12 player grandmaster tourney ending today … it was over before the final round, 1.5 point margin of victory for Mr.. Aronian (labeled the nicest, audience friendly super grandmaster ever to […]
New Orleans, Louisiana–The 13 greatest chess grandmaster computer rankings of all time have been posted by 2700.com … listed by peak rating they are: CARLSEN ELO RATING 2878 KASPAROV 2856 ARONIAN 2829 ANAND 2820 TOPALOV 2816 KRAMNIK 2812 CARUANA 2800 RADJABOV 2799 MOROZEVICH 2788 NAKAMURA 2794 GRISCHUK 2792 IVANCHUK 2791 […]
The World Chess Federation (FIDE) today posts official confirmation: $100,000 SUSAN POLGAR YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP NEW ORLEANS TOURNEY “2014 SPNO” set for March 22-23, 2014 … Hilton Garden Inn Convention center … New Orleans, Louisiana – With THREE DOZEN ROSES ALREADY ORDERED for her on behalf of Chesslab readers all over […]
WORLD TOP 10 CHESS GRANDMASTER GASHIMOV DIES OF BRAIN TUMOR AT 27 New York Times chess editor Dylan Loeb McClain confirms the death of Vugar Gashimov, age 27, world top 10, Baku, Azerbaijan chess grandmaster. Mr.Gashimov, an exponent of the nifty sharp blade-chess rock and roll akin to US chess great L. Christiansen … […]
WORLD CHESS TOP “LIVE’ PLAYERS RANKED … ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI … THE UP-TO-THE-SECOND WORLD TOP “LIVE” FIDE RATED CHESS GRANDMASTERS ARE: Carlsen (NOR), elo 2872, age 23 Aronian (ARM), elo 2812, age 31 NAKAMURA (USA), elo 2789, age 26 Kramnik (RUS), elo 2787, age 38 Topalov (BUL), elo 2785, age […]
California Chess Reporter (1967-71), Vol. 7 California Chess Reporter (1971-74), Vol. 8 California Chess Reporter (1974-76), Vol. 9 THE JUDE ACERS 1968-1976 CALIFORNIA CHESS REPORTER YEARS … VOLUMES 7-9 COMPENDIUMS PUBLISHED WORLDWIDE … San Francisco, California … MY BACK PAGES … The Jude Acers fiery 3,000 day epic California chess […]
WORLD TOP 8 CHESS“CANDIDATES” NAMED KHANTY-MANSYISK, RUSSIA … the MARCH 11-APRIL 1, 2014 forced play multi million dollar chess championship cycle FIDE “candidate” tourney that provides American world number three super grandmaster H. NAKAMURA a certain chance to contest two or three chess world championship matches with world chess champion […]
MAJOR CHESS MOVIE “LIFE OF A KING” JUST … TWO WEEKS AWAY The CHESS movie “LIFE OF A KING“ JUST WEEKS AWAY FROM YOUR TOWN … this just in from Dallas, Texas via the one, the only, truly mysterious “THE CHIEF” of FATKATZ INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE CHESS PROMOTIONS … a knock ‘em dead CHESS […]
LEGENDARY AMERICAN CHESS SHADOW AND US CHESS CHAMPION JOHN GREFE DIES Dallas, Texas … this just in from Dallas … “The Chief” of Fat Katz International chess promotions … the here-there-and-everywhere shadow … international chess master and U.S. chess Co-Champion (with the great Kavalek) in 70’s El Paso, Texas long […]
NAKAMURA NETS $70,000 PLUS London, England … LONDON “CHESS CLASSIC SUPER 16” INTERNATIONAL 2013 TOURNEY officials have confirmed THE GUARANTEED payout to winner … World # 3 ranked SUPER CHESS GRANDMASTER, AMERICAN CHESS GREAT H. NAKAMURA … 50,000 EUROS OR 70,000 PLUS AMERICAN US DOLLAR … as world number three […]
MONSTER ONE MILLION DOLLAR … ($1,000,000 CASH … AMERICAN DOLLARINOS!!!!!!!!!) LAS VEGAS 2014 OPEN-TO-PUBLIC-CHESS TOURNEY SET … Las Vegas, Nevada … millionaire Amy Lee has guaranteed in advance THE ONE, THE ONLY MONEY MAN American Grandmaster Maurice Ashley one million dollars cash prizes (First prize $100,000!!! ANYBODY CAN PLAY!!!!) for […]
LONDON, ENGLAND … US Chess Monster H. Nakamura wins London World Top 16 Rapid Mega Cash Event … THIS JUST IN … from our friends at CHESSBOMB.COM … American H.NAKAMURA is hauling mucho gold to ye olde bank! The World #3 Rated Super Chess Grandmaster Nakamura DEFEATED former World Chess Champion V. Kramnik […]
GM Kraai’s novel is available at Amazon (if you’re in New Orleans, Octavia Books probably has a few signed copies on hand). Be sure to check out Kraai’s website for novel excepts and news.
US CHESS MONSTER NAKAMURA NOW WORLD #3 ELO RANKED The up to the day world elo top ”live” chess ratings show American grandmaster H. NAKAMURA has hit the big time millionaire status …THE 25 YEAR OLD GRANDMASTER DEFEATED FORMER WORLD CHAMPION KRAMNIK EN ROUTE TO A TERRIFIC TEAM USA DEFEAT […]
IMMORTAL FREEDOM FIGHTER NELSON MANDELA (CHESS PLAYER!!) DIES AT 95 IN SOUTH AFRICA The man who played chess ruthlessly and often with great ponderous reflection of every move at South Africa’s Robben Prison in 1964 … and for 27 subsequent torturous years of political prison life … has died … […]
Via Henry Grabar at Salon: Too often, [Pedro] Ortiz says, we think of the metropolis like a dartboard, one whose concentric circles of development decline in value and importance with distance from the center. This is the radial or orbital model of metropolitan planning, one that prizes centrality above all. […]
CHENNAI, India … CARLSEN IS NEW WORLD CHESS CHAMPION … ALL PAWNS ARE LEAVING THE BOARD AND CARLSEN IS THE NEW WORLD CHESS CHAMPION IN A MATTER OF MOMENTS … He did not lose a single game to the former world champion Anand, winning 3 games to none. — Jude Acers
