For the third straight year, Susan Polgar visited New Orleans to promote the Susan Polgar Open for Girls & Boys (with more than $100,000 in chess scholarships and prizes). Be sure to read Polgar’s blog for the latest chess news.
DUBLIN POLICE CONFIRM HORRIFYING CHESS MURDER FOLLOWING CHESS MOVE RULES DISPUTE (ALL DETAILS RESEARCHED BY MSN NEWS FLASH) … Dublin, Ireland Police on March 13, 2014 charged an Italian chess player who admitted to the gruesome chess game rules dispute-murder of his Irish landlord. Police stated that Mr. Salverio Bellante, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. … this just in from International grandmaster/critic L. KAVALEK … the greatest book ever published on the epic Russian world chess champion, Mikhail Botvinnik: The Life and Games of a World Chess Champion (McFarland Press), has hit the market … the man who wrote it was of course New York Post […]
Katerini, Greece — “2014 WORLD SENIOR FIDE CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2014” (OCTOBER 24-NOVEMBER 4, 2014) ANNOUNCED TODAY … two concurrent tournaments! (AGE 5O+ AND AGE 65+) to award 6 grandmaster/international titles plus two world championship medals … location is the FIVE star Mediterranean Village Hotel Conference Center/KATERINI … with world famous […]
WORLD CHESS CHAMPION CARLSEN TO PLAY SIMULTANEOUS BLINDFOLD (MENTAL) BRAZIL CHESS EXHIBITION VERSUS BLIND CHESS PLAYERS March 5 … OSLO,NORWAY MARCH 3, 2014 This just in … World #1 FIDE rated (2881!) MAGNUS CARLSEN will definitely play a world wide INTERNET broadcast chess simultaneous blindfolded exhibition versus visually impaired players […]
$400,000 PLUS SINQUEFIELD CUP ( ST LOUIS) SET … 6 PLAYER EVENT AUGUST 28-SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 …World Champion M. Carlsen, US greats Kamsky and Nakamura with Aronian (Armenia) PLUS two other top grandmasters … $400,000 plus mucho perks … includes the obvious: unless a grandmaster player axe murders a spectator during […]
