Meet You in St. Louis

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The Sinquefield Cup begins tomorrow (via the USCF):

The 2013 Sinquefield Cup is a chess event of epic proportions. The world will be watching Saint Louis as four of the best players on the planet, including the top two in the world: GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Levon Aronian, and the top two in the U.S.: GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Gata Kamsky, vie for the $70,000 top prize and the inaugural Sinquefield Cup trophy. Only one will be King.

From the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis website:

Live coverage of each round of the event will be hosted through our partner site,www.uschesschamps.com, but this event will offer an unparalleled spectator experience, featuring multiple live Grandmaster commentary teams, access to the playing hall and more!

CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS

September 2, 2013

Kramnick knocking on the door of the World Chess Cup and $90,000 take home pay … TROMSO, NORWAY …

FIDE Online Arena (Test Version) Launches 1

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Via the Mechanics’ Institute newsletter, which notes that the following announcement, signed by the FIDE president, has been published at FIDE.com:

I am proud to announce today’s launch of the limited test version of FIDE online arena, FIDE’s official Internet playing platform developed in cooperation
with CNC. In October 2013, after the Executive Board meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, the fully operational version of FIDE online arena will be in service and available all over the world. FIDE firmly believes that online chess offers enormous opportunities for millions of chess lovers who are unable to regularly participate in over-the board events for a variety of reasons: professional and family commitments, problems reaching tournaments and other difficulties, etc.

Now FIDE makes the virtual real with an online arena that allows players to compete in top class tournaments with official FIDE ratings. The attractiveness
and ease of online chess will also draw millions of new players – in particular the young. FIDE online arena will be an important step in achieving my goal
of ‘1 billion chess players’ throughout the world.

Computer Chess, the Movie

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Andrew O’Hehir @ Salon reviews the new movie Computer Chess:

It’s easy to describe the superficial allure, or maybe anti-allure, of Andrew Bujalski’s film“Computer Chess”: It’s mostly set at a suburban chain motel in the early 1980s, and was shot in black-and-white using a video camera from that period. (“Black-and-white” is a term of art in this case, since the deliberately unlovely, squarish on-screen image is all different shades of dishwater gray.) This turned out to be a difficult undertaking. Since you can’t reliably find tapes or a working tape deck from that era, the video was recorded to a hard drive. If you really want to be a purist about it, this movie is faux-low-tech rather than the real thing.

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Package Feared to be Bomb, Only a Chess Set

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The Advocate:

A suspicious package left on the front steps of a Mandeville residence Saturday morning triggered the evacuation of two dozen homes, the closure of several streets and the mobilization of dozens of law enforcement officials.

But about six hours later, authorities discovered that the brown briefcase contained a chess set, not the pipe bomb that they had feared.

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Brennan’s Restaurant on Royal Street, aka The Morphy House, has been evicted by the building’s new owners. Perhaps a wealthy chess fan will see fit to buy it and make it a chess club …

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CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/JUNE 25,2013

WORLD JUNIOR CHESS CHAMPION IPATOV TAKES WORLD’S TALLEST BUNGEE JUMP OFF MACAU TOWER! HONG KONG … A. IPATOV, world junior chess champion, takes a long ride down in the world’s longest bungee jump: To read more about why he did it, check out Ipatov’s blog: What was the reason to […]

CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/JUNE 23, 2013

June 23, 2013 GELFAND OF ISRAEL SHOCKS TAL MEMORIAL WITH FANTASTIC PLAY..WORLD #1 CARLSEN OF NORWAY IS SECOND … Moscow, Russia … an electrifying 10 super grandmaster tourney triumph for B.GELFAND /ISRAEL WITH 6POINTS FROM 9 POSSIBLE … World number one Carlsen/ 5.5 second … stopped cold  with a final round draw today by […]

CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS

JUNE 17,2012 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI…   world  number one…CARlSEN COMING to the US…SINQUEFIELD CHESS CUP( date moved to Sept.9-15,2013) $220,000 AWARDED  TO 4 CHESS GRANDMASTERS!.THIS JUST IN FROMCHESSDOM.COM ONE HOUR AGO..A FULL  PAGE WORLD WIDE ADVERTISEMENT  AND STARTING DATE IS NOW CANCELED AND WORLD NUMBER ONE CHESS GRANDMASTER MAGNUS CARLSEN  WILL   DEFINITELY PLAY IN THE 4 PLAYER […]

CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/MAY 25,2013 1

$220,000 SINQUEFIELD CUP

THE GREATEST AMERCAN CHESS TOURNAMENT OF ALL TIME IS ANNOUNCED IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI … $220,000 GUARANTEED JULY 22-AUGUST 2,2013 … THE SINQUEFIELD CUP. No further details given but every available top player in the entire nation will be entered.

CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/MAY 18, 2013

THIS JUST IN FROM NORWAY VIA CHESSBOMB…Sergey Karjakin (Rus) has won a career making Norway Supreme Masters international  chess tourney today… scored a stellar 6 game points from nine possible..World number one CARLSEN  second 5.5/9 held to last round killer draw by world team champion board#1 L. Aronian..THIRD H.NAKAMURA OF US THIRD with 5/9….. Svidler,Aronian Anand  next […]

CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/April 15,2013

AMERICAN CHESS GIANT, GRANDMASTER /NEW YORK TIMES CHESS COMMENTATOR ROBERT BYRNE (fISCHER IMMORTAL GAME OPPONENT) DIES IN NEW YORK AT AGE 86….(Parkinson’s disease)…..It is with great regret that Chesslab  announces the death of the  immortal Fischer opponent in his greatest game ever…the “real Fischer Immortal game” as remembered by  I.A.Horowitz […]

Jude in 1993

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Chessflash World News/May 12, 2013

NAKAMURA DEFEATS WORLD CHESS CHAMPION ANAND Sandnes, Norway…H.Nakamura of the United States  today defeated world chess champion  Anand of India in round four of the world top 10 player super gm “meet and greet” Carlsen  gala -big bucks  international tourney.