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“I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves”
by Bobby Fischer
  • September 2010 FIDE Rating List August 31, 2010
    FIDE published September 2010 Rating List.Please view top lists at http://ratings.fide.com/toplist.phtml. All ratings are available at http://ratings.fide.com/. […]
  • Working visit of Ilyumzhinov to Singapore August 31, 2010
    During the working visit to Singapore the FIDE President heard the report of the FIDE Vice-President Zurab Azmaiparashvili on the outcome of his inspection tour to Khanty-Mansiysk, where the 39th World Chess Olympiad will start soon. He also met with the President of the Singapore Chess Federation, FIDE General Secretary Ignatius Leong. At the meeting the is […]
  • Chess in Schools of Vietnam August 31, 2010
    The FIDE President, Head of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov arrived in Vietnam on a working visit. At the airport Thang Shon Niat he was met by the President of the country Nguyen Minh Triet, the Secretary of the City Council Le Thanh Hai and the Mayor of Ho Chi Minh Le Hoang Quan as well as high officials of the President's Administration and Foreign Minis […]
  • Travel details for Olympiad August 30, 2010
    http://ugra-chess.com/Dear Chess Friends! Please, pay attention to the changes in departure and arrival time of the charters Milan – Khanty-Mansiysk – Milan, Munich – Khanty-Mansiysk – Munich and Dubai – Khanty-Mansiysk – Dubai and to the additional charter Moscow – Khanty-Mansiysk - Moscow (Vnukovo): 19.09.2010 (To Khanty-Mansiysk) Departure Flight number V […]
  • The 1st Florencio Campomanes Memorial August 30, 2010
    On August 28, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov arrived on a working visit to the Philippines, where he took part in the opening ceremony of the 1st Florencio Campomanes Memorial. The idea to hold the tournament was born two months ago in Manila during the previous visit of the FIDE President to the Philippines. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov proposed the organization and financing of […]
  • Working visit of FIDE President to Malaysia August 28, 2010
    On the 27th of August the FIDE President, Head of the Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov arrived in the capital of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur on a working visit. FIDE President met the President of the Malaysian Olympic Council Yang Mulia Tunku Tan Sri Imran Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Ja'afar, where Mr. Ilyumzhinov requested his kind assistance in the inclusi […]
  • Kirsan Ilyumzhinov visits Chennai, India August 27, 2010
    On August 26, FIDE President, Head of Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov during his working trip to Asian countries visited Chennai, where the headquarters of the All India Chess Federation is based. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov met with the Honorary Secretary of AICF Mr. D.V. Sundar. Besides the officials and journalists, the meeting was attended by many famous […]
  • Announcement on the forthcoming Olympiad August 26, 2010
    Dear friends! Attention to all FIDE Chess Federations! Please provide all data in respect of the changes/amendments for the online registration to the Organising Committee by the August 30th 2010. The proper request shall be sent by the Organising Committee to all FIDE Federations. In case these are not sent by the said date, the Organising Committee shall n […]
  • FIDE President announces sponsorship package of two million US dollars for next two years August 26, 2010
    FIDE President's visit to Beirut has brought excellent results. After several meetings and high-level talks he announced the sponsorship package worth 2 million US dollars for the next two years. "According to this agreement with Mr Alain Khoueiry, owner of Flipper 7 and Vogue Publishing, the sponsor shall provide two million USD for event sponsors […]
  • Meeting with the President of Bulgaria Mr Georgi Parvanov December 16, 2009
    Sofia 16.12.2009 - FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov met with the President of Bulgaria Georgi Parvanov today in Sofia. Mr Parvanov expressed his satisfaction that Bulgaria will organise the World Championship Match 2010 and he assured the FIDE President that the event will be held successfully and on the highest level. At the same time, Mr Georgi Parvanov i […]

Kasparov on WNYC

Reflecting on his career as a chess Grandmaster and a member of Russia’s political opposition, Garry Kasparov found that the same strategies used to win his game can lead to success at the office. He talks with WNYC’s Leonard Lopate. You can hear the whole interview here:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2007/11/02/segments/88187

THE CHESS PLAYER

“Morphy at the age of thirteen played a strong Chess game without sight of the board.Rising step by step to two games,to three,to four and so on, we find him while still in his teens playing twelve games simultaneously blindfolded and against players to whom the champions of the day could not give more than a pawn and move safety in set match. More surprising even than the number of games which Morphy could thus play blindfolded at one sitting, was the nature of his play under these seemingly difficult conditions. The brilliancy of the combinations was in most cases matched by their soundness and often by their depth-in the sense of the number of moves over which,with lightning rapidity, he carried his analysis. A veteran player told me of these games which he had carefully examined after it was finished because he believed that a certain brilliant stroke could be more successfully met than it had been in actual plays. ‘Along every line’,  he said,  but one , I found Morphy’s strategy sound , but along the line there seemed to me a safe, though difficult defense, resulting in eventual victory over him. I passed an hour or two every evening for week, analysing the game along this line, and having satisfied myself it was sound, I mentioned the point to Morphy when next I met him. I was setting up the board to show him what I meant, but he would not suffer me. “I remember the game perfectly, ” he said. “Your defense is not sound, though it was best available; you have overlooked a mate in three, following the sacrifice of my King’s Bishop after the fifth move of your defense”. My veteran friend looked over the position the same evening and found the case was as Morphy stated.   “Imagine the abnormal brain development in some special though unknown way, which enabled a boy Chess player, ten days after playing a game which was one of the twelve played blindfolded, to correct in an instant and without setting up the position, the result of ten or twelve hours of analysis of the game by a strong veteran player!”

Richard A. Proctor in the Louisville Courier Journal.

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CONGRATS… GM GATA KAMSKY

2010 US CHESS CHAMPION

US CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP {PLAY-OFF}

Tuesday May 25 2010 10:00  CDT

Congratulations to Gata Kamsky and Yury Shulman, tied for 1st place.

US CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP RD 10

 

Monday May,24 2010 @1400 CDT

 

 

Table White Score Rating Black Score Rating Result
1 GM Shulman, Yuri 6.5 2613 GM Kamsky, Gata 6.5 2702
2 GM Onischuk, Alexander 5.5 2699 GM Nakamura, Hikaru 5.5 2733

US CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP RD 9

Sunday, 23 May 2010 @1400 CDT

Table White Score Rating Black Score Rating Result
1 GM Nakamura, Hikaru 5.5 2733 GM Shulman, Yuri 5.5 2613
2 GM Kamsky, Gata 5.5 2702 GM Onischuk, Alexander 5.5 2699
3 GM Shabalov, Alexander 5.0 2585 GM Stripunsky, Alexander 5.5 2570
4 GM Hess, Robert L 4.5 2590 GM Yermolinsky, Alex 4.5 2528
5 GM Christiansen, Larry 4.5 2578 GM Finegold, Benjamin 4.5 2539
6 GM Robson, Ray 4.0 2569 GM Akobian, Varuzhan 4.0 2599
7 IM Krush, Irina 4.0 2455 GM Kraai, Jesse 4.0 2492
8 GM Kaidanov, Gregory 3.5 2577 GM Ehlvest, Jaan 4.0 2591
9 GM Benjamin, Joel 3.5 2565 GM Kudrin, Sergey 2.5 2571
10 GM Lenderman, Alex 3.0 2598 GM Bhat, Vinay S 3.0 2547
11 GM Khachiyan, Melikset 3.0 2539 IM Shankland, Samuel 2.0 2507
12 IM Altounian, Levon 2.5 2454 GM Gurevich, Dmitry 2.5 2488

US CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP RD 8

Saturday, 22 May 2010 @ 1400 CDT

Table White Score Rating Black Score Rating Result
1 GM Nakamura, Hikaru 5.0 2699 GM Kamsky, Gata 5.0 2733
2 GM Onischuk, Alexander 5.0 2613 GM Shulman, Yuri 5.0 2702
3 GM Stripunsky, Alexander 4.5 2570 GM Christiansen, Larry 4.5 2578
4 GM Finegold, Benjamin 4.0 2539 GM Hess, Robert L 4.0 2590
5 GM Shabalov, Alexander 4.0 2585 IM Krush, Irina 4.0 2455
6 GM Kraai, Jesse 3.5 2492 GM Yermolinsky, Alex 4.0 2528
7 GM Akobian, Varuzhan 3.5 2599 GM Ehlvest, Jaan 3.5 2591
8 GM Robson, Ray 3.0 2569 GM Khachiyan, Melikset 3.0 2539
9 GM Bhat, Vinay S 2.5 2547 GM Kaidanov, Gregory 3.0 2577
10 GM Benjamin, Joel 2.5 2565 IM Altounian, Levon 2.5 2454
11 GM Gurevich, Dmitry 2.0 2488 GM Lenderman, Alex 2.5 2598
12 GM Kudrin, Sergey 2.0 2571 IM Shankland, Samuel 1.5 2507

US CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP RD 7

Thursday, 20 May 2010 @1400 CDT

Table White Score Rating Black Score Rating Result
1 GM Shulman, Yuri 4.5 2613 GM Onischuk, Alexander 4.5 2699
2 GM Christiansen, Larry 4.0 2578 GM Nakamura, Hikaru 4.5 2733
3 GM Kamsky, Gata 4.5 2702 GM Shabalov, Alexander 3.5 2585
4 GM Kraai, Jesse 3.5 2492 GM Stripunsky, Alexander 3.5 2570
5 GM Yermolinsky, Alex 3.5 2528 GM Finegold, Benjamin 3.5 2539
6 GM Hess, Robert L 3.0 2590 GM Akobian, Varuzhan 3.5 2599
7 IM Krush, Irina 3.0 2455 GM Lenderman, Alex 2.5 2598
8 GM Ehlvest, Jaan 2.5 2591 GM Bhat, Vinay S 2.5 2547
9 GM Kaidanov, Gregory 2.5 2577 GM Robson, Ray 2.5 2569
10 GM Khachiyan, Melikset 2.0 2539 GM Benjamin, Joel 2.5 2565
11 GM Kudrin, Sergey 1.5 2571 GM Gurevich, Dmitry 1.5 2488
12 IM Shankland, Samuel 1.5 2507 IM Altounian, Levon 1.5 2454

US CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP RD 6

Wednesday, 19 May 2010 @1400 CDT

Table White Score Rating Black Score Rating Result
1 GM Onischuk, Alexander 4.0 2699 GM Kamsky, Gata 4.0 2702
2 GM Nakamura, Hikaru 3.5 2733 GM Kraai, Jesse 3.5 2492
3 GM Stripunsky, Alexander 3.5 2570 GM Shulman, Yuri 3.5 2613
4 GM Akobian, Varuzhan 3.0 2599 GM Yermolinsky, Alex 3.0 2528
5 GM Christiansen, Larry 3.0 2578 IM Krush, Irina 3.0 2455
6 GM Shabalov, Alexander 2.5 2585 GM Kaidanov, Gregory 2.5 2577
7 GM Finegold, Benjamin 2.5 2539 GM Benjamin, Joel 2.5 2565
8 GM Robson, Ray 2.0 2569 GM Ehlvest, Jaan 2.0 2591
9 IM Altounian, Levon 1.5 2454 GM Hess, Robert L 2.0 2590
10 GM Lenderman, Alex 1.5 2598 GM Kudrin, Sergey 1.5 2571
11 GM Bhat, Vinay S 1.5 2547 IM Shankland, Samuel 1.5 2507
12 GM Gurevich, Dmitry 1.0 2488 GM Khachiyan, Melikset 1.5 2539