- US Chess Champs Recap After Eight Rounds [VIDEO]
- Champions Crowned in Nashville
- Zatonskih, Kamsky Draw Even with Leaders in U.S. Champs
- Nakamura Still Leads, Krush Inches Ahead at U.S. Champs
- Cautious Start to World Championship in Moscow
- Nakamura Leads U.S. Champs, Three-Way Tie Atop U.S. Women's
- US Chess Champs Recap after Two Rounds [VIDEO]
- Decisive Results Abound in Round 1 of U.S. Championships
- A Couch Potato’s Guide to the 2012 World Championship
- Largest Chess Piece in the World Unveiled in Saint Louis
Triple Combination Game Set
Published April 29, 2012 | 
This vintage set was made by the Company Bar-Zim..little is known about the Company other than it has been around since 1930
“New Eye-Ease Playing Board”….
The Personality of Chess
Published April 23, 2012 | 
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..In the Appendix you will find-in addition to the rules governing the game,and related material-
an extensive bibliography of leading works on Chess. It follows that whether you know much or nothing
about Chess, this book offers you the opportunity to explore more fully specific areas of interest.
The Personality of Chess is not planned as continuous narrative,the context of each chapter necessarily
depending on the preceding text. Proceed to read as you please, with the comforting assurance that not
only do we not persume to exact from you a pro chess verdict, but we do not even impose a prescribed reading sequence upon you.
I.A. HOROWITZ
P.L.ROTHENBERG
New York City [January,1963]
Collegiate Chess in St.Louis
Published February 10, 2012 | 
St. Louis - Becoming a “Major” Chess Powerhouse..
Webster and Lindenwood Universities , providing scholarships and training while working with the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis are the latest installments of the city’s goal for Chess Superiority.
“We are planning to recruit some of the highest-rated competitors in the world,” said Tim Canavan, Lindenwood’s Director of Student Life Sports…
The Webster team will feature eight grandmasters and two international masters.. Also the new home to GM Susan Polgar and her S.P.I.C.E. program(Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence) .
Go Saint Louis!!
The American Chess Player’s Handbook
Published January 26, 2012 |
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Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many other wise excellent manuals for the learner.
The chief aim of the Editor for these pages have been to avoid this fault, by simplifying the openings, and by giving to the student chiefly such moves are recgonized to be the best, both in attack and defence.
Dominoes and Chess?
Published January 3, 2012 | 
{ N.Y.} MTA bus drivers spent a happy holiday week at their garages, collecting paychecks for playing chess and dominoes…………..
The cash-strapped MTA slashed bus service around the city from Dec.25 through Jan 2 because it expected fewer riders.
Achilles – Ajax
Published January 1, 2012 | No matter how much Time may pass ..There is nothing better than passing time playing chess and draughts..
Boris Becker-Nigel Short [London Classic Exhibition]
Published December 6, 2011 | 
Tennis Great Boris Becker makes a special appearance at this years London Classic .
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- Announcement on Grand Prix
- FIDE President at "Maribor for Peace"
- FIDE World Chess Championship Match - Round 5
- FIDE President's working visit to Astana
- Art at the World Chess Championship Match
- "Chess in Schools" in Dharamshala
- U. N. Women meets with FIDE
- Meeting of Dalai Lama the 14th with Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
- Olympiad and Congress Invitation
- Meeting with the President of Bulgaria Mr Georgi Parvanov