Posts tagged with “Chess”
Villamayor wins "All In Sports Expo" Open Rapid Chess →
Grandmaster Buenaventura “Bong” Villamayor emerged the winner in the “All In Sports Expo” Open Rapid Chess Tournament at the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Canteen at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in Manila on Sunday.
The Vietnamese dragons are coming →
19-year-old Le Quang Liem has won a string of very strong events, jumping from practically nowhere into the top 50 in the world (expect to see him in the top 20 soon). His achievements are in the news all over the world. And he is joined by Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son. High time for us to learn these names and understand how they work. Nguyen Hong Son helps us.
Download Winboard 4.2.7b - the earlier version →
For some reason or another, the legacy version of Winboard offers some advantages as compared to the latest one. So, just in case, here's the link to download the legacy version — Winboard 4.2.7b.
Time travel in chess →
We have a great article here explaining the consequences if a top GM of today would time-travel to the past, say 100 years back. What are the circumstances he has to deal with?
I liked its conclusion:
We often take it for granted that the strongest chess players of our age are automatically the strongest players that ever lived. But strongest at what? At most, they are best at playing the game we play under the current circumstances – circumstances that were quite different just hundred years ago. Take away some of the conditions and everything changes instantly.
The video explains how NBA was likened to a game of chess. I am both a fan of NBA and chess.
This is a game of Kings, it is valley of the brave...
This video is just awesome! I loved the voice over script.
GMANews.tv are Sending Wrong News Info on Chess
This is proof that chess is not really mainstream. Online news articles are published with erroneous info, and no one seems to bother.
In GMANews.tv, "So seeks to sustain giant-killing ways vs Malakhov":
After hurdling three Russian heavyweights in a smashing campaign in the 2009 World Chess Cup, GM Wesley So resumes his bid for chess history when he takes on GM Vladimir Malakhov of Russia in the 16-player fourth round at the Khanty-Mansiysk Center of Arts. So, dubbed by the foreign media here as "a fantastic gold nugget causing the World Cup irreplaceable losses with his upset victories," begins a two-game showdown against the 22nd-seeded Malakhov (ELO 2706) Monday in one of eight remaining matches being held to determine the challenger to the next world champion.Read More »