I had a friend once that had many chess sets. He never played with it though. I even doubted if he know how to play. It served as decoration for him; just a pick of furniture to the left of his fireplace. The darn thing was beautiful though.
The individual pieces were so elegant and [...]
It’s that time of the year again, when everyone is looking for that unique gift to give to a close friend or family member. Being a chess focused website, obviously we have a preference as to what we’ll be recommending this holiday season! So if you are looking at different chess sets here is our [...]
An enhanced crosstable for the Kenilworth Championship, with tiebreaks, performance ratings & projected post-tourney ratings, has been uploaded.
A chessplaying New Jersey Devil from Paranominal’s Cryptozoology. Why is it that the devil is always up for a game?
This event took place from Jan. 30 to Feb. 7, just before the 9th Aeroflot Open (Feb. 8–19) – which meant that many strong players were in the Russian capital to participate in both tournaments. Four players shared first in the Moscow Open, with 7.0/9 points. The winner was Konstantin Chernyshov on tie-break, with the [...]
Here are Win-TD’s recommended (unofficial) pairings for the 2010 KCCC’s final round: Carrelli – MacaspacMangion – PawlowskiKernighan – MoldovanSchwarcz – SturnioloLewis – MannRenna – HartWojcio- KomunickyShiffman – Cole
Don Carrelli & Arthur Macaspac won to set-up an all-Armed Forces battle for 1st place.The winner will become the KCC’s 6th Champion & join Rene Ray, who won in 1996, as the only non-Master to be crowned.White took 6 of 8 games on Thursday & is now 24-9 (.727) in this event. There has yet [...]
I have uploaded 2 games from the Kenilworth Kramniks’ 3.5-0.5 loss at West Orange.For details & links please visit my Garden State Chess League blog.
Mangion – CarrelliWhite to play.I have annotated the game Mangion – Carrelli, KCC Championship 2010, where Club President Don Carrelli took down Dr. Ian Mangion in a wild line of the Sveshnikov Sicilian that is supposed to be practically winning for White (see diagram above) but which Carrelli managed to survive and emerge from victorious. [...]
A very original sequence happened in this Sicilian encounter from the recently finished festival in Wijk aan Zee. The black knight is attacked, but onto which square it should go now is only one question (A).
The other interesting issue is: what was actually White’s last (and best!) move (B),
as a reaction in turn to which [...]