Archive for February 28th, 2009

I have posted the Garden State Chess League Schedule on the league’s website.

Arunas Simonaitis of Queens, NY has annotated one of his USATE games for my blog. In it, he convincingly outplays his opponent in a Ruy Lopez sideline. Here is the replay & PGN.

200 players in 19 different tournaments took part in the 7th International Chess Festival in Nancy from 16 to 22 of February 2009. This town is located in the east of France, between Paris and Strasbourg. The tournament system is unusual: the players are divided into groups of ten and play round robins. You will get to know a lot of new players in this giant pictorial report by IM Christophe Philippe.

The Editor of Chess
Notes presents a compilation of photographs, engravings and sketches of
Howard Staunton (1810-1874). They include art-work by Sam Loyd and a group
photograph taken at Redcar, 1866 which has come to light only recently. Much
of Staunton’s life is shrouded in mystery, and the origin of some of the
pictures is unknown. Enjoy a rich compendium of historic illustrations.

Our examination of game headers continues in the latest ChessBase Workshop. When you load a game and then save or replace it there are certain important things to consider. You’ll discover quite a number of “hidden” fields that are used to correctly maintain tournament information as we unlock the mysteries in our
latest Workshop installment.