The 2009 STC World Championship, a 9-round swiss with a time control of 60+30, begins July 6th on the Internet Chess Chess, Free Internet Chess Server and World Chess Live.
The Kenilworth Karpovs wrapped-up their 2009 Garden State Chess League campaign on a high note, with a 3.5-0.5 victory at Summit.
In a recent thought-provoking
article WGM Natalia Pogonina and Peter Zhdanov presented their views on
the topic of why women are worse at chess than men. A number of our readers
were unconviced: they think that efforts at “explaining”
differences between the sexes only from environmental factors are doomed at the
outset. Recent studies seem to support this. Feedback and articles.
We recently reported
on a large Fischer collenction that was snapped up for US $61,000 by Rex and
Jeanne Sinquefield. Collectors – and especially philatelists – have
an opportunity to get some new items from the 1972 Fischer vs Spassky World Chess
Championship, with postcards, envelopes, a signed admittance ticket. They are
from a private Icelandic collection.