Archive for February 23rd, 2010

The Chess Mates Chess Club, located at 1523 Irving St. in Rahway, N.J. and owned/managed by 2010 Kenilworth Champion Arthur Macaspac, will have its Grand Opening at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, March 1st has postponed its grand opening due to construction delays caused by recent snow storms.  A new date should be announced soon. 

The facility, conveniently located near the Rahway train station, is expected to be open 7 days & 4 nights per week. Some 20 USCF-rated events will be run every month:

• Sundays 5-SS, G/45
• Mondays 4-SS, G/25 (1st & 2nd weeks of the month)
• Tuesdays 3-Round Quads, G/30
• Wednesdays 4-SS, G/30
• Friday 4-SS, 30 moves in 90 + SD/60 (one game per week)
• Saturday 4-SS, G/60 for U2400s

There will be monthly lessons & simuls by Yudasin, plus weekday afternoon skittles (Monday-Thursday) for seniors (12:30-2:15 p.m.) & children (2:30-4:15 p.m.).

For details about lessons, calendar, more detailed directions, membership, and other information visit the Chess Mates website.

Alexander Grischuk won his second game in a row, the third in this tournament.
He beat the leader Veselin Topalov, avenging a loss to him in
the first half. Topalov and Grischuk go into the final round tied for first.
Topalov has white against Gelfand, Grischuk black against Vallejo. It’s going
to be an exciting finish – watch it on Playchess
with GM Danny King at the mike. Round nine report.

One way to measure the relative strengths of chess engines is to play them against each other – see who wins and by how much. But often newer engines can be “booked” to beat older rivals straight out of the opening. To get objective results without killer books John Nunn introduced opening test suites. That was a decade ago. Now Albert Silver presents an update and explains how to use it.

One way to measure the relative strengths of chess engines is to play them against each other – see who wins and by how much. But often newer engines can be “booked” to beat older rivals straight out of the opening. To get objective results without killer books John Nunn introduced opening test suites. That was a decade ago. Now Albert Silver presents an update and explains how to use it.

When did the chess brain develop? Turns out that Caissa made it some 50 km south of Nairobi, Kenya, in the pre-historic wastelands of Olegersaille. She called the bipedal primate Homo Sapiens. Today, 200,000 years later, the Kenyans are picking a national team to join their cousins from all over the world at the Siberian Olympiad. Spectacular pictorial by Mahul Gohil.