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| Posted by jstevens1 legalserv.com 4/07/2008 02:45:55 play online chess |  Subject: An Expert Lesson in K & P endingsMessage: I will now put a separate thread about my five successful endgames. Joanne |
Chess news: Polgar: What it takes to reach the worldwide pinnacle of chess mastery -- The question of the week is what makes the difference between a good chess grandmaster and a world chess champion/world No. 1 player? It is extremely difficult to become a chess grandmaster. Some say that it is much more difficult to earn a grandmaster title than a Ph.D. degree. One has to dedicate years of studying chess to get to this level. It is a lifetime commitment. There are only about 1,000 chess grandmasters in the world today out of more than 750 million people who play chess. As you can see, even with this dedication, most will not get there. To be a world chess champion or world No. 1 player, it is even much more difficult. In addition to the incredible dedication, one must ... The Great Chess Doping Scandal -- Chess Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk refused to submit a urine sample for a drug test at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden and is now considered guilty of doping. The world of chess is outraged that he could face a two-year ban. Professional chess player Vassily Ivanchuk, born in Berezhany, Ukraine in 1969, has been a grandmaster for the past 20 years and is currently ranked third in the world. The man with black hair and bedroom eyes is known as "Big Chucky" by his fellow chess players. Why? Because, after losing a game, he goes into the forest at night and howls at the moon to drive out the demons. Because he walks around in shorts in freezing temperatures. Because he likes to ... Magnus Carlsen quits Grand Prix -- The World Chess Federation (FIDE) plans to begin the third tournament of its Grand Prix series today in Elista, Russia. The first two Grand Prix tournaments were unqualified successes, featuring exciting chess battles between many of the world's top 20 grandmasters. The forecast for the rest of the series is less rosy. When organizers of Grand Prix chess events in Qatar and Switzerland backed out, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov moved the Qatar tournament to his hometown of Elista and announced that Armenia would host a chess tournament. But FIDE also changed the rules, making the Grand Prix leader merely one of eight contenders in a tournament that ... | |