Contact: John Henderson847-347-9593 For immediate release: SHULMAN AND AKOBIAN HOLD LEAD AT U.S. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP St. Louis, Mo., May 13, 2009 -- Defending champion Yury Shulman, of Barrington, Ill., and Varuzhan Akobian, of North Hollywood,...
By Travis H. Brown They called him one of the best closers of all time in St. Louis Cardinals history. But today, his opening game was hard enough – on the chess board. Over his major league baseball career as a hard-throwing reliever, Todd Wo...
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Immediate ReleaseContact: John Henderson847-347-9593 SHULMAN AND AKOBIAN MAKE THEIR MOVE FOR TITLE St. Louis, MO, May 12, 2009 -- Defending champion Yury Shulman, of Barrington, Ill., and Varuzhan Akobian, of North Hollywood, Calif., broke from ...
Many studies have claimed that the introduction of chess tuition to young children helps them achieve better progress in their academic and personal development. Now the government of the Philippines has taken the plunge and agreed to introduce ch...
In 1997 IBM's custom built chess supercomputer Deep Blue beat the reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov in a 6-game match and IBM's share price rocketed. Now in 2009, IBM has announced plans to unleash it's latest experiment in artificial...
The latest official FIDE quarterly rating list has been published today, with Veselin Topalov (pictured) maintaining his #1 spot and surpassing the magic 2800 Elo barrier once more. World champion Vishy Anand is a clear #2 and Magnus Carlsen is a...
Chess will never be the same again. Until now, many mathematicians claimed it wasn’t possible to ‘solve’ chess due to the exponentially large number of possible games (10^120). However, in a dramatic development today...
Second mover's winning percentage has exceeded that of First mover for the professional Japanese chess games of the fiscal year 2008(April 2008 through March 2009). It's the first time since Japan Shogi Association started stats since 1967. Here i...
Friends of Chess.com - Chess.com needs your help! Our Facebook application has been recently under a "negative review" attack. :( We were in the middle of doing some big upgrades to the Facebook app and there were a few bugs. So a few impatient ...
I have written up the HHCF event from the perspective of one of my strudents (and chess.com member). It is at http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/1/175050/5056/366/703416. (because I wanted to post at a site that isn't just chess) There will ...
Possible films about Bobby Fischer's life have been mooted for a long time, but following his death just over a year ago, the time is now ripe for it to happen at last. Producer Damian Chapa is due to start filming an Amadeus Pictures biopic of B...
In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue computer won a 6-game match against the legendary Garry Kasparov and made headlines around the world. The match was billed in some quarters as humanity's last stand against the machines. Was this proof that computers woul...
I feel compelled to write today about the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I'm going to break form though and start with the ugly and end with the good! The Bad Sometimes things are outside of our control. There are weeks where everything on Chess...
According to the toppage in Japanese of Computer Shogi(Japanese chess) Association, the source file of the engine of Bonanza developed by Hoki Kunihito became downloadable from its library on January 27. I'm not sure how big this is to people in c...
It's been a while since I last wrote about "Building Chess.com", and I thought today would be a good day to post :)As most of you know, we (Jay and I) first started working on Chess.com in 2005. We had the vision and we thought we had the know-how...
News of the recent publication of the 1 January 2009 FIDE rating list prompted some discussion in the comments about the numbers of GMs from particular countries. Well, for those who like to analyse these things statistically, the official FIDE w...
FIDE have published their latest official quarterly rating list for January 2009. The list includes all tournaments up to 15 December, but also includes FIDE organised events that finished later i.e. the Elista Grand Prix which concluded just 2 d...
We need more people to become Chess.com Greeters! We know that sometimes it is frustrating to have people come to the site, make 1 move, and then never come back, but for those people who stick around the Greeters are an important part of their fi...
One of the most anticipated publishing events of the year is the release of the new book by Garry Kasparov. Published by Everyman Chess, it is the second volume in the series entitled Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess. On Monday, September 29, 2008,...
The 2008 Scholastic National Championships are in Lake Buena Vista, FL and are from December 12-14. More information is at 407-939-1000 or [email protected].
How do astronauts pass the time in between whatever it is that they do whilst they are up there in space? There's not much room to move about, so physical activities are pretty much out. You could listen to music or read, but what if y...
