This weekend I played in the 20th edition of the Ames Chess Festival. I apologize for being light on the annotated games recently, but now I will bring you plenty! I have a full report, with games annotated by myself already posted, and games on the way from Mike Parsons, Tim McEntee, and Mostafa Zamanian. […]
This being the “Chess_Underground,” I will post the following, which, by the way, I agree with, in an effort to further get Mr. Gibbs’ voice heard. This is an open letter to FIDE regarding the world championship format and cycle. I think you’ll agree that Gibbs raises some interesting and valid points. “The Closet Grandmaster” […]
They may be no. 1 ranked in football, but in chess ISU was able to take down the Trojans! Iowa State joined a collegiate chess league, and was paired in the first round with USC. We played a five board match on Thursday, scoring 3.5 out of the 5 points to win. Here are the […]
ed note: the following is meant to be entirely humorous. Though a completely true story, this post is prompted primarily by Mostafa’s remark: “I’m going to crush you. There’s no way I’ll lose, I’d never live it down.”
The Story:
Sitting calmly at Stomping Grounds, a local cafe of interest, and playing backgammon with […]
Two new, annoying chessbase articles.
1) Topalov
Well, as much as a Topalov fan as I am, I can’t buy allowing your manager to state one thing then immediately contradicting it with a statement of your own.
2) Kramnik
Is this guy serious? First of all, it should have been Shirov to play Kasprov. Vladmimir- just because you can […]