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Scholastic Chess GatewayScholastic Chess GatewayThis Scholastic Chess blog is dedicated to providing a gateway to chess tournaments, clubs, instruction and useful websites for school-age chess players and their families throughout the United States. If you're a chess enthusiast or the parent, coac 
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Beware of GoDaddy.com !
2008-01-14 05:20:00 This is off-topic, but ... A year ago I signed up to have GoDaddy.com host a website for me, which I never actually used. My fault. But then they called two weeks ago to ask if I wanted to renew another years' worth of website hosting for the site. I told them I never used it and was NOT interested in continuing the site. So what happens? They charge my account anyway. I just can't believe More About: Beware
Review: 50 Ways to Win at Chess
2008-01-09 15:28:00 For a few days, my review of Steve Giddins' excellent book 50 Ways to Win at Chess is posted at the ChessCafe homepage. The review begins: This is an excellent follow-up to Giddins’ 50 Essential Chess Lessons from Gambit, published in 2006. It does not include “the essential lessons” notes at the end of each game, as in the earlier book, but it does continue Giddins’ easy writing style that More About: Review
January 2008 Scholastic Chess ChessCafe Column Online
2008-01-09 15:20:00 My latest Scholastic Chess column at ChessCafe is now online. I've covered a variety of the 2007 year-end events. Abby Marshall contributed an annotated game from the World Youth Chess Championships, and you can read about the phenomenal Ray Robson streaking to his IM-elect title in a span of just six weeks! There is also the unbelievable story of FIDE officials forcing a 14-year-old out of More About: January , Online , Column
2007 Year-End Tournaments
2008-01-04 06:50:00 I've been swamped, but watch for my upcoming January 2008 Scholastic Chess ChessCafe column. It will cover items from the 2007 World Youth Chess Championship, the 2007 National K-12/Collegiate ("Grade Nationals") tournament, the 6th FIDE North America Invitational, the UTD GM Invitational, and the players who made the USCF All America team. You'll also read about an unbelievable incident at the More About: Tournaments , Year , Amen
2007 Pan American Intercollegiate Set to Begin
2007-12-25 19:58:00 From December 27-30, the 2007 Pan American Intercollegiate Chess tournament takes place at Miami Dade College. The six-round event is open to college teams throughout North and South America, as well as the Carribean. Last year, the top two teams came from the same school. The University of Texas-Dallas (UTD) captured both first place and second place, with perennial rival University of
Review: How Life Imitates Chess
2007-12-13 06:56:00 My review of Garry Kasparov's latest book How Life Imitates Chess , is currently on the ChessCafe home page. I found it to be an intriguing combination of part autobiography and part textbook of life lessons. More About: Review
Latest Scholastic Chess Column Now Online
2007-12-13 06:49:00 My December Scholastic Chess ChessCafe column is now online. In it, I cover the 2007 National Youth Action tournament in St. Louis and the 2007 World Youth Chess Championships in Antalya, Turkey. A number of games from these events with nice tactical shots are included. More About: Online , Column
National K-12 Heads Into Final Day
2007-12-09 12:59:00 The 2007 National K-12 Championships head into the final day of the three-day event in Houston, Texas. Click on "Pairings and Results" here for updated information. I don't yet have the final number of players in the tournament, but over 1300 sent in advance entries. More About: Final , Heads
Ray Robson is 4-0 at UTD GM Invitational!
2007-12-09 12:42:00 FM Ray Robson The pairings haven't been easy - he's faced two IMs and two GMs, but after four rounds, FM Ray Robson stands at a perfect 4-0 at the UTD GM Invitational. The best place to follow the results are at MonRoi. The University of Texas-Dallas page can be found here, but they seem slow in updating the results. Coverage is supposed to also be available at the Internet Chess Club, but if so,
Photos from National K-12 Championships
2007-12-09 06:01:00 Here are some photos of action at the National K-12 (grades) tournament from Susan Polgar's blog: Christopher Wu and coach IM Dean Ippolito Tommy Polgar and GM Maurice Ashley More About: Photos , Championships , Champ
UTD Grandmaster Invitational Begins Today
2007-12-06 15:53:00 The University of Texas-Dallas (UTD) again holds its annual Grandmaster Invitational Tournament, with the first of 11 rounds beginning today, at 5:30 PM Central time. Four GMs are entered, and other players include IM Sal Bercys and FM Ray Robson. More information is available at the UTD Grandmaster Invitational page, and you can follow the tournament's progress at the Internet Chess Club or at More About: Today , Aster
Gold, Silver, and Happy Memories for U.S. Team
2007-12-06 03:43:00 Daniel Naroditsky photo: Dujiu Yang, Chess Life Online Sarah Chiang photo: Dujiu Yang, Chess Life Online Daniel Naroditsky won a gold medal at the 2007 World Youth Chess Championships in Antalya, Turkey, and Sarah Chiang won silver. Next week you can read about it in my December Scholastic Chess column at ChessCafe. You can also find a number of informative articles at Chess Life Online: Abby More About: Gold , Silver , Team , Happy , Memories
Missouri Checkmates Kansas 36-28
2007-11-25 07:20:00 Click here for an ESPN video recap of the University of Missouri victory over Kansas Saturday night! And here's an ESPN College GameDay analysis: More About: Ansa
Chess at Solomon Schechter School in St. Louis
2007-11-22 14:25:00 I recently learned from St. Louis chess enthusiast Bill Wright about some interesting chess sets he has loaned to the local Solomon Schechter day school. I visited the school and wrote about the sets and the school chess team for the St. Louis Jewish Light. The article is available here. More About: Chess , School , St Louis
Review: Decision Making in Chess (DVD)
2007-11-22 04:23:00 My latest review for Chess Cafe is now online - it's the ChessBase DVD titled Decision Making in Chess, by GM Adrian Mikhalchishin. For the next several days, it is available at the ChessCafe main book review page. Afterwards, you can find it here, in the ChessCafe archives. Here's a brief excerpt: "In this 3½-hour DVD, GM Adrian Mikhalchishin takes a close look at twenty games, including More About: Review , Decision-Making , Decision making
Latest Scholastic Chess Column Now Online
2007-11-15 02:09:00 FM Ray Robson, photo: www.nachess.org Simone Liao My November Scholastic Chess ChessCafe column is now online! You can read about 8-year-old Simone Liao and her experiences at the North America Youth Championships in Mexico. I also interviewed IM Robert Hungaski, who discusses the 2007 World Junior Championship in Yerevan, Armenia, and we briefly describe a relatively new chess club in Detroit. More About: Online , Column
Top USCF Players Under 21
2007-11-12 03:16:00 It's still the October 2007 list at the USCF website, but here's the list of top players under age 21: Hikaru Nakamura (age 19) 2738 Joshua Friedel (20) 2543 Lev Milman (19) 2535 Salvijus Bercys (17) 2488 Robert Hess (15) 2483 John Bartholomew (20) 2475 Alex Lenderman (17) 2455 Daniel Ludwig (17) 2415 Joel Banawa (17) 2398 Ray Robson (12!) 2396 And here's the girls list of top players under 21: More About: Players
Here's IM Norm #1 !
2007-11-08 12:53:00 FM Ray Robson had to pull out at least three points in the final four rounds of the 6th North American FIDE Invitational tournament in order to earn his first IM norm, but it seems that there is little that is beyond this young man. Ray did better, finishing with three wins and a draw in those four games, earning IM norm #1. He's been climbing exponentially the past couple of years, so you might
IM Norms Possible in Chicago
2007-11-02 03:15:00 FM Ray RobsonPhoto: www.nachess.org The 6th North American FIDE Invitational event is more than halfway complete. After 5 rounds of the nine-round tournament, IM David Vigorito stands alone in first, with a score of 4.5 points. FM Ray Robson, still in the hunt for his first IM norm, is in second place with 3.5 points. It certainly won't be easy, but if Ray can amass 3 points in the final four More About: Chicago
U.S. Chess League - Final Week Report
2007-11-02 03:03:00 Robby Adamson worked overtime to get in his report on the final week of the regular season of the U.S. Chess League . In this Chess Life Online article, Robby provides a LOT of commentary and game scores. More About: Report , Final , Week
All-Girls National Championship Moves to Dallas
2007-11-02 02:50:00 According to a press release from the Kasparov Chess Foundation posted at Chess Life Online, the 5th Annual All-Girls National Championship will take place April 25-27, 2008 in Dallas , Texas. For the first time, the All-Girls championship will take place outside of Chicago, and the University of Texas-Dallas is offering a scholarship valued at up to $68,000 to the winner of the top (age 18 and More About: Moves
Review: Secret Weapons of the Champions
2007-10-28 03:38:00 Here's a brief excerpt from my ChessCafe review of this ChessBase DVD: In this four-hour DVD, Mikhalchishin demonstrates the second approach, that of observing patterns of great players from the past. Following the introduction, there are four video segments covering Mikhail Botvinnik, two videos discussing the little-known Soviet GM Vladimir Makogonov, five video chapters about Mikhail Tal, More About: Review , Champions , Secret , Weapons , Hampi
GM Joel Benjamin and Chess Dropouts
2007-10-23 13:38:00 In his latest "GM Joel " column at Chess Life Online, GM Joel Benjamin shares his thoughts concerning the not uncommon occurrence of kids giving up chess, particularly around 5th or 6th grade. To summarize his thoughts, he lists three primary reasons why kids often drop out of chess: 1) Many school chess programs are available for children in earlier grades, but fewer exist for the middle More About: Drop
Challenging Chess Problems
2007-10-16 15:58:00 In this month's "The Instructor" column at Chess Cafe, Mark Dvoretsky includes twenty compositions from Alois Wotawa. To give you a taste, here is the first problem, with White to move: For the rest of the problems, and the solutions, click here. More About: Problems , Halle
Controversial Chess Instruction
2007-10-16 07:43:00 On Sunday, October 14, television station KHOU in Houston aired a report blasting a local school district for spending $129,000 to instruct district teachers how to incorporate chess instruction into their classrooms. The instruction, provided by America's Foundation for Chess , had as its goal increased standardized test scores by district pupils. A major sticking point, and understandable from More About: Controversial , Instruction
USCF Website
2007-10-16 06:45:00 The remodeled USCF website has now been online for about a month. It's still a work in progress, but it's easy to access the latest information. If you want to go directly to the Chess Life Online page, click here. As of this writing, some of the latest articles include: Joel on the Pirc Update on World Juniors Topsy Turvy Week in the USCL Six Medals in North American Youth Championships More About: Website
New Scholastic Chess ChessCafe column online!
2007-10-10 05:08:00 My October Scholastic Chess column is now online at ChessCafe. You can read about the wonderful Right Move program in New York. More About: Online , Column
Multiple Annotated Games from 2007 U.S. Women's Championship
2007-10-02 16:41:00 Chess Life Online has posted an extensive article by Chris Bird covering the 2007 U.S. Women's Cham pionship . It's a bit after the fact (the tournament took place this past July), but the article contains quite a few well-annotated games from the event. More About: Games , Hampi , Pions
Keene on Chess
2007-10-02 14:58:00 GM Raymond Keen e notes that "Traditionally, the title of world champion is decided by a mano a mano battle between the world’s two top players...The sole exception to this rule hitherto was 1948 when Alekhine’s death as incumbent caused an interregnum which necessitated a five-man match tournament to decide the destination of the title." In his latest "Keene on Chess " column at Chessville, Keene
Review of King's Gambit
More articles from this author:2007-09-26 07:38:00 The book King’s Gambit is subtitled, “A Son, a Father, and the World’s Most Dangerous Game.” From the title and subtitle, I surmised that perhaps King’s Gambit tells the story of some type of international espionage and intrigue, with shady characters and complex family issues. I wasn’t far off. This is a difficult book to read. The author is an accomplished writer, with numerous published More About: Review , Ambit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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