At chess tournaments, a skittles room is where one goes to play for fun while waiting for the next formal game. Smothered mate A checkmate delivered by a knight in which the mated king is unable to move owing to it being surrounded (or smothered) by its own pieces. This could occur, ...
These tournaments would be exciting because everyone would know that they are one of a very few ways that it’s possible to compete in the Candidates cycle. They would include the top players in the world by rating, and allow exciting fresh faces to join from open qualification tournaments. ...
Chief arbiter Chris Bird places the machine around Niemann and slowly scans him from top to bottom. Bird nods and asks Niemann to enter the tournament hall, where the club also uses a radio frequency machine, which detects infrared radiations -- signals to and from the players. Niemann takes...
She started to play tournaments and I decided that I’d take up chess again so as to give her an opponent. There are a number of places to play chess on the internet. I currently play slow chess at Gameknot and fast chess at ChessCube and Chess.com. The grand-daddy of chess sites ...
I try to be grateful always for every moment that God grants, and this summer was filled with wonderful people, places, events and countless other blessings. On holiday in Croatia; sunset in Zadar ♥ Our first evening, in Dubrovnik ♥ Just one of the special companions for me during ...
The easing and eventual end of theCold Warspurredinternational chess by reducing barriers. By the mid-1990s close to 2,000 tournaments registered with FIDE were held each year—more than 50 times the number during the 1950s. Amateur chess expanded sharply. Membership in the U.S. Chess Federat...
The MOI has an armed branch, the Interior Troops, which consist of some 6400 soldiers based in Kutaisi and Tbilisi, among other places. The situation is not what it has been, and it has only got 59 per cent of the conscripts needed (2000) to fill its units.[6] The tasks of the In...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk and Lucio were always happy to meet at chess tournaments where Lucio was either arbiter, or newsletter editor, or internet transmission manager. GM Kosteniuk says, “I will greatly miss my dear friend Lucio.”Lucio Barvas Photios was well known in the chess world – part...
they are computer files stored on my laptop (and other places) I can simply cut and paste what I want into whatever I write. This is simple and even necessary should the Internet goes down in my area. Attached here an PDF copy of an Excel file that I use and update often. ...
Ding Liren has had plenty of time to experience different cultures and places in his career and, from studying his opponents, believes there are also differences in the ways players of different nationalities behave. READ MORE When surgery was without painkillers Boris Johnson's...