Wow, Garry Kasparov has had one heck of a day. He lost a drawn game to Topalov, won the overall Linares championship via tiebreaks against the man who had just beaten him and then retired from professional chess. Kasparov did play an outstanding overall tournament and it is a sad day for chess [...]
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On January 12, 2005, Newark Charter School’s chess club hosted Centreville School’s chess team for an after school event. Centreville braved the extremely foggy conditions to travel down to Newark to play chess. Both groups of players (approximately 21) enjoyed meeting each other and playing a few rounds of chess. It was [...]
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The annual Corus Chess Tournament starts Saturday January 15, 2005. You can view the matchups, results and even watch the games live at their official site http://www.coruschess.com/ You can also watch the games on any of the chess servers - US Chess Live, Playchess, ICC and you can hear commentary on the games [...]
On December 15th, 2004, the Centreville School Chess Team visited the Charter School of Wilmington for an informal chess tournament. This was a wonderful experience for the students as they had the opportunity to play against students who were both older and more experienced. The Centreville team numbers ten players who range in [...]
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The Charter School of Wilmington wants to thank Newark Charter for their gracious hospitality and spirited play in a match held between the two schools on December 1, 2004. The event was great fun for both schools and the students learned quite a bit that day. The afternoon consisted of working on endgame [...]
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The Delaware Chess Association is going to start a school chess league where schools will play each other much the same way as current sports programs. At the end of the “season” there will be a state champion chess team in both the high school and middle school levels! This league will begin [...]
RUSSIA 57th CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP (men) SUPERFINAL is being held in Moscow, where the strongest Russian players participate including Kasparov, Morozevich, Svidler, Grischuk, Bareev, Dreev, Motylev, Timofeev, Epishin, Korotylev and Tseshkovky. A real time relay of the games commented by GM Mikhailova Irina and IM Mitenkov Alexey is organized at http://www.ChessAssistantClub.com. Each round starts at 8:00 [...]
Here are the results of the Delaware State Scholastic Tournament. Everyone did a great job and the tournament was more competitive than ever before. Congratulations to all.
HIGH SCHOOL SECTION
1: Chase Butler, Charter
2: Matt Borowski, Charter
3: Bill Frame Jr., Salesianum
Grade 12
1: Chris Beattie, Charter
2: Jason Bose, Smyrna
3: Stephen Cinderella, Charter
Grade 11
1: Mark Cohen, Dickinson
2: [...]