CHESS popularity and CHESS trends

LAHORE - Veteran chess player Dr Tahir Anees and young prodigy Zorez Shabkhez won their games in the third round of Punjab Chess Championship being held here at a local hotel from May 24 to 27. As many as 61 players from more than 20 districts of Punjab are taking part in the event. Chess Association of Punjab president Dr Naeem Hameed Mirza is organising the event. He not only thanked all ...

Anand tried to surprise Gelfand with the Rossolimo Attack, but the Israeli was undeterred and held on for a draw.

Bored Detroit youth should have an easier time finding something to do this summer thanks to a new initiative launched Thursday morning. The Detroit Summer Learning Connection is an effort to promote summertime educational activities by teaching parents about the advantages of these experiences, assisting program providers and acting as a central clearinghouse for summer youth programming. The ...

Hikaru Nakamura has won the U. S. Chess Championship by a full point. It was a dominating performance, capped off with a stunning win with black, in the penultimate round, against the other pre-tournament favorite Gata Kamsky. This is Nakamura's third title. So, congratulations to him. Today's tactical exercise comes from the tenth round game between Kamsky, playing white, and the strugglin...

Could India become a chess superpower?

Cymon (AKA Joe) won the Tinkercad Chess Set Design contest with his design for Action #Chess, whose pieces can be assembled into a Chess Giant. He's documenting the 3D output of his darling on his MakerBot blog. Action Chess By Cymon: It Works!

It was 15 years ago today that a computer - a conglomeration of transistors, memory, and storage media - could beat a world-class chess player. Called Deep Blue, the machine was part of a mission that culminated in IBM's creation of a supercomputer that beat chess master Garry Kasparov two wins to one. While the concept is delightfully antiquated today (after all, IBM now makes a computer that ...

On this day in 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down to his final day of chess with IBM's Deep Blue. It didn't go well, and eventually the computer won, beating the expert on the final day of a six-game competition. The result changed the way we think about computer intelligence for good. More »

An interview with globe-trotting chess promoter, former president, and freelance diplomat Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

Kirsan N. Ilyumzhinov held a three-hour meeting with Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, on Sunday, but it was unclear whether he was acting on his own or unofficially on Moscow’s behalf.

Whoa!! This is blowing our mind!!! Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Julianne Moore happily strolling along … together?? What an intellectual pairing, LOLz! We wonder what brought them together… Maybe a game of chess at a local coffee shop?? Or maybe she called him up after seeing his musical Tumblr posts?? OR MAYBE… They just became super [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- When prosecutors announce criminal charges Wednesday in the hazing death of a Florida A&M University band member, they will embark on a legal chess game involving multiple defendants who require different approaches for winning convictions, experts say....

Does hearing that you are a member of an elite group – of chess players, say, or scholars – enhance your performance on tasks related to your alleged area of expertise? Not necessarily, say researchers who tested how sweeping pronouncements about the skills or likely success of social groups can influence children's performance. The researchers found that broad generalizations about the likely ...

I hate to admit it, but chess hurts my head. I love playing games, finding patterns, devising strategies, but there is something about chess that frustrates me. I think it is because I end up planning elaborate schemes, having to remember a sequence of moves that is too long. Memory games have always caused me almost physical pain, they are so not enjoyable. My almost-eight-year-old son happens...

At I.S. 318, the chess team has been declared champions time and time again. But 18 of its top players exceeded expectations, winning the United States Chess Federation's national high school championship.

Susan Polgar, pictured, who is a five-time Olympic gold medallist, is coaching her chess team Knights Raiders to the private Webster University in St Louis, Missouri.

Bruce Arthur: The Pittsburgh Penguins and the Philadelphia Flyers have what they call a history, and this first-round series was therefore billed as a bloodbath and a chess match

Rishon Leion's Boris Gelfand trains in Swiss Alps ahead of World Chess Championship match in Moscow.

Texas Tech's chess coach resigns and takes her entire all-star team to another school after winning its second national title.

Today’s topics: seal hunt; Justin Trudeau’s win; energy chess; Tides Canada; junk drawers ... and more

New submitter smarq2 writes "Chessbase reports that chess programmer IM Vasik Rajlich has solved the King's Gambit chess opening with technical means. 3000 processor cores, running for over four months, exhaustively analyzed all lines that follow after 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 and came to some extraordinary conclusions." ...

ISLAMABAD - National Master Aamir Kareem won the All Pakistan National Master Chess Tournament played at Shalimar Sports Complex near Rahmanabad here. The tournament was organised by Rawalpindi Chess Association. Dr Murtaza Ali was got second position while M Waqar attained third spot. The best performance trophy went to Mrs Bilal Ahmed Dar. Ali Ahmed Dar was named the Youngster Player of the ....

ISLAMABAD - National Master Aamir Kareem won the All Pakistan National Master Chess Tournament played at Shalimar Sports Complex near Rahmanabad here. The tournament was organised by Rawalpindi Chess Association. Dr Murtaza Ali was got second position while M Waqar attained third spot. The best performance trophy went to Mrs Bilal Ahmed Dar. Ali Ahmed Dar was named the Youngster Player of the ....

Characters with caustic tongues disguise heartfelt quests for meaning as a fondness for futile causes, in this novel set mostly in contemporary Russia. A chess champion in the Kasparov mold becomes a voice for democracy and launches an anti-Putin movement, yet he fights not to win but to lose . . . (Subscription required.)

SNL's Andy Samberg may look a lot like Mark Zuckerberg -- and act like him, too -- but does that mean he's qualified to start a tech company?

Cheating at chess? A computer program that can call you out may be here soon. A computer science professor and chess master has spent the past f…

Entre el 65% y 75% de la energía se pierde en insertar la publicidad más adecuada al usuario

Deal to acquire majority stake in LCH.Clearnet sets in motion complex global game of chess

These days, the ability to spend money where and when we want is seen as a human right. Shopping has become a hobby, like gardening or chess, not a means to an end.

Players move huge Chinese chess pieces in Chongqing, March 15, 2012. Each chess piece, made of stone, weighs 11 kilograms.

The European Women's Championship in chess is telling women players to dress for success not for an evening out.

Trust a computer to misunderstand the Occupy Wall Street message. Watson, IBM’s supercomputer that created a sensation last year by defeating two human champions in the quiz show Jeopardy — after its forbears had crushed chess maestros — is going to work on Wall Street.

A NEW use has been found for The Irish Times Game of the Year chess perpetual trophy, recently found in the polishing room at Weirs jewellers on Dublin’s Grafton Street. A small silver trophy, it had been left in for engraving 50 years ago but was never picked up.

As her name suggests, Hou Yifan is extraordinary. Rated 2605, the 17-year-old women's chess world champion staged a historical run at the 2012 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, finishing in first place at 8.0/10, the best achievement by a woman player in the event's 10-year history. She lost the title, however, after Nigel Short, who caught Hou in points (but not performance) defeated her in ...

Phillip Beard says trying to sign Cissé and Zamora was like speed chess, involving a private jet and player 'smuggling'.

The rise of Rachel Reeves has been swift, say Mary Riddell and James Kirkup, and party leadership could be next move

Chess is the flavour of the season and taking a cue from Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, Karnataka plans to make the game compulsory in schools.

Can you imagine Peyton and Eli Manning both quarterbacking teams in the glitzy New York market? That's one possible outcome in the high stakes chess match to be waged by the Indianapolis Colts and their iconic quarterback over the next three months.

I share the same birth year with Bobby Fischer and helping him to became the world champion in Reykjavik 1972 became one of the highlight of my chess life.

Ver un duro, esas cinco pesetillas que hace sólo una década campaban a sus anchas por bolsillos y monederos produce hoy una enorme sensación de antigüedad. Igual que los cinco duros con el agujero en el centro o esas monedas de una peseta más ligeras que el viento. A José Daniel Mirón, dueño de la joyería 'Chess', se le encendió la bombilla cuando vio por la tele que en un comercio aceptaba pag...

Dave Marvit demonstrates a new method for monitoring stress.

If you’ve ever wondered what James Bond’s bosses and handlers got up to while he was dallying in exotic/erotic locations and saving the world, John Le Carré has a tale to tell you

Das Londoner Schachturnier ist eines der renommiertesten weltweit. Denksportler Boris Becker nahm teil und entdeckt interessante Parallelen, die er auch angstfrei äußert. mehr...

Graham Swann and Monty Panesar will be key for England against Pakistan says Scyld Berry.

LAHORE– Zorez Shabkhez and Raza Adeel Agha of the Baconhouse School, Garden Town Campus won the title “The Little Masters” of Lahore in the under-l 3 and under-l 7 age groups in the finals of the 3-day tournament held at the Laurelbank School System, Alhamra Town Campus from 17-19 November… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

As Russia calls elections, the chess genius Garry Kasparov tells Neil Tweedie of his hope for a truly free vote

Hou Yifan easily defended her title against Humpy Koneru, the best Indian woman to play the game, at a tournament in Albania.

The microwaved celery stalk that is Ashley Greene showed up to last night's Breaking Dawn premiere in L.A. with a giant red lace tampon cozy on her body and a look on her face like she just assumes the voice of Chris de Burgh flew into everyone's heads as soon as they laid eyes on her. But this basic bland bitch's bubble burst (Note: I'll wait here while you untwist your ey...