Browsing Archive: April, 2010
Posted by Robert Jamieson- www.chesskids.com.au on Saturday, April 10, 2010,
Today’s chess puzzle is really easy …. unless you are a grandmaster!
Picture the scene. You are Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte (from India
rating 2528) playing in the final round of the 2010 Doeberl Cup against
Australian IM George Xie. If you win you tie for second place and get
lots of money. If George Xie wins he gets a grandmaster norm, outright
second place and even more money. You are the exchange ahead for a pawn
in the following position with Black to play.
(To make it a littl...
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Posted by Robert Jamieson- www.chesskids.com.au on Saturday, April 10, 2010,
I’ve always enjoyed reading chess columns. They are a great way to
keep up with the latest news, play through a snappy game or test your
mind with a chess puzzle. When I was a junior the only way to see all
the latest columns was to visit the newsagent or the local library and
to buy or borrow the national and international papers which boasted a
chess column (and most did). Even such specialized papers as the
“Weekly Times” ( a newspaper for country readers) had a chess colum...
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Posted by Robert Jamieson- www.chesskids.com.au on Saturday, April 10, 2010,
Recently I’ve been following the Amberchess 2010 tournament in Monaco
which boasts a prize fund of around $300,000 (US) and which finished
last night. This event attracted many of the world’s top players and
has an unusual format in that players are paired against each other for
one blindfold game then one rapid game. I guess this is the way to make
chess faster and more appealing to the media.
Last night I was able to follow the games “live” for the first time
(the last roun...
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Posted by Robert Jamieson- www.chesskids.com.au on Saturday, April 10, 2010,
These days we think of China as a huge superpower that is set to
dominate the world both economically and in sport. China hosted the
Olympics in 2008 and finished second in the medal tally, and in chess
too they are an emerging super-power with very strong female players and
up-an-coming grandmasters.
Back in the 1970’s it was vastly different. No-one had ever heard of
a Chinese chess player and we were surprised in 1977 when then sent
their first International ...
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Posted by Robyn Adlington on Saturday, April 10, 2010,
Posted by Robyn Adlington on Saturday, April 10, 2010,
Somehow we lost this from the blog, so I will put it back up again but sorry it is way out of date order now!
This article appeared in the Mildura Weekly after our first RJ Shield on 6/12/09.
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