• Vantkruj's Opening. Great Game

    Updated: 2012-04-30 17:27:02
        I was amazed

  • camby18 (2120) VS meshuggah86 (1357) 0 - 1

    Updated: 2012-04-30 17:22:31
        I was amazed

  • Melaka International 2012: Final Rank & Interactive Crosstable

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:08:54
    Grandmaster Attila Czebe won the Historical Melaka International with a 1.5 point lead over his closest rival. Also, turning out an impressive performance is young Yeoh Li Tian finishing 6/9 missing the IM norm by half a point (accordiing to IM Jimmy Liew’s blog). Final Ranking after 9 Rounds Rk.   Name FED Rtg Pts. [...]

  • Melaka International 2012: Round 8 games

    Updated: 2012-04-30 14:37:48
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  • Melaka International 2012: Round 9(Final) results

    Updated: 2012-04-30 14:29:11
    Round 9 Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No. 1 6 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J 2461 5½ ½ – ½ 7 GM Czebe Attila 2477 5 2 10 GM Laxman R R 2415 5½ ½ – ½ 5½ IM Karthikeyan P 2414 11 3 8 GM Bitoon Richard 2455 5 ½ – [...]

  • how do you defend against this??

    Updated: 2012-04-30 13:31:42
    I rarely post this out to the members as normally its me who chooses the moderators for the site, I will say to those interested though .. I'm in America working for a week or so in May. Once I get back and catch up on work, I will be looking ...

  • 2012 Guernsey versus Jersey Inter-Insular

    Updated: 2012-04-30 12:58:54
    Hi just wanted to share my game in Jersey with everyone, the boat trip was rough yesterday evening so I went straight to sleep!  I was given good compliments on my chess play in the following game to which I am happy. :-)  My opponent was rated ...

  • Dinner

    Updated: 2012-04-30 11:35:46
    Dinner, a photo by gilachess on Flickr. Tweet Viewed 203 times by 84 viewers

  • Sweet corn

    Updated: 2012-04-30 11:34:30
    Sweet corn, a photo by gilachess on Flickr. Didn’t buy as its a little too expensive at rm 10 for 2. Tweet Viewed 197 times by 79 viewers

  • Heavy traffic towards simpang pulai

    Updated: 2012-04-30 11:31:09
    Heavy traffic towards simpang pulai, a photo by gilachess on Flickr. Tweet Viewed 198 times by 80 viewers

  • HD cable + big LCD + maxis Internet

    Updated: 2012-04-30 11:15:01
    HD cable + big LCD + maxis Internet, a photo by gilachess on Flickr. With all of the above available, it can only mean one thing. Go crazy with online multiplayer Starcraft at the Cameron’s apartments. Tweet Viewed 208 times by 85 viewers

  • Maxis Internet prepaid – recommended

    Updated: 2012-04-30 08:44:47
    I love to come out for holidays in Cameron Highlands. The only thing I dread more than the holiday crowd is poor Internet connection especially using mobile Internet. I noticed Digi is still hopeless at internet in the highlands after 3 years. Come on digi do something! Internet is so bad here that I cannot [...]

  • Tanah Rata surround pix

    Updated: 2012-04-30 06:14:57
    surround picture of Tanah Rata, Cameron highlands Tweet Viewed 361 times by 117 viewers

  • Melaka International 2012: Round 9 games

    Updated: 2012-04-30 01:39:00
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  • Cabralis in Trinidad Controversy

    Updated: 2012-04-28 01:33:32
    FM Keron Cabralis Trinidad’s top junior FIDE Master Keron Cabralis left the recent CARIFTA Chess Games after filing a complaint about poor conditions. His ongoing battle with mismanagement has pushed the 16-year old star to the brink of retiring from chess. In an April 19th article in the Trinidadian Guardian, problems were reported at the [...]

  • Claus Jensen Chess Videos Test Downloads

    Updated: 2012-04-26 22:48:53
    Claus Jensen Chess chess videos . rating tests . chess downloads home game videos test yourself videos rating tests downloads about me Game analysis videos All videos on this page are full game analyses produced by me and they are fully accessible . You can play or download them . For free Left-click the link to play directly or right-click to save to a local . drive I have produced 150+ chess videos over the past few years . For your conveinience I have added a few filters below to make it a little easier to find specific videos . : Filters All videos Bent Larsen Gary Kasparov Jose Raul Capablanca Year played ECO Anand Topalov WC 2010 Exchange sac videos Silman Thinking technique Recorded White Black Description Year ECO Download link 20120424 Kramnik Aronian Zurich Chess Challenge 2012

  • Claus Jensen Chess Videos Test Downloads

    Updated: 2012-04-26 22:48:53
    Claus Jensen Chess chess videos . rating tests . chess downloads home game videos test yourself videos rating tests downloads about me Welcome to Claus Jensen Chess I love chess it's really as simple as that Let me introduce myself by showing you one of my best correspondence . games Kramnik Aronian match 24.04.2012 The long awaited exhibition match between Aronian and Kramnik is underway Aronian took the first game , they drew the second and today came game 3 and what a cracker of a game that was Kramnik opened 1.e4 and chose the scotch 4 knights . Game was out of book already at move 9 and after Kramniks 11.Bg5 this was the position : Aronian spent only 2 minutes here . Clearly he had prepared this next move already when he played 9. . d5 So after just 2 minutes Aronian sac'ed his queen

  • Claus Jensen Chess Videos Test Downloads

    Updated: 2012-04-26 22:48:52
    Claus Jensen Chess chess videos . rating tests . chess downloads home game videos test yourself videos rating tests downloads about me Test Yourself Videos This is my classic video series from 2008 You will be taken through a master game and asked to find every move for the winning side . Have pen and paper ready to note the score that I award you after each move . At the end of the video I will tell you the maximum score for the game . If you really spend a few minutes on each move , I believe the scoring percentages translate into ELO rating roughly like this , at least over many : games 30 1100 ELO 40 1300 ELO 50 1500 ELO 60 1700 ELO 70 1900 ELO 80 2100 ELO Video Download link zip-archive of Test Yourself 1-19 195MB Download Test Yourself 1 Play or Download Test Yourself 2 Play or

  • Claus Jensen Chess Videos Test Downloads

    Updated: 2012-04-26 22:48:52
    Claus Jensen Chess chess videos . rating tests . chess downloads home game videos test yourself videos rating tests downloads about me Rating Tests There are 2 rating tests available at this time . Rules are the same for . both 1. Click button to open new window 2. In the first position type START SQUARE and ENDING SQUARE of your prefered . move 3. When you click submit move you will automatically be taken to the next position 4. There are 10 positions 5. When you submit your move to the 10th position you will receive an estimated rating based on your 10 answers DISCLAIMER : This kind of test is having a large margin of error . Taking the tests should be considered nothing more than good . fun Rating test 1 26.04.2012 7825 users have taken this . test Average rating 1661 Rating test 2

  • Claus Jensen Chess Videos Test Downloads

    Updated: 2012-04-26 22:48:51
    Claus Jensen Chess chess videos . rating tests . chess downloads home game videos test yourself videos rating tests downloads about me My downloads This is the download section of my site . Here you should expect to find my work and , later on , also some useful links to software , sites etc Marshall attack e-book 25.04.2012 I have written an e-book on the famous Marshall Attack in the closed Ruy . Lopez It's intended for the black player . And the book contains all white tries in the accepted gambit no anti-Marshall lines MasterTheMarshall_dec2010.zip 722 MB large file For much more info on the download , please watch the video below Links 26.04.2012 Steve Eddins Chess Imager Nice and easy tool when you need a chess diagram on your website or blog Copyright Claus Jensen 2004-12 Designed

  • Claus Jensen Chess Videos Test Downloads

    Updated: 2012-04-26 22:48:51
    Claus Jensen Chess chess videos . rating tests . chess downloads home game videos test yourself videos rating tests downloads about me Claus Jensen Born : 1965 Residence : Ølstykke , Denmark Occupation : Supermarket manager Civil status : Married through 20 years , 2 daughters aged 20 and 18 Correspondence player on ICCF rated 2325 on the 2012 2 list 2009 Danish CC Champion 2010 Runner-up Danish CC Currently playing 36th Correspondence Chess World Championship preliminaries Played otb for Alssund Skakklub and Allerød Skak Klub in the years 1979-1985 Please use this email to contact me with comments or questions : p o s t at c l a u s j e n s e n . c o m Thanks Youtube contributor 25.04.2012 Almost all the videos you find on this site has also been uploaded to . youtube My youtube channel

  • Choosing a Mousepad Board Color

    Updated: 2012-04-24 16:00:42
    Choosing the right color of mousepad board or any other chess board for that matter seems a little tricky. We have just finished up a video that we think will help make that decision a little easier. You can find our Mousepad Chess Boards Here.

  • Carlsen visits Brooklyn’s IS-318!

    Updated: 2012-04-24 14:39:43
    Magnus Carlsen (back) with National Champions, IS-318 Magnus Carlsen made a pit stop at newly-crowned national champions IS-318 and heightened the celebratory mood in New York. IS-318 is the first middle school (6th-8th grade) to win the National High School Championship (9th-12th grade). Carlsen was in New York on business and stopped by the school. [...]

  • 2012 CUCA International (Luanda, Angola)

    Updated: 2012-04-23 21:30:06
    Alina L’Ami wrote a glowing ChessBase report of the 4th Taca Cuca tournament being held in Luanda, Angola. The tournament boasts nine Grandmasters and this is exactly what is needed to provide African players more chances for norms. Along with top-seed Viktor Bologan (2687, Moldova), you have Grandmasters Sergey Tiviakov (2673, Netherlands), Erwin L’Ami (2611, [...]

  • Drum chats with Hip Hop Chess Fed

    Updated: 2012-04-22 23:49:07
    Adisa Banjoko’s Hip-Hop Chess Federation (HHCF) has received a lot of notoriety of late after having celebrated the organization’s fifth anniversary. The HHCF graced the cover of the February 2012 edition of Chess Life and the subject of a lengthy article. The Chess Drum has written more articles about the HHCF than any organization, but [...]

  • Aronian-Kramnik friendly match

    Updated: 2012-04-21 17:39:49
    With the World Championship only a few weeks away, everyone is anticipating the big match. However, there may be a match that will capture quite a bit of interest in that it is a championship-caliber event. Both Vladimir Kramnik (ranked #4) and Levon Aronian (ranked #2) have decided to stage a “friendly” match of six [...]

  • Straight Up Chess

    Updated: 2012-04-20 21:03:12
    Wholesale Chess has an entirely brand new section of chess set! We now feature a line of chess sets called Straight Up Chess Sets. These awesome chess sets are wall-mounted sets that made to look like picture frames. You can browse our entire selection BY CLICKING HERE. You can also watch this great product video [...]

  • Chess for Life—a Whole New Meaning!

    Updated: 2012-04-18 16:46:15
    Dean Ippolito, one of the foremost and well known chess players and coaches in the United States, is heading up a fundraiser for a young friend with a rare and fatal disease. Dean is known as “the Dean of Chess.” At the age of 11, he was featured in Sports Illustrated and Boys Life after [...]

  • I.S. 318 are H.S. Champs!

    Updated: 2012-04-17 01:13:32
    I.S. 318 – National Champions(L-R) Justus Williams, James Black, Isaac Barayev and Matthew Kluska.Photo by I.S. 318 (Brooklyn, NY) The hardware just keep piling up for I.S. 318. As the screening for the movie “Brooklyn Castle” continues, the middle school has perhaps added another saga to its spectacular run of success. Led by Justus Williams, [...]

  • Bringing out the Best in Maryland

    Updated: 2012-04-14 03:40:38
    Julius Wade, Vice President of the Maryland Chess Association, submitted this press release. THE BEST OF TWO TITLES When talking about black chess players in Baltimore City, you often hear about the Baltimore chess legends such as Charles Covington and William Morrison… Not since the Scholastic Chess Dominance of such great ones like Nathan Wilson, [...]

  • “Drum Beat” Vol.1, No. 3

    Updated: 2012-04-08 18:22:10
    In the third “Drum Beat” segment, we look at the latest news on The Chess Drum including a few interesting features such as “Will Hou Yifan become the greatest?” and “Bobby’s Blitz Chess“. There is also a very interesting story on Theophilus Thompson by Dr. Steven Dowd on a composition that he was never given [...]

  • 2012 Botswana Nat’l Championships

    Updated: 2012-04-06 01:56:19
    Thapelo FrancisDefending Women’s Champ Botswana Chess Federation will on the 6th-9th April 2012 host the Metropolitan National Chess Championships at Yarona Country Lodge. The event is the final lap of the three-stage tournament. The tournament will be played by 10 men and 10 women who were placed in top 10 at 2nd Qualifiers in Francistown. [...]

  • 2012 CARIFTA Games

    Updated: 2012-04-05 04:33:17
    PRESS RELEASE Trinidad & Tobago Guardian Online The CARIFTA Chess Games which begins at University of West Indies (UWI) on Friday will make history in several ways, not the least being the honouring of past presidents of the T&T Chess Association, all players winning medals at Olympiads and official FIDE tournaments. According to Association president [...]

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