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Vietnam’s Le Quang Liem Takes Aeroflot Open Title
Vietnamese teenager Le Quang Liem this past week became the first Asian chess player to win Moscow Aeroflot, the toughest open tournament in the world.
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Board Game App Announced for iPad
GameTable, which is branding itself as the first board and card game app for the iPad, will feature Checkers, Chess, and a virtual deck of cards.
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Norwegian Teen Wins Corus Tournament
All eyes this week were on the Corus chess tournament at Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, which had about everything one could hope for: drama, contention, star players, and great chess.
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Chess, Poker and the Mind
The advances of computer chess have failed to illuminate the workings of the mind, writes Garry Kasparov. Time for programmers to master a bigger challenge: poker.
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Chennai Open Chess begins on Monday
Grandmaster Ghaem Ehsan Maghami of Iran, top seed with an ELO of 2589, will start as favourite for the title in the Chennai Open 2010 International Grand Chess Masters Tournament beginning on Monday.
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Boy Named Utah Chess Player of the Year
An amazing 11-year-old boy from West Jordan became the first “Utah Chess Player of the Year” Saturday.
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Settlement in Dispute that Riveted the Chess World
A legal dispute that had riveted the chess world and hobbled the United States Chess Federation, the game’s governing body, has been settled — mostly.
Papers filed on Friday in Federal District Court in Lubbock, Tex., stipulate that two former federation board members, the federation and some of its other members are dismissing almost all of their claims and counterclaims. The dispute began with accusations over Internet postings and evolved into a series of lawsuits in several states.
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