Betcha Can’t Solve This #Chess Puzzle! 46

White to move and win! (H. Rinck, Deutche Schachzeitung, 1912)

Message for a Friend

Regardless of your efforts, stress and losses are an inescapable part of life and chess. Because of this, chess helps us effectively train to deal with the challenges we face in life. However, sometimes all that can be done is to seek to learn from mistakes and try to find meaning in disappointing experiences. ForContinue reading "Message for a Friend"

Do chess playing children perform better in school? | ChessBase

The main finding was, “chess training reduces the treatment group’s level of risk aversion almost a year after the intervention ended.” Being more willing to take risks is generally a good thing in the world of academia, business, and social life. — Read on en.chessbase.com/post/do-chess-playing-children-perform-better-in-school

Chess: Carlsen and Caruana set for $430,000 Isle of Man showdown | Magnus Carlsen | The Guardian

Chess: Carlsen and Caruana set for $430,000 Isle of Man showdown | Magnus Carlsen | The Guardian "After Friday’s eighth round Carlsen’s unbeaten streak reached 98 games, surpassing Mikhail Tal’s 95 in 1973-74 and closing in on Ding Liren’s record of 100 against high-level opponents. The record could fall in the 11th and final IsleContinue reading "Chess: Carlsen and Caruana set for $430,000 Isle of Man showdown | Magnus Carlsen | The Guardian"

14-year-old R Praggnanandhaa crowned under-18 chess champion

"Praggnanandhaa scored an impressive and unbeaten 9/11 and he ended with a performance rating over 2700." — Read on http://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deccanchronicle.com/amp/sports/in-other-news/131019/14-year-old-r-praggnanandhaa-crowned-under-18-chess-champion.html

FremontChess.com Saturday Quads

October 19, November 16, & December 21 The Torres Chess and Music Academy and the Learning Bee Learning Center Present: FremontChess.com Saturday QuadsWhere: Learning Bee Learning Center, 39977 Mission Blvd., Fremont, CA 94539 When: 10/19, 11/16, & 12/21 R1 @ 1:00 pm What: Scholastic (K-12) 3 Round Quad - G/30 d5 Cost: $30/quad or allContinue reading "FremontChess.com Saturday Quads"

Chess coach Jay Stallings celebrates 25 years of teaching – Santa Clarita Valley Signal

“I think it’s less about chess and more about teaching my students how to be thinkers and good members of the community,” Stallings said. “It’s incredible for me to look around here to see former students of mine who have grey in their beards, and it’s nice to see the impact that I’ve made theseContinue reading "Chess coach Jay Stallings celebrates 25 years of teaching – Santa Clarita Valley Signal"

#Chess Position Worth Sharing 110

A remarkable position occurred after white played 47. Qxg3 in the game Samuel Sevian vs. Sergey Karjakin, FIDE World Cup 2019. Karjakin has only three legal responses as black and each would directly result in a different outcome (a win, a loss or a draw.)

Artificial Stupidity: One Google Engineer’s Algorithms for Bad Chess Playing – The New Stack

Murphy has the brainpower to pull it off. He tells us that in 2007 he defended his computer science Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon — which was the same year the students began holding the annual SIGBOVIK conference on April Fool’s Day. Sponsored by the “Association for Computational Heresy,” it was a kind of satirical specialContinue reading "Artificial Stupidity: One Google Engineer’s Algorithms for Bad Chess Playing – The New Stack"

UCLA football hopes chess will help to checkmate opponents – Los Angeles Times

UCLA football hopes chess will help to checkmate opponents - Los Angeles Times “Everyone is super physically gifted,” Makowsky told the news service, “but what begins to separate the elite top performers is how they process things, their mind-set, their mentality, how they can recognize patterns, how they can almost see five moves ahead.” Makowsky,Continue reading "UCLA football hopes chess will help to checkmate opponents – Los Angeles Times"

Dorian vs Fish: Hurricane on the Chessboard

Hurricanes are one of my favorite metaphors to use while teaching chess. These massive storms arise from well known openings and thus have a predictable path for a certain amount of time. However, the path of certainty slowly gives way to uncertainty where even master meteorologists armed with powerful computers make errors in their evaluations.Continue reading "Dorian vs Fish: Hurricane on the Chessboard"

A Colorful Way To Play Chess On An ATmega328 | Hackaday

We’ve all seen those chess computers that consist out of a physical playing field, and a built-in computer that would indicate where you should put its pieces while inputting the position of your pieces in some way. These systems are usually found in a dusty cardboard box in a back room’s closet, as playing likeContinue reading "A Colorful Way To Play Chess On An ATmega328 | Hackaday"

ChessKid To Attempt Chess World Record With GM Judit Polgar

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Palo Alto, Calif., Aug. 28, 2019—The world's largest chess website for children will team with the greatest female chess player ever in an attempt to set an official Guinness world record for world's largest chess tournament, the site announced today. GM Judit Polgar, the strongest woman to ever play the game ofContinue reading "ChessKid To Attempt Chess World Record With GM Judit Polgar"

Benko’s Great Sacrifice

Chess has a rich history full of stories that I share with my students to add extra colour to our lesson material. Below is the tale of Pal Benko’s incredible life’s journey and his great sacrifice which allowed Bobby Fischer to make history. Pal Benko was born while his Hungarian parents were vacationing in Amiens,Continue reading "Benko’s Great Sacrifice"

Pal Benko, Who Stepped Aside for Bobby Fischer, Dies at 91

Pal Benko, Who Stepped Aside for Bobby Fischer, Dies at 91 Pal Benko, a chess grandmaster who was among the world’s best players for two decades, but who gave up his place in the 1969-72 world championship cycle to Bobby Fischer, paving the way for Mr. Fischer to become world champion, died on Monday in Budapest.Continue reading "Pal Benko, Who Stepped Aside for Bobby Fischer, Dies at 91"

After School Teachers Needed For Enrichment Programs in California

We are a growing chess enrichment organization based in the Bay Area that offers our instructors fun teaching assignments and flexible schedules. The Company: The Torres Chess and Music Academy is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing quality chess instruction and opportunities to as many children as possible. • Our organization is known for the greatContinue reading "After School Teachers Needed For Enrichment Programs in California"