The Chess Club would like to welcome WGM Jennifer Shahade, who will take the reins as our next Resident GM until March 28. In addition to our normal lecture schedule, Jennifer also will be conducting some special "Queen Power" events at the World Chess Hall of Fame.
This story was originally posted on stlouispublicradio.org on March 12.
On Tuesday, USA Today published a story that outlined everything “hip and happening” in St. Louis.
Not surprisingly, the World Chess Hall of Fame got a nod. Wait. What? Not surprising, you say?
If the idea that chess is hip and happening is foreign to you, then I assume you still have the antiquated stereotype of the pocket protector-wearing übergeek ingrained in your mind.
But times they are a-changin’ my friends.
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By Mike Wilmering
On Tuesday, USA Today published a story that outlined everything “hip and happening” in St. Louis.
Not surprisingly, the World Chess Hall of Fame got a nod. Wait. What? Not surprising, you say?
If the idea that chess is hip and happening is foreign to you, then I assume you still have the antiquated stereotype of the pocket protector-wearing übergeek ingrained in your mind.
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By Mike Wilmering
The Chess Club would like to welcome WGM Jennifer Shahade, who will take the reins as our next Resident GM until March 28. In addition to our normal lecture schedule, Jennifer also will be conducting some special "Queen Power" events at the World Chess Hall of Fame.
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By Ben Simon
Waking up on a Saturday at 6 a.m. is never fun, but there was a tournament to get to! This year’s Missouri State Scholastic Championship was held on March 1 in Columbia, and I got to drive the Chess Bus all the way there.
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By CCSCSL Staff
It's time for another installment of Chess Club Puzzlers! See if you have what it takes to solve the problems presented here. Start honing your tactical skills now, and you'll be amazed at how your game will improve.
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This article was originally published on stlpublicradio.org on March 6.
By Mike Wilmering
What do Bill Nye the Science Guy, President Barack Obama and Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad fame have in common with the best chess player in the country?
They’ve all subjected themselves to the rigor of being grilled by the anonymous public via Reddit’s Ask Me Anything (AMA).
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By Yasser Seirawan
This past week was quite a trip down memory lane. It started with my coaching session for the Lindenwood University Chess team. At the instigation of one of the team members, Nolan, he suggested it might be fun to go over some of my games against the world champions and to share my thoughts, stories, emotions as well as the variations that I had calculated during the games…
A week earlier we had looked at some of my games versus Tal and Karpov. For this session I asked the team if they would like to focus upon one game in particular… A game I had played against Kasparov in Sweden during the Grandmaster Association’s World Cup tournament. Why not? And so for the next four hours (!) our focus became this one game… But what a game! To my mind this single game was the pinnacle of my career. Not because I played brilliantly and won. I didn’t. Not because it was a hard fought draw. It was. Rather because the battle involved some of the longest, sharpest, most combinative lines of play that I’ve ever calculated and had to calculate in a single game.
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By CCSCSL Staff
It's time for another installment of Chess Club Puzzlers! See if you have what it takes to solve the problems presented here. Start honing your tactical skills now, and you'll be amazed at how your game will improve.
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This article was originally published on stlpublicradio.org on February 27.
By Mike Wilmering
Carissa Yip, 10, has already felt the first pangs of heartbreak.
This past December at the World Youth Chess Championships in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, Carissa was one win away from securing a gold medal and a World Championship title. She was even closer than that, really.
Carissa achieved a winning position in her final game before the exhaustion of a long-tournament set in. Her position crumbled, and she had to offer her opponent a draw in the final round, which put her in a tie for second place. But when the oh-so cruel tiebreaks kicked in, Carissa finished out of medal contention in fourth place overall.
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