Playing Without the Queen.

Hollytenille posted this Youtube chess video with what I think is a good analogy.

Ebook – Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess.

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Ebook – Botvinnik’s Unknown Training Games.

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Ebook – The Killer Grob.

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2009 US Chess Championship Wrap Up – Round 8.

Girls Chess Team at Edward R. Murrow High School.

This is the second year of competition for the Edward R. Murrow Girls Chess team at the Super Nationals in Dallas.  Under the tutelage of coach Eliot Weiss,  they placed 4th the the first time around,  and improved to come back this year and finish a respectable 3rd place.

Edward R. Murrow HS is the subject of the book “The Kings of New York” by Michael Weinreb.  The book follows the dramatic success of the Chess team, and gives a good history of The Game in New York City.

The Kings of New York is also available on the Kindle.

The Luzhin Defence – Movie Trailer.

A great movie (based on the Nabokov book, I think) starring John Turturro and Emily Watson that premiered in 2000 without much fanfare.  Worth watching… Rich

Amazon has the movie here.

Home Computers.

Newspapers via a home computer? Feh! Next they’ll be telling us that we can play Chess against one of these contraptions… Rich

2009 Arizona State Chess Champions.