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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Top 20 Girls October 2007
IN THE TOP 5 Humpy Koneru is a chess Grandmaster from India. Her October 2007 FIDE Elo rating is 2606, placing her at #2 in the world for women (behind Judit Polgar), breaking the record of 2577 set by Susan Polgar for t...
U.S. Chess Trust To Donate New Chess Sets To The Young Knights Chess C...
STARTING A CHESS CLUB – A CHALLENGING AND EXCITING ENDEAVOR The U.S. Chess Trust will be donating some chess sets to this program, and an e-mail has been sent to the U.S. Chess Federation requesting further informa...
GM Hikaru Nakamura Won Barcelona’s Chess Tournament
BARCELONA’S CHESS TOURNAMENT This event was held in the Casino of Barcelona (Spain) from October 18-16, 2007. Our American Grandmaster finished with a full point ahead of the rest of the field of players. The form...
Top 20 Juniors October 2007
(FIDE) TOP 20 JUNIORS IN THE TOP 5 Teimour Radjabov is a leading chess player from Azerbaijan. Radjabov earned the title of International Grandmaster in March 2001 at the age of 14, making him the 2nd youngest grandmaste...
The New Denker Tournament of H.S. Champions Page
THE NEW DENKER TOURNAMENT PAGE The 2007 Denker Tournament held in August 2007 was a huge success! We have now added a page to the U.S. Chess Trust Website dedicated to this wonderful event. This page includes the Denker ...
Top 50 Women Chess Players !
(FIDE) TOP 50 WOMEN CHESS PLAYERS Congratulations to all the women who made it to the Top 50 Women Chess Players list! There are some interesting statistics associated with the top two women players in the world. Player ...
The 2007 Individual Online College Chess League Tournament (Duncan Oxl...
THE ONLINE COLLEGE CHESS LEAGUE Information provided by – Gregory Alexander (USCF College Committee Associate Chair) The goal of the Online College Chess League is to allow all of the colleges to play together in o...
Blindfold Chess World Cup- Bilbao, Spain October 16-20, 2007
BLINDFOLD CHESS WORLD CUP Chinese grandmaster (GM) Bu Xianghzi wins Blindfold World Cup. GM Bu Xiangzhi, 22, was for some time the youngest chess player in world to obtain the Grand Master Chess title when he was just 13...
Schein – Friedman Scholastic Recognition Project, In Cooperation...
SCHEIN-FRIEDMAN SCHOLASTIC RECOGNITION PROJECT By Joan DuBois/Aviv Friedman Mark Schein and Aviv Friedman, in cooperation with the U.S. Chess Trust, are happy to announce their new scholastic project. The project is a tw...