| |
 |
 | Viswanathan Anand
Anand's rise in the Indian chess world was meteoric. National level success came early for him when he won the National Sub-Junior Chess Championship with a score of 9/9 in 1983 at the age of fourteen. He became the youngest Indian to win the International Master Title at the age of fifteen, in 1984. At the age of sixteen he became the national chess champion and won that title two more times. He played games at blitz speed. In 1987, he became the first Indian to win the World Junior Chess...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viswanathan_AnandLink Details
|
|  | Vladimir Kramnik
It is an almost senseless challenge to describe GM Vladimir Kramnik in only a few lines. His personality has too many facets; his areas of interests are too diverse. What is clear is that Vladimir Kramnik is not solely fixated on chess. Current affairs interest him just as intensively as numerous sport and cultural activities, several of which he regularly engages in. The cosmopolitan would love to enjoy life ever more intensively, but his drive to succeed holds this inclination within limits...
http://www.kramnik.com/Link Details
|
|
News From The US Chess Federation
| Illinois Top Juniors Learn From Top GMs | | About 25 talented chess players from throughout the Chicago metropolitan enjoyed an intensive day of study on Sunday, Feb. 28, with three of Chicago's grandmasters. Take a peek into some of the lessons from GMs Mitkov and Gurevich.
| | An Armenian Master on the UMBC Open | | Artak Manukyan is a National Master in Armenia, and while visiting the US as a scholar, he has achieved a senior Master rating. See annotations to his games from the recent UMBC Open.
| | Affiliate Emailing Service Update | | The USCF has begun testing a new program to do emails on behalf of USCF affiliates. Find out more details on CLO or the TD/Affiliate Support Area.
| | Spring Scholastics Notice | | Special notice on hotel availability at the Spring Scholastics: the Junior High in Minneapolis, the High School and All Girls' in Columbus and the Elementary in Atlanta. Also sign up for chessqueen Kosteniuk's Atlanta simul.
| | Team Sevillano Tops Unique California Event | | Two dozen of Southern California's top juniors trekked to College
of the Canyons, to battle against 3 IMs and 1 GM in four simuls. Arbiter Randy Hough's report shows how Team Sevlliano came out on top.
|
| | | Recommended |
A gold-mine of time-tested, winning chess strategies crammed into one product. The package contains 29 Videos and 14 ebooks (2,213 pages) of Chess Instruction for the price of a single chess tips book at the bookstore. more details | | | |
|
|
