The Daily Dirt Chess News Blog: April 2011 Archives

Kazan Candidates 2011

By Mig on April 29, 2011 02:06 | Permalink | 346 comments

Tags: Aronian, candidates, Gelfand, Grischuk, Kamsky, Kramnik, Mamedyarov, Radjabov, Topalov

Candidates matches begin May 5 in Kazan at 7am EDT. Kramnik-Radjabov, Kamsky-Topalov, Grischuk-Aronian, Mamedyarov-Gelfand.

By Mig on April 18, 2011 10:57 | Permalink | 146 comments

Tags: Armenia, education, mainstream, scholastic

Armenia makes chess a compulsory school subject. Studies on the impact of chess on school performance, general education chitchat.

By Mig on April 14, 2011 22:24 | Permalink | 149 comments

Tags: Kamsky, Krush, Onischuk, Seirawan, Shulman, US Championship

Play begins Friday at 2pm local, 3pm EDT. Nakamura not playing. Kamsky, Onischuk, Shulman, and Seirawan (!).

By Mig on April 6, 2011 14:36 | Permalink | 109 comments

Tags: Deep Blue, funny

Amusing restaurant name at JFK airport en route to Florida with Kasparov.

By Mig on April 5, 2011 07:35 | Permalink | 126 comments

Tags: blitz, Kasparov, plugs for pals, simul

Still a blitz game against Kasparov left for this Thursday, April 7, in Naples, Florida.

By Mig on April 4, 2011 06:23 | Permalink | 139 comments

Tags: Linares, sad

Spanish paper reports that Linares 2011 officially not going to happen. Organizers are hoping for 2012 in the second half of March.

By Mig on April 2, 2011 07:21 | Permalink | 70 comments

Tags: death, Larry Parr

Author and former Chess Life editor Larry Parr has passed away in Malaysia.

By Mig on April 1, 2011 19:27 | Permalink | 771 comments

Tags: ads, Euro Ch, McShane, Polgar, Potkin, Wojtaszek

Polgar, Wojtaszek, and Potkin lead on 8/10 heading into today's final round. Potkin-Polgar is the big match-up but 10 players chase with 7.5.