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The most challenging part of playing competitive chess while in college is finding the time to practice, said Amador Delamerced '18. “Chess requires a lot of preparation time as well as preparing tactics, studying endgame and playing in tournaments, which are at least a one-day commitment,” Shusterman ...

The Booneville High School Chess Team qualified for the CAAS State Chess Tournament on Saturday, March 3. The following ... The BJHS Chess also competed at the Mansfield Tournament and received 3rd place in the team competition, and Corbin McGrath placed 2nd in the individual competition.

The 2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament is becoming a disastrous tournament for Vladimir Kramnik, who continues to play below par. Today he continued on for a long time in a lost position and eventually threw in the towel vs Sergey Karjakin. In a deep endgame, Fabiano Caruana missed a chance vs ...

The team competed in the 2018 North/Central Texas State Scholastic Chess Championship on March 9 through 11. ... "I won my first tournament and then I wanted to play more tournaments because (...) it was fun," ... Edwards said his opponent was Julian's biggest competition in the state championship.

And today, more than before, almost all players were constantly pondering over their next moves while holding their head in their hands, with their elbows resting on the table—one of the classic poses in chess. What the fans at home are missing are the sounds. A cocktail bar on the third floor had to be ...

ELMHURST, IL — The 22nd annual Elmhurst Chess Tournament attracted 242 students and was held March 7 in the York High School Commons. The district said members of the York Chess Team assisted on the tournament floor. Organizers Chris and Debbie Khayat thanked all of the parent volunteers, ...

At the halfway mark of the 2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament, Fabiano Caruana is back to being the sole leader. ... It looks like Aronian is missing another chance to win a Candidates' Tournament. | Photo: Peter ..... I'm not 12 years old, I've been losing games before, and having disastrous tournaments.

Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com. Commentator Judit Polgar called Vladimir Kramnik's win over Alexander Grischuk "a brilliant game." It started with the offbeat 3.b3 move, which however has been played by the likes of Vassily Smyslov, Viktor Kortchnoi and Lajos Portisch. "Just another way to reach the ...

Success Academy, which operates dozens of charter schools in New York City, including one in Bedford-Stuyvesant, teaches students as young as kindergarten how to play chess. When youngsters reach the third grade, they get the chance to join one of the chess teams that compete in tournaments ...