This tournament, with many foreign GMs, is taking place in the United Arab Emirates. After three rounds six players have perfect scores. In place seven we find Indian IM Tania Sachdev with 2.5/3. The tournament site says she beat GM Ivan Sokolov with black in round two, but the game is not available.
The famous Dubai Chess and Culture Club
The Copthorne Hotel where the players reside
Source: Chessbase.com
Any and every chess player who has tasted success will tell you that an hour of intense chess training everyday is better than plonking 10 hours in one single day of any week. The key to climbing the ELO ladder is consistency, dedication, discipline and pleasure. More later…
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Golden Chess Centre was set up in the Summer of 2004-05. We had a warm welcome from the students, gaining members from different backgrounds and even outside India.
We conducted chess meetings from our apartment initially, where the word spread, and people from faraway Kerala would come for spending chess quality time!
In the Pic is our respected Mr Venkataraman from Mananthawadi a place in Wayanad district in Kerala (affectionately referred to as Kerala Uncle).
We aim to give a platform to Chess kids and adults where they can both play and learn chess thereby making learning a fun event.
We cater to players of all levels from absolute beginners to advanced competitors.
We are stacked up on chess boards, clocks, and chess books for every session.
We host a Chess Blitz Tournament frequently, in addition to training classes.
We conduct separate classes for Pre-Beginners, Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced level Chess players and motivate the young children with prizes.
All students are asked to report their daily chess activities via SMS or WhatsApp.
We have great pleasure in inviting you to join us in our journey – a quest towards chess perfection.
We have a few ideas that we would like to share and hope you would find this site a good source of reference in your Chess Study, for a long time to come.
Feel free to browse the blog section and read the articles.
A View of the academy
The first set of chess classes are spent on the introduction and learning the history and basic rules of chess.
As we progress, advanced strategies for the opening, middle, and end game will be introduced and trained with an emphasis on worksheets and practice.
Students will thereafter have the opportunity to participate in Internal academy chess tournaments.
Entering a starter-level kids chess tournament can be daunting for the first time, and we are here to help your child become a chess pro.
Our trainees experience the thrill of simulated tournament play supervised by an experienced chess coach.
A player’s advance in chess will likely pay returns by a lifetime of rewarding chess games.
Why Chess?
Competitive chess helps in fostering serious study, but tournament play isn’t the only reward. Young upcoming players may not be the best in their school chess tournament. But they will be getting ready for the next game against her father.
Many chess players consistently fancied solving chess puzzles to competing for over-the-board play. Some players relished solving chess puzzles and keep getting perennial joy in solving seemingly difficult chess studies.
The study of chess can be appealing and fulfilling in itself, and not every student trains to be a player in a tournament scenario.
We look forward to your comments and queries – as a webmaster and a Chess master. Once again a very warm welcome to all students of Chess.
A warm welcome to all students of Chess and chess aficionados of all ages and abilities.
Whether you just want to learn the world’s oldest, most royal, and challenging board game, filled with so much variety, mind-boggling in its complications, whether you play casually or seriously, we love you if you love chess!
If you live in or near Nanganallur, Madipakkam, Ullagaram, Adambakkam, Alandur, Moovarasampet, Pazhavanthangal or Meenambakkam or you’re passing through our ‘part of the world‘
then
why not come and see us at Golden Chess Centre
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Chess is a very interesting game in that it is fully concrete. Therefore, chess has given a number of interesting experiences to the world. Here are Some really interesting facts about Chess
1. Did you know the number of possible ways of playing the first four moves for both sides in a game of chess is 319,999,664,000?
2. The longest game of chess that is theoretically possible is 5,989 moves.
3. The first chessboard with alternating light and dark squares (as it appears today) was made in Europe in 1090 AD.
4. According to the America’s Foundation for Chess, there are 169,518,829,100,545,000,000,000,000,000 (approximately 1.71×1029) ways to play the first 10 moves of a game of chess. Even a computer would find that difficult to digest.
5. The word “checkmate” in chess originally comes from the Persian word “Shah Mat,” which is often translated to “the king is dead”, although more accurate may be “the king is trapped” or ” the king is without escape” (Treadwell).
6. The longest chess game ever played was I.Nikolic – Arsovic, Belgrade 1989, which ended in – hold your breath – 269 moves. The game ended in a draw!
7. There are 400 different possible positions after one move each. There are 72,084 different possible positions after two moves each. There are over 9 million different possible positions after three moves each. There are over 318 billion different possible positions after four moves each. The number of distinct 40-move games in chess is far greater than the number of electrons in the observable universe. The number of electrons is approximately 1079, while the number of unique chess games is 10120.
8. The second book ever printed in the English language was about chess! Now that is really strange.
Winning Chess: How To See Three Moves Ahead (Bestseller at Amazon)
by Irving Chernev
and
Fred Reinfeld.
9. The new pawn move, where pawns were allowed to advance two squares on its first move instead of one, was first introduced in Spain in 1280.
10. The first chess game played between space and earth was on June 9, 1970 by the Soyez-9 crew. The game ended in a draw.
11. An old puzzle: If you put one grain of wheat on the first square of the chessboard, two on the second, four on the third, eight on the fourth, and so on, how many grains of wheat do you need to put on the 64th square? The answer is 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (approximately 9.22×1018) grains of wheat. That’s a lot of nutrition.
12. The folding chessboard was invented by a priest who was forbidden to play chess. The priest found a way around it by making a folding chessboard. When folded together and put on a bookshelf, it simply looks like two books.
13. Kirk and Spock have played chess three times on the show Star Trek. Kirk won all three games.
14. A computer called Deep Thought became the first computer to beat an international grandmaster in November 1988, Long Beach, California.
15. Garry Kasparov, at 22, became the youngest ever world champion. Ruslan Ponomariov was younger but he was not the undisputed world champion; Maia Chiburdanidze was even younger when she won the women’s title.
16. Some people are so good at chess, they can play against more than one opponent at a given time. In 1922, World Champion José Raúl Capablanca played 103 opponents simultaneously and won 102 of the games (with 1 draw). This type of chess prowess display is called as a ‘SIMUL’.
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess – (No:1 Bestseller at Amazon)
by
Murray Chandler