Chess: Carlsen and Caruana set for $430,000 Isle of Man showdown | Magnus Carlsen | The Guardian
“After Friday’s eighth round Carlsen’s unbeaten streak reached 98 games, surpassing Mikhail Tal’s 95 in 1973-74 and closing in on Ding Liren’s record of 100 against high-level opponents. The record could fall in the 11th and final Isle of Man round on Monday if he continues to avoid defeat.”
“Praggnanandhaa scored an impressive and unbeaten 9/11 and he ended with a performance rating over 2700.”
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The Torres Chess and Music Academy and the Learning Bee Learning Center Present:
Where: Learning Bee Learning Center, 39977 Mission Blvd., Fremont, CA 94539
When: 10/19, 11/16, & 12/21 R1 @ 1:00 pm
What: Scholastic (K-12) 3 Round Quad – G/30 d5
Cost: $30/quad or all 3 for $75.00 A $10 late fee will be added if you register after 5pm the day before the quad
USCF Rated QUAD Format: All players must be USCF members. All players must understand USCF tournament rules. USCF Membership fee is $17, per year. QUAD Format – The players in each quad play a round robin, one game against each of the players in their section, for a total of three games each. Quads are created by rating, grade and experience. All quads will be Game in 30 min +5 second delay (each player). Sets and boards provided. Clocks will be provided, but players are encouraged to bring their own. Trophies are awarded to top player in each quad. All other players will receive a prize for participating and free game analysis.
*Round Times: R 1 @ 1:00pm R 2 @ 2:00pm R 3 @ 3:00pm Trophies awarded at the conclusion of each quad.
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White to move and mate in two.
White to move and mate in two.
I especially enjoy chess puzzles that are more complicated than they seem at first. Here is a simple looking mate in 2. Not so simple.
White to move and mate in 2.
Not to hard to spot but very satisfying to play. Black to move and and crush white!
Black to move and and crush white!
“I think it’s less about chess and more about teaching my students how to be thinkers and good members of the community,” Stallings said. “It’s incredible for me to look around here to see former students of mine who have grey in their beards, and it’s nice to see the impact that I’ve made these past 25 years.”
— Read on signalscv.com/2019/09/chess-coach-jay-stallings-celebrates-25-years-of-teaching/
Black to move and win!
Black to move and win!
A remarkable position occurred after white played 47. Qxg3 in the game Samuel Sevian vs. Sergey Karjakin, FIDE World Cup 2019. Karjakin has only three legal responses as black and each would directly result in a different outcome (a win, a loss or a draw.)
Black to move and win, lose or draw! (Samuel Sevian – Sergey Karjakin, World Cup, Khanty-Mansiysk RUS, 2019.09.10.)
Murphy has the brainpower to pull it off. He tells us that in 2007 he defended his computer science Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon — which was the same year the students began holding the annual SIGBOVIK conference on April Fool’s Day. Sponsored by the “Association for Computational Heresy,” it was a kind of satirical special interest group devoted to a fictitious researcher named “Harry Quizmaster Bovik,” and including a call for goofy papers on topics like “artificial stupidity.”
— Read on thenewstack.io/artificial-stupidity-one-google-engineers-algorithms-for-bad-chess-playing/
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