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379 documents for International Chess Tournament

- Low Turnout with the Fervor of Participants
With all the distractions in the world these days, the game of chess could use less competition for attention. The local games of the International Chess Tournament, held Sunday in the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, were a case in point.
- Buffalo News
- October 11, 2011
- LEGO Media International Hosts Chess Tournament for Children at the US Chess Center.
ENFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 1998-- Event Draws Support from Prominent Washington Lawmakers Speaker Gingrich, Senators DeWine and Dodd...
- Business Wire
- November 05, 1998
- Memorial Conducted in Proper Style
A fine international tradition that American chess could profit from is the memorial tournament to honor a country's great national stars. Argentina has long hosted a tournament named for adopted favorite son Miguel Najdorf, and Cuba has just staged the 45th annual invitational honoring its greatest champion, Jose Raoul Capablanca. And in the Russian city of Kazan, an annual tournament is organized in memory of a local boy made good, one who became one of the most remarkable players in the game's history: Rashid Nezhmetdinov.
- The Washington Times
- July 06, 2010

- In Search of Fatherhood: An Interview with Steven Svoboda
The written text of Svoboda' s presentation became the United Nation's first official document entirely devoted to the subject of male circumcision as a human rights violation and transformed the practice of male circumcision into an international human rights issue. A member of the Advisory Council for The Mens Center (http://themenscenter.com) and a senior board member of and Public Relations Director for the National Coalition of Free Men, a non-profit organization which works to educate individuals, policymakers, and institutions about the negative effects of gender discrimination upon men and boys, Svoboda is a performance artist, a tournament chess player who is rated as an expert by the United States Chess Federation, and the founder of the Bus Stop Co-op, a vegetarian organic c...
- Attorneys for the Rights of the Child Newsletter
- Vol. 8 Nbr. 1, December 2009
- The Long Road to a New Move
THE STORY of the Chess Cinderella of Palo Alto, Calif., started here in Norfolk in June during a phone call with an international chess grandmaster in Lubbock, Texas. Susan Polgar and I were talking about the free chess program I run at the Lamberts Point Community Center and how hard it is for many to get a shot at a scholarship. I was complaining that I never see much diversity in scholarship tournaments, and she decided to put a fully charged magic wand in my hands. She offered to give whatever player I recommended a wild card invitation to the Susan Polgar Girls' Chess Invitational at Texas Tech. Three girls in the tournament would win $40,000 scholarships to Texas Tech, in addition to two days of instruction from Polgar herself.
- The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
- August 08, 2011
- Outlook Dims for Title Deal
The theory that the retirement of Garry Kasparov would make unifying the divided world chess crown easier has been taking a beating recently. To its credit, FIDE, the international chess federation, has organized a strong eight-grandmaster double-round-robin tournament for this fall in Argentina, to be played at classical time controls. The format strongly resembles the famous 1948 tournament in which Russian great Mikhail Botvinnik won the title vacated with the death of Alexander Alekhine two years earlier.
- The Washington Times
- June 13, 2005
- Chessmates
By ADRIANA JANOVICH YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC

...But the first modern, international chess tournament wasn't held until 1851, in London...
- Yakima Herald-Republic
- March 31, 2009
- Hess, 19, Thriving On World Stage
American chess players seem to have a penchant for spectacular entrances on the international stage. The unknown Paul Morphy, a provincial from New Orleans, defeated Europe's best during his triumphal tour of London and Paris in 1858. Nearly 40 years later, it was young Harry Nelson Pillsbury astonishing the chess world by winning the fabled Hastings 1895 tournament over a world-class field in his international debut.
- The Washington Times
- February 22, 2011
- Bits 'N' Pieces: Teen Vies in Girls Chess Tournament
--- Heather Young, left, plays in the 2011 Susan Polgar International Championship, where she placed 18th.
- The Columbian
- August 06, 2011
- Tournament of Rare Renown
The kickoff over the weekend of the 71st Corus International Tournament in its traditional setting in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, is a reminder that the proliferation of superstrong, elite grandmaster tournaments has been a mixed blessing for the game. While it is great for fans - and for chess columnists - to have stars such as Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Levon Aronian of Armenia battle it out once again, the Category 20 and 21 events in places like Wijk, Linares (Spain) and Dortmund (Germany) start running together after a while.
- The Washington Times
- January 20, 2009