Posted in Games, Switzerland on Jul 31st, 2008 2 Comments »
Magnus Carlsen (Norway) vs. Lenier Dominguez (Cuba) Photo © http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/ Cuban GM Lenier Dominguez recently eclipsed the 2700-barrier and is now on the verge of winning the Biel GM tournament. His 9th round game with Magnus Carlsen was a contribution to theory as the two gladiators faced off in a “Fire on Board” game. The [...]
Posted in Games, Nigeria, USA, Videos on Jul 20th, 2008 4 Comments »
NM Glenn Bady analyzing Adu-Kaufman with IM Oladapo Adu. FM Norman ‘Pete’ Rogers chats with Adu. Photo by Michael Williams. The Chess Drum presents another gamecast lecture with Nigeria’s IM Oladapo Adu giving commentary on his game with FM Raymond Kaufman. Some of you know that Ray is the son of IM Larry Kaufman, America’s [...]
Posted in Africa, Asia, Games, India, Nigeria, Videos on Jul 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
Nigeria’s IM Oladapo Adu is featured on gamecast video analyzing his game with India WGM Aarthie Ramaswamy. The game comes out of a classic battle in the Sicilian where black is able to play instructively on the dark squares. Watch gamecast!
Posted in Drum Majors, Games on May 9th, 2008 44 Comments »
Just posted an oldie, but goodie. The game is actually one-sided attack, but shows how to conduct an attack against the king. Chicago native National Master Marvin Dandridge is one of the most gifted tacticians I have ever seen. I had the opportunity to train with him and was on the wrong side of his [...]
Posted in Games on Apr 15th, 2008 No Comments »
I found two games from the Second Ruy López International Chess Festival won by Michael Adams with +4. China’s Zhang Pengxiang came in second on 5-2. I saw a couple of interesting games, one of which was won by Fabiano Caruana against the rising Hou Yifan of China. Both involved the hedgehog setup. It is [...]
Posted in Drum Majors, Games, Media Stories on Feb 16th, 2008 No Comments »
John Evans (pictured right) was a member of the Panamanian national team back in the 60s and later settled in New York. He visited the Wilbert Paige Memorial in 2001 and added to the importance of the event. Here is a game he played against none other than Robert James Fischer. The game was part [...]
Posted in Drum Majors, Games, Photos on Feb 13th, 2008 5 Comments »
Photo 1 Who is this 8-time National Champion? I just found an exciting game involving Emory Tate (who else?) and Sheldon Wong from the 1991 World Open. Wong is a Jamaican national of Chinese descent and is considered a legendary figure in the annals of Jamaican history. According to Ian Wilkinson, In 1976 sixteen year-old [...]
Posted in Games on Jan 15th, 2008 9 Comments »
Fire on Board features a game from Dr. Kimani Stancil in a theoretical battle against Murray Newcomb. Dr. Stancil has been in the Bay area working as a professional researcher in nanoscience… a hot topic. You’ll have to ask him what nanoscience is about. I asked him about his dissertation a while back and he [...]
Posted in Games, Opinion/Editorials on Aug 21st, 2007 No Comments »
When I was a rising junior player, I remember reading Nikolai Krogius’ “Psychology in Chess.” Marvin Dandridge showed me the book after it was given to him as a gift. I treated that book as a reference source of how I should conduct myself at the board. In this book, it discusses attention, board demeanor, [...]
Posted in Drum Majors, Games on Aug 2nd, 2007 3 Comments »
Some time ago, I found these two videos of the 1995 WCC match between Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand. GM Maurice Ashley (USA) and GM Daniel King (United Kingdom) did the commentary. What was nice about these two videos was not only the intensity of the game, but the exciting commentary by Ashley and King. Ashley [...]
Posted in Games, USA, World Open on Jul 9th, 2007 5 Comments »
Emory Tate (right) showing me his game against Salvijus Bercys, a 27-move gem. * * * Emory Tate approached me and asked, “Is The Chess Drum open for business?” He then demonstrated the game with his usual flair and spell-binding analysis. There was a small crowd, but I hear he did the game earlier to [...]
Posted in Computers, Games on Jun 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Did someone drop pieces out of the bag onto the board? Just posted an absolute crazy game for “Game of the Week.” I know it’s old now, but what a brutal battle! It was a game between Deep Junior (Israel) and Deep Fritz (Germany) in the match between these two silicon beasts a couple of [...]
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