Posted in Drum Majors, Scholastic, Videos on Dec 31st, 2011 14 Comments »
James Black has been the subject of many articles, but his rapid progress is taken on new heights. Black has now vaulted over 2300 in the USCF rating list and recently showed off his famed blitz prowess in beating both IM Greg Shahade and GM Grigory Kaidanov in blitz battles. After Justus Williams demolished the [...]
Posted in Drum Majors, Media Stories, Scholastic, Videos on Apr 7th, 2011 2 Comments »
Posted in Videos on Mar 15th, 2011 1 Comment »
Chess Family: At Be Someone www.besomeone.org, our dream is to change the lives of inner city children, teaching them to make all the right moves in life by making the right moves in chess. After you watch this video: Chess moves for life – Chess champion Orrin Hudson wants to change the world one move [...]
Posted in Drum Majors, Scholastic, Videos on Mar 9th, 2011 4 Comments »
Josh Colas had an interview with Jennifer Shahade and “Chess Scoop” where he talked about his progress as a player. Back in December, Josh broke the age record for a Black player reaching National Master. That record has been held broken several of times since Walter Harris (pictured right) was the first Black player to [...]
Posted in Europe, Hungary, Tournaments, Videos on Feb 18th, 2011 No Comments »
László Nagy has been running the “First Saturday” tournament since February 1992. Since then, his tournaments have become the regular training grounds for the world’s brightest stars. Nagy speaks with glee about his enterprise and is always looking for rising talent for his tournaments. How did it all start? ‘Probably still under influence of military [...]
Posted in Media Stories, Videos on Jan 2nd, 2011 3 Comments »
The Chess Drum reported on Orrin Hudson’s plea for support after the Dekalb County slapped him with five citations which requires him to raise $28,000 to come into code compliance. He got the first $14,000 from a local anonymous donor. With a December deadline approaching, Tyler Perry donated the other $14,000 and now the renovation [...]
Posted in Media Stories, Videos on Dec 12th, 2010 No Comments »
Makkada Selah is a graduate student at Columbia’s School of Broadcast Journalism and she recently visited 125th Street and found a chess scene across from the renown Apollo Theater. Those of us in the chess community know about these chess spots in the various city parks and streets. Unfortunately, these players are often harassed making [...]
Posted in Scholastic, Videos on Dec 2nd, 2010 5 Comments »
Orrin C. Hudson has been championing the cause of chess since 2000 when he founded Besome, Incorporated. He story is well know and he has graced the covered of major magazines and been on a number of news programs to explain his mission. One of the mission is to train 1,000,000 kids in his trademark [...]
Posted in Games, Tournaments, Videos on Nov 21st, 2010 7 Comments »
Blitz is something that most chess players enjoy playing. Watching a good blitz battle is as exciting as any sporting competition can be. The tension build-up, the pensive pauses and the culmination of rapid fire moves are facets of blitz we all enjoy. It is no surprise that many of the top players in the [...]
Posted in Drum Majors, Media Stories, Videos on Nov 17th, 2010 2 Comments »
What is Maurice Ashley doing these days? A lot of things. He’s not behind the board yet, but he was recently seen on the pages of New in Chess (2010/7). He penned an article about the World Chess Challenge, a match between Magnus Carlsen and the World. The world was led by a tripartite of [...]
Posted in Drum Majors, Games, Videos on Oct 6th, 2010 5 Comments »
Since going into a self-imposed hiatus from tournament chess, GM Maurice Ashley has not rested on his laurels as arguably one of the games premier commentators. He has authored a couple of books, traveled the world promoting the virtues of chess and has recently released another DVD in partnership with chess software powerhouse, ChessBase. Ashley’s [...]
Posted in Drum Majors, Scholastic, Videos on Aug 21st, 2010 3 Comments »
In 1995, Ashley unveiled a ground-breaking CD titled, “Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess“. The CD was aimed at a diverse audience and gave the viewer so many options for chess improvement. The title is still sought after, but of course in 15 years, so many titles have been released to the chess world. Ashley has been [...]
Posted in Tournaments, Videos on Jan 16th, 2010 42 Comments »
The annual Corus Chess tournament is currently taking place in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. This years promises to be an exciting event with a variety of players from around the globe. This tournament will be bolstered by a number of young stars who have born in the past few years. Below are the participants [...]
Posted in Media Stories, Scholastic, Videos on Dec 22nd, 2009 2 Comments »
The famed GM Susan Polgar, the eldest of the famed Polgar Sisters was the subject of an interesting documentary on how the three sisters received specialized training to become strong chess players. Much of the documentary was set in New York and Hungary and Polgar described her evolutionary process as a player. Polgar now runs [...]
Posted in Norway, USA, Videos on Nov 29th, 2009 11 Comments »
America’s #1 player Hikaru Nakamura is riding a successful year with several strong results including the U.S. Championship title and victories in San Sebastian and Mainz. He flamed out in Melody Amber after falling ill and finishing with a horrible score, but stated that December would be a pivotal moment for him and he looked [...]
Posted in Scholastic, Videos on Nov 22nd, 2009 3 Comments »
GM Amon Simutowe peeking at NMs Mihail Bantic and Vautvydas Vedrickas. Photo by Daaim Shabazz. The University of Texas-Dallas (UTD) is gearing up for the Pan-Am Intercollegiate tournament with tune-up tournaments featuring most of the team members and a few Grandmasters. UTD has been embroiled in a rivalry with University of Maryland-Baltimore (UMBC) for the [...]
Posted in Videos on Nov 21st, 2009 2 Comments »
An excellent documentary on Bobby Fischer has been presented on YouTube in a five-part series. Fischer was arguably the best player that ever played chess given the impact and the conditions he commanded for professional chess. Chess had come out of the throes of a club sport to one than investors wanted to associate with. [...]
Posted in France, Guadeloupe, Videos on Oct 27th, 2009 5 Comments »
Perhaps one of the most ebullient players has become a hit on the online chess scene. Aurélie Dacalor has joined the team that produced the “Chess & Strategy” videos. The Women’s FIDE Master can also be seen promoting popular book titles in “Au Pays des Livres” series. The videos are all short and are well-done [...]
Posted in Media Stories, Videos on Oct 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Washington Square Park seems a world away, but it’s actually very close. It’s so close that you can feel the joy and pain… the joy and pain of chessplayers who lose themselves in the royal game. Miro Reverby’s film titled, “Men Who Would Be Kings” is a poignant account of life in one of the [...]
Posted in Media Stories, USA, Videos on Oct 12th, 2009 19 Comments »
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