The Chess Drum’s Highlights of 2010!
The year of 2010 has come to an end and we usher 2011. Before we leave 2010, let’s reflect a bit on this past year. In the year of an Olympiad, World Championship (both men and women) and several elite tournaments, it turned out to be an exciting year. The Chess Drum was able to cover some of these events and it is with great pleasure that we give a recap of some of the noted events throughout the year. This list is taken from the 196 briefs written this year. Enjoy! Happy New Year!
International Events
- 2010 Women Chess Championship (Antakya, Turkey) (4 December 2010)
- 2010 London Chess Classic (8 December 2010)
- Aronian wins World Blitz! (21 November 2010)
- 2010 Tal Memorial (Moscow, Russia) (7 November 2010)
- 2010 Bilbao Masters (Bilbao, Spain) (9 October 2010)
- 2010 World Open (Valley Forge) (2 July 2010)
- 2010 New York International (19 June 2010)
- 2010 Caribbean Chess Carnival (Trinidad) (4 June 2010)
- 2010 U.S. Championship (St. Louis) (14 May 2010)
- 2010 African Regent Championship (Accra, Ghana) (19 April 2010)
- 2010 World Chess Championship (18 April 2010)
- 2010 UWI Masters (Jamaica) (19 March 2010)
- 2010 Corus Chess (Wijk ann Zee, Netherlands) (16 January 2010)
- 2009 World Team Championship (Bursa, Turkey) (3 January 2010)
Individual Feats
- Hou Yifan: Women’s World Champion! (24 December 2010)
- Record falls… Colas makes Master! (17 December 2010)
- Gwaze captures Botswana Open! (14 December 2010)
- Josh Colas: 7th Grade National Champ! (13 December 2010)
- Ken Gibson: 2010 Bahamaian Champion (23 November 2010)
- Brema Bah: Mali’s Olympiad Gem (7 October 2010)
- Justus Williams makes Master at 12! (24 September 2010)
- Farai Mandizha: International Master (7 July 2010)
- Pitterson bags IM title at Subzonal (2 July 2010)
- Sydney Morris… Middle School Champ! (25 May 2010)
- WCC 2010-12: Anand wins… defends title! (11 May 2010)
- Elliott, Richards… 2010 Jamaican Champs! (2 May 2010)
- Ballantyne wins All-Girls Title! (29 April 2010)
- Mondoly Sanon: 2009 Haitian Champion (19 January 2010)
Stories of Note
- Kenya archives Karanja! (30 December 2010)
- President Zuma at Chess Tournament (29 December 2010)
- Carlsen bolts Championship Cycle (5 November 2010)
- Jamaican Women feted! (4 November 2010)
- ‘Moves for Life’ launched in S. Africa (28 October 2010)
- Ashley’s Secret: “Aikido Chess” (6 October 2010)
- Zambia shines at 39th Olympiad! (5 October 2010)
- Africa: Too Much Voting Power in FIDE? (17 September 2010)
- Magnus Carlsen vs. the World Exhibition (10 September 2010)
- Trinidad featured on ChessBase! (27 August 2010)
- Ashley’s “Pawn Mower” Puzzle Debuts! (15 August 2010)
- The Chess Drum beats in Trinidad! (1 August 2010)
- Chess under attack in Bay Area (18 June 2010)
- The Drum Beats in Africa! (13 June 2010)
- World Cup 2010: Chess on the Pitch (2 June 2010)
- Chicago’s Tyrone Lee killed in car crash (7 May 2010)
- Florencio Campomanes dies at 83 (3 May 2010)
- The ‘Matrix Man’ still at it! (11 March 2010)
- Baraka Shabazz: Black Queen of Chess (19 February 2010)
- Prayers for Haiti (13 January 2010)
Daaim,
Thank you for the “highlights”. What of (a) IM Jomo Pitterson’s historic win at the Sub-Zonals in Bahamas and (b) the Jamaican girls landmark victory in their category (E) at the Siberia Olympiad ?
Surely those must have been a couple of events that delighted your soul!
Yep… I put this up in a hurry and knew I’d miss some. I’ll go back and add more.
Dr. Shabazz when we have interactive chess play on your Web site or a webinar inwhich we get to meet and greet some of the best chess players in the world with a simultaneous exibition.
Thank in Advance
S. E. White
S.E. White,
There are far too many quality playing venues available in the competitive market. Playchess.com, Internet Chess Club, ChessCube.com are paying memberships while Yahoo Chess, Chess.com and Facebook offer free services. Running The Chess Drum is hard enough, but to add a chess server to the site would be complicated, time-consuming and potentially costly endeavor. It would be hard for me to find time to manage all of this and keep up with news content. Besides, I’ve seen chess servers come and go quickly. Remember kasparovchess.com, Chess Park… wuchess.com?
E-mail these types of questions at webmaster@thechessdrum.net.