Month: September 2013

Daaim ShabazzSeptember 15, 2013
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2013 Sinquefield Cup: Round #5

2013 Sinquefield CupSeptember 9th-15th, 2013 (St. Louis, USA)Round #5 – Saturday, 14 September 2013 1 Nakamura, H USA ½–½ Carlsen, M NOR 2 Aronian, L ARM ½–½ Kamsky, G USA Drum Coverage| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 |…
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Daaim ShabazzSeptember 13, 2013
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2013 Sinquefield Cup: Round #4

2013 Sinquefield CupSeptember 9th-15th, 2013 (St. Louis, USA)Round #4 – Friday, 13 September 2013 1 Kamsky, G USA 0-1 Carlsen, M NOR 2 Aronian, L ARM 1-0 Nakamura, H USA Drum Coverage| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 |…
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Daaim ShabazzSeptember 11, 2013
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2013 Sinquefield Cup: Round #3

2013 Sinquefield CupSeptember 9th-15th, 2013 (St. Louis, USA)Round #3 – Wednesday, 11 September 2013 1 Carlsen, M NOR ½-½ Nakamura, H USA 2 Aronian, L ARM ½-½ Kamsky, G USA Drum Coverage| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 |…
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Daaim ShabazzSeptember 11, 2013
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2013 Sinquefield Cup: Round #2

2013 Sinquefield CupSeptember 9th-15th, 2013 (St. Louis, USA)Round #2 – Tuesday, 10 September 2013 1 Aronian, L ARM ½-½ Carlsen, M NOR 2 Nakamura, H USA 1-0 Kamsky, G USA Drum Coverage| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 |…
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Daaim ShabazzSeptember 10, 2013
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2013 Women’s World Championship (Taizhou, China)

FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship starts on 10th of September 2013. The event has been traveling under the radar and has not been highly-touted in the shadows of the upcoming World Championship match. This match will feature reigning World Champion Anna Ushenina of the Ukraine and former champion Hou Yifan…
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Daaim ShabazzSeptember 10, 2013
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2013 Sinquefield Cup: Round #1

2013 Sinquefield CupSeptember 9th-15th, 2013 (St. Louis, USA)Round #1 – Monday, 9 September 2013 1 Carlsen, M NOR 1-0 Kamsky, G USA 2 Nakamura, H USA 1-0 Aronian, L ARM Drum Coverage| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 |…
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Armenia

Daaim ShabazzSeptember 8, 2013
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2013 Sinquefield Cup (St. Louis, USA)

Four of the world’s top chess players will assemble in what has become a major center for chess development. St. Louis will host the 1st Sinquefield Cup beginning tomorrow in a double-round robin event. Magnus Carlsen, the world’s highest-ranked player headlines the event along with the second highest in Levon…
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Daaim ShabazzSeptember 6, 2013
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2013 Florida State Championship

Daytona Beach Hilton Resort next to the famous clock tower and the carnival which featured the gravity-defying slingshot ride (upper left) where you are hoisted 300 feet in the air at 90 miles per hour. Drawback… $25.00 for this 90-second thrill. Photo by Daaim Shabazz. Labor Day weekend is a…
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Daaim ShabazzSeptember 5, 2013
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Jamaica’s Powell gets FM title posthumously

The World Chess Federation (FIDE) recently awarded 9 titles to Jamaican chess players for past and recent performances. The titles awarded were 1 FIDE Master (FM), 4 Candidate Master (CM), and 4 Woman Candidate Master (WCM). Former Jamaica Chess Federation (JCF) president, John Powell, who died in 2007, was recently…
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