Archive for October 27th, 2016

Carlsen vs. Nakamura Showdown on 10-27!

Posted in Games, Matches, Media Stories, Norway, The Chess Drum, USA, Videos on Oct 27th, 2016 5 Comments »

There is a heavyweight blitz battle taking place in a couple of hours at chess.com between World Champion Magnus Carlsen and blitz phenom Hikaru Nakamura. Yes… it’s a big deal. This serves as a warm-up match before Carlsen’s title defense against Sergey Karjakin and the champion could not have asked for a better tune-up. This […]

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Hudson’s Besomeone.org with Disney and TJMS!

Posted in Media Stories, The Chess Drum, USA on Oct 27th, 2016 2 Comments »

Orrin Hudson attended the premiers for “Queen of Katwe” in Chicago and Hollywood and told The Chess Drum that he felt the movie company was onto something. He was able to have a one-on-one with Lupita Nyong’o during a workshop in Los Angeles, California. Disney brought Hudson on to conduct the class with Nyong’o and […]

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