The Chess Drum’s Highlights of 2012!
The year of 2012 was supposed to be a magical year with all the Mayan calendar prophesies and such. In the year of the Olympics, a World Championship match, the Chess Olympiad and Kasparov’s record falling, there was quite a bit happening in the chess world. The Chess Drum was able to capture the news to the tune of 215 news stories. As is tradition, we will recount some of the memories covered at The Chess Drum this year and hope that there will be an exciting 2013!
International Events
- 2012 Pan-Am Intercollegiate (USA) (24 December 2012)
- 2012 North American Open (18 December 2012)
- 2012 Ghana Nat’l Championships! (17 December 2012)
- 2012 Zimbabwe Open (16 December 2012)
- 2012 World Mind Sports Games (Beijing) (16 December 2012)
- 2012 London Chess Classic (1 December 2012)
- 2012 Women’s Championship (Khanty-Mansiysk) (11 November 2012)
- 2012 Jamaica Open (10 November 2012)
- 2012 Bahamas International (Nassau) (5 November 2012)
- 2012 Botswana Open (3 October 2012)
- 2012 São Paulo/Bilbao Grand Slam (25 September 2012)
- 2012 Chess Olympiad (Istanbul, Turkey) (24 August 2012)
- 2012 Southern Open (Orlando, USA) (31 July 2012)
- 2012 U.S. Cadet Championship (21 July 2012)
- 2012 World Open (Philadelphia, USA) (29 June 2012)
- African Zonal 4.2 (Abuja, Nigeria) (26 June 2012)
- 1st President’s Cup (Accra, Ghana) (15 June 2012)
- 2012 Tal Memorial (Moscow, Russia) (11 June 2012)
- 2012 Caribbean Carnival (Trinidad) (14 May 2012)
- 2012 World Championship (Anand vs. Gelfand) (10 May 2012)
- 2012 U.S. Championships (5 May 2012)
- 2012 Martinique Championship (5 May 2012)
- Xtreme Chess Championship – Final! (1 May 2012)
- 2012 CUCA International (Luanda, Angola) (23 April 2012)
- 2012 Botswana Nat’l Championships (5 April 2012)
- 2012 CARIFTA Games (4 April 2012)
- 2012 Jamaica National Championships (23 March 2012)
- 2012 John Powell Memorial (Jamaica) (7 February 2012)
- 2011 Ghana Nat’l Championships (16 January 2012)
- 2012 Tata Steel Chess (Wijk aan Zee) (12 January 2012)
Individual Feats
- A Diamond in Chess Mecca (28 December 2012)
- Ashley DVD: The Secret to Chess #3 (26 December 2012)
- Darrian Robinson @ U. of Chicago (23 December 2012)
- Carlsen reaches new heights! (12 December 2012)
- Coming to America: The Queen of Katwe (8 December 2012)
- Elliott takes ’12 Jamaica Open! (3 December 2012)
- Williams wins 9th grade title! (27 November 2012)
- Asanga puts West Africa on FIDE map (30 October 2012)
- Colas wins Polgar’s World Open! (8 October 2012)
- Solomon gets Olympiad double norm! (9 September 2012)
- Jere, Epah win Zambian Sports crowns! (7 October 2012)
- Jere wins Olympiad tune-up! (7 August 2012)
- Tate sighting in Indiana! (1 August 2012)
- Makoto wins South African Open (13 July 2012)
- Wilkinson heads to FIDE’s “World Court” (27 June 2012)
- Anand retains Chess Crown! (30 May 2012)
- Aronian takes 2012 Tata tourney! (30 January 2012)
- “Young Lions” roar at Liberty Open (28 January 2012)
- 2012 Kenny Solomon gets 1st GM norm! (18 January 2012)
Chess in Diverse Places!
- Philippines welcomes Orrin Hudson! (19 December 2012)
- Quisqueya Tourney (Haiti)!! (28 October 2012)
- African Diaspora at the ’12 Olympiad (6 September 2012)
- KIDS Chess Camp in Trinidad (8 August 2012)
- Barbados crowns SAGICOR champs (17 July 2012)
- Jamaica’s ‘Magnificent Chess’ making mark! (1 July 2012)
- Chess in Curaçao (22 June 2012)
- Tanzania holds “Chess Arena”! (4 May 2012)
- Ashley at 2012 Reykjavik Open (4 March 2012)
- The Battle for “Migingo” (16 February 2012)
- Duane Rowe annotates from Gibraltar! (11 February 2012)
- Cuba: A Chess Wonderland (1 January 2012)
Stories of Note
- Chess at Washington Square Park, Part #2 (31 December 2012)
- Carlsen reaches new heights! (12 December 2012)
- Mutesi graces cover of Chess Life (5 November 2012)
- Dereque Kelley @ chessopenings.com (4 November 2012)
- African Lounge launches TV Show! (24 October 2012)
- Drum Interviews @ Istanbul Olympiad (22 September 2012)
- Olympiad book copied from Olimpbase.org? (19 September 2012)
- Yazici speaks on journalist ban (7 September 2012)
- African Diaspora at the ’12 Olympiad (6 September 2012)
- Predictions for the 2012 Chess Olympiad (23 August 2012)
- Kasparov beaten up… again! (20 August 2012)
- Tate sighting in Indiana! (1 August 2012)
- Chess Life gets a new look! (1 August 2012)
- Chicago’s Ron Washington, 1951-2012 (31 July 2012)
- “Drum Beat” Vol. 1, No. 5 (7 June 2012)
- One of my weekend games… (1 June 2012)
- Tom Fineberg, Chicago chess legend, dies (30 May 2012)
- I.S. 318 are (also) National Jr. Champions! (2 May 2012)
- Cabralis in Trinidad Controversy (28 April 2012)
- Drum chats with Hip Hop Chess Fed (22 April 2012)
- Drum speaks with Maurice Ashley (27 March 2012)
- T-K.A.S.H. feat Adisa Banjoko… “RUN” (22 March 2012)
- Young Lions give joint simul (21 March 2012)
- Bobby’s Blitz Chess (16 March 2012)
- Theo Thompson’s legendary problem! (19 March 2012)
- Issac Braswell dies tragically (12 March 2012)
- New Video Tour for The Chess Drum (5 March 2012)
- Drum Gamecast: Iwu vs. Adu (2 March 2012)
- Chevannes visits Chess America! (12 January 2012)
- The Chess Drum beats in Cuba! (3 January 2012)
- Calypso Chess now @ Amazon! (2 January 2012)
Opinion/Editorial
- The Rise of Fabiano Caruana (5 October 2012)
- The State of Black Chess in America (15 July 2012)
- Reflections on 2012 World Open (12 July 2012)
- Karpov lambastes FIDE (again) (14 June 2012)
- Nakamura, U.S. Champion… World next? (22 May 2012)
- The Rise of ‘Asian Dragons’, Part 3 (2 March 2012)
- Reflections… Black History of Chess (24 February 2012)
- Fischer vs. Carlsen… will history repeat? (21 February 2012)
- QR Codes coming to Chess! (15 February 2012)
- Chess: Refuge in Tough Times (8 January 2012)
