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Historic Moments (Index of Moments)
The Emory Tate Variation (November-December 2010) Justus Williams…Master at 12! (September-October 2010) Farai Mandizha: International Master (July-August 2010) Justus Williams: National Elementary Champ (May-June 2010) Baraka Shabazz: Black Queen of Chess (March-April 2010) 2010: The Year of the Haitian Tragedy (January-February 2010) IM Michael Schleifer (1967-2009) (November-December 2009) Anand in…
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News Briefs Index (2003)
GM Maurice Ashley and IM-elect Stephen Muhammadafter completion of the 2003 U.S. ChampionshipPhoto by Daaim Shabazz December Exciting Highlights of 2003! (31 December 2003) Gwaze in action at Hastings International! (31 December 2003) GM Shabalov keeps winning… Muhammad solid (31 December 2003) Jamaica Chess Federation honors top players (28 December…
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News Briefs Index (2007)
Adisa Banjoko and Daaim Shabazz2007 Hip-Hop Chess Federation’s Kings InvitationalOctober 13th, 2007 – San Francisco, California December January FIDE Rating list released! (30 December 2007) News from Uganda! (29 December 2007) What’s next in Black Chess? (27 December 2007) Anson Williams… King of Freestyle Chess! (22 December 2007) Pitterson wins…
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News Briefs Index (2011)
Piece by Barbara Kruger @ World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis December James Black on the march! (31 December 2011) Take Me Home: Ashley in Jamaica (31 December 2011) K.I.D.S. Chess Academy (Trinidad) (31 December 2011) 2011 Cameron Open (Jamaica) (17 December 2011) RZA and Jay-Z in Chess…
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News Briefs Index (2014)
Playing against National Master Phan Xuan Datin Hanoi, Vietnam. December The Chess Drum’s Highlights of 2014! (31 December 2014) New in Chess (2014/8) (31 December 2014) Millionaire Chess #2 opens January 1st!! (31 December 2014) ‘A Fork, A Spoon and A Knight’ (30 December 2014) African Chess: 2014 in Perspective…
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News Briefs Index (2019)
Brewington Hardaway, National Master at 10!Photo by US Chess December The Chess Drum’s Highlights of 2019! (31 December 2019) 2019 World Rapid & Blitz (Moscow, Russia) (31 December 2019) HBCU chess tourney set for April 2020! (27 December 2019) Firoujza miffed about Iran mandate, ponders switch (26 December 2019) Gohil…
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Drum Majors
Jerald Times… 2021 “Chess Educator of the Year”
Good Times in South Africa!! Jerald Times with some of the members of his Guguletu team. Photo courtesy of Jerald Times. It can be said that Jerald Times has a story to tell. Having trod the stony roads of Harlem, New York, and the pastures of South Africa, he has…
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FIDE
90th FIDE Congress (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Abu Dhabi, UAE… site of the 90th FIDE Congress A total of 195 federations from 195 countries were represented by their delegates at the 90th FIDE Congress held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The General Assembly and Executive Board Meetings were held on February 28-29th. The General Assembly opened…
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Drum Majors
Chess Reflections in Black History (2020)
In the U.S., each February we celebrate the accomplishments of prominent figures in the African Disapora. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a man of prodigious intellectual standing, was the innovator of the idea in 1926. He attended venerable institutions such as University of Chicago, the Sorbonne and Harvard University and penned…
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The Chess Drum
The Chess Drum’s Highlights of 2019!
The year of 2019 was an important one for The Chess Drum. There was a historic Grand Chess Tour event that took place in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. This tournament featured 10 of the world’s top players. Magnus Carlsen won that tournament, but more importantly it gave the continent a stage…
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