In Memoriam - Andrew Paulson
Andrew Paulson, the founder and director of Agon Limited, passed away on 18th of July 2017, after a long battle with cancer. He became known in the chess world when he established AGON Limited...
Andrew Paulson, the founder and director of Agon Limited, passed away on 18th of July 2017, after a long battle with cancer. He became known in the chess world when he established AGON Limited...
With the 2nd highest average rating in the 4 round tournament 'The Real Ones' proved they were for real as they beat the vig and edged out the 'Badland Pawns'. Since the 2 teams tied 2-2 in a heads up match in round 2 the other rounds would decide which team was better.
NOTTINGHAM - Vernon Philander somewhat grumpily dismissed suggestions from his captain, that he was “the new Jacques Kallis.”
NOTTINGHAM - Vernon Philander somewhat grumpily dismissed suggestions from his captain, that he was “the new Jacques Kallis.”
Catching up on one more tournament, China's greatest chess hope - at least for the time being - has once again demonstrated his current ability and promise for the future. Wei Yi, 18 years old as of about six weeks ago...
When we last left off after round 7 of 9, Teimour Radjabov led the Grand Prix event in Geneva with 5/7; Pentala Harikrishna and Alexander Grischuk were half a point behind. Two rounds later, the tournament...
Vladimir Kramnik may be Mr. Dortmund, having won the tournament about 50 times (okay, only ten times, including ties), but it's a rocky start for him so far. In round 1 he had White against Vladimir Fedoseev...
Behnam Partopour, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) student from Iran, is greeted by his sister at Logan Airport after he cleared U.S. customs and immigration in February in Boston. The State...
The United States of America imports most of its grandmasters from around the world (or at least it seems to) and many of its products from Asia (cars, electronics, toys, etc.), so it's only fitting that its best magazine would be produced by the good folks from Serbia.
We regret to announce the retirement of Bert Corneth as our web-editor, due to personal reasons. Of course we fully respect his decision, but consider his retirement a great loss for the KWA, as he...
We soldier on, despite the absence of readers submitting groans at our Geneva Convention pun in the last post. Very disappointing. (Maybe such word plays were prohibited by that Convention as cruel and unusual punishment?