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Friday, January 25th, 2008

Bobby Fischer’s Death and Corus 2008 Update

So the last couple weeks I’ve been a little bit too busy to update my Blog, and I couldn’t have picked a worse 2 weeks to be busy since there has been so much action!
Fischer died last week the day I was heading down to the Liberty Bell Open in Philadelphia (Report Coming Soon). Before […]


Friday, December 7th, 2007

Gata Kamsky Moves on to the Semi-Finals in World Cup 2007!

Chess fans around the country have started to chant: Kamsky!, Kamsky!, Kamsky! Ok, maybe they haven’t, but I have! Gata Kamsky just defeated his greatest challenge yet, Ruslan Ponomariov, to move on to the semi-finals where he will be facing Darth Vad… I mean Magnus Carlsen. Speaking of Magnus, my Cheparinov upset prediction over Carlsen […]


Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

World Cup 2007 Update: 5 players advance, 3 tiebreaks tomorrow

It was an extremely exciting day at the World Cup 2007 as most players fought hard to avoid elimination or clinch their spot into the next round. In the end, 5 players advanced to the quarterfinals: Magnus Carlsen, Alexei Shirov, Ruslan Ponomariov, Ivan Cheparinov, and Sergey Karjakin.
Carlsen, who won the first game of the mini […]