Chess Fans on Their Way to Watch Karpov vs Kasparov 40 Years Ago Time Flies--40 Years Since Kasparov Became World Champion As reported yesterday on Chessbase https://en.chessbase.com/post/40-years-ago-kasparov-becomes-world-champion
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Non-Rated Blitz Tournament Held at Cobleigh Library, Lyndonville, VT The first monthly non-rated G-5 Blitz tournament at Cobleigh Library, Lyndonville, VT was a success with ten participants including one new player, Alex LaCoss. The tournament was four rounds using mostly digital, but also two analogue clocks, a Hetmann and an INSA, that had the five-minute special countdown flag. The final standings wall chart can be found below. Congratulations to Matthew who won all four of his games. Tied for second were Russell Desjardins, now at the StJ Academy, and new player Raymond Deck. Raymond's twin brother Josiah finished in a tie for 4th through 7th place. Chess appears to be building a positive community presence at Cobleigh. Regular, weekly chess happens at Cobleigh every Thursday from 5 PM until 8 PM in the main reading room of the library.
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Trans-Woman Wins French Chess Championship This follows on the heels of trans-woman winning Nora Heidemann winning the German U-18 championship. FIDE remains recalcitrant, refusing to acknowledge that trans-people are real beings who play chess with some playing our ancient game quite well. As the article reprinted here from New In Chess notes, France and Germany are able to do this because these events are national championships. The question not asked underlying these championship wins by trans-women is whether there should even be separate girls and women's chess events. Do such events imply and subconsciously implant in girls and young women the belief that they are somehow inferior to boys and young men? There is a serious problem in organized chess world-wide driving the existence of these separate events. The problem is blatant, too often unchecked and ignored, misogyny. For evidence of this look no further than the Ramirez scandal with US Junior chess that made headl...
The End of the Soviet Chess Era I've long been interested in the role that chess has played in helping citizens keep their sanity living in, had hopefully surviving, life in the oppressive Cold War regimes of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Block. Most Americans are at least aware of the chess as politics battle between Fischer and Spassky in 1972. When the Soviet Union fell in 1991, for a brief period of time key archives were opened to researchers. For chess this resulted in Andrew Soltis' seminal work Soviet Chess: 1917-1991 (McFarland: 2000). What is less well understood is the battle over between Anatoly Karpov and Gary Kasparov, a battle that took place over the course of five matches for the Chess World Championship between 1984 and 1990. Yes, the chess games have been well analyzed. The general outline of the political machinations by a dying Soviet state to keep their man, Karpov, World Champion are known. There is, however, much more to this tale of dominanc...