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2005 Canadian Chess Player of the Year - Friday, November 11th 2005 10:00 PM
Via the BCCF Chess Bulletin comes the news that 17 year old Mark Bluvshtein, a Toronto Grade 12 student and chess International Grandmaster, has been voted 2005 Canadian...
MrThayer vs The Rest of the World - Friday, November 11th 2005 5:38 PM
While we're on the topic of the London System, Charles Thayer, MrThayer at ChessWorld.net is currently playing a Rest of the World (ROW) game using the London System against...
The History of The London System II - Friday, November 11th 2005 5:05 PM
As comments to my previous post on the history of the London System Sverre Johnsen, authour of Win With the London System, has been kind enough to provide the games from the...
Kingfishers in USCL Finals! - Friday, November 11th 2005 4:30 PM
Led by Pascal Charbonneau on board one, the Baltimore Kingfishers have advanced to the finals of the US Chess League playoffs. The Kingfishers downed the league-leading New...
Heavy Weight Battle - Tuesday, November 8th 2005 6:25 PM
The playoff previews are up at the USCL site and the board one battle between New York and Baltimore is set to be a battle of the heavy weights. Alex Stripunsky is the highest...
Chess Today - Fifth Anniversary! - Monday, November 7th 2005 6:39 PM
I find it hard to believe that it's been five short years since GM Alexander Baburin launched his Chess Today daily chess newsletter. I still recall it being launched on...
From the Referer Logs - Monday, November 7th 2005 6:35 PM
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USCL Playoff Pairings - Monday, November 7th 2005 6:21 PM
The pairings for the first round of the US Chess League playoffs are up. League MVP Pascal Charbonneau will lead the Baltimore Kingfishers into the post-season action...
The History of The London System - Sunday, November 6th 2005 11:46 AM
Combining a couple of the threads of the past few days has lead me down the path of researching the history of the London System. About 3 years ago Gary Lane wrote a book,...
Chess Books Online - Sunday, November 6th 2005 9:20 AM
Via Mark Weeks at About Chess a link to Google Text and a search for "chess" that produces 158,000 pages! My quick browse spotted several classic titles. A word of warning...
Win with the London System - Part 2 - Saturday, November 5th 2005 9:15 PM
Since I first wrote about "Win with the London System" a couple of weeks ago (here's the original post), the book has been gaining a good deal of attention. It's recently...
Mindless Fun - Saturday, November 5th 2005 10:35 AM
This little piece of fun was created using Spell with flickr. Type in a word and the javascript finds photos of the letters on flickr and spells out your word....
Chess Chronicle World Championship Special Volume 2 - Saturday, November 5th 2005 9:21 AM
My email in-box is full this week and I mean FULL! The team at The Chess Chronicle have done it again, wrapping-up their round-by-round coverage and analysis of the FIDE...
Charbonneau US Chess League MVP - Saturday, November 5th 2005 8:25 AM
(photo: www.nationalchesscongress.com) Not only did the Baltimore Kingfishers defeat the Boston Blitz by a 2.5-1.5 margin, Canadian IM Pascal Charbonneau's win over IM...
Baltimore Beats New York - Clinches Playoff Berth - Sunday, October 30th 2005 7:31 AM
The news this week from the US Chess League is that with Canadian IM Pascal Charbonneau back in the line-up and playing board one after sitting out last week's action, the...
2006 BRITISH COLUMBIA CORRESPONDENCE CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP - Saturday, October 29th 2005 11:18 AM
Via the BCCF Email Bulletin comes word that entries are underway for this event. It sounds like a good challenge and I've decided to take the plunge and see how I do. In...
Chess Photos - Friday, October 28th 2005 4:07 PM
This post on the Boylston Chess Club Weblog and the amazing picture it leads to got me browsing around on Flickr. Before too long I found this familiar scene, one that I walk...
Win with the London System - Wednesday, October 26th 2005 6:57 PM
Via the Chessville Forum comes news of a new book, Win with the London System. The book is authored by the writing team of Sverre Johnsen and Vlatko Kovacevic and published...
New at Chessville - Monday, October 24th 2005 6:45 PM
Over at Chessville there's a terrific new review for my favourite place to play . Scott D. Tortorice has done a really complete and enthusiastic review of Chessworld.net. As...
The Canuck is Back - Monday, October 24th 2005 6:08 PM
  New York Knights vs Baltimore Kingfishers The week 9 pairings on the US Chess League Website confirm yesterday's report (scroll down) that IM Pascal Charbonneau...
Pascal MIA? - Sunday, October 23rd 2005 1:06 PM
No Pascal Charbonneau, board one for the USCL Baltimore Kingfishers, is not really missing in action. Earlier today I asked US Chess League Commissoner Greg Shahade about...
BC Junior Championship in November - Sunday, October 23rd 2005 10:05 AM
The next big event on the junior calendar in BC is the 2005 BC Junior Championship. This 5-round tournament will take place at Vancouver Bridge Centre, November 11-13....
Baltimore Drop 2 in a Row - Sunday, October 23rd 2005 9:07 AM
Without the current Canadian Champion, Pascal Charbonneau in this weeks line-up the Baltimore Kingfishers handed the Carolina Cobras  their first win of the season. In...
Canadian Chess Directory - Saturday, October 22nd 2005 6:35 PM
As reported here earlier this week, since Steve Goldberg was good enough to include a link to the Canadian Chess Directory in his Scholastic Chess column at ChessCafe, I...
Problem Solved - Monday, October 17th 2005 8:45 PM
About a week ago Satish Talim posted a chess problem on his blog that I repeated here. In my Sunday morning pre-coffee haze I thought I'd stumbled on the solution. Not!...