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Charbonneau Out of Kingfisher Lineup - Monday, October 17th 2005 8:11 PM
Canadian IM Pascal Charbonneau who has been playing board 1 for the Baltimore Kingfishers of the USCL is not listed in the Kingfishers line-up for week 8 action. FM...
BabasChess on FICS - Monday, October 17th 2005 8:04 PM
Had some fun over the weekend on FICS. I generally play 2+12 blitz and the games are pretty fast paced. It's a change of pace from the correspondence time controls I usually...
O Canada Part 2 - Monday, October 17th 2005 5:02 PM
Among the latest at ChessCafe is the second part of Steve Goldberg's Scholastic Chess column featuring a look at Canada. O Canada Part 2  (you can still grab Part 1...
Chess Chronicle World Championship Special - Monday, October 17th 2005 4:35 PM
By now the news that Veselin Topalov is the FIDE World Chess Champion is a few days old.  The 30 year old Bulgarian put on a stunning performance the likes of...
New ChessWorld ROW Match - Saturday, October 15th 2005 9:28 AM
This week ChessWorld.net annouced a new Rest of the World Match against IM George Botterill. Here's the text of the announcement from ChessWorld Webmaster kingscrusher......
Charbonneau and Baltimore Stopped Cold! - Saturday, October 15th 2005 9:09 AM
Pascal Charbonneau and the Baltimore Kingfishers were stopped in their tracks (they had been on a 4 week winning streak) by the underdog Philadelphia Masterminds in USCL play...
Chess Betting - Wednesday, October 12th 2005 6:49 PM
Yep, place yer bets. It's likely too late to get in on the action this week. However, among the latest news at the USCL is that online sports betting giant Pinnacle Sports is...
Chess Comic - Wednesday, October 12th 2005 6:29 PM
My kids think this cartoon is ROTFLMAO funny! I'm not entirely sure who the characters are. Apparently the little guy is using his psychokinetic powers to move the pieces on...
Against the Odds - Saturday, October 8th 2005 9:17 AM
The Baltimore Kingfishers of the USCL battled the odds this week to make it four straight. In his weekly re-cap, Greg Shahade noted "the odds of the team winning all...
Chess Problem - Saturday, October 8th 2005 7:44 AM
Chess friend and Knight Errant Satish Talim has published a chess problem on his Weblog. It's a tricky one with not one, but two solutions! Here's the position  - it's...
A Little Chess History - Sunday, October 2nd 2005 1:05 PM
This morning I was browsing around the USCL Website checking out the upcoming matches to see what was next for Pascal Charbonneau's Baltimore Kingfishers. The week 6 schedule...
Annotated Games - Sunday, October 2nd 2005 11:05 AM
I used to refer to the Globe and Mail newspaper's weekly chess column by Jonathan Berry quite frequently. Then for a long while I had trouble locating the column on-line and...
Chess Today - Saturday, October 1st 2005 10:03 AM
A new sample issue of GM Alexander Baburin's Chess Today - "The First Daily Chess Newspaper on the Net" arrived a couple of days ago. Must admit I've been too busy to...
3 and O for Charbonneau - Thursday, September 29th 2005 10:25 PM
The Baltimore Kingfishers of the US Chess League have won 3 matches in a row! Lead by first board, Canada's Pascal Charbonneau with three straight wins over GM Larry...
Player of the Day - Wednesday, September 28th 2005 6:09 PM
Via the ChessTalk Message Board, Canadian GM Mark Bluvshtein is featured as the player of the day at chessgames.com. Their database has some 117 of Mark's games from the...
USCL Game of the Week - Tuesday, September 27th 2005 9:24 PM
Pascal Charbonneau's win over GM Larry Christiansen is this week's game of the week at the USCL. The game is presented at the USCL site in a replay board complete with...
Chess Chronicle - World Championship Preview - Tuesday, September 27th 2005 6:50 PM
On the eve of The FIDE World Championship ( Official Site  - TWIC Coverage ) which runs through October 16th with the first round of play set for tomorrow in San Luis...
Tournament Update - Saturday, September 24th 2005 12:11 PM
A couple of quick wins against my chess-friend knightTemplar have me out to an early lead in a 4 player all-play-all tournament. Must admit I haven't fared so well in the...
US Chess League Coverage - Saturday, September 24th 2005 11:41 AM
Even as the debate about chess (and gaming in general) as a sport continues, and regardless of whether it is or not, we can sure make it sound like one! The team over at...
Correspondence Chess Starter Kit - Saturday, September 24th 2005 9:07 AM
One of the newest articles from Chess Samizdat is a short introduction to the world of correspondence chess by John Knudsen. The Correspondence Chess Starter Kit has...
Chess Blogging - Saturday, September 24th 2005 8:36 AM
Susan Polgar has a recent post on her blog noting the growing community of chess blogs on the Web. Susan's own blog is one of the better ones well worth bookmarking or...
Chess Samizdat - Tuesday, September 20th 2005 7:07 PM
Chess Samizdat is a new project from John C. Knudsen. John is a Senior International Master (SIM) of correspondence chess and founder of CORRESPONDENCECHESS.COM The...
Scholastic Chess Part 3 - Sunday, September 18th 2005 9:42 AM
I mentioned a couple of posts ago (see Scholastic Chess posted on Thursday) that this month's Scholastic Chess article by Steve Goldberg at ChessCafe has a Canadian theme to...
Scholastic Chess Part 2 - Saturday, September 17th 2005 2:07 PM
September traditionally sees the kids back in school here north of 49 and with that in mind there have been a flurry of junior chess announcements in the past couple of days....
Scholastic Chess - Thursday, September 15th 2005 9:15 PM
There's a distinct Canadian flavour to the latest Quiz of the Month questions in the Scholastic Chess column at ChessCafe.com. 1. The Canadian Chess Association,...