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Round 1 of the Reubens Landey is completed. 12 players, to be joined by Zaroug and possibly Julian Chan, will play next Monday. It is not too late to join in the tournament with a 1/2 point bye. It is a very competive field, so you would be sure to have challenging games. Come play.

1 GOLDBERG,BENJAMIN 2140
2 WARFIELD,SIMON 2131
3 THEIL,CAREY 2118
4 SLIVE,ALEX 2018
5 NUTZMAN,PHILIP2012
6 RIHEL,JASON 2001
7 CLAYTON,KYLE LEIGH 1996
8 ROZHANSKY,LIOR 1956
9 NEWMAN,KENNETH 1948
10 JALEEL,ZAROUG 1946
11 ASTRACHAN,EDWARD 1938
12 LEE,JONATHAN MARK 1787
13 YEDIDIA,ADAM 1707

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Elizabeth Vicary reports on the most recent session of the U.S. Chess School, led by GM Gregory Kaidanov and organized by IM Greg Shahade. Read about the players and test yourself on some key exercises from Kaidanov’s lectures.

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FM Todd Andrews came in the money in the World Open Under 2400 section. He gives CLO readers some endgame lessons, fresh from Philadelphia.

Greetings from San Luis, Argentina. I am at the same location as the World Championship in 2005 for a major Chess in the Schools conference. There are about 21,000 young students taking chess in the schools in San Luis alone.

Guests from all over the world are in San Luis for this prestigious conference. I will be doing a number of activities here in the next few days. I am also a keynote speaker at this conference. More to come later…

Source: Susan Polgar Blog

Mr. Frank Kolasinski just sent me this link of a local chess TV show. The main narrator is Mr. George Mirijanian, former president of the Massachusetts Chess Association.

Here is the FATV-Chess Chat June 2008: http://www.fatv.org/index.php?

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The amazing golf ball

A golfer, playing a round by himself, is about to tee off, and a greasy little salesman runs up to him, and yells, “Wait! Before you tee off, I have something really amazing to show you!”

The golfer, annoyed, says, “What is it?”

“It’s a special golf ball,” says the salesman. “You can never lose it!”

“Whattaya mean,” scoffs the golfer, “you can never lose it? What if you hit it into the water?”

“No problem,” says the salesman. “It floats, and it detects where the shore is, and spins towards it.”

“Well, what if you hit it into the woods?”

“Easy,” says the salesman. “It emits a beeping sound, and you can find it with your eyes closed.”

“Okay,” says the golfer, impressed. “But what if your round goes late and it gets dark?”

“No problem, sir, this golf ball glows in the dark! I’m telling you, you can never lose this golf ball!”

The golfer buys it at once. “Just one question,” he says to the salesman. “Where did you get it?”

“I found it.”

Source: http://www.ahajokes.com/

The practical engineer

A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers.

Engineer: What’s with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!

Doctor: I don’t know, but I’ve never seen such ineptitude!

Pastor: Hey, here comes the greens keeper. Let’s have a word with him. [dramatic pause] Hi George. Say, what’s with that group ahead of us? They’re rather slow, aren’t they?

George: Oh, yes, that’s a group of blind fire fighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime. The group was silent for a moment.

Pastor: That’s so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight.

Doctor: Good idea. And I’m going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there’s anything he can do for them.

Engineer: Why can’t these guys play at night?

Source: Susan Polgar Blog

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I was recently asked the following question:

Short or Adams? Which one is the greatest English player ever?

Both have impressive chess resumes. Both have competed in the World Championship. Both have been in the top 10. Which one gets your vote?

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Can you create a clever caption

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Jul 07, 2008 – The Effect of Math and Chess Integrated Instruction on Math Scores
John BUKY, Education Consultant

Frank HO, Canada certified math teacher This article is published by The Chess Academy, Chicago, USA, June 2008 Research studies have shown that chess can be used as an effective game-based teaching method. However, all the past studies used chess as a separate instructional tool.

There were no math contents in chess instruction provided and there was no math and chess integrated workbook used. This study examined the effect on pupils’ math scores when a truly integrated math and chess workbook was used as an instructional practice workbook.

The results show that the integrated math and chess workbook significantly increased pupils’ math scores between pre-tests and post-tests among grade 1 to grade 8 pupils. Key Words: math and chess; math and chess instruction, math and chess integrated workbook; math and chess integrated workbook; mathematics scores of the students.

Here is the full article.

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Drawing by Justin Michael Jenkins

2008 Poikovsky Cup

The Poikovsky tournament is taking place July 8 to 17, 2008.

Participants:

Alexei Shirov 2741
Vugar Gashimov 2717
Dmitry Jakovenko 2709
Sergey Rublevsky 2699
Wang Hao 2691
Victor Bologan 2686
Ernesto Inarkiev 2675
Andrei Volokitin 2671
Alexander Onischuk 2670
Emil Sutovsky 2654

Official website: http://www.russiachess.org/

Round 1 results:

Wang Hao 1-0 Ernesto Inarkiev
Dmitry Jakovenko 1-0 Andrei Volokitin
Emil Sutovsky ½-½ Alexei Shirov
Victor Bologan ½-½ Alexander Onischuk
Sergey Rublevsky 1-0 Vugar Gashimov

Here are the LIVE games.

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