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 | I'd like to take his opportunity to wish Jennifer Shahade a very happy 28th birthday! I don't think there are many people in American chess or in World chess who wouldn't consider Jenn an American sweetheart. We'd all like to fall in love with her ... and by some degree with every success and achievement we see from her we do literally fall in love. Despite the chess goddess image that is fostered publicly by the chess media I find women like Jenn to be extremely down to earth. She is hardly the Greek Aphrodite atop Mount Olympus ... but rather, the girl next door who likes to play chess with the boys. I do feel a bit sad that her birthday is between Christmas and New Years. Too often I think people with birthdays around that time get cheated out of blessing. People tend to save time and wish you a happy birthday and a merry christmas and a happy new year all in one breath. I haven't wished Jenn a happy new year and I won't yet.  I can confidently say that I was one of the first people to say happy birthday to Jenn personally ... I sent her a message the day before and she replied at 12:02am this morning. That's gotta be fated but one has to wonder what Jenn was doing up at that hour? Okay, so maybe it was 12:02 my time. Anyway, to quote Jenn: "thanks for the b-day wishes! ... I'm psyched to be 28 and 2008 was a really good year ..." |
USCF's Faction Attacks Democracy
Tuesday, December 30. 2008
The Hastings Chess Congress Brings In The New Year
 | From Chessdom:GM Emanuel Berg will be top seeded in the main tournament. He will have strong local opposition from GM David Howell, GM Gawain Jones, and GM Sturt Conquest. Among other of the strong international participants are GM Valerij Neverov (current Hastings Masters Champion and winner of Hastings Chess 2008), GM Igor Kurnosov, GM Daniel Gormally, and GM Milos Pavlovic. Top woman player of the event will be IM Jovanka Houska.The Hastings tournament will take place from 12-28-2008 to 1-5-2009. See the Chessdom article or the Official Site for the Event at Hastings. |
Monday, December 29. 2008
USCF Chooses Lawsuits Over Delegates
FIDE president conferencing with Top GMs
The following appeared on Susan Polgar's blog:
After Henrik Carlsen's open letter to FIDE regarding his son's withdrawal from the Grand Prix cycle it's no big surprise what were the contents of this meeting. I wonder if FIDE's promise provide the meeting minutes will actually be fulfilled or if simply announcing that a meeting occurred will be enough of a PR boost.
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov held an online conference with the top World Chess Grand Masters in Elista, Russia. He thanked them and their representatives for their contribution to a fruitful online discussion regarding the World Chess Championship Cycle.The World Champion Anand Vishwanathan, Grand Masters Veselin Topalov, Vasily Ivanchuk, Magnus Carlsen (represented by his father Henrik) and Levon Aronian explained their views to the FIDE Officials present which included FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Deputy President George Makropoulos, Vice President Zurab Azmaiparashvili, FIDE Commercial Director & Global Chess CEO Geoffrey Borg and PA to FIDE President Berik Balgabaev.
The meeting lasted more than an hour and different opinions, suggestions, recommendations and constructive criticism was made by the players. FIDE President said that he would take the views of the players to the Presidential Board to be held in mid-March 2009 in Budapest where they will be reviewed closely.
The context of the meeting in detail with full text reports for FIDE President and from Mr Henrik Carlsen (kindly sent to us also electronically) and edited versions of FIDE Deputy President Makropoulos, GMs Anand, Topalov, Ivanchuk and Aronian will be reproduced tomorrow.
After Henrik Carlsen's open letter to FIDE regarding his son's withdrawal from the Grand Prix cycle it's no big surprise what were the contents of this meeting. I wonder if FIDE's promise provide the meeting minutes will actually be fulfilled or if simply announcing that a meeting occurred will be enough of a PR boost.
