Posts tagged: champion

Gelfand, a “local” hero, to challenge champion Anand

GM Boris Gelfand won the World Candidates Matches final in Kazan and will challenge the reigning chess world champion next year. I was so glad to hear the news.Why? Because he is like a local hero. Boris, when he was a kid, had a coach named Tamara Golovey, Tamara has a chess club in town, [...]

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Wednesday May 25th, 2011 in , , , , , | No Comments »

Let it be

I was glad Abe was calm and in not a bad mood this raining Saturday. If you follow this blog, you know that he’s been in a slump in chess recently. In order for him to break out of the slump, I made the following plan: 1) He should play more games. 2) He should [...]

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Sunday June 6th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

“Nuggets” won the championship

Here is the final game of the tournament,  “Nuggets”  (in gray) vs “Lakers” (in purple): Congratulations to all players, coaches and parents who cheer for the kids. As coach David said “Wow”. What a team effort! Go “Nuggets”.

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Wednesday December 23rd, 2009 in , , | 1 Comment »