Black to move. How should Black proceed?

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Olidie but goodie

Can you name this former US Champion? Chess news from Susan Polgar

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Happy Birthday to a former US Champion!

2 players: FM Rensch and IM Robson.

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The final showdown

America’s newest Grandmaster Ben Finegold! Round 8 photos set 2 (43 pictures): http://picasaweb.google.com/SPICEChess/2009SPICECupRound8Set2 Round 8 photos (31 pictures): http://picasaweb.google.com/SPICEChess/2009SPICECupRound8 Chess news from Susan Polgar

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One more to go for B group

Round 8 photos (31 pictures): http://picasaweb.google.com/SPICEChess/2009SPICECupRound8 LIVE games: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/spice/SPICE_CUP_2009_LIVE_COVERAGE.php LIVE commentary by chessdom: http://www.chessdom.com/news-2009/wesley-so-hammer-spice-cup IM Finegold offered a draw on move 14 to secure his GM title. FM Rensch refused and played on.

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Battle of the young stars

Photo by Mikhail Golubev The final score is Short 3.5 – Efimenko 2.5 [Date "2009.09.26"] [Round "6"] [White "Efimenko, Z."] [Black "Short, N."] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "C44"] [WhiteElo "2654"] [BlackElo "2706"] 1. e4 e5 2

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Short wins! Short wins!

http://chess.liverating.org/ Rank Name Rating Change 01 Topalov 2813,0 0 02 Anand 2788,0 0 03 Aronian 2784,2 +11,2 04 Carlsen 2772,0 0 04 Kramnik 2772,0 0 06 Leko 2762,0 0 07 Radjabov 2757,0 0 08 Ivanchuk 2756,0 0 09 Gelfand 2751,1 -4,9 10 Morozevich 2750,0 0 11 Gashimov 2746,3 +6,3 12 Jakovenko 2742,0 0 13 Ponomariov 2738,5 -2,5 14 Svidler 2738,0 -3 15 Grischuk 2733,8 +0,8 16 Wang Yue 2731,9 -4,1 17 Shirov 2726,0 -4 18 Alekseev 2725,0 0 19 Karjakin 2724,0 +2 20 Mamedyarov 2721,8 +0,8 21 Eljanov 2720,4 +3,4 22 Dominguez 2719,0 0 23 Vachier-Lagrave 2718,0 0 24 Movsesian 2713,0 +2 25 Nakamura 2712,8 -22,2 26 Bacrot 2710,4 +1,4 27 Malakhov 2710,1 -4,9 28 Wang Hao 2706,6 +16,6 29 Tomashevsky 2705,8 +17,8 30 Short 2703,8 -2,2 31 Kasimdzhanov 2702,7 +0,7 Rating as of September 23, 2009 Chess news from Susan Polgar

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World LIVE rating

White to move.

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Opposite color