Daaim Shabazz

  • Daaim ShabazzMay 5, 2015
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    2015 African Individual Championship (Cairo, Egypt)

    The African continental championship has begun in Cairo, Egypt in the “Land of Kings and Queens”. With two spots up for grabs at World Cup qualifying tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan. The 2013 field is headlined by the Egyptian GMs Bassem Amin and Ahmed Adly from a total of 54 players…

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  • Daaim ShabazzMay 5, 2015
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    2015 Millionaire Chess Satellite (Nairobi, Kenya)

    Uganda’s Harold Wanyama (right) beat his compatriot and top-seed IM Elijah Emojong in an important 5th round encounter. He went on to win his last three games to take the first of three qualifying tournaments in Africa. Photo by Kasparov Chess Foundation. The first of the three satellite tournaments in…

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  • Daaim ShabazzMay 3, 2015
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    Besomeone Inc., “Life is Chess, Not Checkers”

    Orrin Hudson of Besomeone Incorporated is holding a seminar designed to empower the attendees in his trademark motivational style. On a goal to teach a million students, Hudson’s story is well-known and for the past 14 years he has been encouraging youth to steer away from violence and make better…

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  • Daaim ShabazzApril 28, 2015
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    China, Georgia win World Teams!

    China and Georgia won the World Team and World Women’s Team tournaments respectively, both with a clean sheet of no defeats. The Ukraine and host Armenia took silver and bronze… for the women, Russia and China. The winning teams were led by China’s Wei Yi’s 7/9 on board #4 and…

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  • Daaim ShabazzApril 27, 2015
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    Kasparov wallops Short in Legends, 8.5-1.5

    Match Score   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Score Kasparov ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8½ Short ½ 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1½ Official Site In the aftermath of the controversy stemming from his New…

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    Daaim ShabazzApril 26, 2015
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    The Infectious Wisdom of Maurice Ashley

    “Millionaire Chess” entrepreneur Maurice Ashley is again on the promotion circuit extolling the virtues of chess in a short segment titled, “The Infectious Wisdom of Maurice Ashley”. The five-minute video shows Ashley telling his story… a story that he has told one million times, but no two times appear to…

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  • Daaim ShabazzApril 26, 2015
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    Kasparov-Short revisit match!

    Kasparov-Short square off in 1993 match. The Kasparov-Short in 1993 was epic for a number of reasons. The match signaled the official break from FIDE by these two national heroes. FIDE then stages a separate match between Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman. Kasparov beat Short 12½-7½ while Karpov vanquished Timman,…

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  • Daaim ShabazzApril 23, 2015
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    Gender in Chess… the long and Short of it

    Since 2012 I have done a review of each issue of New in Chess (NIC), a premier Dutch magazine. When I received my New in Chess a month ago, I was pleased to see Hikaru Nakamura as the cover story as well as the Tata Steel coverage. The issue included…

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  • Daaim ShabazzApril 21, 2015
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    2015 World Team Championships in progress!

    Mariya Muzychuk in her first tournament since winning the women’s championships two weeks ago. Photo by Anastasia Kharlovich. The World Team Championship and the World Women’s Team Championships are being concurrently held in different countries in a 10-team round robin format. These teams qualified from their positions in respective continental…

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  • Daaim ShabazzApril 19, 2015
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    New in Chess (2015/2)

    Bobby Fischer graced the cover of the last New in Chess so it is apropos that a bearded Hikaru Nakamura is this issue’s focus. Having broken the 2800-barrier and the top-five echelon, Nakamura has started 2015 with three straight tournament wins. The issue does not cover the U.S. Championship, but…

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