Search Results for: emory tate
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News Briefs Index (2014)
Playing against National Master Phan Xuan Datin Hanoi, Vietnam. December The Chess Drum’s Highlights of 2014! (31 December 2014) New in Chess (2014/8) (31 December 2014) Millionaire Chess #2 opens January 1st!! (31 December 2014) ‘A Fork, A Spoon and A Knight’ (30 December 2014) African Chess: 2014 in Perspective…
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News Briefs Index (2015)
Emory Andrew Tate Jr.(December 27, 1958 – October 17, 2015)(announcement, obituary) December The Chess Drum’s Highlights of 2015! (31 December 2015) Chess Duel: Sevian vs. Grandelius! (31 December 2015) Colas bags GM norm in Vegas! (31 December 2015) African Chess made strides in 2015 (30 December 2015) 2015 Zimbabwe Open…
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News Briefs Index (2016)
December The Chess Drum’s Highlights of 2016! (31 December 2016) Carlsson reflects on Sweden’s Racial Climate (31 December 2016) Petition for U.S. Chess Olympiad team (23 December 2016) Ray “Dragon” Robinson passes away (22 December 2016) FM Harold Wanyama of Uganda retires (21 December 2016) 2016 London Chess Classic (Round…
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News Briefs Index (2017)
Interviewing Levon Aronian after the closing ceremoniesof the 2017 Rapid & Blitz in St. Louis.Photo by Peter Doggers December The Chess Drum’s Highlights of 2017! (31 December 2017) “Triple Exclam” wins joint honor for “Best Author” (31 December 2017) Webster’s New York chess crew makes history (31 December 2017) Kenneth…
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News Briefs Index (2022)
December The Chess Drum’s Highlights of 2022! (31 December 2022) Ortega is Cape Verde’s 2022 Chess Champion (31 December 2022) 2022 Liberian Chess Championship (27 December 2022) 2022 World Rapid & Blitz (Almaty, Kazakhstan) (26 December 2022) Blitz tourney heats up NYC… Colas wins! (24 December 2022) 2022 Capital City…
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The Chess Drum
Black History Month 2022-Day 23: Ashley’s Unity Tournament Series (1992)
The 1992 African-American Unity Tournament Series was a novel idea and 30 years later, has never lost its relevance. If there is one aspect of the Hall of Fame career of Maurice Ashley that is overlooked or perhaps underrated, it is his visionary ideas. We know about his ambitious tournaments…
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Drum Majors
Black History Month 2022-Day 21: Alfred Blake Carlin
Alfred Blake Carlin was larger than life figure in New Orleans chess. Carlin’s large physical size matched his personality and he was a well-respected chess player and coach. He was one of the few Black masters (Senior Master) in the south and was a five-time Louisiana state champion (1981, 1983,…
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The Chess Drum
Black History Month 2022-Day 16: Pan-African Chess
Marcus Mosiah Garvey The Chess Drum is billed as a Pan-African website. One of the biggest inspirations for this site was the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey. This Jamaican visionary immigrated to the United States and set forth one of the most important social movements in American history. It started as…
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The Chess Drum
Black History Month 2022-Day 15: Ashley & Muhammad
In 2003, Maurice Ashley and Stephen Muhammad joined the roster of participants of the prestigious U.S. Chess Championship, the hallmark of American tournaments. It is a chance for glory and to be included in the annals of history along with the list of luminaries whose plaques now adorn the World…
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Drum Majors
Black History Month 2022-Day 8: FM Morris Giles
“I’ve never heard of him.” This is a statement I’ve heard many times when referring to FM Morris Giles. In covering Black players in the U.S. or “African-Americans” as we are commonly called, there are those who invoke vivid memories. Of course, we have heard of Maurice Ashley and Emory…
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