Camilla plays in the 2010 US Womens Championship at the Chess Club & Scholastic Center of St. Louis. Camilla has a score of 2.0 after a draw with Irina Krush in round four of nine. It's the shortest game of the tournament with only 12 moves. Click here to see the game. See below for live broadcast or visit monroi to see the games.
What Smart Chess Players and Stupid Criminals Have in Common
Written by Bob Boland
When you’re a chess player and you come across a chapter in a book with a title like this, it’s certainly got to perk your interest. Well, that’s exactly the name of chapter 3 of the new book, “The Invisible Gorilla,” by authors Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, two cognitive psychologists, and chess players, whose book has stemmed from their now famous “invisible gorilla” experiment, a pioneering study that demonstrated very clearly how faulty our intuitions can be.
Looking for a way to play & learn chess at a time & location more convenient to your personal schedule? That was a question I had to ask myself as I got more involved in coordinating & facilitating over the board tournaments. So, back in June of 2009, I joined Chess.com to start playing online chess.
Over President's Day weekend Alex Yermolinsky traveled east to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Milwaukee were 98 players forming 23 teams showed up for this year's edition of the US Amateur Team North. Click to see crosstables.
The young Trevor Magness, playing for Chicago Blaze, shot to NM status after his performance at the Teams North. His upset with over a 400 point difference against Yermo in round one was the start to his master run. Click here to see the game.
Alex didn't have an impressive tournament with draws in the rest of the rounds.
