https://www.milibrary.org/milibrary/chess-newsletters/934
Mechanic’s Institute Newsletter September 12th 2020
Jim interviews Carey Fan of ChessKid.com and Salman Azhar of Bay Area Chess
Salman is a Professor at Duke and founded Bay Area Chess. Carey works at Chesskids, which is part of chess.com and is focused on giving kids a place to play chess, even when in shut-down!
Can Chess Be Addictive?
The Chess Files The answers are out there. By Jim Eade Can Chess be Addictive? The answer is it depends. We must first define our terms. Let’s say that addiction is a psychological or physical inability to stop consuming a drug, chemical, activity or substance, even if, it is doing
Jennifer Shahade interview with Jim Eade and others
Jennifer Shahade, two-time US Women’s Chess Champion and current Poker Stars’ poker star, interviews with James Eade, Okechukwu Umera, Marc lee and Ankit Khandelwal on IBM.tv
Is Online Chess Our Future?
The Chess Files The answers are out there. By Jim Eade Is Online Chess Our Future? The answer is it depends. Some might say that is our present already. Some might say the it can never replace Over the Board competition (OTB) and others might argue that there is plenty
Why I Teach Chess
by David MacEnulty Why I Teach Chess Ah, chess. It’s a been called a game, a sport, a science and an art. It’s an enjoyable pastime, an intense competition, a field for the application of mathematical precision, scientific experimentation and verification, and a marvelous opportunity for creative expression. It has
Sasha Starr interviews Jim Eade, they discuss Steinitz,
Jim and Sasha discuss a famous game between Chess World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz and Curt von Bardeleben at Hastings 1895, which ends in a startling mating attack by Steinitz. Afterwards they play a live game online with each other. Then Jim talks about meeting Victor Korchnoi and Boris Spassky, and
7 time Champion Grandmaster Irina Krush discusses recovery from COVID-19, plays a few live games in video interview with Sasha Starr, Jim Eade and Alexi Shirov
Sasha Starr, joined by Jim Eade, interview special guest Chess Grandmaster Irina Krush, 7 time US Women’s Champion. In the interview, Irina discusses in detail her ordeal of contracting and beginning to recover from COVID-19. She shares her experience dealing with the lack of answers the medical community were providing,
Why are there so few female chess players in the top 100?
As of this writing, there is only one female among the top 100 players as recognized by FIDE, the international governing body of chess. That woman is Yifan Hou (pictured) , who currently is rated at 2658 FIDE and is ranked number 84th among all FIDE ranked players. “… we
Do we need Chess Governing Bodies?
The Chess Files The answers are out there. By Jim Eade Do we need Chess Governing Bodies? The answer is: It depends. We must first define our terms. What do we mean by Governing Bodies? In the United States, the National Governing Body is the USCF. Internationally, the World Chess