In terms of transferable skills chess may be one of the most notable. As Team PokerStars Pro Ylon Schwartz, (a chess ELO rating close to 2,400) pointed out, the memory skills transfer well from the chess board to the baize, spotting among other things, betting and behaviour patterns.
It’s a skill used by several players in the field in Prague.
Almira Skripchenko, who played yesterday, is poised to make the same breakthrough in poker that she made in chess. An International Chess Master, who made a final table at the World Series this year, Skripchenko is a former under-16 World Youth chess champion with a peak ELO rating of 2,501.
Holiday Chess vistory makes a Great Christams Gift
SUNDAY, 11am: Melton Chess Club’s first team finally registered a win in Division One of the Leicestershire League on Wednesday night against Braunstone.
A major factor was the debut on board one of Graham Lee, who for many years has been among the leading English players.
Despite having played a limited amount of chess in the last couple of years, he showed he hasn’t lost his touch by scoring a comfortable win on top board. His inclusion was necessary as Melton were without several of their top players for the match.
MANILA – Grandmaster (GM) Mark Paragua’s win over International Master (IM) Dzhurabek Khamrakulov was not enough to save the RP chess team from a 6th-round beating in the hands of team Uzbekistan in the team rapid competition of the Asian Indoor Games in Vietnam.
Rogelio “Joey” Antonio Jr. drew with fellow GM Anton Filippov while Women Fide Masters (WFM) Shercila Cua and Catherine Perena succumbed to Women International Chess Masters (WIM) Nafisa Muminova and Nodira Nodirjanova, respectively.
Thus, Team Uzbekistan scored 2.5 points against RP’s 1.5.
Overall, the RP Team compiled a total of 11.5 points after 6 rounds of play.
Castling is a move that can be made only once in a game. It is actually a move of two chess pieces at once, the King and one Rook. It consists of moving the King two squares to his right or left towards the Rook, and then placing the Rook onto the square on the other side of the King. Castling is subject to the following conditions:
Jaques Chess clocks or game timers are essential during play, and every chess player and gamer needs a clock he can count on during games of chess, when played with the Rules
We have been making many antique and vintage chess clocks through out chess history and therefore we draw on all this manufacturing experience when making this clock.
