Super Grandmaster\Fabiano Caruana Celebrates His 18th Birthday

Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is Grandmaster and chess prodigy with dual citizenship of Italy and the United States.On 15 July 2007 Caruana became a Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 20 days - the youngest Grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United States.In the July 2010 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2697, making him 39th in the world and the highest ranked player under the age of 18...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabiano_Caruana).I wish GM\Fabiano Caruana a very Happy Birthday .
Source of the photo:http://www.chessbase.com/news/2007/caruana25.jpg

Chess Grandmaster Viktor Gavrikov Celebrates His Birthday !

Viktor Gavrikov (born 29 July 1957) is a Lithuanian-Swiss chess Grandmaster.Gavrikov shared 1st with Gintautas Piešina in the 1978 Lithuanian Chess Championship at Vilnius. He won the 52nd Soviet Chess Championship (with Mikhail Gurevich and Alexander Chernin) at Riga 1985, and finished 2nd (joint) in the 1986 event (Vitaly Tseshkovsky won).After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he emigrated to Switzerland. He won at Biel 1994, and won the Swiss Chess Championship at Arosa 1996. He shared 1st with Viktorija Čmilytė in the Lithuanian Championship in 2000.Gavrikov was awarded the GM title in 1984...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Gavrikov)
GM\Gavrikov site:http://www.viktorgavrikov.net/index.html
I wish GM\Gavrikov a very Happy Birthday !

Super Chess Grandmaster\Michael Adams Masterpiece !

Michael Adams (born November 17, 1971 in Truro, Cornwall, England, UK) is a British Grandmaster (1989) of chess. His highest ranking is world number 4, achieved several times from October 2000 to October 2002. and he has achieved a peak Elo rating of 2755.He has achieved good results in World Chess Championship tournaments. Several times a Candidate, he reached the semi-finals in 1997, 1999 and 2000. At the 2004 FIDE Championship, he reached the final, narrowly losing out to Rustam Kasimdzhanov in the tie-break games....(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Adams)
Source of the photo:http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=10900
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In Tribute For The British Prodigy WFM\Jessie Gilbert (January 30, 1987 – July 26, 2006)

Jessica Gilbert had represented England in every major chess competition from the age of 12, and came to prominence when she won the Women’s World Amateur Chess Championship in 1999. She was mentioned in a parliamentary debate by the then sports minister, Tony Banks, who said: "We are extremely proud of what Jessie Gilbert has achieved for chess and for this country."She also gained the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title from the game's governing body, FIDE. In recognition of her achievement, the Brain Trust charity and Swedish health care company Bure provided Gilbert with a bursary of £4000 so that she could travel to America to study with grandmaster Edmar Mednis in New York .Gilbert had won a place at Oxford University to study medicine from September 2005, but decided to take a gap year in order to spend time focused solely on chess. In the space of only a few months in early 2006, Gilbert achieved three "norms" in major chess tournaments...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_GilbertAlso:http://www.jessiegilbert.com/
Source of the photo:http://www.chessbase.com/news/2006/gilbert01.jpg by (Pufichek)

The Egyptian Chess Talent IM\Kareem Wageeh Wins Arab Championship U-20 Boys In Jordan

IM\Kareem Wageeh has sensationally won the Arab Championship for Boys U-20 in Jordan which took place from 13\7 to 20\7\2010 after scoring 8 points out of 9 games.CM\Moheb Ameir came third in Boys U-18 and Moustafa Sherif came 12th in Boys U-16.In Girls U-20 WGM\Mona Khaled came third and Merihan Mahmoud came fifth.In Girls U-18 Eman Al Ansary came third and in Girls U-16 Alaa Moataz came in the sixth place.
Engineer\Refaat Raslan -Head of the Competitions Committee in the Egyptian Chess Federation-was head of the Egyptian mission team.
For more details :http://chess-results.com/fed.aspx?lan=1&fed=JOR
Congratulations to IM\Kareem Wageeh and best wishes to all Egyptian Youth !

Grandmaster\Judit Polgár Celebrates Her Birthday !

Judit Polgár (born July 23, 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history. In 1991, she achieved the title of Grandmaster (GM) at the age of 15 years and 4 months. She was, at that time, the youngest person ever to do so. Polgár is ranked number 50 in the world on the May 2010 FIDE rating list with an Elo rating^[update] of 2682, the only woman on FIDE's Top 100 Players list, and has been ranked as high as eighth. She has won or shared first in Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, Leon 1996, US Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000....(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r)
Source of the Photo:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Judit_polgar_03.08.2008.jpg
Official website of GM\Judit Polgár:http://www.polgarjudit.com/
On behalf of myself and SCCA staff and students we wish Judit a very Happy Birthday !

The Legendary 12th World Chess Champion GM\Anatoly Karpov :A Closer Look

When I entered the Chairman's Meeting Hall in the tennis stadium at Smouha Club heading towards our honorable guests to welcome them...Mr.Hussein Nafady -Chairman of the Egyptian Chess Federation-introduced me to the legendary 12th World Chess Champion GM\Anatoly Karpov and added pointing towards me "...this man is crazy about Bobby Fischer.."!! -which is true for many reasons:he raised the level of the game ;and also his achievements as a chess player , ...etc-surprisingly to me GM\Karpov laughed gently ;and we started a friendly conversation as if we knew each other for many years before !
When our honorable guests entered the VIP Hall accompanied by the well known businessman Engineer\Farag Amer -chairman of Smouha Club and member of the senate- GM\Karpov headed directly towards the young boys and girls playing blitz games then I saw his eyes shined not only with an expected talented genius look but with a look of hope ;a dream he wants to fulfill.
In his speech ...when the World Champion spoke his mind spontaneously -without any drafts of paper-about his current and future projects of opening Karpov's chess schools in the middle east and in the developing countries ;and the ambitions he wants to fulfil for the sake of the royal game ...his sincere language and integrity touched the hearts of all the audiences .
GM\Karpov has a charismatic type of personality : modest , sincere,kind person ; a real gentleman who has the ethics of a real hero and a World Champion who has millions of fans and admirers all over the world.

The Clash Between 2 World Chess Champions :GM\Ponomariov Beats GM\Kramnik In Dortmund 2010

The above endgame resulted from a very exciting game and powerful play by GM\Ponomariov against GM\Kramnik in their encounter (round 2) in Sparkassen GM Tournament (Dortmund 2010).How should white proceed in the above diagram ?
Source of the event:http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/2010/
Source of the photo:http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/2010/fotos/runde-2.html by Georgios Souleidis
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