Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel

HEADS TO BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS

TO MEET THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF CHESS;

WHEN THE EMMY^®-WINNING SHOW RETURNS JUNE 22 ON HBO

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL presents more enterprising features and reporting when its 159th edition, available in HDTV, debuts TUESDAY, JUNE 22 (10:00 p.m. ET/PT &  9:00 p.m. CT), exclusively on HBO.

Chess Kids.  On the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border, one of the most surprising success stories in sports is being written.  With a population of 175,000 that is 90% Hispanic, Brownsville has rocked the quiet world of chess by turning young players into champions.  Launched as a morning pre-school activity at Russell Elementary School in 1990 by educator Jose Juan Guajardo, chess quickly grew in popularity.  Within a few years, elementary schools were winning state titles, with middle and high school championships not far behind.  As prodigies from hardscrabble, academically struggling city schools accumulated national titles, even the local college program distinguished itself, ranking among the nation’s best teams.  REAL SPORTS correspondent Mary Carillo journeys to Brownsville to see how one of the most impoverished cities in the country rallied around the sport and carved out a niche as a hotbed of chess – one pawn at a time.

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Chess.MN 4th FIDE Invitational

Kevin Wasiluk finished 8.0/9.0 to capture the Chess.MN 4th FIDE Invitational in clear first. He was the only player to finish without a loss.

Finishing in clear second and third respectively, were Kevin Bu (6.5) and Brendan Purcell (6.0). Andrey Chernov and Prashantha Amarasinghe finished with 5.0/9.0 points to finish 4/5.

To view the games click on PGN Viewer or 4th FIDE for complete standings.

Dr. Sisira Amarasinghe is organizing Chess.MN Inaugural FIDE Open Swiss on May 22-23, 2010. Click on FIDE Swiss to view/download the flier. You may register Online.

2010 World Chess Championship

Games and analysis for the 2010 World Chess Championship match between Champion Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Toplaov are brought to you courtesy of ChessDom.com. You may view them with pgn viewer on this blog by clicking the respective link under blog pages.

05-01-2010: At the halfway point, Anand is up one point 3.5 to 2.5.

2010 Minnesota Closed Games

I have moved these games to blog pages.

2010 Final Four of College Chess

March madness is over but four teams are jousting for the prestigious President's Cup, otherwise known as the Final Four of College Chess. The teams competing are University of Maryland Baltimore County, University of Texas at Dallas, Texas Tech University and University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College (UTB/TSC).

The event is being held at UTB/TSC located at Brownsville, Texas. To learn more read History of Chess in Brownsville or download the Final Four program guide.

Games from the event can be viewed individually at Monroi.com (registration required) or on this blog by clicking 2010 Final Four. The official page is found at 2010 President's Cup.

Frank Johnson Games from 2010 MN Open

I finally found the pgn code for blogs and figured it out to make it functional. There were several to choose from, but I was looking for one which allowed multiple games to be listed under one board/viewer.

Please check out the games played by Frank Johnson at the 2010 Minnesota Open. He also did some great video analysis which I also linked to this blog. Enjoy the Johnson Games by clicking the link or under the blog pages area.