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  • Daaim ShabazzDecember 7, 2013
    13 3,722

    Carlsson Chess Training!

    Back in the summer, The Chess Drum chatted with Swedish Grandmaster Pontus Carlsson via Skype and got an update on his chess activities and his online teaching. He is well-known to The Chess Drum audience having earned his GM title back in 2007 and joining Sweden’s national team. While Carlsson…

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  • Daaim ShabazzNovember 16, 2013
    3 2,429

    Alphas host GM Ashley in Cleveland

    Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., known for its instincts for being originators and being first to serve and lead in its communities has done it again. The pre-community services activities of the second annual Cleveland Scholastic Open, a chess tournament designed to attract the interest of non-scholastic chess players and…

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  • Daaim ShabazzNovember 11, 2013
    4 2,369

    Chess Legend Charles Lawton on NPR

    Charles Lawton at 2009 U.S. Championship.Photo by Daaim Shabazz. National Master Charles Lawton was interviewed on NPR November 8th discussing the vibrant chess scene in St. Louis. Lawton, a St. Louis native, talked about his humble beginnings as a budding player. He also mentioned the facets of chess that make…

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  • Daaim ShabazzOctober 11, 2013
    7 2,638

    Alpha Phi Alpha promotes Scholastic Chess

    Alpha Phi Alpha, Fraternity, Incorporated is the first collegiate fraternity founded by seven Black men at Cornell University on December 4, 1906. The idea was to build an organization in which these students (and those like them) could maintain more intimate contacts in order to pursue scholarly endeavors. The foundations…

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  • Daaim ShabazzSeptember 27, 2013
    12 2,391

    Black wins CIS Rapid in Central Park!

    One of the 600 participants in the Chess-in-the-Schools festivities. Chess has a way of creating happiness. We are officially amidst a chess renaissance in the U.S. With SuperNational scholastic tournaments drawing more than 5,000 players, St. Louis becoming the centrifugal force of growth of American chess (with St. Louis Chess…

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  • Daaim ShabazzSeptember 22, 2013
    13 2,330

    Chevannes’ U.S. tour a smash… eclipses 2200

    WIM-elect Sabrina ChevannesPhoto by WIM Ioana Smaranda Padurariu. WFM Sabrina Chevannes was on tour this summer in the U.S. and capped off her visit by attending the historic Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis. Prior to that she had visited Susan Polgar’s Webster Academy, stopped by the iconic and famed Marshall…

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  • Daaim ShabazzSeptember 21, 2013
    35 3,071

    FM Ronald Simpson: 1960-2013

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  • Daaim ShabazzAugust 20, 2013
    17 2,315

    1st IM Norm for Justus!

    Justus Williams (right) faced Josh Colas in round six. That game would go four hours and Williams would prevail. Photo by John Upper. Justus Williams may be the most disappointed person ever to earn an IM norm and FM title. The 15-year old scholastic star competed in the North American…

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  • Daaim ShabazzAugust 11, 2013
    14 2,378

    Gillian Bwalya at World Cup

    Gillian Bwalya probably became known to the world after his creditable 7/10 performance at the 2012 Olympiad netting him the FM title. Since then he has pocketed the IM title pending on his conferral. For winning the 4.3 subzonal, the Zambian will compete in the 2013 World Cup tournament. He…

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  • Daaim ShabazzJuly 23, 2013
    40 2,473

    Justus prevails at U.S. Cadet!

    Justus Williams has come a long from being the soft-spoken boy with the long dreadlock mane. The last five years have been a whirlwind for the 15-year old from the Bronx, New York. He is now a slender, clean-cut, bespectacled high school sophomore at Bronx School of Science and Technology…

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