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Confessions of
a Chess Dad
How to console your son after checkmate.
By James Traub, MSN,May
13, 2003, at 2:16 PM PT
Chess
champion finds everyone targets No. 1
By Michael A. Fuoco, May 14, 2003, Pittsburg Post Gazette
Like an Old West gunslinger, whose quick draw and marksmanship made him both
feared and unrelentingly challenged by those seeking their own fame, Alexander
Shabalov is a marked man. That's what happens when you win the U.S. Chess Championship,
as Shabalov did in January in Seattle. As the top gun in U.S. chess circles,
Shabalov is now the player other players want to beat.
Chess
club members pay tribute to national champion
By Tony LaRussa, Pittsburgh Live, May 14, 2003
Members of the Pittsburgh Chess Club honored fellow member Alex Shabalov, winner
of this year's U.S. Chess Championship. Following the award ceremony Shabalov
gave a detailed rundown of the moves and strategy he used in the last round
game of his U.S. championship victory in Seattle, Wash., in January.
A
Big Boom in the Brain Game
By D.K. Bharadwaj, Govt. of India Press Information Bureau, 13th May, 2003
A comprehensive look at the development of the game in India, from Mir Sultan
Khan (the Punjabi player who came from nowhere to beat the likes of Capablanca
and Tartakovar) to the "Inimitable Anand", the Chennai boy whose emergence
has completely revolutionised the Indian chess. Great stuff, must read.