With the score standing at 0.5 – 1.5 in favor of Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Michael Adams of Great Britain has managed to level the contest for the 2004 World Chess Championship being held in Tripoli, Libya, at 1.5 – 1.5. Adams
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7th ranked U.S. chess player Hikaru Nakamura was eliminated by one of England’s best Grandmasters, Michael Adams, in the knockout formula of the 2004 World Chess Championship, being held in Libya. Nakamura amazingly made it to the “sweet sixteen”, an
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George Bush’s remarks in the January 2004 State of the Union Message that called for the elimination of performance enhancing drugs, such as steroids, from sport came out of the blue. In that speech, Bush stated that, “Team owners, union
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With Libya’s Qaddafi at the opening ceremonies, the controversy and excitement flowed from the sands of the Maghreb, as 128 participants from around the globe have assembled in Tripoli, Libya for Africa’s first World Chess Championship tournament. Many of the
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As my final chess classes came to a close, I was reminded of the joy my students had brought me this year. My best student, two time tournament champion Michael Lin of St. Anne, with his remarkable memory and determination,
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Dear Mr. Lewis:My boys and I finally caught up with the entirety of “Moneyball” (in paperback, a year after reading the Times Magazine excerpts), and what a wonderful read it is. To paraphrase what Bill James once wrote about Joe
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During the 1980’s, the Boston Celtics won three NBA championships with a nucleus of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish and Dennis Johnson. Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell also played an important role. Bird and McHale are now Presidents of the Indiana
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The world of chess has seen it’s ups and downs, but I can’t ever recall a time like this one. The great American grandmaster Bobby Fischer had been in a self-imposed exile since his world chess championship victory in 1972
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