Bangladeshi GM Ziaur Rahman To Boost Chess In Malaysia

After the recent post by Susan Polgar on Niaz Bhai's chess initiative in Bangladesh, today I saw Polgar blogging on Zia's residency in Malaysia to boost chess development there. Wonderful that chess players in Bangladesh are part of news more frequently now alhtough we are far from the mainstream sports news like cricket and football.

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2010/02/resident-gm-in-malaysia.html

http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2010/2/26/lifeliving/5738116&sec=lifeliving

GM Niaz Murshed on Regular Title Tournaments in Bangladesh

I was very happy to read Bangladeshi Grand Master Niaz Murshed's initiative on promoting chess in Bangladesh and subsequently effecting the chess trends of South Asia by arranging regular title tournaments at different venues in Bangladesh. Susan Polgar posted the entry below on a note by the first GM of South Asia Niaz (remember that Anand was second to him) here -

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2010/02/note-by-gm-niaz-murshed.html

You may also have a quick look at -

http://thefidetrainer.blogspot.com/2010/02/first-saturday-type-tournaments-in.html

Susan Polgar Writes on Rani Hamid

I was happy to see GM Susan Polgar writing in her blog on Rani Hamid, IWM from Bangladesh here.

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2009/12/grandma-chess-queen.html

I am privileged to have played with her for a while in Bangladesh chess federation in the 90s in different chess tournaments and practice games.

Kasparov Defeated Karpov by 9 - 3

As I easily predicted, Kasparov defeated Karpov with a good margin 9-3 in the rapid match that finished in Madrid today. Karpov is aged, 58 now, although Kasparov himself is no more young (46). They are planning play another match this December in Paris.

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-match-same-result.html

GM Zia and Enamul Amongst Top Scorers in Kilkata Open

After fifth round, GM Ziaur Rahman and Enamul Hossain of Bangladesh are jointly in second position with other top GMs like Nigel Short in the Kolkata Open with 4 points each. GM Sandipan is solely leading with 4.5 points.

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2009/09/sandipan-leads-kolkata-open.html

It's so great to see our GMs in the front line of the scorers!

Anand Wins Rapid Match with Leko - Chess.com

As I predicted, Anand defeated Leko very easily in the Rapid Chess.

Anand Wins Rapid Match with Leko - Chess.com

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Topalov Took Early Lead by Defeating Kamsky in 2nd Match

Topalov came out with good opening surprises for Kamsy both in yesterday's first game with White and today's second game with black. While Kamsky skillfully held himself in first game, he took too much time to respond to Topalov's plan today and eventually lost the game. Topalov is now leading 1-0 in the 8 game challenger deciding match in Bulgeria.

I found an interesting URL today here -

http://activereader.org/mini-games/amazon-chess/

Update: Topalov defeated Kamsky and became the challenger for world championship crown against Anand that will be help next year in 2010!!! I would love to see Anand defeating Topalov.