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December 5th, 2012 by admin

Carla Heredia Serrano from Ecuador win the PanAmerican Women’s Chess Championship -

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My good friend Carla Heredia Serrano won the Panamerican Women’s Chess Championship which took place at the end of November in 2012. She played a dominating performance, going undefeated!

This is really cool for a few reasons. Carla now becomes a Women’s Grandmaster! This is the highest rank that a female chess player can achieve and she’s only 21! A full time student at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, she found time to study chess while keeping up great grades.

Carla is an inspiration to girls everywhere! She speaks three languages (Spanish, English, and German) and is studying to be a sports psychologist while traveling the world playing chess. She is from Ecuador and has traveled to over thirty countries including India, Hungary, Poland, Cuba, and Turkey.

I got to ask Carla a few questions about chess:

George: What is your favorite part of traveling for chess?

Carla: I love to get to know other cultures.I had the amazing opportunity to go sightseeing in so many countries. Chess has in life for 14 years and is more than a competitive sport to me. It has taught me to overcome barriers and perseverance in the face of many challenges.

Do you have any advice for young chess players?
Carla: Chess is hard for everyone but at the same time can become a great experience and a tool to promote creativity, brain work and to get to know many cool friends.You should DREAM and work hard for what you want in life, and you will achieve it.
Carla is one of only two Women Grandmasters in all of Ecuador’s History, and the only from ever from the capital city of Quito.
Here’s another article about the Womens PanAmerican Open Chess Tournament and Carla.

 

May 15th, 2012 by George

World Chess Championship: Anand vs. Gelfand

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Anand vs Gelfand

The world chess championships are currently going on in Moscow. World champion Viswanthan Anand is battling with Israeli Chess Star Boris Gelfand. This is an intense battle over the chess board as these are the top two players in the world! If you want to take a look at their game, here is it.

A Russian Online Newspaper writes:

“Playing black for the second time in the match, Anand continued his faith in the Slav defense and yet again did not have much difficulty equalising.

It was a continuation of discussion in the second game of the match wherein Anand had gone for a fifth move surprise and yet again the World champion went for it, emphasising that it was not an opening gamble he had gone for in his first game as…”

Find more of this story here.

  

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