Magnus Carlsen of Norway defeated his rival Sergey Karjakin at the Corus tournament in the Netherlands.

Read more in this NY Times article By DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN

I wanted to automate the process of inserting an excellent Mekk's frame into MFO post, but I did not want to add yet another button to already crowded editor. So, you add the frame the same way you add a video from youtube. Steps:

• Find the game you need on Mekk's site, arriving, for example, on this page http://mekk.waw.pl/mk/watchbot/game/670194
• Copy the URL
• Click on Video button
• Paste the URL into the input field
• Click OK

Floated left div will be inserted into your post. Do I need a border around it maybe? How can I improve the discoverability of this feature?

At the World Cup, Wang Yue and Li Chao showed up late for tie-breaker games in their third-round matches and had to forfeit because they had been smoking.

Read more in this NY Times article By DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN

Last week, Magnus Carlsen of Norway became the world's No. 1 player, but in the Tal Memorial tournament in Russia, Vladimir Kramnik emerged victorious.

Read more in this NY Times article By DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN

After a little more than 2 months, TL's 40th 45 45 tournament is over for the U1600 section (U2000 & U1800 still have a round to go). Is still not official since my game hasn't been set, but I won by forfeit, so that gives us just enough points to win the last round & place 2nd.

In overal we did a good job, losing only once in the whole tournament (to bad it was in a critical match). Also, we won 5 rounds & draw 2... You can see the results here.

The only thing I didn't liked is that there where a lots of games not played. At least everyone couldn't play for a round, which kind of sucks, but can't be helped...

Anyway, congrats to everyone :)

Rankings are based on cumulative performances, measured by something called a rating, but the new top-rated player is not yet the world champion.

The chess world has a new No. 1 player, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, and he is only 18 years old — the youngest player ever to hold the rank.

Read more in this NY Times article By DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN

A disenchanted banker traded a six-figure salary for less than half the pay but a more rewarding career.

Read more in this NY Times article By GERALDINE FABRIKANT

France has returned to prominence in the chess world in recent years, and its best player is now Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who is No. 23 in the world.

Read more in this NY Times article By DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN

Primary link to chess is now under Games, not Other Games menu.

If you are reading this, you probably found it already.

Just a reminder that the daylight saving time is comming soon, so it might affect when you schedule your game. On each country it varies when it starts, so you'll have to look that for yourself. Mine is next week & heard that for US is in two weeks (November 1st)...

I leave you with a site that provides this information, so if you don't know when does the DST occours (if applies), you can look there:
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html

Regarless of whether there is going to be a 6th (positional) round for our section or not, mathematically the U1600 team is in the playoffs. We won't even need to wait for ahorse's game tomorrow :)

Good job to everyone, I'm confident we'll bring the cup after so much time.

Magnus Carlsen, 18, dominated the Nanjing Pearl Spring tournament with a little help from his new mentor, the legendary champion Garry Kasparov.

Read more in this NY Times article By DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN

I expected us to lose both games this morning: volgjeneus(1940) vs. reyferoz(1865) and butioxa(1718) vs. jetix(1946). Our ratings are 75 and 228 points lower. Well, I did hope that Rey will draw, but I did not see much hope for myself.

We both did half point better than expected, I drew, and Rey won!

We have a good chance to get our first win, as we are ahead in rating in the remaning two games.

I followed the game via  http://www.teamleague.org/ - the best I could do during a slow day at work. (Do not tell my boss!)

Great #game, watch it!

Well, it seems that we'll have 2 GP (when either Joshua's or onlytwinone's game is set). No other team won 2 rounds on a row, so we have an advantage over other teams. I'm not sure if we'll be playing only 5 rounds or if there's going to be an extra round as in the past tournament we played (T38). Either way, there are so few rounds that we can't afford to lose any round if we want to make to the playoffs, which I'm confident we'll make.

On a side note, it seems funny that both divisions will face the "same" team for round 3 & 4. We'll be facing first MotleyCrew's team & later on Thefourhorsemen's team.