Go West, young man

The Chess Drum recently published a post about Kimani Stancil's chess and professional exploits in the Bay area. Kimani was a frequent player at the Boylston Chess Club when he lived in the Boston area.

Kimani Stancil (left) at the 2004 Herb Healy Open

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Sorting Pictures

Check out the newly restructured Boylston Chess Club Photo Gallery page.

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Be Like Mike

With thanks to The Knights of Castle Kimbark ... the young player pictured above must be a big fan of Noah Pang's chess career.

Noah Pang

GM Christiansen visits the heartland

Natasha forwarded a few pictures from Larry's visit to The Chess Club in Kansas City.

And now, the photo you've all been waiting for...

LarryC takes on a "Porker" Platter

Larry reports that "the BBQ was delicious!"

Stepak's 1989 Photo of Kasparov at Harvard

Kasparov visits Sanders Theatre Harvard v Vivek Rao
Photo: Stepak 1989.

Steve Stepak reunites with Garry Kasparov after 18 yrs.

Can you put my favorite photo on the BCC web page?

The photo was taken by a friend who wishes to remain anonymous just after I was conversing with Kasparov as he signed his book for me; I was reminiscing about Fall of 1989 when he came to Harvard to give talk at Russian Research Center and an 8 board master clock simul at Sanders Theatre: 7 humans and a computer. Garry won all games. I reminded Garry that one of the photos I took of him doing his simul appeared on the cover of Chess Horizons that Winter !! Garry facing off with now IM Vivek Rao! at Sanders Theatre.

Kasparov was happy to remember this visit, after which we were inspired to seal our memories with a handshake. And here you see it. Real smiles on both sides because 1989 were happy times, Perestroika and Glasnost appear on USSR horizon. Garry introduces Cambridge audience of 1989 with these terms; and now 15 Oct 2007 18 yrs later, Garry delivers a highly appreciated and well-applauded speech on life on and off the chess board at First Parish Church, Cambridge, MA USA.

I am grateful. Steve

When did they do their opening prep?

This might be the biggest thing to hit the chess blogosphere in awhile. ChessGirls isn't another one of those chess beauty sites exactly. Instead, it provides coverage of the Dutch team at the 2007 European Club Cup for Women. However, it seems that whenever the team of WIM Marlies Bensdorp, Arlette Van Weersel, WFM Laura Bensdorp and Martine Middelveld weren't busy playing chess, they were doing photo shoots and filming footage for a video production.

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Bachelor(ette) #1, #2 or #3

Photos from the French version of "The Dating Game."

She got the moon in her eye

In her new USCL blog, Elizabeth Vicary has something to share with one of our "cowardly anonymous" commenters (who, for the record, has had his comments deleted and his IP address banned).

By the way, when Liz calls BCC Weblog "often very hilarious," I'm certain that she means, she really likes it a lot!

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Caption Contest XX

This photo from the Kansas City Star already has a caption, but I bet you can come up with a better one.

Hat Tip: The Chess Club

Hold on to the hand rails

A series of photos inspired by a cartoon about playing chess on a roller coaster -- here's one of them.

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Candids from the M-Tel Insurance Publicity Event

Blogger Goran Urosevic of Chess Strategy is in Sofia and sent along these photos from the "ceremony" in which players were given their free life insurance policies.

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