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Saturday, February 4, 2012

Cool Xtreme Chess Championships on TV! Must watch video

Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012


Hi everyone,


How about some cool chess news for the weekend? The second episode of the Extreme "X Chess" Championships, featuring a double header Battle of the Sexes is now live!

We thank our friend Jennifer Shahade (writer, entrepreneur and gamesplayer, two-time American Women’s Chess Champion and the editor of Chess Life Online at uschess.org/clo) for sending us this video.

Sixteen-year-old chessmaster Alena Kats faces poker player & chess champ Alex Barnett while law student & ballerina Alisa Melekhina plays an intense match vs. Stanford senior Elliott Liu. The X Chess Champs is an eight-player single-elimination knockout made for TV chess tournament by Jennifer Shahade, Daniel Meirom and Greg Shahade. Stay posted on the Xtreme Chess Championships on twitter, facebook and subscribe to the youtube channel.


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7 comments:

  1. alexis cochran, nzFebruary 4, 2012 at 5:14 AM

    kinda interesting idea. chess on tv. i like that.

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  2. andre martinezFebruary 4, 2012 at 6:15 AM

    kinda good promotion for chess. will we ever become a sport like football? wow.

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  3. Keith Schmidt, BerlinFebruary 4, 2012 at 6:55 AM

    quite funky

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  4. Jiu Lin, BeijingFebruary 4, 2012 at 8:18 AM

    where is Hou

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  5. patricia, romeFebruary 4, 2012 at 10:07 AM

    any naked chess on tv? - just an innocent query does not mean i approve or disapprove of it. Chess should be more on television. Feels good. Less noise more excitement - or am I getting kind of old. Keep up the good work folks.

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  6. Md Jaish, Kuala LumpurFebruary 4, 2012 at 10:31 AM

    Chess Queen I want to see you on chess tv.

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  7. sebastian wolff, nyFebruary 5, 2012 at 9:29 AM

    novel concept great for chess keep up the good work

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