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| ICA Summer Camp 2010 Day Camp Week 9 | ICA Summer Camp 2010 Day Camp Week 9
More info | Results | Photo | | ICA Summer Camp 2010 Day Camp Week 8 | Of course week eight wasn’t it and unlike week seven didn’t play games with the weather and our outside activities.
In other week eight news, our coaching staff again ended up including Ivette “Capablanca’s Cuban Compatriot” Rubio, as well as Ilya “Irina Levitina’s brother” Levitin. Both did a great job with their kids given that Ilya was filling in on short notice and this was only Ivette’s second week of action.
More info | Results | Photo | | ICA Summer Camp 2010 Day Camp Week 7 | With only two weeks to go after this, week seven offered a first real taste of the sad school based season that is to follow the simple satisfaction of summer chess camp. Complete and utter rain decimated our Thursday prospects and put into perspective the fact that my attempt at running a comedy competition failed completely. While the contest certainly had its moments it didn’t seem like there were enough of them to warrant having it again.
More info | Results | Photo | | ICA Summer Camp 2010 Day Camp Week 6 | As the summer winds down to its frigid, and fall-like conclusion we at the ICA march on with our “resign-less” chess strategy even in the face of the odd tears from the odd student. While it may seem terrible for kids to be upset about getting checkmated some ten to twenty moves after they lose most of their pieces, the more important thing is they care about the result enough to be upset with their performance, and should thereby strive to improve.
More info | Results | Photo | | ICA Summer Camp 2010 Day Camp Week 5 | Week five concluded without much fanfare, but with a reinforcement of an age old chess adage that goes as follows: “nobody ever won a chess game by resigning.” Despite repeated pleas, and annoying requests over and over, none of the children who asked to quit the games they were losing were allowed to do so.
More info | Results | Photo | | ICA Summer Camp 2010 Day Camp Week 4 | Dear mothers and fathers, do any of you know how one would go about beating their dad at chess if their dad was Garry Kasparov? (if you don’t know who Garry is SHAME ON YOU)
More info | Results | Photo | | Artur Jussupow Group – Week 1 | The focus in Artur’s camp was on the very tricky opposite colored bishop endings which have been the bane of existence for even the likes of world champion Vishi Anand (surprisingly it is women’s world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk who is fairly successful in these types of endgames).
More info | Photo | | Decades Delight As GM Stripunsky Joins GM |  Alex Stripunsky has been a fixture of the ICA Open section tournaments for a few years now, and except for a few oddball flukes, a fixture of the first place prize for that section. Dubbed “The brain from Ukraine” because it rhymes, and because he was born there
More info | | Summer Camp 2010 |  Why our camp as opposed to another? Simple really. We offer it all, and though chess is the primary activity, there are plenty of other ones that will keep your child from falling asleep, or worst of all, calling your work # asking to be taken home while you are swamped in the middle of an important meeting.
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| International Chess Academy 2010 - 2011 Tournaments | DATES: October 10, December 12, February 13, April 10, June 5
LOCATION: 200 Hackensack Ave, Hackensack, NJ 07601
More info | | 2010 “Monday Night Prime Time” Tournaments |  Presents the wonderful opportunity for Enthusiastic Chess Players:
“Monday Night Prime Time” Tournaments
Byes are available (limited 2 per tournament) if requested no later than 1 day before round
More info | Sign Up | | Affiliate Details (Tournament History) |  Affiliate Details (Tournament History).
There are a total of 65 events for this affiliate.
More info | | ICA FALL 2010 Open Championship | Sunday, OCTOBER 10, 2010
Bergen Academy 200 Hackensack Avenue Hackensack NJ
More info | Sign Up | | ICA FALL 2010 Scholastic Championships | Sunday, October 10, 2010
Bergen Academy 200 Hackensack Avenue Hackensack NJ
More info | Sign Up | | ICA COACH Stripunsky Springs Away With Win In Spring ICA Open Section! | In a performance exactly like one would expect of a grandmaster rated as high as Alex Stripunsky, the ICA coach came away with yet another in a long line of first place finishes at the ICA Open. Stripunsky started by defeating expert level twenty-third finishing George Grasser in round one, before matching wits against another ICA coach in Max Schwartz during round two, and getting the better of his bearded co-worker.
More info | | ICA SPRING 2010 SCHOLASTIC CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS! | With the Spring in full swing and school almost out for the Summer the ICA held another round of its usually seasonal ICA scholastic tournaments. With more than one hundred and forty kids competing for trophies, eating sugar filled donuts, and greasy pizza, this much like all our tournaments was another shin dig of a party all around. The results were as follows:
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| ICA-BCA Team Gets High… | ICA-BCA Team Gets High…Off Of A Euphoric First Place Finish At New Jersey State High School Team Championship! Shusterman Shuts Out Competition In New Jersey Open (U1600)!
More info | | Late But Great-Results From Jersey State (It Rhymes!)! | Late But Great-Results From Jersey State (It Rhymes!)! Spitz Sensational First Place Finish Punctuates Powerful Performance From ICA Individuals!
More info | | Bergen Academy At HS Nationals 2010 | ICA COACHES LEAD BERGEN ACADEMIES TO SIXTH PLACE FINISH IN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS!
More info | Photo | | ICA Student Body Invades New Jersey State Grade Championships! |  As is always the case, many ICA students attended this past New Jersey State championship and as always did the school proud by notching up quite decent results in each grade section.
First up, we had Joshua Lerman, a first grader, score three points out of a total five. His losses came to the first, and second place finishers, and that was enough to earn him sixth place overall.
More info | | Bergen Academy Buries Almost All Competition At Nationals! |  It’s no coincidence that Bergen Academy is located next to a cemetery. The mostly ICA trained Academy team also put away their arch rivals Stuyvesant on their way to finishing second overall.
Eve Litvak scored five out of seven to finish fifth strongest in the country among tenth graders.
More info | | ICA Invades 14th Annual Orchard Scholastic In Ridgewood!!! | With twenty-one students participating in this year’s tournament, ICA students decimated the field, with first place finishes by Samuel Berretini in Section 3 (Championship) and Ariel Shusterman in Section 4 (Future Masters).
More info | | The New Jersey Junior Championship May 8 & 9, 2009 | The New Jersey Junior Championship, held on May 8&9 2009 at Brookdale Community College, saw a tight race in the quest to represent the state of New Jersey as the Denker (men’s) and Polgar (women’s) representatives for New Jersey.
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| FALL 2010 SEMESTER SCHEDULE - Fair Lawn | FALL 2010 SEMESTER SCHEDULE - Fair Lawn
9-10 Saddle River Rd., Fair Lawn, NJ 07410 201-797-0330
More info | Sign Up | | FALL 2010 SEMESTER SCHEDULE - Teaneck | FALL 2010 SEMESTER SCHEDULE - Teaneck
185 Court st, Teaneck, NJ 07666 201-833-1741
More info | Sign Up | | 2010 SUMMER MINI-SEMESTER SCHEDULE - Teaneck |  2010 SUMMER MINI-SEMESTER SCHEDULE - Teaneck
185 Court st, Teaneck, NJ 07666 201-833-1741
More info | Sign Up | | 2010 SUMMER MINI-SEMESTER SCHEDULE - Fair Lawn |  2010 SUMMER MINI-SEMESTER SCHEDULE - Fair Lawn
9-10 Saddle River Road, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410 201-797-0330 www.icanj.net
More info | Sign Up | | 2010 SPRING SEMESTER SCHEDULE - Fair Lawn |  2010 SPRING SEMESTER SCHEDULE - Fair Lawn
14-25 Plaza Rd North, S-2-1, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410 201-797-0330
More info | Sign Up | | 2010 SPRING SEMESTER SCHEDULE - Teaneck |  2010 SPRING SEMESTER SCHEDULE - Teaneck
185 Court st, Teaneck, NJ 07666 201-833-1741
More info | Sign Up | | WINTER 2009-2010 SEMESTER SCHEDULE - Fair Lawn | WINTER 2009-2010 SEMESTER SCHEDULE - Fair Lawn
14-25 Plaza Rd North, S-2-1, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410 201-797-0330 www.icanj.net
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| Chess Camps | | ICA Summer Camp 2010 Day Camp Week 9 | | ICA Summer Camp 2010 Day Camp Week 9 | | ICA Summer Camp 2010 Day Camp Week 8 | | Of course week eight wasn’t it and unlike week seven didn’t play games with the weather and our outside activities.
In other week eight news, our coaching staff again ended up including Ivette “Capablanca’s Cuban Compatriot” Rubio, as well as Ilya “Irina Levitina’s brother” Levitin. Both did a great job with their kids given that Ilya was filling in on short notice and this was only Ivette’s second week of action. | | ICA Summer Camp 2010 Day Camp Week 7 | | With only two weeks to go after this, week seven offered a first real taste of the sad school based season that is to follow the simple satisfaction of summer chess camp. Complete and utter rain decimated our Thursday prospects and put into perspective the fact that my attempt at running a comedy competition failed completely. While the contest certainly had its moments it didn’t seem like there were enough of them to warrant having it again. | | ICA Summer Camp 2010 Day Camp Week 6 | | As the summer winds down to its frigid, and fall-like conclusion we at the ICA march on with our “resign-less” chess strategy even in the face of the odd tears from the odd student. While it may seem terrible for kids to be upset about getting checkmated some ten to twenty moves after they lose most of their pieces, the more important thing is they care about the result enough to be upset with their performance, and should thereby strive to improve. | | ICA Summer Camp 2010 Day Camp Week 5 | | Week five concluded without much fanfare, but with a reinforcement of an age old chess adage that goes as follows: “nobody ever won a chess game by resigning.” Despite repeated pleas, and annoying requests over and over, none of the children who asked to quit the games they were losing were allowed to do so. | | ICA Summer Camp 2010 Day Camp Week 4 | | Dear mothers and fathers, do any of you know how one would go about beating their dad at chess if their dad was Garry Kasparov? (if you don’t know who Garry is SHAME ON YOU) | | Artur Jussupow Group – Week 1 | | The focus in Artur’s camp was on the very tricky opposite colored bishop endings which have been the bane of existence for even the likes of world champion Vishi Anand (surprisingly it is women’s world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk who is fairly successful in these types of endgames). |
| Chess Articles | | ICA COACH ‘GM’ ARTUR JUSSUPOW (YUSUPOV) WINS FIDE AWARD FOR BEST CHESS BOOK! |  | | Artur Jussupow, or Yusupov, as is easier for most of us to pronounce, has been announced the winner of the “Boleslavsky Medal” for best chess book of 2008. The medal, named for Ukrainian Grandmaster Isaac Boleslavsky, is FIDE’s | | V.BOLOGAN. SWING | | One of the biggest Russian publishing houses, "AST", is going to publish the book of V.Bologan "Footsteps" (256 p., 52 games and fragments, autobiography, fragments from author's diary, photos and tournament tables). | | Sending the Rook to the Opposite Wing | | In the chapter “On Open Files,” Aron Nimzovitch formulated the following idea: to advance in one file with the idea of giving up that file for another one… to use that file as a jumping-off place. Unfortunately, he hardly developed this idea any further. We will somewhat fill in this blank spot with the small selection of examples we now bring to your attention.
| | CHESS Lubomir Kavalek | | The winning Ukrainian team in Calvia was not afraid to utilize young talents. The country's champion, Andrei Volokitin, 18, scored 8 1/2 points in 12 games. And the famous 14-year-old prodigy Sergei Kariakin scored an incredible 6 1/2 points in seven games. The team had a strong leader in Vassily Ivanchuk, 35, who amassed 9 1/2 points in 13 games on the top board. One of his victims was Teimur Radjabov, another 16-year-old talent, playing on Azerbaijan's top board. | | CHESS Lubomir Kavalek | | Peter Leko, the Hungarian challenger, leads the titleholder Vladimir Kramnik 5 1/2 to 4 1/2 at the 14-game Classical World Championship in Brissago, Switzerland, after yesterday's game, the 10th. Leko won the eighth game on Thursday; two weekend games were drawn. | | How to prepare to the game (mentally) & Time management Placket-Sadler, 1998/99 |  | | I have to say that before this game, I became incredibly nervous: if there is one thing I should have learnt by now, it is that in order to win a game, particularly against someone you really feel you should beat, it is necessary not to think about winning. Thinking about the end robs you of the will to concentrate on the means: you don't want to calculate, you get impatient, the slightest flaw in your plan gets you angry and annoyed and liable to force the pace recklessly. |
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