Chicago Blaze: The Inside Story of Chicago’s First Professional Chess Team

Relive the Chicago Blaze history in action as we follow the team to their build up to the Championship! Insider stories are shared. It is Chicago history presented through the former manager's unique point of view.The Chicago Blaze Chess team represented the Windy City in the United States Chess League from 2008 to 2011. In 2011, the team made the Championship finals where they lost to the NY Knights. This book contains stories, photos, puzzles and analysis by team members of the 176 games. 169 games are annotated including 16 by GMs & 15 by IMs.All the puzzles were hand selected by NM Jeremy Kane. Finally, here is the complete list of annotators for the 169 annotated games in order of the number of games they annotated with the number in ():•NM Jeremy Kane (110)•Daniel Parmet (25)•NM Trevor Magness (11)•GM Yury Shulman (6)•IM Jan Van de Mortel (6)•IM Angelo Young (6)•GM Dmitry Gurevich (5)•GM Mesgen Amanov (4)•FM Albert Chow (3)•IM Florin Felecan (2)•GM Josh Friedel (1)•FM Jim Dean (1)•IM Eric Rosen (1)•IM Konstantin Kavutskiy (1) •IM Salvijus Bercys (1)•NM Gopal Menon (1)•NM Todd Freitag (1) Read more