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Telegraph chess: Perils of a chair leg
The 5th Staunton Memorial roared away at Simpsons in the Strand with a novel way of determining the pairings. The chess event sponsor Jan Mol distributed two sets of numbers one to six to the twelve chess players. Players with the same number were then handed two remote controlled cars to be raced, with the winner playing white. Loek Van Wely, who once famously wrote off his sports car on the German Autobahn while travelling back from a chess match, sent his toy into a chair leg which gave Michael Adams the white pieces in their individual game. However, the England number one did not feel inclined to attack the Sicilian Defence and the game was ... |
Chess with Errol Tiwari
It is said that chess is the gymnasium of the mind. We know it is the classic game of strategy. Fortunately, it can be played by anyone and everyone. It is a thinking game, and has this image of a brainy pastime. But children as young as five, six or seven, have been able to learn and grasp the basics of chess game. In selected elementary schools overseas, chess is a regular part of the maths curriculum. Why? As kids play chess they actually use logic and problem-solving skills. They learn to develop strategies because it is necessary to plan ahead in chess, and this represents excellent training for a young, undeveloped mind. It teaches ... |
Barden on chess
The Danish-born Scot Jacob Aagaard last night made it seven non-English winners in a row at the British Chess Championship when he won the title with 8.5/11, half a point ahead of Stephen Gordon and the holder, Jonathan Rowson. Aagaard led all the way but the significant move in the last few rounds has been the emergence of the young North-West chess players Gordon, 20, and Stewart Haslinger, 25, into the top echelon of UK chess. Haslinger, who scored 7.5, and Nick Pert, 26, along with the still younger chess grandmasters Gawain Jones, 19, and David Howell, 16, form a new group which can replace England's GMs from the 1970s Fischer boom who ... |
Chess with Errol Tiwari
In 38 days, on September 12, FIDE Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik will begin his title defence in picturesque Mexico City against seven of the strongest chess players on the planet. Chess players will know that Kramnik defeated Garry Kasparov for the title in London 2000, and has defended it successfully ever since. This time around, Kramnik will be tasked to prove he is better than India's Viswanathan Anand, a former FIDE world chess champion himself, who is renowned for his speed and accuracy in the attack. There is Peter Svidler (Russia), who is regarded as a player of precision and who, it is said, is as accurate as the computer. Svidler is an ardent cricket fan and an articulate ... |
Telegraph chess: A classy finish
Stewart Haslinger of Southport celebrated becoming England’s most recent chess Grandmaster by defeating Jacob Aagaard and opening up the British Chess Championship in the eighth round held at Great Yarmouth College. Haslinger defended the Ruy Lopez patiently and accurately and took his chance when it arose. Haslinger now shares the lead with Aagaard on 6.5/8 with three to play. The defending chess champion Jonathan Rowson will find it tough to win a fourth successive title after misplaying the Benko Gambit and losing to Stephen Gordon. This result put Gordon in with a great chance of securing the GM title. The ninth round sees an all Lancashire clash on top board between Gordon and Haslinger. ... |
Telegraph chess: Aagaard steams on
Jacob Aagaard’s dominance of the British Chess Championship continued as he despatched another of his challengers in the seventh round held at Great Yarmouth College. Simon Williams became Aagaard’s sixth victim when, after trying to attack, he found himself first becalmed and then gradually forced back. The Danish GM, now a Scottish resident reached 6.5/7. Only Stewart Haslinger remains within a point of the leader. Haslinger looked impressive again as he followed up a smooth victory over GM Stuart Conquest with the rapid defeat of a second England international Danny Gormally. Gormally sacrificed a pawn but never got it back and ruined his position in the process. Like Aagaard, Haslinger’s fine play at Great Yarmouth has pushed his rating to the required 2500 level and ensured he will receive the Grandmaster title. ... |
Telegraph chess: An ill wind for Radjabov
The Norwegian chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen won the Biel Chess Festival crushing his rival Teimour Radjabov the world’s highest ranked junior play in the last round. Carlsen needed a win in their last round and playing white, threw caution to the wind and was rewarded when Radjabov, ranked world number 9, was unable to find the best defence. The American Alexander Onischuk joined Carlsen on the winning score of 5.5/9 but the youngest won a Blitz play off to take the title. ... |
Chess, Lubomir Kavalek
Magnus Carlsen won the elite grandmaster group at the 40th chess festival in the Swiss city of Biel last week. The brilliant 16-year-old Norwegian grandmaster had to beat the top-rated Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan in the last round to catch Alexander Onischuk, a Maryland grandmaster and former U.S. chess champion. They shared first place in the tournament with 5 1/2 points in nine games, but Carlsen prevailed in the playoff 3 to 2. Radjabov, Alexander Grischuk of Russia, Judit Polgar of Hungary and Yannick Pelletier of Switzerland finished a half point behind the winners. Onischuk is having a great summer. At the end of June he shared third place in a powerful Aerosvit chess tournament in Foros in ... |
Barden on chess
It is probably unique in more than a century of British chess championships for two county-standard players to share the lead after three rounds, both with wins over grandmasters. Stephen Barrett and Graeme Oswald were the early heroes at Great Yarmouth this week, though the fairytale was halted in Thursday's round four when the GMs Nick Pert and Jacob Aagaard beat the interlopers and advanced to 4/4. The question yet to be decided is whether an Englishman can win the title for the first time since 2000. Between 2001 and 2003 Indians triumphed, benefiting from an ancient rule allowing Commonwealth players to enter. The rules were then changed and ... |
Telegraph chess: Wu just missed a win
Its two chess amateurs against two chess professionals on the top boards as only four players made it to maximum points after three rounds of the British Chess Championships being hosted by Great Yarmouth College. Steve Barrett and Graeme Oswald both upset titled players, defeating IM Stephen Gordon and GM Glenn Flear respectively to reach 3/3 and will face Nick Pert and Jacob Aagaard in round four. Barrett, who plays for White Rose in the 4NCL surprisingly outplayed Gordon who is the most likely candidate to be England’s next GM. In a quiet position that arose from the Capablanca Variation against the Nimzo-Indian with 4.Qc2. Barrett quickly won a pawn and ... |
Telegraph chess: Flear mixes it up
The defending chess champion Jonathan Rowson lost an error-strewn game to Glenn Flear in the second round of the British Chess Championships at Great Yarmouth College. Flear is now in a group of seven players on 2/2 that includes Nick Pert who scored another easy win over GM elect Stewart Haslinger and has yet to break sweat. Flear, originally from Leicester but now resident in France was initially outplayed but with time pressure looming found a lovely combination which, while not entirely sound had the effect of completely randomising the position and gave Rowson huge complications to navigate and countless ways to go wrong. Flear spurned the win of queen for rook and bishop in ... |
Telegraph chess: Rowson ready for action
The British Chess Championships start today at Great Yarmouth College with Scottish number one GM Jonathan Rowson aiming to make it four titles in a row. Rowson will face somewhat tougher competition this year than last as the English Chess Federation have taken the welcome decision to lower the prize fund and spend the money on supporting the participation of more titled players. The top dozen seeds are as follows: GM Jonathan Rowson 2599 GM Stuart Conquest 2546 GM Mark Hebden 2540 GM Nick 2536 GM David Howell 2519 GM Danny Gormally 2509 GM Tony Kosten 2508 IM Stephen Gordon ... |
Judit Polgar struggles against Bareev
In the Candidates' Final, the top female chess player in the world, Judit Polgar, struggled in her match with Evgeny Bareev. This came as a surprise to many of Judit's fans, as we all felt she would have at least gone on to the second round. Bareev won the match with ease. This game was drawn. Winning with the black pieces was always going to be a tall order for Judit. She gave this game her best shot and obtained something of an advantage, but she really never came close to turning it into a win. The draw was agreed on move 47. Bareev dominated the chess match and might have finished it earlier and deserved to go through. ... |
Barden on Chess
Canada's chess summer moved on this week from Quebec to Montreal and an even stronger grandmaster field. The Quebec winner, Bu Xiangzhi, left for the GM event in Biel, Switzerland, but Montreal included the world No4 Vassily Ivanchuk, in form and expected to shine against the Canadians, plus Nigel Short, renewing an old rivalry with the United States' Gata Kamsky, whose father a decade ago allegedly threatened the England No2 with violence during a candidates' match. The script went awry when Ivanchuk drew tamely with the lowest-ranked Canadian, and Short began catastrophically with five defeats and a draw, the worst start of his chess career. He then drew his grudge match with ... |
Telegraph chess: Polgar's birthday treat
The Biel Chess Festival is one of the strongest chess tournaments of the year even in the absence of three times winner Alexander Morozevich. Judit Polgar of Hungary, the world’s strongest ever female chess player made the early running, celebrating her 31st birthday by outplaying Loek van Wely in her tactical style. In round two Polgar put some pressure on the Norwegian chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen but he defended carefully for the draw and the pair share the lead with the American Alexander Onischuk on 1.5/2. L Van Wely – J Polgar GM Biel (1) Queen’s Indian ... |
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