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Howell turns up the heat -- 29-Jul-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
England’s youngest GM David Howell had a fabulous result at the Andorra Open winning with a score of 8/9. Howell finished ahead of many other chess Grandmasters including Maxim Rodshtein of Israel a former world under 16 chess champion and Peruvian Julio Granda Zuniga the reigning Pan American chess champion. Also in the field was Mihail Marin of Romania the leading chess trainer and theoretician. It is a shame that Howell was unable to hot foot it to Liverpool for the British Chess Championship but he has other commitments and won’t be playing the Staunton Memorial either. Three of England’s leading senior chess players competed. Ray Edwards and Professor Julian Farand ... |
British title up for grabs -- 28-Jul-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
The British Chess Championships start today at St Georges Hall in Liverpool with a new name destined to appear on the trophy in the absence of Nigel Short and Michael Adams as well as defending chess champion Jacob Aagaard. Adams, Short, Peter Wells and Jon Speelman will be playing at the Staunton Memorial in London and in their absence Gawain Jones is top seed. The ladies chess championship will be a straight fight between Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant now officially playing for Scotland, Jovanka Houska and Susan Lalic. Magnus Carlsen duly took the sole lead at Biel with three to play after shrugging aside the challenge of Yannick Pelletier whose planless chess play gave him ... |
Playing a Lot (or Very Little) to Keep a Competitive Edge -- 27-Jul-08, nytimes.com, online chess
How much chess is too much? Top chess competitors must play an official game at least once a year to maintain their rankings, but chess players have long held varying opinions about how often they should compete to maintain an edge. Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, has played only two games in the last few months as he has prepared for a world championship semifinal match in October against Vladimir Kramnik of Russia. And Kramnik has entered only two chess tournaments this year. Last week, it was announced that Gata Kamsky, who will play in the other semifinal, will be part of the United States team at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany, in ... |
Barden on chess -- 26-Jul-08, guardian.co.uk, online chess
The annual British Chess Championship starts at St George's Hall, Liverpool, on Monday. As the British Chess Magazine website points out, there are no previous chess champions in the field for the first time since 1952. Both Michael Adams and Nigel Short will be absentees. Instead England's top pair will be in action in the Staunton Memorial at Simpson's-in-the-Strand, London, in August and also at the European Union Chess Championship in Liverpool in September. Liverpool's two fine chess events are part of the city's European City of Culture programme. The director, Stewart Reuben, has still secured a good grandmaster entry for the British Chess Championship in ... |
Cordova scores again -- 25-Jul-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Readers may recall the travails of the teenage Peruvian International Master Emilio Cordova who failed to return home from a chess tournament in Argentina last year and ended up in the arms of a dancer is one of Sao Paulo’s more high profile night clubs. Well, it seems to have done him no harm at all as he recently took the honours at the IV Alajuela Open in Costa Rica scoring 8/9 to finish ahead of a strong field that included the European Individual Chess Champion Sergei Tiviakov. E Moncayo – E Cordova; IV Open Alajuela (3); French Defence. ... |
Carlsen is in luck -- 24-Jul-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
A little good fortune for Magnus Carlsen gave him victory over French chess number 1 Etienne Bacrot in the 3rd round at Biel and the lead on 2.5/3. Bacrot’s solid defence to the Queen’s Gambit was working out very well but when Carlsen complicated matters with a dubious pawn sacrifice his opponent collapsed and was lost just a few moves later. M Carlsen – E Bacrot; 41st Biel Festival (3); Queen’s Gambit. 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 Nbd7 6.cxd5 exd5 7.e3 Be7 8.Qc2 Nh5 (This simplifying and solid line was favoured by Ulf Andersson, it is notoriously hard to beat) ... |
Teenager causes angst -- 23-Jul-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
The top seeds Evgeny Alexseev and Magnus Carlsen met in the second round at Biel with Carlsen black. The teenage chess prodigy managed to stir up huge complications from a quiet position when he broke out of his cramped formation but his opponent, a former Russian chess champion managed to defend himself and reach a drawn endgame despite the invasion of a black knight into the heart of his position. E Alekseev – M Carlsen; 41st Biel Festival (2); Queen’s Indian. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.Qa4 Bb7 6.Bg2 c5 7.dxc5 bxc5 8.0–0 Be7 9.Nc3 0–0 10.Rd1 Qb6 11.Bf4 Rd8 (11...Qxb2 12.Rab1 Qxc3 13.Rxb7 Nc6 14.Bd2 traps the queen) ... |
Four share the spoils -- 21-Jul-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
There was a four way tie for first at the 9th Karpov Poikovsky chess tournament in Siberia. Alexey Shirov could not hold onto his lead after an eighth round defeat at the hands of the 21 year old Azerbaijani GM Vugar Gashimov who was a surprise winner of the inaugural FIDE Grand Prix chess tournament at Baku earlier this year. Gashimov joined Shirov on the winning score of 5.5/9 and the leading quartet was completed by 2005 Russian chess champion Sergei Rublevsky and 2006 co winner Dmitry Jakovenko. A Volokitin – A Shirov; 9th Karpov Poikovsky chess ... |
Nine moves to glory -- 20-Jul-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
The Norwegian teenager Magnus Carlsen ranked world number six is back in action today and starts as the clear favourite to win the 2008 Biel chess tournament. Although Biel is a strong tournament Carlsen has advanced so much since his invitation has announced that he is expected to win and win well. The full line up is: Magnus Carlsen (Norway 2775) (6) ; Leinier Dominguez (Cuba 2708) (25); Evgeny Alekseev (Russia 2708) (26) ; Etienne Bacrot (France 2691) (33) ; Alexander Onischuk (USA 2670) (50) ; Yannick Pelletier (Switzerland 2569) - outside the world’s top 100. Carlsen is too strong to play in the Norwegian chess championship. A smooth victory from one of chess ... |
Nab him, jab him, tab him -- 19-Jul-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
When faced with his favourite weapon, the Sicilian Najdorf, Bobby Fischer countered with Bc4. Garry Kasparov also used the move and it has had a renaissance recently. On c4 the bishop is immensely powerful as it attacks f7 and if Black castles kingside the bishop’s influence extends all the way to the king on g8. Black typically plays the move e7-e6 to limit the bishop but often has to reckon with a White sacrifice on e6 that gains two pawns and access to the black king. This year we have seen many chess games where Black has failed to exchange the bishop after its customary retreat to b3 and suffered the consequences. The games Naiditsch – Van Wely from Dortmund and Nisipiean-Grischuk ... |
Dylan Loeb McClain: Chess -- 18-Jul-08, iht.com, online chess
World chess champions have tremendous influence on the development of chess with the openings they choose and their style of play. But some great chess players have shaped the game through their contributions to theory. Aron Nimzowitsch, for example, never played for the title, but he is remembered for his writing, in particular his book "My System," which is considered required reading by many serious chess players. Another player, Reuben Fine, who missed a shot at playing for the world chess championship because of World War II, wrote books on opening, middle game and endgame theory that are still influential. Pal Benko, a Hungarian chess grandmaster who ... |
New sport combines boxing and chess -- 17-Jul-08, ap.google.com, online chess
Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin in the second round. But he had to take the queen to win the match. In front of 1,000 cheering fans one recent Saturday night, Sazhin moved his bishop to go in for the kill and won the world championship of chess boxing, a weird hybrid sport that combines as many as five rounds of pugilism with a game of chess. The combatants switch back and forth between boxing and chess — repeatedly putting their gloves on and taking them off, so that they can move the pieces around the board without clumsily knocking them over — in a sort of brains-and-brawn biathlon. "It's the No. 1 thinking game and ... |
Space invaders attack -- 16-Jul-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
There is plenty of entertaining chess at the 9th Karpov Poikovsky chess tournament. Alexei Shirov played another sparkling chess game, Ernesto Inarkiev really shouldn’t have provoked him. E Inarkiev – A Shirov; 9th Karpov Poikovsky; Slav Defence. 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 c6 3.c4 Nf6 4.e3 Bf5 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nh4 Bg6 7.Be2 Nbd7 8.0–0 (8.Nxg6 hxg6 9.g3 keeps all options open, Whites' king can stay on e1 or go either side) 8...Ne4!? (Another new and ingenious idea from the Shirov laboratory) 9.g3 (9.Nxe4 Qxh4 10.Nc3 dxc4 11.Bxc4 Bd6 12.g3 Qe7 is fine for Black) 9...Nd6! (Black continues to tempt White to take on g6) 10.b3 (10.c5 Nf5 11.Nxf5 Bxf5 with a good game) ... |
Great Scot! A Dragon... -- 15-Jul-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Alan Tate of Wandering Dragons Chess Club is the Scottish Champion after winning on tie break from defending champion IM Andrew Muir in a keenly contested competition held at Glasgow Academy. This was the 115th edition of the championship, first held in 1884. The chess tournament is usually invitation only but the SCA changed the format to an international Open with a pounds 2000 first prize as part of the centenary celebrations of the Glasgow Chess League. GM Jan Markos of Slovakia and Tautvydas Vedrickas of Lithuania shared first place in the Open on 7.5/9. For Markos, a visiting student at Glasgow University this was the latest in a string of first prizes in Scottish chess tournaments. ... |
Chess: Larry Evans -- 13-Jul-08, sun-sentinel.com, online chess
"Chess is vanity," declared Alexander Alekhine, who wrested the crown from Jose Capablanca in 1927. Indeed, chess players are seldom afflicted with humility. Capablanca once refused to pose with a film star, saying: "Why should I give HER publicity?" He couldn't raise the purse for a rematch with Alekhine in an era when the world chess champion imposed conditions and could pick his own challengers. Efim Bogoljubow was a born optimist whom Alekhine used as a punching bag in two title matches. In his heyday, he boasted: "When I am White, I win because I have the first move. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogoljubow." In 1929, Bogoljubow lost by a wide margin of ... |
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