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Fischer Random Chess -- 08-Aug-08, iht.com, online chess
In July 2007, researchers announced that they had, for all intents and purposes, solved checkers. There seems to be no danger of that happening in chess, which is many orders of magnitude more complex, in the foreseeable future. (There are roughly 10 to the 120th power possible games in chess vs. 5 x 10 to the 20th power possible positions in checkers.) Computers, nevertheless, have had a profound impact on chess. In some openings, it is possible to make 20 or even 25 moves before leaving well-known theory, a development that some chess players say has sapped creativity from the game. What to do? One answer is to play Chess960. Also known as Fischer Random Chess after ... |
Assertive Surtees -- 07-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Grandmaster Danny Gormally has not lost for a year and Bogdan Lalic is very solid with black so a draw on top board was no surprise in round eight of the British chess championship at St Georges Hall in Liverpool. However elsewhere chess battle was joined and with three to play, three share the lead on 6/8. Stephen Gordon took advantage of a blunder by Nigel Davies while Stuart Conquest engineered the kind of unbalanced position in which revels and overpowered Andrew Ledger and these two joined Lalic on 6/8. Yang Fan Zhou scored a wonderful win over England international GM Nick Pert, one ... |
Dancing with queens -- 06-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
The Croatian chess Grandmaster Bogdan Lalic emerged as sole leader in the seventh round of the British Chess Championship taking place in the splendour of Liverpool’s St Georges Hall, one of Europe’s finest neo-classical buildings recently restored to its former glory. Lalic is notoriously hard to beat and is often content to split the point but when he achieves an advantage in the opening he is very dangerous and he proved this against Lawrence Trent. Lalic has 5.5/7 with most of his main chess rivals half a point behind. Mark Hebden fell further back to 4.5/7 after losing Andrew Ledger. Hebden lost a piece but then put up stern resistance before succumbing on ... |
Anand on fire -- 05-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
The world chess champion Vishy Anand slayed the Dragon and defeated the seventeen year old chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen in the final of the 13th Grenkeleasing Rapid World Chess Championship, the headline event of the Mainz Chess Classic. Carlsen has recently enjoyed success with the Dragon, one of Black’s sharpest replies to 1.e4 but in the first game of the four game chess match Anand stormed the kingside and won the black queen. Carlsen continued to resist and it took some deft endgame play from Anand to force the win a queen for rook ahead. Anand won the second game with black and completed a 3-1 win. The pair had first competed in a double round all play ... |
It's tight at the top -- 04-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
The British Chess Championship is wide open as the second week’s play commences this afternoon at St Georges Hall in Liverpool. With six games played and five remaining, six chess players share the lead on 4.5/6 but realistically up to twenty remain in the hunt as the field is so tightly packed at the top. Nigel Davies was unlucky not to end the week in the lead as only desperate, and it must be said ingenuous defence from Stuart Conquest saved a lost endgame in the seventh hour of play. Davies appeared to be smoothly converting an extra pawn, the fruit of his superior chess play in the middlegame but found his king unable to cross to the queenside to support his pawn’s ... |
Barden on chess -- 02-Aug-08, guardian.co.uk, online chess
In the 1960s and 1970s, it was Fischer fear. The American's intense eyes, long arms, talon-like fingers and air of effortless superiority overawed many chess opponents. Come the 1980s, and Kasparov fear took over. The Russian's hostile glare, ready sneer, huge opening knowledge and instant tactics terrorised normal chess grandmasters. Jon Speelman called it "bombardment by thought waves". The new disease is Carlsen fear. The Norwegian 17-year-old's histrionics are limited to a teenage slouch while at the board and copious refuelling with raisins and orange juice, but he is still today's charismatic chess superstar and that is sufficient to make experienced GMs freeze into ... |
Dylan Loeb McClain: Chess -- 01-Aug-08, iht.com, online chess
People who go to Cuba often say it is a country caught in a time warp, a result of the long trade embargo imposed on it by the United States. Cuba has a proud tradition when it comes to chess, but, in some ways it, too, was stagnant for many years. The country, which was host to two world chess championship matches in the 19th century and which produced José Raul Capablanca, the supremely gifted third world chess champion (1921-27), had not been home to any top-flight chess players for decades. That is until recently. Cuba now has more than a dozen chess grandmasters, most in their 20s. The two most talented are unquestionably Lázaro Bruzón Batista and Leinier Dominguez Perez. ... |
Yang makes his mark -- 30-Jul-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
The Croydon schoolboy Yang Fan Zhou confirmed his recent promise by producing the upset result of the first round of the British Chess Championship being staged at St Georges Hall in Liverpool. The youngster defeated IM Richard Pert with the black pieces and his reward is white against one of the two GMs from the north west, Nigel Davies of Southport, who got proceedings under way on Sunday as he took on forty chess players simultaneously. GM Stewart Haslinger also of Southport, the winner of the South Wales International earlier this month lost to IM Thomas Rendle. Top seed GM Gawain Jones started in style as he outfoxed Graeme Buckley in the opening and ... |
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) ... |
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