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Heroic Howell held at last -- 18-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
David Howell’s magnificent effort just failed to clinch the world Junior Chess Championship as he lost to the winner Abhijeet Gupta of India in the in thirteenth and final last round held at Gaziantep in Turkey. Gupta, who won his last five games took the gold medal with 10/13 as Howell ended in joint third on 9/13. Howell’s chess performance was outstanding, at one point his performance was over 2700, the elite chess Grandmaster level and seven of his eight wins were against very strong opponents. He also displayed great determination, fighting to the end in two consecutive games that lasted over 120 moves, winning one and losing one. At this level it is extremely hard to win ... |
Barden on chess -- 17-Aug-08, guardian.co.uk, online chess
Disaster struck David Howell yesterday. The Sussex 17-year-old was in the gold medal position with one round to go in the world junior (U20) chess championship in Turkey, a legendary chess event where Tony Miles in 1974 has been the UK's only winner. But in the final game Howell played a nervous and insipid opening followed by a king's side pawn push with his queen's side undeveloped. His Indian opponent, Abhijeet Gupta, took full advantage, poured pieces into the weakened defences and gained decisive material and the title. Parimarjan Negi, 15, also of India, won silver and Howell finished out of the medals. Despite the limp conclusion Howell's play showed that ... |
Howell in the case -- 16-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
David Howell’s rollercoaster chess tournament continued at the world Junior Chess Championship in Turkey as he won for a seventh time in eleven games and climbed back to joint second as the leader Maxim Rodshtein of Israel lost to Ngoc Nguyen of Vietnam. In the previous round Rodshtein totally Arik Braun in the game below but the German bounced back to defeat the world’s youngest GM Wesley So, 14, of the Philippines and reach 8.5/11, half a point ahead of Howell and five other GMs. M Rodshtein – A Braun; World Junior Gaziantep (10.1); Slav Defence; 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 ... |
A rare encounter -- 15-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
The most pleasing aspect of this year’s Staunton Memorial is that it brings together England’s two leading chess players Michael Adams and Nigel Short in an all play all chess event for the first time ever in the UK. This sad statistic is of course a reflection of England’s decline as a chess nation and it is only thanks to a Dutchman, Jan Mol whose generous support ensures the continuance of the chess event, that the pair are both playing. They met in round six and Adam’s unbeaten run with white was nearly ended when he overlooked a neat tactic after being surprised by Short’s choice of the Alekhine Defence. It was the kind of oversight that can easily lead to a loss when one is Black but ... |
Howell the Hercules -- 14-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
David Howell’s herculean effort continued at the World Junior Chess Championship taking place at Gaziantep in Turkey. Following his 132 move defeat in round eight Howell nearly surpassed this effort as he defeated Ivan Popov of Russia in another epic chess game that lasted 127 moves. Howell is in joint second, half a point behind the leader Arik Braun of Germany who has 7.5/9 after defeating the 14 year old Chinese girl Hou Yifan. Hopefully Howell will have enough energy left to confront his next opponent, the world’s youngest GM, Wesley So from the Philippines. Howell’s game came down to queen v rook which is far from trivial. I imagine both chess players were down to ... |
Howell and Braun lead -- 12-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
David Howell shares the lead at the World Junior Chess Championships taking place at Gaziantep Turkey. Howell warmed up with one of the best results of his career when he won the Andorra Open ahead of a strong field and his fine form has continued. After seven rounds the chess Grandmaster from Seaford in Sussex has 6/7 level with the German GM Arik Braun who was so impressive at Wijk aan Zee earlier this year. The World Junior is very strong with four chess players rated over 2600 and Howell is 14th seed but on current form his rating will quickly surpass the 2600 mark. D Howell – R Pruijssers; World Junior Gaziantep (2) ; Giuoco Piano. ... |
Conquest conquers all -- 11-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Stuart Conquest emerged victorious as the 95th British chess championship went to a play off at St Georges Hall in Liverpool. Conquest defeated Keith Arkell 1.5-0.5 in a Rapid Chess tie break, drawing the first and winning the second game in style. Conquest received £5000 for his efforts and rarely can a victory at the British have been so popular or well deserved. Conquest has been a professional chess player for over 20 years, this was his first championship victory and he always produced original and fighting chess. At Liverpool his aggressive style proved too good for many and he won several fine chess games. Conquest drew his last round game against Simon Williams and ... |
Larry Evans on chess: Marcel Duchamp's vexing problem -- 10-Aug-08, sun-sentinel.com, online chess
"There is no solution, because there is no problem," quipped Marcel Duchamp. In a recent issue of The Sienese Shredder, Francis Neumann discussed this chess diagram composed by Duchamp for a New York exhibition in 1943. Many years ago Neumann also submitted it to my column in Chess Life, offering a reward of $15 to anyone who either could solve it or prove there was no possible solution. "I have since subjected this problem to the most powerful chess computers and I am now convinced that Duchamp has given us, in effect, a problem with no solution." The position was accompanied by an image of a Cupid with a bow and arrow. "Closer examination revealed ... |
Novelty pays off -- 09-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Stuart Conquest emerged as the sole leader of the 95th British chess championship with one game to play at St Georges Hall in Liverpool. Novel and imaginative play in the opening enabled Conquest to build a fine attacking position and he outplayed Stewart Haslinger in just 29 moves to become the only chess player on 7.5/10. The other four joint leaders all drew. Bogdan Lalic’s Petroff Defence held against Gawain Jones and there was another short draw but Stephen Gordon and Simon Williams entertained the crowd although there too the game ended in a draw. Keith Arkell and Dietmar Kolbus advanced to 7/10 at the expense of Andrew Ledger and David Eggleston ... |
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 ... |
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