Russians outgunned — 03-May-13, telegraph.co.uk, play chess online
Kramnik and Svidler are outplayed by the French as Vachier-Lagrave takes the lead at the Alekhine Memorial. The Alekhine Memorial is sponsored by Russian businessmen Gennady Timchenko and Andrei Filatov and organised by the Russian Chess Federation, but the Russian chess players are not performing. In the fifth round, Vladimir Kramnik and Peter Svidler were outplayed by Frenchmen Laurent Fressinet and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave respectively. Kramnik was demolished. I can’t recall the 14th world chess champion losing a game like this with the white pieces. Fressinet attacked from the second move and played forthrightly, in the style of the Albin Counter Gambit. Kramnik seemed taken aback and went wrong very early, after which he was rocked by a piece sacrifice. Michael Adams drew with the third Russian chess player, Nikolai Vitiugov, and ... |
Four-way tie in the Alekhine Memorial chess tournament — 02-May-13, telegraph.co.uk, play chess online
Adams has Gelfand, Aronian and Vachier-Lagrave for company, reports Malcolm Pein. Michael Adams lost to Boris Gelfand in the only decisive game of the third round at the Alekhine Memorial, but remains in the joint lead. In round four, Adams salvaged a draw from a position that was lost just before the time control against Laurent Fressinet. Levon Aronian joined Adams, Gelfand and Vachier-Lagrave on 2.5/4. The chess world number three defeated Vladimir Kramnik and Peter Svidler in successive games. How did he finish off Kramnik here? Kramnik has just played 49...e3. White to play and win. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave buried Ding Liren’s king’s rook and king’s bishop after some deep opening preparation: ... |
Top chess players in action at home and abroad — 30-Apr-13, washingtontimes.com, play chess online
It’s an embarrassment of riches for a chess journalist these days, with not one but two major chess tournaments in progress across the pond and the U.S. chess championships gearing up to start in St. Louis later this week. In Zug, Switzerland, GMs Gata Kamsky and Hikaru Nakamura, the top-rated American chess players, are in the field for the third FIDE Grand Prix tournament, a series of six events over the next two years that will seed two candidates for the 2014 world championship candidates’ cycle. Former world chess champion Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, now on the comeback trail, is setting the pace in the Category 21 event which concludes Tuesday, with Nakamura alone in second a full point back. Russian chess star ... |
Chess Tournament Seeks to Turn the Game Into an Art Form — 28-Apr-13, nytimes.com, play chess online
The Alekhine Memorial chess tournament began last weekend as an unusual attempt to highlight chess as an art form. The first half of the event was held in a temporary building at the Tuileries Garden in Paris just west of the Louvre, and it has now moved to the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Andrei Filatov, a Russian billionaire, came up with the idea of affiliating chess tournaments with museums. Last year, he sponsored the world chess championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. “I think the synergy between chess and art holds great promise,” Filatov said last year in an interview with RBC Daily, a Russian newspaper. Yet Filatov himself, who trained to be a chess coach ... |
Michael Adams beats world chess champion Vishy Anand for second time — 26-Apr-13, guardian.co.uk, play chess online
Michael Adams, the England No1, has beaten the world chess champion, Vishy Anand, with the black pieces for the second time in four months. The 41-year-old Cornishman, who scored against the Indian at the London Classic, did it again this week in the opening round of the Alekhine Memorial in Paris, where his king and rook defeated the chess champion's king and three pawns in 56 moves. In contrast to Adams's rapid double, there was a colossal gap of 61 years in the doldrums of English chess between Joseph Blackburne's win from Emanuel Lasker at London 1899 and Jonathan Penrose's defeat of Mikhail Tal at Leipzig 1960. The chess champions Jose Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine and Mikhail Botvinnik never lost to ... |
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