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Barden on chess -- 30-Aug-08, guardian.co.uk, online chess
Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik are limbering up for their 12-game, €1.5m world title chess match in Bonn from October 14 to November 2 and so far the preparations have gone very much in favour of the Indian title-holder. Anand, 38, triumphed in Linares and crushed the young chess pretender Magnus Carlsen in Mainz. Kramnik failed in Dortmund, a chess event which used to be the 33-year-old Russian's favourite patch, then lost the game below at this week's Tal Memorial in Moscow, though he recovered to score 5/9. The pair have very different notions of what constitutes a true chess champion. Anand believes the No1 should prove himself in all disciplines - matches, chess tournaments, speed chess and ... |
Ivanchuk seals victory -- 29-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Vasily Ivanchuk secured victory at the Tal Chess Memorial in Moscow with a short draw in the ninth and final round against Alexey Shirov. Ivanchuk played a simplifying line against the Queen’s Gambit Accepted that gives Black no chances to play for a win and Shirov was doubtless pleased to end the chess tournament without a fifth defeat as he finished last. Ivanchuk’s margin of victory was a full point which is exceptional in a nine round chess event of this standard. Final scores: 1 Ivanchuk (Ukraine) 6/9; 2-5 Morozevich (Russia), Gelfand (Israel), Ponomariov (Ukraine), Kramnik (Russia) 5; 6 Leko (Hungary) 4.5; 7-8 Alekseev (Russia), Kamsky ... |
Ivanchuk surges to lead -- 28-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Vasily Ivanchuk looks set for another fine chess tournament victory at the Tal Memorial in Moscow as he emerged from a bad endgame against Ruslan Ponomariov with half a point and a lead of double that as he moved to 5.5/8 with the chasing pack only on 4.5. As so often happens with Alexander Morozevich, one loss was followed by another and Gata Kamsky was the beneficiary in a crazy chess game where the advantage swung back and forth. Vladimir Kramnik finally stirred and won a nice positional chess game against Evgeny Alexeev and may finish on a positive score for the first time in 2008 in a Classical Chess tournament after poor results at Wijk aan Zee and Dortmund. Alexey Shirov managed ... |
Ivanchuck surges to lead -- 27-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Alexander Morozevich was defeated by Vasily Ivanchuk in the seventh round of the Tal Chess Memorial. Morozevich’s sojourn at the top of the unofficial live rating list was short lived and it is Ivanchuk, on 5/7 who is now half a point ahead with two to play. Morozevich sacrificed two pawns but only had enough compensation for one and his grim resistance ended in the king and pawn endgame. There was further evidence of Vladimir Kramnik’s poor chess form as he gained a clear advantage against Boris Gelfand but then played a combination in which Gelfand found a tactical flaw and the former world chess champion was then fortunate to escape with half a point. This was the only draw of ... |
Shock of the new -- 26-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Alexander Morozevich swatted the former Fide Chess Champion Ruslan Ponomariov off the board in the sixth round of the Tal Chess Memorial, maintained his lead, and moved to the top of the unofficial live rating list, at least for today. Morozevich played a new move in the opening, and when his opponent was unable to adapt to the changed situation on the chess board he was close to beaten after only 11 moves. The last 20 moves of the 37-move chess game were superfluous. A Morozevich (2788) – R Ponomariov (2718); Tal Memorial Moscow (6); Nimzo Indian. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 0-0 5.Nf3 c5 6.dxc5 Na6 7.c6 (Black was going to take on c5 next move anyway. Now if ... |
Send in the pawns -- 25-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
An England junior chess team is competing with success at the World Under 16 Chess Olympiad at Mersin in Turkey. Despite being younger than most of the other chess teams and considerably out-rated by many, the team climbed as high at joint fourth before succumbing to a very highly rated chess team from Azerbaijan. The ninth round won’t provide any respite as their next opponents are the Philippines who have the world’s youngest GM, Wesley So, on top board. England are represented by Yang Fan Zhou, Callum Kilpatrick, Felix Ynojosa, Subin Sen and Elliot Auckland. Peter Leko joined Alexander Morozevich at the head of the Tal Chess Memorial at Moscow after five of ... |
Dick Cavett recalls interviews with Bobby Fischer -- 24-Aug-08, sun-sentinel.com, online chess
Brickbats and bouquets were tossed at Bobby Fischer after he died of kidney failure at 64. "He was a great man with tragic flaws who was persecuted by his own country," I noted in Chess Life. Talk show host Dick Cavett interviewed him three times on TV and recalled: "I became quite fond of him. It seems strange to remember there was once a chess champion, of all things, who was probably the most famous celebrity on earth. "His long-anticipated chess match with Russia's Boris Spassky was watched worldwide as if it were the Super Bowl, except it was publicized as a Cold War battle and drew a much bigger audience. Time out of mind the Soviet chess dynasty had reigned ... |
Barden on Chess -- 23-Aug-08, guardian.co.uk, online chess
Two decades ago London chess had numerous sponsors - three banks, two stockbrokers, the Evening Standard newspaper and several IT firms. Now the Staunton Memorial grandmaster chess tournament is the only survivor and that is financed by a Dutchman, the multi-millionaire Jan Mol who lives in the UK. The Staunton has its quirks. The venue is historic Simpson's in the Strand, one of the great centres of European chess in the late nineteenth century, where Howard Staunton himself played. The Victorian was briefly the world No1 in the 1840s, a prolific author and a Shakespearian scholar. Spectators have free entry and this week they could watch England's best-ever chess duo, Michael Adams and ... |
Full might in Moscow -- 22-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Vladimir Kramnik was one of three winners in the first round of the Tal Memorial chess tournament underway in Moscow. The full line up is: Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) Alexander Morozevich (Russia), Evgeny Alekseev (Russia), Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Alexey Shirov (Spain) Gata Kamsky (USA), Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine), Shakriyaz Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan), Peter Leko (Hungary), Boris Gelfand (Israel). The prize fund is $100,000 with $30,000 to the winner. Kramnik defeated Alexey Shirov with the white pieces while Vasily Ivanchuk crushed Gata Kamsky who never recovered from his dubious position in the opening. In the Gruenfeld Defence pressure against the d4 square is ... |
Adams holds onto trophy -- 21-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Michael Adams won the Staunton Memorial for the second successive year as he ensured that Loek van Wely, half a point behind at start of play, had no opportunities to score the victory he required to overhaul him. Adams played white and he is unbeaten at Simpsons in the Strand in three years when playing with the advantage of the first move. Simpsons is the traditional home of chess in London where gentlemen used to smoke cigars and play chess in the Grand Divan in the nineteenth century. Adams played a solid line against the Sicilian and as playing for a win with black entails great risk, Van Wely agreed to a draw. Jan Smeets defeated Alexander Cherniaev, his third win in a row and ... |
Sacrifices set Werle apart -- 20-Aug-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
The 6th Staunton Memorial is perfectly set up for the last round after Loek Van Wely moved to within half a point of Michael Adams with victory over Alexander Cherniaev in round ten. The leading pair meet in the last round. Adams was fortunate to escape his first defeat at the hands of Ivan Sokolov after underestimating his opponent’s position in the opening. Adams had an early draw offer rebuffed and then needed all his defensive skills to withstand the attack that followed. The England chess number one apologised for the draw offer after the game as he had clearly not understood the danger he was in at ... |
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 ... |
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