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Keep it simple, Shirov -- 11-Oct-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
England’s leading amateur chess player GM Luke McShane was back in action playing for Werder Bremen in the German Bundesliga at the weekend. As its name suggests, the chess team has links with the football club which competes in the Champions League. McShane played on board one ahead of three of the top Ukrainian chess players and drew both his games. Baden Baden, the title holders, have announced an awesome chess squad with thirteen of the world’s top 100 players that includes Vishy Anand, Magnus Carlsen Alexey Shirov, Peter Svidler with Michael Adams on board five when they are at full strength. A couple of quick chess wins for Baden Baden in round ... |
Chess simuls -- 10-Oct-08, iht.com, online chess
People who do not play chess regularly, or well, are often amazed that one person can play 20 or 30 or even more chess games at the same time. Such displays, however, are relatively easy for chess grandmasters, and even for many masters. They recognize patterns quickly and can move from one board to another and make snap judgments without missing many of the intricacies in each position. Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, is singularly adept at simultaneous displays, which players call "simuls." In 1992, he played a simul against four members of the German national chess team and finished with two wins and two draws. A year later, he recorded ... |
Short seals victory -- 09-Oct-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Nigel Short won the 2008 Commonwealth Chess Championship at Nagpur in India after a last round with black over Arun Prasad. Short was the only world class player at the chess event which was mainly composed of Indian second string chess players. Short generally outclassed the field apart from a wobble in round threes and five when lost to Rahul Sangma and then drew with Shashikant Kutwal both rated round three hundred points below him. However after that he pulled himself to together and won six in a row to end with 9.5/11. N Short – R Bhuvanesh; Commonwealth Chess Championship Nagpur; Sicilian Defence ... |
A well-calculated sacrifice -- 07-Oct-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Peter Svidler leads the Russian Chess Championship Superfinal with a perfect score after three rounds. Svidler defeated the favourite Alexander Morozevich in an 87 move chess game, gradually outplaying the world number two from a position where he held more space. At one stage Svidler was three pawns up but he returned two and reached a technically won rook and pawn endgame. In round three Svidler’s finely calculated queen sacrifice and king march forced a brilliant win. The position with queen against two rooks and knight was complex but once Black’s runs out of checks White’s mate threats decide. ... |
Defensive chess masterclass -- 06-Oct-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Alexander Morozevich gave a master class in how to play the Gruenfeld Defence as he opened his campaign at the $200,000 Russian Chess Championship Superfinal at Moscow. Morozevich outplayed Konstantin Sakaev, a late substitute for Alexander Grischuk who is unwell. Here are the key points of the chess game. a) 4.cxd5 The Exchange Variation. White creates a strong centre. If this becomes mobile Black will struggle in the centre and on the kingside. b) 7...c5 Black counterattacks the key square d4. 8.d5 allows Bxc3+ c) 10.Rc1 White invites cxd4 cxd4 when he will control the c file in the resulting chess endgame ... |
Barden on chess -- 04-Oct-08, guardian.co.uk, online chess
A record 152 chess federation teams have entered next month's Dresden Chess Olympiad, a number probably second in sports competition only to the Olympic Games. Chess has no paralympics but three teams of blind, deaf and physically handicapped chess players are competing on equal terms in the main event. Few countries will be gold medal contenders. The old Soviet Union had a virtual monopoly for 40 years but Russia on its own is less of a sure thing, and after its worst ever placing of sixth at Turin 2006 it has announced a team led by the former world chess champion Vlad Kramnik with an average rating of 2750, the highest in Chess Olympiad history. Armenia and ... |
1.b3 or not 1.b3? -- 03-Oct-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
The Russian Chess Championship Superfinal starts today in Moscow with twelve chess Grandmasters, eleven ranked in the world’s top 100, competing for a 5 million rouble (about $200,000) prize fund. The top seed is world number two Alexander Morozevich. Most of Russia’s leading chess players will compete apart from Vladimir Kramnik whose title match against Vishy Anand begins in eleven days time in Bonn. I detailed my long standing prejudice against the move 1.b3 yesterday, here is some more recent ... |
Topalov back on top -- 02-Oct-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Veselin Topalov has regained the top spot on the Fide ranking list after his success at the Grand Slam Final in Bilbao. His fine victory over Ivanchuk in the last round, which we have already seen, was ultimately decisive as Topalov gained five points and Ivanchuk, who is now third, lost five. Alexander Morozevich remains in second place and the Norwegian teenager Magnus Carlsen is up to fourth. The results at Bilbao and the Tal Memorial mean that the forthcoming world title contest between Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik will be between the fifth ranked and six ranked chess players. Both Anand and Kramnik were doubtless distracted by the preparations for the title match and this explains ... |
Space chess -- 01-Oct-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
A unique chess match is underway between Earth and Space as International Space Station astronaut Greg Chamitoff challenges all the planet’s inhabitants. Chess players from Earth will take their lead from the Stevenson Elementary School Chess Club in Bellevue, Washington State USA. The children will select up to four possible moves for Earth and an online vote will determine which one is played. Chamitoff, a flight engineer, brought a chess set with him when he arrived on the STS-124 space shuttle in June. While speeding about 210 miles above the Earth at five miles a second he has defeated all comers from the mission’s base stations and needs some tougher chess ... |
Short's speedy swindle -- 30-Sep-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
The 4th European Union Chess Championship recently completed at the World Museum in Liverpool climaxed a wonderful series of chess tournaments organised by Professor David Robertson and his team in the last three years. The ten-round Swiss tournament was the last to be held as part of the Liverpool 2008 European Capital of Culture celebrations. The chess tournaments were supported by Liverpool John Moores University and the Capital of Culture Company and included the prestigious UK v China chess match in 2007 as well as two European Union Chess Championships. As previously reported, Jan Werle of Holland emerged victorious having made a last ... |
Beaten but unbowed -- 29-Sep-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
The England junior chess team returned without a medal from the European Youth Chess Championships at Herceg Novi in Montenegro but ended the chess tournament with a strong showing in the ninth and final round and overall the chess players were close to a 50% score against strong opposition. Peter Andreev was unfortunate, he fell into an opening trap and lost his final game in the Under 10 but was still the squad’s star performer with 6/9. The winner of the Under 12, Kiprian Berbatov of Bulgaria is a cousin of the footballer Dimitar Berbatov although it is no known if the latter knows the moves. There is a strong connection between football and chess in ... |
Barden on chess -- 27-Sep-08, guardian.co.uk, online chess
She is the first fashion-model world champion in chess, and possibly the first such in any sport. Alexandra Kosteniuk, 24, beat China's 14-year-old chess prodigy Hou Yifan 2.5-1.5 in the final in Nalchik in the Caucasus to win the women's title. Kosteniuk, who says that "beauty and intelligence can go together", is articulate, outgoing, runs half-marathons and is mother to a year-old daughter. Her chess curriculum vitae is impressive. She was a world finalist at age 17, has achieved the chess grandmaster title at men's level and holds her own in top chess tournaments such as Moscow's Aeroflot Open. She is the first Russian to hold the women's title since 1962, because ... |
Russia's big guns -- 25-Sep-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Russia have announced their chess team for the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden and it will be highest rated team in the history of the competition with the players having an average rating of 2750 which is equivalent to a current world ranking of 7. The Russian lineup, with world rankings in brackets is: Vladimir Kramnik (3), Alexander Morozevich (2), Peter Svidler (11), Alexander Grischuk (14) and Dmitry Yakovenko (24). Grischuk is also making a name for himself as a poker player and recently was placed 33rd out of 619 players and won £16,000 in the European Poker Tour at Barcelona. The winner took home one million pounds. Other chess teams who are likely to ... |
Torre triumphant -- 24-Sep-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Eugenio Torre, one of the big names in chess in the 1970s and 1980s, who has just won a strong Open chess tournament in his native Philippines at the age of 56. Torre’s success came at the Third President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Cup held at the Duty Free Fiesta Mall in Paranaque City. Torre scored 7/9 and was declared the winner on tie break from two of the region’s leading chess players; Li Chao of China and Zhang Zhong, formerly Chinese but now playing under the flag of Singapore. The world’s youngest GM Wesley So of the Philippines, who has been sweeping all before him recently, only scored 5/9. Torre raced to 6.5/7 before losing to Mikhail Mchedlishvili of ... |
A crown for Kosteniuk -- 22-Sep-08, telegraph.co.uk, online chess
Alexandra Kosteniuk is the new Women’s World Chess Champion after defeating the Chinese chess prodigy Hou Yifan 2.5-1.5 in the final at Nalchik in south western Russia. Kosteniuk dominated the chess match and should have won more comfortably as she stood better in every game. Remarkably, Kosteniuk is the first Russian women's chess champion since Elisabeth Bykova who held the title from 1958-1962. Georgian women and then Chinese have held sway in the main in the last five decades. Kosteniuk succeeds Xu Yuhua who was eliminated in round two. At just 14 years of age Hou Yifan would have become the youngest world chess champion in the history of ... |
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