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| Shirov Wins Shanghai Masters -- 08-Sep-10, gambit.blogs.nytimes.com, play chess online Alexei Shirov of Spain has won the Shanghai Masters chess tournament, with a round to spare. Tuesday, he beat Wang Hao of China, clinching first place. It was Shirov’s third consecutive win. Under the scoring system used in Shanghai (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw), Shirov has 11 points (three wins and two draws). Levon Aronian of Armenia and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia are tied for second with 6 points each (one win, one loss and three draws), while Wang has 2 points (three losses and two draws). The top two scorers advance to the Bilbao Final Masters next month in Spain, which means that the final-round games on Wednesday will be pivotal. Aronian will be Black against ... |
| A New Theory on the Origin of the Lewis Chessmen -- 07-Sep-10, gambit.blogs.nytimes.com, play chess online The Lewis Chessmen are the most famous and important chess pieces in history. They have a long historical and scholarly record, part of which is that they were made in Norway roughly 800 years ago. But now two Icelandic men are challenging that belief and trying to prove that the chess pieces came from their country. The pieces were discovered on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in 1831 — hence their name. Carved mostly out of walrus tusk, they were found in a small carrying-case made of stone inside a sand dune. There are different theories about how they ended up there, including that they were left over from a shipwreck or that they were stolen and buried on the island and ... |
| Rapid Games Win Over New Fans -- 06-Sep-10, nytimes.com, play chess online Many people who would like to see chess attract more fans agree that traditional games — which usually last several hours — are too slow for all but the die-hard. At the same time, blitz chess — where players have only five minutes for all their moves — are fun to watch and attract crowds on street corners, but they are riddled with errors. Rapid games, where each player starts with 20 or 25 minutes and then has additional time — often 10 seconds — added after each move, seem to be a happy medium. The format is becoming more popular, and there are now many chess tournaments that feature it. Two elite chess events last week used rapid-game time controls. One was the annual ... |
| Aronian Leads Shanghai Masters -- 05-Sep-10, gambit.blogs.nytimes.com, play chess online In 2008, the Grand Slam Chess Final Masters was created to bring together the winners of the top chess tournaments of the year. Last year, the final was reduced to four competitors from six because of the economic downturn, but it still included the winners of the year’s elite chess events. This year the formula was changed. While the grand slam still includes top chess players, their selection is more arbitrary. And there are two events: A final that will be, as in the first two years, in Bilbao, Spain (and to which Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, and Magnus Carlsen of Norway, the world’s top-ranked chess player, are already invited), and a preliminary tournament in Shanghai, China, to ... |
| Vishy Anand throws down the gauntlet to Magnus Carlsen -- 04-Sep-10, guardian.co.uk, play chess online Vishy Anand set the agenda for top chess in 2010, and probably 2011, when he declared after retaining his world chess title that his ambition now is to regain the No1 spot in the global chess rankings. Anand thus laid down his gauntlet to Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian who leads the international list and whose current rating of 2826 is the second highest mark ever after Garry Kasparov. Anand's ambition might seem reasonable for a reigning world chess champion, but in reality it is highly ambitious and there will be many doubters. At age 40, the Indian's strength now seems to be increasingly in the slower pace of one-to-one matches rather than in the cut and thrust of chess tournaments ... |
| Kamsky Wins Strong Chess Tournament in Azerbaijan -- 03-Sep-10, gambit.blogs.nytimes.com, play chess online Gata Kamsky is enjoying a renaissance. A year ago, Kamsky seemed to be slipping. He lost a semifinal match for the world chess championship to Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in early 2009. After that he had a few lackluster tournaments and his world ranking dropped to 41 from 18. His ranking has still not full recovered (he is No. 34 on the current list, which was released Wednesday), but his results have improved. Earlier this year, he won the United States Chess Championship for only the second time in his career. Last month, he won the Grenke Open at the Chess Classic in Mainz, Germany. He finished ahead of a world class field that included Levon Aronian of Armenia, Alexander Grischuk and ... |
| Mathematicians, Musicians and Chess Masters -- 02-Sep-10, gambit.blogs.nytimes.com, play chess online Sunday’s chess column was about Noam Elkies, a Harvard mathematics professor who is also a music composer and chess player. Though Elkies is unusual at being talented in all three areas, he is not entirely unique. Through the years, there have been a number of strong chess players who were excellent mathematicians or musicians. A Web page called “Mathematics and Chess Page,” lists many strong chess players who were also mathematicians, including Adolf Anderssen, one of the best players of the 19th century; Emanuel Lasker, the second world champion; Max Euwe, the fifth world champion; and, among the more recent examples, John Nunn, an English chess grandmaster, who ... |
| It's all in the endgame -- 31-Aug-10, telegraph.co.uk, play chess online Sanan Sjugirov of Russia was equal first at the world junior but lost on tie break. He played a couple of nice endgames, the first of which I will show today. Opposite coloured bishops can often give the endgame a drawish character, but here (see main illustration) White is effectively a king up. Can you see how he forced the win? Answer below. There was an English success at the World Chess Junior as Anya Corke scored 8.5/13 in the girls section. A Corke (2257) – C Forestier (2103). Dutch Defence ... |
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