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Victory Caps Breakout Year for a Player From Brooklyn -- 27-Dec-09, nytimes.com, play chess online In most chess games between top players, victory is usually determined by a few minor errors by one of them. Blowouts are rare. That was not the case at the 93rd Marshall Chess Club Championship, which ended last weekend. The chess club, on West 10th Street in Manhattan, is one of the oldest and, based on its membership, strongest in the country. The club is named after Frank J. Marshall, the United States champion from 1909 to 1936. Marshall was a swashbuckling player, and he would have appreciated many of the games at this year’s tournament. The field included eight grandmasters and three international masters. The runaway winner was Alex Lenderman ...
Jon Ludvig Hammer follows in Magnus Carlsen's footsteps as Norway gains in power-- 26-Dec-09, guardian.co.uk, play chess online A world-class chess talent can often spark others in his or her country to raise their sights. This happened in England in the 1970s, and now Norway, formerly a chess backwater, is experiencing a boom due to Magnus Carlsen's exploits. The Norwegian government has just announced that it will give $12m (£7.5m) backing to the Arctic town Tromso to stage the 2014 world team Olympiad. Carlsen's first prize in the London Classic was matched in the open chess event by his countryman, Jon Ludvig Hammer, also a 19-year-old, who led all the way from a strong field. And England's No 2 woman Jovanka Houska, whose tied second was a career-best result, now lives in Norway. The game ...
Magnus Carlsen: The 19-Year-Old King of Chess-- 25-Dec-09, time.com, play chess online At age 13, he was the third youngest chess grandmaster in history. A few years later, he was already beating the world’s top chess players. And on Jan. 1, 19-year-old Magnus Carlsen of Norway will officially become the youngest person in history to earn chess's No. 1 ranking. TIME caught up with the grandmaster at a tournament in London to probe the mind of a chess genius. When people find out that you are the top-ranked chess player in the world, do you have to deal with them assuming you are 40,000 times more intelligent than them? Yeah, that can be a little annoying. I try to tell people that I am like them. I am not some sort of freak. I might be ...
Can Magnus Carlsen avoid a terrible blunder?-- 23-Dec-09, guardian.co.uk, play chess online The world No 1 found himself in danger of falling into a trap in his last game at the London Chess Classic. Would he spot it in time? Short-Carlsen, London 2009. Short has just advanced c4-c5. Should Carlsen take the pawn? Magnus Carlsen, provisionally rated No 1 in the world, hung on to his early lead to win the London Chess Classic last week. By the end of the tournament he was looking tired, and in the final game, he almost made a horrible blunder. RB Is there a mental torture more acute than the queen-and-pawn endgame? With all the other pieces and most of the pawns gone, the queen's untrammelled range and manoeuvrability create so many possible lines that...
Another Dose of Chess Nostalgia-- 22-Dec-09, gambit.blogs.nytimes.com, play chess online Tis the season, or perhaps the year, for nostalgia. In September, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, the former chess champions and rivals, played a 12-game exhibition match in Valencia, Spain, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of their first championship match. On Friday, another match between chess legends began in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, a region in southern Russia next to Kazakhstan. The match is between Boris Spassky, 72, the former world chess champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, 78, the two-time (or three-time, depending on whether the candidates final in 1974 is included) challenger for the world title. Like Kasparov and Karpov, Korchnoi and Spassky are old rivals, though ...
Magnus Carlsen to the summit-- 21-Dec-09, washingtonpost.com, play chess online Magnus Carlsen has achieved his aim. With his victory in the London Chess Classic last week, the Norwegian grandmaster grabbed enough rating points to climb on top of the January FIDE rating list. What's next? The title of world chess champion, of course! But that might be out of his hands since FIDE often shuffles rules and regulations at whim. Magnus has to wait at least till 2011. For the time being, FIDE is scheduling the world chess championship match between the titleholder, Vishy Anand of India, and the challenger, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, next April in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. Carlsen was playing hard in London, perhaps pushing his luck in a few games. After defeating ...
Veteran Has Staying Power, but 19-Year-Old Will Be No. 1-- 20-Dec-09, nytimes.com, play chess online Two of the biggest chess events of the year ended last week with champions who are at very different stages of their chess careers. In Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, Boris Gelfand of Israel captured the World Cup, outlasting a field of 128 players. Though he is No. 7 in the world, and will be No. 6 when the new chess rankings come out on Jan. 1, Gelfand, 41, is not likely to be an elite player for many more years, particularly when chess is increasingly a young man’s game. His staying power — he has been among the world’s best chess players for two decades — is unusual. With the victory in the World Cup, Gelfand has qualified for the candidates’ matches to select a challenger for ...
Magnus Carlsen wins without distinction-- 19-Dec-09, guardian.co.uk, play chess online Magnus Carlsen won the London Classic and confirmed his world No1 status, yet paradoxically the Norwegian seemed, compared with the chess legends Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov in their pomp, far from his personal zenith. Carlsen impressed in his opening win against Vlad Kramnik, which ultimately settled first prize, and in the later stages of his next win from Luke McShane. But in the remaining five rounds he stuttered his way to victory. He could have lost to Michael Adams, had two or three other dubious positions and missed a simple win in the puzzle below. Still the 19-year-old's No 1 spot in the January world chess rankings will fulfil the target set by his coach Kasparov. Kramnik ...
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