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Isle of Man international open pushing for a place among the elite events — 18-Oct-16, theguardian.com, play chess online
The Isle of Man has staged its annual international open for some 20 years but the 2016 version at Douglas was by far the strongest of the series. America’s trio of Chess Olympiad gold medallists, all ranked in the world top 10, faced a tough field including the England No1, Michael Adams, China’s world woman chess champion, Hou Yifan, Hungary’s former world title challenger Peter Leko and Ukraine’s Pavel Eljanov, who took the trophy. The Manxmen can now justifiably claim their event belongs in the major league of elite opens alongside Tradewise Gibraltar, Aeroflot Moscow and Qatar. Fabiano Caruana tied with Eljanov and expressed disappointment that there was no speed play-off. But the 24-year-old US chess champion shared the prize money and, most important for him, gained a haul of rating points which ... |
Honoring Chess Beauty — 15-Oct-16, huffingtonpost.com, play chess online
The world chess champion Misha Tal (1936-1992) was to chess what the saxophonist Charlie Parker was to jazz. Both flying high with no barriers, no limits to their intuition, imagination and improvisation. The traditional Tal Memorial chess tournament recently finished in Moscow. The Russian grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchti, 26, won the event. It was the best ever tournament victory for a former chess prodigy known for his speed-chess skills. In the classical chess, he recently emerged as one of the world’s toughest players to beat. In the last month he was tamed only once by Wesley So. It was a pivotal loss, enabling the Americans to win gold medals at the Olympiad in Baku. Nepo, as he is often called, went undefeated in Moscow. Anish Giri, 22, broke out from the circle of draws, won some games and ... |
Evolution of chess: moves, captures, and checkmates; data analysis — 09-Oct-16, randalolson.com, play chess online
For the 4th installment in my series of blog posts exploring a data set of over 650,000 chess tournament games ranging back to the 15th century, I wanted to look at how chess moves have changed over time. Again, I only have reliable data on chess games back to 1850, so 1850 will be my starting point. One thing I was interested in is whether preferences for specific chess moves have changed over time. Was the all-powerful Queen more popular in the past, then lost favor as new strategies developed? Or has capturing pieces become more common nowadays than in previous years? Thankfully, each chess game is recorded in PGN format, which means that it stores every move each player made, the outcome of the game, etc. Notice the extra notation beside the location that the chess piece moved to ... |
Female chess players protest wearing hijab at Iran world championship — 07-Oct-16, cnn.com, play chess online
Some of the world's top female chess players are upset that the next world chess championship will be held in Iran, where players are expected to wear head scarves. The US women's chess champion, Nazi Paikidze-Barnes, will not be taking part in the event in Tehran next February due to her concern over the issue. Meanwhile former Pan American chess champion Carla Heredia -- who did not qualify for the Tehran tournament -- also called for the 64 women who are playing there to protest against the hijab rule. "Iran has hosted chess tournaments before and women were always forced to wear a hijab," Paikidze-Barnes told CNN. "We don't see this event being any different, forced hijab is the country's law." This, she said, is "religious and sexist discrimination." She added: "If the venue of the chess championship is not changed, I will not ... |
Mikhail Tal a creative genius despite short reign as world champion — 02-Oct-16, theguardian.com, play chess online
Mikhail Tal, the “magician from Riga”, was world chess champion for one year but he has become one of the greatest chess legends, a true genius. Tal had creative imagination in abundance, helped by a fantastic memory. As a five-year-old he went to his father’s medical lecture and repeated most of it when he got home. When I first saw him at the Munich Olympiad in 1958 he won several games by brilliant attacks, often with much clock time to spare, and spent most of the session away from his chessboard touring the hall with a notebook looking for material for his nightly radio broadcasts. He won the 1958 USSR championship, beating Boris Spassky in a final-round epic, then the world championship interzonal, then the candidates, then the world title against Mikhail Botvinnik in 1960. He was at his zenith that year in ... |
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