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Tournament form puts Topalov back in top spot -- 04-Jan-09, guardian.co.uk, online chess
Veselin Topalov won the Fide world title in 2005, lost the bitter 2006 Toiletgate match to Russia's Vlad Kramnik, was accused of computer advice via his coach's hand signals, then dropped down the chess ratings. Now the Bulgarian's chequered career has taken another strong upswing. His superb tournament form in the second half of 2008 this week raised him back to No1 in the rankings, ahead of the world chess champion, Vishy Anand. Moreover, Topalov's latest impressive first prize at the Pearl Spring chess tournament in Nanjung, China, came after the ratings deadline. And with a little help from Fide officials he is seriously back in title contention. Next month he will be favourite in ... |
Flexibility in chess -- 02-Jan-09, iht.com, online chess
Strategically, chess may not be the most complicated game, but it can be daunting to learn. Part of the reason is the vast literature about how to play chess - particularly about the opening phase, the first 15 moves or so. There are more than 1,300 chess openings. Most tournament players focus on a small number suited to their style. Thirty years ago, the top chess players would also concentrate on a few openings, but today's stars are more flexible. The Internet, the widespread use of computers that play chess, and databases of games have forced them to change. Modern chess players know more than their predecessors, so they are more comfortable with a wider range of ... |
Barden on chess -- 30-Dec-08, guardian.co.uk, online chess
Every world chess champion from Steinitz to Spassky has played at Hastings, and although the chess event has lost its global status it remains the longest-running international in chess, a premier UK event, and a testing ground for young chess talent. The 84th Hastings starts tomorrow with a strong English entry, and hopes that 18-year-old David Howell's current fine form can break a recent trend of the first prize going to chess players from the old USSR. Howell will have to be at his best, though. Sweden's Emanuel Berg, the top seed, and Russia's Igor Kurnusov are both rated over 2600 while Ukraine's Valery Neverov has won Hastings the past two years. Berg seems ... |
Sergey's life is devoted to chess, mother says -- 29-Dec-08, gulfnews.com, online chess
Grand Master Sergey Karjakin might be the highest ranked chess player in the ongoing Asian Chess Champions League but he is still a teenager accompanied by his proud mother Tatania to all the international chess tournaments he takes part in. Sergey made history and headlines when he became the youngest ever chess Grandmaster at the age of 12 years and seven months. With an elo rating of 2730, Sergey is the highest ranked chess player and shoulders the hopes of the hosts to win the title. His mother talks about the chess genius early years and how he became a legend in the game. "He was five when he started playing chess with members of the family, and when ... |
World Chess Federation President Addresses Controversies -- 27-Dec-08, gambit.blogs.nytimes.com, online chess
Chess is not simple, but it can seem uncomplicated compared with the issues swirling around the governance of the game. Recently, there have been problems relating to the staging of a Grand Prix series to select a challenger for the world chess championship and an incident at which a top chess player failed to take a drug test, violating rules of the World Chess Federation that some top chess players feel are unnecessary. An article about these problems was published last week in the International Herald Tribune and also appeared on The New York Times Web site. In reporting the article, written questions were submitted to Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the president of ... |
Chess battle at North Pole -- 23-Dec-08, muskogeephoenix.com, online chess
Sunday, Dec. 21, was the solstice and the first day of Hanukkah. It also marked the date of the much anticipated grudge match between Santa Claus and Rudolph. The source of the tension was their draw at the North Pole Chess Championship in September. The game ended in a time scramble, as hoof and hand pounded the clock after each move. Rudolph fouled in the scramble when the compact horn on his front right hoof touched a pawn before moving his queen out of danger. The elves and reindeer inhaled as one but Santa moved before the arbiter could compel Rudolph to ... |
Unbeaten streak -- 20-Dec-08, iht.com, online chess
In chess, consistency is hard to achieve. It is possible to play a series of great moves, and maybe a few great games, but doing it day to day, month after month, is supremely difficult. A chess player may become ill, face a better-prepared opponent, or suffer a lapse in concentration during a game leading to a fatal mistake. So, when a chess player puts together a long unbeaten streak, it is something special. That is what Wang Yue of China did. After losing his first game in the Reykjavik Open in March, he played 82 games without a loss. During his streak he often competed against the world's best chess players, and his world ranking rose to 11 from 31. He also tied for first in ... |
Popularity of chess hindered by chaotic leadership -- 18-Dec-08, iht.com, online chess
Chess requires exceptional reasoning ability, but problems besetting the game seem to defy logic. In the last few weeks, disputes within the World Chess Federation have led two top players to withdraw from the world chess championship selection process, while another player faces a two-year ban for failing to take a drug test - although he almost certainly did not take any since there are few if any drugs that can enhance a chess player's performance. The episodes illustrate the struggles and foibles of a game that at times achieves immense popularity around the world and at other times - sometimes for reasons of its own making - falls by the wayside. Chess often ... |
Barden on chess -- 17-Dec-08, guardian.co.uk, online chess
Failure can be a great spur to improvement. This autumn David Howell, 18 and England's best young chess talent, was in the gold-medal position at the start of the final round of the world junior (U20) chess championship, but played passively, got short of time, and was crushed. A few weeks later Howell was No1 seed in the world U18, and again finished out of the medals. His chronically poor clock management played a major part. But come his next chess event, the Dresden Chess Olympiad, and Howell was, along with Nigel Short, the high scorer for England. He followed this up by an impressive 10.5/11 runaway victory in the British Rapidplay at Halifax, a chess contest which both ... |
Chess, by Lubomir Kavalek -- 16-Dec-08, washingtonpost.com, online chess
The defending chess champion, the Dallas Destiny, won the 2008 United States Chess League, a 14-team Internet competition that ended this month. Dallas's final match against the Boston Blitz was tied 2-2, but IM Davorin Kuljasevic won the title for Dallas, defeating former U.S. chess champion Larry Christiansen in the last game of the blitz tiebreak. An Attacking Gem. Before the match went into the tiebreak, Christiansen smashed IM Marko Zivanic with a powerful attack, most likely to be the best game of the competition. It matters to the Boston grandmaster how he wins. He created many beautiful combinations and spectacular sacrifices during his successful ... |
Magnus Carlsen quits Grand Prix -- 14-Dec-08, latimes.com, online chess
The World Chess Federation (FIDE) plans to begin the third tournament of its Grand Prix series today in Elista, Russia. The first two Grand Prix tournaments were unqualified successes, featuring exciting chess battles between many of the world's top 20 grandmasters. The forecast for the rest of the series is less rosy. When organizers of Grand Prix chess events in Qatar and Switzerland backed out, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov moved the Qatar tournament to his hometown of Elista and announced that Armenia would host a chess tournament. But FIDE also changed the rules, making the Grand Prix leader merely one of eight contenders in a tournament that ... |
The Great Chess Doping Scandal -- 13-Dec-08, spiegel.de, online chess
Chess Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk refused to submit a urine sample for a drug test at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden and is now considered guilty of doping. The world of chess is outraged that he could face a two-year ban. Professional chess player Vassily Ivanchuk, born in Berezhany, Ukraine in 1969, has been a grandmaster for the past 20 years and is currently ranked third in the world. The man with black hair and bedroom eyes is known as "Big Chucky" by his fellow chess players. Why? Because, after losing a game, he goes into the forest at night and howls at the moon to drive out the demons. Because he walks around in shorts in freezing temperatures. Because he likes to ... |
Polgar: What it takes to reach the worldwide pinnacle of chess mastery -- 13-Dec-08, lubbockonline.com, online chess
The question of the week is what makes the difference between a good chess grandmaster and a world chess champion/world No. 1 player? It is extremely difficult to become a chess grandmaster. Some say that it is much more difficult to earn a grandmaster title than a Ph.D. degree. One has to dedicate years of studying chess to get to this level. It is a lifetime commitment. There are only about 1,000 chess grandmasters in the world today out of more than 750 million people who play chess. As you can see, even with this dedication, most will not get there. To be a world chess champion or world No. 1 player, it is even much more difficult. In addition to the incredible dedication, one must ... |
Chess, by Lubomir Kavalek -- 08-Dec-08, washingtonpost.com, online chess
... appreciation is reserved in chess for Emanuel Lasker, the world chess champion from 1894 to 1921. He was an extraordinary fighter and playing him always meant a long, difficult struggle. A great defender by nature, Lasker would save bad positions by chipping away at his opponent's advantage move by move. This was hard to do and not many young chess players picked up Lasker's opaque playing style. They were much more likely to emulate Alexander Alekhine's astonishing combinations or Mikhail Tal's mesmerizing, magical chess attacks. Fortunately, Lasker was an excellent writer. The legendary "Lasker's Manual of Chess" is a marvelous teaching tool, meticulously ... |
Dylan Loeb McClain: Chess -- 05-Dec-08, iht.com, online chess
It is inevitable that young phenomena and new champions hog the limelight, but sometimes ex-champions remind the world why they were, and in some cases still are, so great. At the recent Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany, the women's section was won by the team from Georgia, the No. 4 seed. It was a return to glory for Georgia, which last won gold in 1996 and had not medaled at the biennial chess event since winning a silver in 2000. Georgia was once synonymous with women's chess because it was home to the two women who, between them, held the world title from 1962 to 1991. Nona Gaprindashvili, now 67, reigned from 1962 to 1978. She was dethroned by ... |
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