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| Intensity Cools After 2 More Draws in World Chess Championship — 26-May-12, nytimes.com, play chess online After the fireworks and decisive results of Games 7 and 8, the world chess championship match between Viswanathan Anand, the titleholder, and Boris Gelfand, lapsed back into relative calm as Games 9 and 10 were drawn on Wednesday and Thursday. The score in the best-of-12 match, which is being played in Moscow in the Tretyakov Gallery museum is tied at 5 points apiece. If the score is tied after the next two games, there will be a series of four rapid games to decide the title. The prize fund is $2.55 million, with 60 percent going to the winner. An interesting feature of the chess match has been how well prepared the players are and the variety of openings they have played. Often in title matches, the chess players stick ... |
| Nakamura and Krush win U.S. chess championships — 25-May-12, stlbeacon.org, play chess online The 2012 U.S. Chess Championship and 2012 U.S. Women's Championship were held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center in the Central West End May 7-20. There was no surprise in the chess championship, as the No.1 seed and world-ranked No. 5 Hikaru Nakamura won convincingly with a score of 8.5-2.5 winning six games and drawing five. The key matchup was in the penultimate round when Hikaru, half a point behind two-time reigning chess champion Gata Kamsky, won with the black pieces against his archrival! Hikaru was able to win in the last round against four-time U.S. Chess Champion Yasser Seirawan to clinch title. The Women's Chess Championship was hard fought with the two favorites, Irina Krush and ... |
| Nakamura, Krush reclaim U.S. chess titles — 23-May-12, washingtontimes.com, play chess online Two ex-champions are back atop the heap in American chess and we finally got a little action in the world title match as well, in what proved to be an exceptionally eventful week for the game of chess. Two of the fiercest rivalries in the U.S. game were on display at the U.S. national chess championships in St. Louis. On the men’s side, GM Hikaru Nakamura defeated GM Gata Kamsky in a showdown Round 10 game on his way to reclaiming the national title belt he last won in 2009, while denying Kamsky his third consecutive crown. The drama was even more intense in the women’s competition, with New York IM Irina Krush winning her fourth American title by dethroning IM Anna Zatonskih, the 2011 chess champion, in ... |
| After Only 17 Moves, World Title Series Is Even — 22-May-12, nytimes.com, play chess online One day after falling behind in the world chess championship match in Moscow, Viswanathan Anand of India, the titleholder, leveled the contest in spectacular fashion by beating the challenger, Boris Geland of Israel, in only 17 moves in Game 8. The chess match is being held in Moscow in the Tretyakov Gallery museum. The prize fund is $2.55 million, with 60 percent going to the winner. Monday’s game was the latest exciting turn in a chess match that started out slowly. The first six games were draws and many of them were short, nearly bloodless battles. After winning Game 7, it seemed reasonable to assume that Gelfand would try to play conservatively in order to preserve his lead. But instead of using the Grunfeld Defense, as ... |
| Anand Loses Game 7 of World Chess Champion — 21-May-12, nytimes.com, play chess online Viswanathan Anand, the world chess champion from India, is in danger of being dethroned. On Sunday, he lost Game 7 of his title match to Boris Gelfand, the Israeli chess grandmaster. It was the first victory by either player. Gelfand now leads the best-of-12 match, 4 points to 3. The chess match is being held in Moscow in the Tretyakov Gallery museum. The prize fund is $2.55 million, with 60 percent going to the winner. Given how short the chess match is, a loss is very hard to come back from. Though Anand will have White in three of the last five games — which is an advantage — he did not really come close to beating Gelfand in the three previous games in which he was White. Anand’s loss on Sunday was mostly from ... |
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