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Kamsky-Topalov Chess Match Back on Track -- 19-Nov-08, gambit.blogs.nytimes.com, online chess
The world chess championship semifinal match between Gata Kamsky of the United States and Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria has been set for February 16 to 28, 2009. Kamsky and Topalov and their representatives signed the contracts Tuesday at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany. The chess match will be played in Bulgaria after the country’s chess federation agreed to put up a prize fund of $250,000. Topalov, the No. 1 ranked chess player in the world, was seeded into the match by the World Chess Federation. Kamsky earned his place by winning the World Cup last year. The winner of the chess match will face Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, in a title match under ... |
Germany holds off Russia in Chess Olympiad -- 18-Nov-08, google.com, online chess
Russia's chess team, hailed as the highest rated ever assembled for a Chess Olympiad, hit a bump Monday as 11th-seed Germany battled all four games against them to a draw in round five of the biennial chess tournament in open division play. Former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik played the super-solid Petroff Defense against Germany's No. 1 Arkadij Naiditsch. By move 24, the position was symmetrical with opposite-color bishops. But under the rules, draw offers are not allowed until after move 30. They shook hands on move 31. On board two, Alexander Grischuk of Russia sacrificed a pawn against Germany's Igor Khenkin. He had some initiative but ... |
A memorable game in the 2004 Chess Olympiad, by Susan Polgar -- 16-Nov-08, lubbockonline.com, online chess
Here is the question of the week: Is chess an Olympic sport? Actually, chess is a member of the International Olympic Committee. However, chess has its own Olympiad which usually has even more nations competing than the summer or winter Olympics. The 2008 World Chess Olympiad officially began Wednesday night in Dresden, Germany. The event will last until Nov. 25 at the International Congress Center. The planning for this Chess Olympiad took five years and the reward is Dresden is the host of a record-breaking Chess Olympiad with 2,169 participants (including coaches and captains, etc.) representing 156 teams from 152 nations. I competed in a total of four Chess Olympiads starting ... |
Russia are strong favourites for gold or silver medals at the Chess Olympiad -- 15-Nov-08, guardian.co.uk, online chess
Among a record 154 teams at the Dresden Chess Olympiad, only Ukraine, Armenia, China and above all Russia look realistic gold or silver medal contenders. Russia had a virtual gold monopoly from 1952 to 2002 but were headed by Ukraine in 2004 and crashed to sixth behind Armenia in 2006. Now Moscow's chess squad is led by Vlad Kramnik with the brilliant Alex Morozevich on board four. What of England, 19th in 2006 and seeded 15th at Dresden? The chess team is led by the world-ranked Michael Adams and Nigel Short but hopes of a top-10 or even top-six finish will depend on whether David Howell, 18, and Gawain Jones, 20, can rise to the occasion. ... |
Uncertainty Surrounds Match Between Kamsky and Topalov -- 13-Nov-08, gambit.blogs.nytimes.com, online chess
A world chess championship semifinal match between Gata Kamsky of the United States and Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria is facing an uncertain future after the putative sponsor of the chess match failed to provide the financing for it — and after Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the president of the World Chess Federation apparently backed off his pledge to put up the prize fund if the original sponsor failed to come up with the funds. The Bulgarian Chess Federation has now offered to hold the match, but not until February. Kamsky, who is now competing in the Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany, has yet to respond to the new offer. Previously, he had expressed concern about playing a chess match in ... |
38th Chess Olympiad to open in Dresden -- 12-Nov-08, ap.google.com, online chess
The highly rated Russian chess team led by former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik will enter the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden as the clear favorite, but one American grandmaster says the U.S. is fielding its strongest ever chess team. The 13-day chess tournament starting Thursday includes 154 teams in the open division — often referred to as the men's division although it includes a few women — and 116 in a separate women's division. Ukraine is ranked second behind Russia in the open division, with China third, Azerbaijan fourth and Hungary fifth. The next five chess teams are, in order, Bulgaria, France, Israel, Armenia, and the United States. Yet some believe ... |
Chess, spy style -- 10-Nov-08, rockymountainnews.com, online chess
The 1963 James Bond movie From Russia with Love is likely the most famous movie of all time that incorporates chess. The movie opens with Bond's archenemy, SPECTRE agent Grandmaster Kronsteen (Czechoslovakia) brilliantly defeating Grandmaster MacAdams (Canada) in the fictional Venice Invitational Grandmasters Championship. The chess scene takes place in an old castle with a large demonstration board behind the stage where the magnetic pieces are moved with long sticks. A large audience quietly watches as the moves are called out in the old descriptive notation. Movie position after 21...Bxe5. The chess game continued, 22.Nxe5+ Kh7? (22...Ne6! may be winning or drawing as ... |
Chess with Luke McShane -- 09-Nov-08, express.co.uk, online chess
The 24th European Club Cup took place in Greece last month. The chess event is comparable to European football’s Champions’ League, gathering together as it does the top teams from the previous season’s national leagues. This year 64 chess teams took part in the Open event and 18 in the Women’s. As many of Europe’s leading chess players participate in one or more of these leagues the event is always very strong. The winning team, Ural Sverdlovskaya, was headed up by Radjabov, Kamsky, Shirov and Grischuk. Runners up OSG Baden Baden fielded Svidler, Bacrot, Nisipeanu and Naiditsch. Against this sort of opposition my Bundesliga team of Werder Bremen who ... |
Barden on chess -- 08-Nov-08, guardian.co.uk, online chess
America's Hikaru Nakamura, 20, scored a stunning victory ahead of some of the world chess elite at Cap d'Agde in the south of France last week. Nakamura, who was born in Japan but raised in New York, beat Anatoly Karpov in the semi-final and Vasily Ivanchuk in the final. The snag is that it was rapid chess instead of the slower classical time limits used in the world chess championship and major grandmaster chess events. It still marks a new advance for a chess player ranked world No30. When Nakamura won the US title at 16, the youngest winner since Bobby Fischer, expectations were high. But, like Fischer, he was an iconoclastic teenager who at one time experimented with ... |
How Anand took the chess title -- 07-Nov-08, guardian.co.uk, online chess
Anand-Kramnik, World Chess Championship 2008, game 11. White to play. Anand just needs a draw to retain his title. How did he damp down Black's play? RB: The first thing that comes into my amateur head when asked how to damp down a position is to think of swapping off material. Here, this looks easily achievable with 20 Qd6. The black queen is pinned to the king so either he'll take on the next turn or White will capture on e7. Does Black have any nasty tricks up his sleeve? How about 20...Nb4, with the twin threats of ...Nxa2+ and ...Rxc2+? This looks a little annoying, but how annoying really? 21 Qxe7+ Kxe7 22 Rd2 Nxa2+ 23 Kb1 Nb4 would leave Black a pawn up, but ... |
Cold War in Reykjavik as Fischer breaks Soviet defender Spassky -- 05-Nov-08, irishtimes.com, online chess
Boris Spassky v Bobby Fischer: 64 alternately black and white squares became the unlikely battleground in 1972 as the chess champion, from Russia, defended his title against a brilliant but eccentric American, writes Damian Cullen. So, which rivalry had the biggest influence on the world? The impact of the most high-profile and enduring sporting rivalries is always loud, but usually localised. And, almost universally, they lack non-sporting significance. Certainly few have been used as an alternative battleground for two nations at war. First, there was chess. Then, there were four million competitive chess players in communist USSR. And, in the middle of the Cold War, came a challenger to ... |
Chess with Luke McShane -- 02-Nov-08, express.co.uk, online chess
Viswanathan Anand has successfully defended his World Chess Championship title by defeating Vladimir Kramnik in their chess match by 6.5-4.5. When Anand went three wins up last week his victory looked almost assured, but it was good to see Kramnik fight back by winning the tenth game, below. Although it wasn't much in evidence in Bonn due to Anand's own excellent chess form, Kramnik is a formidable chess player. When he got a position which suited him, it only took him a few precise moves and Anand's position fell apart. Still, Anand achieved a comfortable draw with White in the next game to wrap up the match. Vladimir Kramnik - Vishy Anand (Bonn, 2008): 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 ... |
Barden on chess -- 01-Nov-08, guardian.co.uk, online chess
Vlad Kramnik's late rally in Bonn took some of the gloss off Vishy Anand's 6.5-4.5 world chess championship victory. The Indian dominated the first half of the series but missed the chance to join the select few who have won the chess title without losing a game. He seemed to tire after game six, reviving the question raised by his recent Bilbao failure whether his chess career has peaked at age 38. History may judge Kramnik as one of the weaker chess champions. His claim to a more positive verdict rests largely on his London 2000 triumph over the all-time No1 Garry Kasparov. Since then he has scraped a tied series against Peter Leko, won the error-strewn Toiletgate series against Veselin Topalov, suffered ... |
Anand wins the World chess title again -- 30-Oct-08, hindu.com, online chess
Viswanathan Anand has kept his tryst with chess history here on Wednesday. The much-needed draw against challenger Vladimir Kramnik in the eleventh game gave Anand a historic win (6.5-4.5) with white pieces in the most-widely followed World chess title match. Anand, winner of all the major chess titles in the game at least once in his illustrious international chess career spanning 25 years, now holds what appears to be an unbeatable record of having claimed the World chess title in three different formats. Anand won the title in 2000 in the now-discontinued 128-player knockout format. Last year, it was in the eight-player double round-robin format. Now Anand has ... |
Anand retains world chess title -- 30-Oct-08, news.bbc.co.uk, online chess
India's Viswanathan Anand has retained his FIDE World Chess Championship title by beating Russia's Vladimir Kramnik in the German city of Bonn. Anand won three games, drew seven times and lost once en route to winning the competition by 6.5 points to 4.5. He and Kramnik will share the total prize fund of 1.5m euros ($1.94m). Anand became FIDE world chess champion last year by winning a tournament in Mexico, where Kramnik was again runner-up. Anand first won the chess title in 2000. Kramnik, the Classical World Chess Champion, had competed in the 2007 World Chess Federation (FIDE) world championship with the understanding that if he lost, he would get a chance to ... |
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