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Kramnik Passes On Bilbao 0000-00-00 00:00:00 In Susan Polgar's article (found HERE) she talks about Anand playing at Bilbao
and gives some pretty neat quotes. Susan doesn't explicitly point it out but what we have are two very different methods of perparation for the Kramnik
-Anand World Championship match.
Anand loves to play. That's a given factor in the situation. He obviously believes that playing at Bilbao will keep him sharp and help h Read more:Passes
Women's World Championship 2008 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The Women
's World
Championship will be held in Nalchik (Southern Russia). Participating in the event are female players from all over the world but I'm rooting for one lady who I think would deserve the honor. Who is it? Humpy Koneru!
Despite the other famous faces you'll see there ... Stefanova, Cramling, Sebag, Chiburdanidze, Socko, etc. I think Humpy will pull out a great victory here.
If yo Read more:World Championship
Adventure in Computer Chess 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Upon occasion I have a pretty good game against a chess engine. It seems like I lose an overwhelming number of games against Fritz but older versions of engines and weak engines designed for the general public can be beaten. Case in point is a game played last night ...
ColonelCrockett-EdChess(CPU)
1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. b3 c6 4. Bb2 Bh6 5. Nf3 d5 6. Nc3 dxe4 7. Nxe4 f5 8.
Ng3 Qa5+ 9. c3 f4 10. Ne4 Read more:Adventure
, Computer
Interesting Chess Set Concept 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I was browsing other blogs and came across this interesting chess set concept ...
According to the Streatham and Brixton Chess Club blog (July 4th)
inspired by Alice through the Looking Glass these piece are described as ...
Inspired by this, the chess pieces have an opaque mirror finish, when they touch the surface of the board they magically turn transparent and reveal the identity of the pie Read more:Concept
Chess Boxing hazardous to your health? 0000-00-00 00:00:00 In an article by Chessbase about chessboxing the following appears ...
Gianluca "Il Dottore" Sirci – the new discovery in the heavyweight
In the second fight of the evening the encounter betweeen the Italian heavyweight pro-boxer and the English fighter Andrew "The Rocks" Castello took place. Here clear advantages for Costello in chess were expected but Gianluca Sirci was able to defend well by
Happy Birthday to Victor Mikhalevski 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Yesterday GM Victor
Mikhalevski (2597) celebrated a birthday!
Victor Mikhalevski was born in Gomel, Belarus but currently resides in Israel. He was twice Israel champion under 20, in 1991 and 1992. He was awarded the GM title in 1996. In 2002 he placed 1st at the 1st International tournament in San Salvador, El Salvador with 7.5 out of 9 points.
Source: Chess Addict
I think it's good to occasio Read more:Birthday
, Happy
, Happy Birthday
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New Category added to Chessvine 0000-00-00 00:00:00 As a tournament chessplayer, online chess addict, and a chess teacher I have quite a number of adventures. That's why oddly enough I've added a section to the blog entitled 'My Adventures'. I think having people witness my adventures might teach a thing or two while also forcing me to improve. After all, who wants to look stupid in front of a crowd, huh?
Anyway, look for tournament reports, games Read more:Category
Online Links for Sergey Karjakin 0000-00-00 00:00:00 After his defeat of Short I just had to do a quick internet search for Sergey
. I came up with some pretty obvious sources but I also found a gem ...
Sergey Karjakin on Wikipedia A full biography with very little left out.
Sergey Karjakin on Chessgames.com A shorter biography but with a collection of statistics and games second to none.
Sergey Karjakin's FIDE rating card More interesting statist
Karjakin-Short Kiev Life Match Decided 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Sergey Karjakin and Nigel Short
have finally finished their match in Kiev, Ukraine. The match was a 'rapid' one but finding just exactly what the time control was has proved illusive. I think it is likely that the games were somewhere close to G/60 but as an amateur chessplayer I'd hardly call that rapid. Anyway, here's the final score (drum roll, please) ...
Karjakin 7.5 - Short 2.5
That's right Read more:Match
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Universal Event Promotion 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Universal Event Promotion is the company responsible for organizing the Anand-Kramnik chess match. The official site for the world championship match looks more like a big sponsor ad rather than a match/tournament chess site.
I managed to find the corporate profile with a yahoo search. But it was by no means easy to find navigating from the match page. Anyway, enjoy the links. Read more:Universal
Vladimir Kramnik Has A New Corporate Sponsor 0000-00-00 00:00:00 According to Chessbase VladimirKramnik
now has a new sponsor for his match against Vishy Anand later this year.EUROCEMENT group is a multinational vertically integrated industrial holding, producer of construction materials. Production facilities of the Group's businesses are 35 mln tons of cement, 10m³ of concrete and 3,5 mln tons of fillers per year. Meanwhile EUROCEMENT group is the world’s Read more:Sponsor
, Vladimir Kramnik
Staunton Memorial: Adams-Short 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Staunton Memorial
, LondonA Category 13 Staunton Memorial takes place from August 7-18 2008, with the rest day on August 13. There will be eleven Grandmasters and 87- year-old IM Bob Wade participating.
Here are the players:
Michael Adams
(ENG) 2735
Ivan Sokolov (NED) 2658
Nigel Short
(ENG) 2655
Loek van Wely (NED) 2644
Erwin L'Ami (NED) 2610
Jan Smeets (NED) 2593
Jan Werle (NED) 2591
Jan Timman Read more:Staunton
Curacao 2008 - Larry Christiansen Wins! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I can remember when Curacao was a bit of a stronger international tournament but that in no way belittles Larry
's accomplishment. In a sense the result was a come behind victory because Moro was ahead of the field by a full point until he crumbled in the last round ... see the full report.
Here is an interesting excerpt from chessbase that I wanted to point out ...
Under the water
Curacao is pop
GM Hikaru Nakamura wins the Finet Chess960 Open (Mainz) 0000-00-00 00:00:00 GM HikaruNakamura
shows his mettle in Mainz in the Chess960 event. In fact he's the Champion title holder now. It's well known that Hikaru has a knack for Chess960 and a penchant for playing odd opening systems even in standard chess so this is no real surprise. Congratulations to Hikaru for beating out Alexander Motlyev and Sergei Movsesian on tiebreak.
Starting Position for Najer-Nakamura
1.
Anna Zatonskih is the 2008 U.S. Women's Champion! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 After a strange trading of blows between IM Irina Krush and IM Anna Zatonskih - Anna came out of the Armageddon round with the Title! She is the official 2008 U.S. Women
's Champion.
Move over Anand, there's a new champion!
2008 Najdorf Memorial 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Here are the players of this category 15 event:Standings after 3 rounds:1 GM Sasikiran, Krishnan IND 2684 2.52 GM Rozentalis, Eduardas LTU 2599 1.03 GM Socko, Bartosz POL 2628 2.04 GM Berg, Emanuel SWE 2592 1.55 GM Balogh, Csaba HUN 2624 2.06 GM Kempinski, Robert POL 2613 1.07 GM Nyback, Tomi FIN 2639 1.08 GM Macieja, Bartlomiej POL 2606 1.59 GM Krasenkow, Michal POL 2639 1.510 IM Olszewski, Micha Read more:Memorial
Vishy Anand and Magnus Carlsen 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Anand is the Mainz 2008 Chess Classic Champion. In the main event Anand and Carlsen tied for first place and then Anand won a tiebreak match 3-1(!).
Here you'll find the four games ...
[Event "13th GrenkeLeasing Rapid WCh Final"]
[Site "Mainz GER"]
[Date "2008.08.03"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Anand, V."]
[Black "Carlsen, M."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B77"]
[WhiteElo "2798"]
[BlackElo "2775"]
[PlyCount "9 Read more:Anand
, Magnus
The Level of a Chess Master 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I was skimming Canadian GM Kevin Spraggett's website and I came accross this gem ...
WHAT IS THE LEVEL OF A CHESS MASTER?
I don't want to deal with elo's and other number systems. Let me stick with ideas.
A chess master is a very competent player who has not only achieved the firm UNDERSTANDING that the game of chess is actually a series of 'mini-games' (ie opening, middlegame, endgame) , each w Read more:Master
Chessvine Chess Blogger Community on Facebook 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Since our mission here on chessvine is to advance chess blogging I've decided to create a chess blogger community on facebook. so ... without any further ado ... or unnecessary building of anticipation ... or looong waiting ... here you go ...
If you own a chess blog or just want to support the group you're welcome to join. Read more:Blogger
, Facebook
The Spider and the Wasp 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Today I witnessed something I'd never seen in real life. A tiny wasp-like insect carrying a stunned spider twice its size. The chess metaphor isn't lost on me. Sometimes the strongest player doesn't win. In fact most of the time it is the most cunning and most alert player who takes home the full point. I just thought a little note from a chess teacher might open a few eyes ... stay alert at the b Read more:Spider
3 Things I Hate About Women in Chess 0000-00-00 00:00:00 1. All Woman Tournaments - It's well known that smaller groups of players create artificially small ratings. When all the women play each other and nobody else their ratings suffer. As a case in point look at the highest rated women. All of them with few exceptions play more frequently in mixed tournaments than in all-female ones. It's just a really good thing for rating system accuracy.
2. Inter Read more:Women
Stefanova Wins North Urals Cup 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Well, it seems the last several days have been filled with news about female players ... it's especially odd after my rant on the subject.
Anyway, after Humpy's bad start she couldn't catch up at the North
Urals Cup ... the champion this year is Antoaneta Stefanova.
she scored 4.5/7 defeating Koneru, Pogonina and Sebag along the way while only yielding one loss to Pia Cramling. Congratulations t
Chessvine Contest Featured on Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Thanks to Tom Chivers the Chessvine Blogger Contest
has been featured on the Streatham & Brixton
Chess Club Blog (another one of our favorites). While I disagree that the pen is mightier than the pin ... ... I certainly enjoyed Tom's article.
Tom Chivers' blog was voted by the English Chess Federation as Website of the Year for 2007. I appreciate the mention and there has been some valuable Read more:Featured
Courtney Jamison is the 2008 SPNI Champion! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Congratulations to Courtney
Jamison who won the 2008 Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls. This isn't Ms. Jamison's first 'rodeo' and she obviously deserves the honor. I hope to see GM Courtney Jamison on a tournament crosstable some day. CONGRATS!!
Yawn! Sleepy but Updating 0000-00-00 00:00:00 well, I've been swamped at home (and kept in a constant state of near dead sleepiness) but I just wanted to take a minute and explain some changes that have been made to the site.
First, our "Chessvine's Rankings" widget corner has been going through some major changes. I removed the mybloglog widget because it was causing the whole main page to have difficulty loading. Now, with smaller widgets Read more:Sleepy
Round One Result from Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Okay, so maybe it isn't a Supertournament ... but I think it's a super tournament.
Here are the round one results as posted on Susan
's Blog ...
# Name Rtng State Score
1 Courtney Jamison 2046 TX W31 1.0
2 Sylvia S Yang 1911 TX W32 1.0
3 Ashley Carter 1877 MI W33 1.0
4 Rita Mirchandani 1813 FL W34 1.0
5 Michelle Xue Chen 1762 MA W35 1.0
6 Eve Zhurbinskiy 1747 NJ W36 1.0
7 Fiona Lam 1727 MD W37 Read more:Girls
, National
, Result
Saturday Chess Tournament Results 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Well, I managed to make a pretty decent showing this past weekend ...
2.0/4.0 ... There was no class prize so after my first loss I was playing for rating points. I beat Jerry Baker a Lexington expert in round two but in the final round I made a gross blunder in a winning position against near expert Billy Woodward (look up 'spilled milk' in any dictionary and you'll find this game referenced). A Read more:Saturday
, Tournament
What Makes A Good Chess Coach? 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Someone on Susan's official forum asked what essentially what makes a good coach ... the following is my reply posted there and reproduced here ...
well, your question is addressed to players whose skills have matured and as a lowly Class A player I'd say it's not directly addressed to me but I think as a chess teacher I can answer it.
Structure and discipline are major factors in coaching. Play Read more:Coach
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