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Intergalactic Chess Match 2008-10-28 04:24:42 Chess match between Earth and Space is going on for about a month, courtesy of the US Chess Federation (USCF) and NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). The Earth is represented by the present USCF K-3 champions, the members of Stevenson Elementary School chess club in Bellevue, Washington, and the online readers of the Earth [...] Read more:Match
Murder over a Chess Game & Chess Etiquette 2008-10-22 10:01:13 The stereotype of chess players as poor sports (especially when they lose) got an unpleasantly surprising support last week, when a vocal argument over a neighborly chess match in Iowa City led to a fiscal fight and then to the death of one of the opponents and a second-degree homicide and public intoxication charge of [...] Read more:Etiquette
Two Draws at the 2008 World Chess Championship 2008-10-16 04:37:49 The second game of the 2008 World
Chess Championship, begun on Tuesday, October 14 in Bonne, Germany, ended in a draw after 32 moves. The reigning champion, Indian Viswanathan Anand and his challenger 2006 World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, had to settle the second game with a draw due to a time situation.
The [...]
Chess Olympic Rosters 2008-10-07 02:59:45 By Yochanan Afek
From the headquarters of the Dresden Chess Olympiad it has been announced that a record number of over 140 countries have registered for the notable chess tournament, scheduled to November 12-25, 2008.
Here are some rosters of the leading countries:
Russia: Kramnik, Morozevich, Svidler, Grischuk, Yakovenko
China: Bu Xiangzhi, Ni Hua, Wang Yue, Wang Hao, Li [...] Read more:Olympic
Russia-China Chess Match 2008-10-05 03:16:24 By Ram Soffer
The two chess superpowers are conducting these days at Ningpo (some prefer to call it Ningbo) their fifth confrontation. The chess tournament is held separately on 5 men and 5 women boards, Scheveningen system in 3 categories: classical, rapid and blitz chess.
The classical time-limit chess games, which ended first (September 18-23), emphasized [...] Read more:China
, Match
, Russia
Topalov Leads in Bilbao Chess Tournament 2008-10-02 02:47:22 By Ram Soffer
The “Grand Slam Final” chess tournament, with the participation of the six most outstanding chess players in the Wijk-aan-Zee, Morelia/Linares and Sofia tournaments, started on the first week of September in Bilbao
, Spain.
Despite the recent multitude of super-tournaments in the chess world, the Grand Slam Final is still a unique event, and not [...] Read more:Leads
, Topalov
, Tournament
Grandmaster Jan Werle won the EU Open Individual Champion 2008 2008-09-26 04:07:19 Jan Werle of the Netherlands is the European Union chess champion for 2008. The 24 years old law student won the 4th EU Open Individual
Open Chess Championship 2008 held in Liverpool between September 9 and September 18, 2008. The new EU chess champion took home the £6,000 1st prize, while the women’s 1st prize [...] Read more:Grandmaster
Alexandra Kosteniuk is 2008 Women`s World Chess Champion 2008-09-24 06:46:06 Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia is the new Women
’s World
Chess Champion, who defeated the 14 years old Hou Yifan of China at the final of the 2008 Women`s World Chess Championship (WWCC) ended last week in Nalchik, Russia.
The Women`s World Chess Championship returns to Russia after 46 years where it was under the dominance of [...] Read more:Alexandra
Ivanchuk dominates Blitz Chess as well 2008-09-10 03:23:36 By Ram Soffer
The Ukrainian chess genius Vassily Ivnachuk is recently soaring into new heights, and he is undoubtedly the hottest player of the 2008 summer.
The Mikhail Tal Memorial chess tournament was merely the first part of the festival in honor of the magician from Riga. Immediately afterwards (August 29-30) a great chess blitz tournament [...] Read more:Blitz
Ivanchuk wins the Tal Memorial Chess Tournament 2008-09-07 02:17:43 By Ram Soffer
Vassily Ivanchuk has completed another shining competitive achievement, winning the Tal Memorial
chess tournament (category 20) by a full point from his nearest rivals.
Until round 6, it didn’t seem a likely conclusion, but everything changed in round 7, when Alexander Morozevich, who was dominating the event, was knocked out of the top spot [...] Read more:Tournament
Chess Community at their Finest Hour 2008-08-28 03:16:33 By Yochanan Afek
22/8/2008
The chess community, naturally characterized by tough competitiveness and too many scandals, revealed its nicer face last week, when it turned quickly and effectively to the help of a young Serbian grandmaster, Dusan Popovic, who is suddenly in need of expensive medical treatment.
The leading online chess club Internet Chess Club (ICC) recruited the [...]
A Crushing Start for the Young Stars Team in Amsterdam 2008-08-26 07:15:47 By Yochanan Afek
23/8/2008
The third edition of the match between five rising young chess stars and five fading experienced veterans began at the huge Grand Krasnopolsky hotel in the Dam Square at the heart of the Dutch capital.
In the first two editions of the event, the youngsters still showed a semblance of awe and respect, while [...] Read more:Amsterdam
, Start
World Problem Composing Championship 2008-08-21 05:53:42 By Yochanan Afek
Contrary to the fervent pace of over-the-board chess events, the WorldProblem
Composing Championship takes once in several years.
The results of the latest championship, in which 38 countries took part, have just been announced: The winner is Russia with 252 points, with a tiny margin from surprising Slovakia who scored 249.5, followed [...]
A Double Win for India 2008-08-18 01:42:54 By Ram Soffer
The World Junior (under 20) Championship ended today in Gaziantep (Turkey).
Regrettably, Israeli Chapmion Maxim Rodshtein failed to become the winner. His three successive wins in rounds 8-10 raised many hopes, but they were followed by two bitter defeats in rounds 11-12 against Nguyen of Vietnam and Howell of England. In the last round [...] Read more:India
It’s extremely close atop the World Rankings 2008-08-14 03:48:58 By Ram Soffer
Following the Foros super-tournament in the Ukraine, the top of the WorldRankings
became extremely dense without precedent, according to the site chess live rating, which gives the following updated ranking:
1. Anand 2798.1
2. Carlsen 2791.5
3. Ivanchuk 2790.8 (a rise of more than 50 points since April)
4. Kramnik 2788
5. Morozevich 2787.9
A difference of about 10 points from 1st [
Morozevich dominates in Sarajevo 2008-08-11 04:44:52 The final weekend of May featured several strong rapid events, but there was also one super-tournament with a classical time control, the traditional event in Sarajevo.
It was essentially a one-man show, with Alexander Morozevich dominating from start to finish (7.5 out of 10 undefeated), and in the process moving up the world rankings to 3nd [...]
Ivanchuk the Unstoppable 2008-08-06 06:36:48 14 days after his amazing victory in the M-Tel tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria, Vasiily Ivanchuk was triumphant also in Spain, winning the prestigious rapid chess event in Leon. In the final match Ivanchuk defeated the world champion, Vishy Anand by 2.5:1.5, so it was the first time that Anand didn’t win this traditional event.
Earlier, in [...] Read more:Unstoppable
Carlsen Outplays Leko 2008-08-05 00:44:48 The annual rapid match between Hungarian star Peter Leko and his selected rival has already become a tradition in the Hungarian town of Miskolc.
His opponent in 2008 was the rapidly improving Norwegain “wonderboy” Magnus Carlsen, now already 5th in the FIDE rating list, ahead of Leko.
The first two games (held on May 28) were very [...]
Ashdod Wins Israeli Double 2008-07-31 08:22:53 By Ram Soffer
The final round of the Israeli
Chess League was held in the Mark Chess Center in Ramat-Aviv on May 30.
The Premier National League includes 12 teams, playing over 6 boards. Each team is allowed one foreign player per match.
The 2008 season was dominated from start to finish by the Ashdod Chess Club team, [...]
Old Arch-Rivals Meet Again in Odessa 2008-07-28 06:44:00 30 years ago, Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi played an infamous match in Baguio for the World Championship. Korchnoi was then a defector from the Soviet Union, and the two rivals would not shake hands, but rather lodge an endless series of complaints against each other to the Appeals committee. Karpov won that match 6:5, [...] Read more:Again
Las Vegas Open 2008-07-24 05:54:25 By Ram Soffer
The National Open in Las-Vegas
, one of the biggest opens in the US, ended with 6 players sharing victory with 5 out of 6. They included World Championship candidate Gata Kamsky, who is preparing for his important match with Veselin Topalov in Lviv, Ukraine. The other winners were Fressinet (France), Tigran L. [...] Read more:Las Vegas
“Aerosvit” Tournament in Foros 2008-07-21 02:57:52 The main supertournament of June 2008 was held in Foros in the Ukraine, sponsored by the local aviation company “Aerosvit”. The leading representative of the host country, Vassily Ivanchuk, arrived fresh from his big victories in Sofia and Leon, but in the first round he had to face rising Norwegian star Magnus Carlsen, who had [...] Read more:Tournament
Karen Asrian Memorial in Yerevan 2008-07-17 09:10:28 By Ram Soffer
On June 9, a very strong rapid chess tournament started at the Armenian capital of Yerevan, with the participation of the top three players of the host country (Olympic champion 2006) and a battery of foreign grandmasters, headed by Alexander Morozevich, Peter Leko and Boris Gelfand.
However all of this was overshadowed by the [...] Read more:Karen
, Memorial
Dortmund Super-Tournament Has Started 2008-07-14 08:15:47 By Ram Soffer
The traditional Dortmund annual super-tournament began on Saturday, June 28, with 8 players participating, headed by Kramnik and Ivanchuk (both aspiring for the top of the world ranking list). They will have to combat Mamediarov and Leko from the top 10, Ven-Wely, German GMs Naiditch and Gustafsson, and the Winner of “Aeroflot [...] Read more:Super
, Tournament
Russian Chess Team Wins European Cup 2008-11-11 04:59:17 By Yochanan Afek
The Russian
chess team Ural Sverdlovskaya won the 24th edition of the European
Club Cup, held in Kallithea (Greece), with the participation of 63 men and 18 women teams, which included the best chess players of the continent (actually the best chess players in other continents as well).
The winners (Radjabov, Kamsky, Shirov, Grischuk, [...]
Chess on the Web 2008-11-05 04:43:00 Interesting interviews with two world chess champions and a finalist at the unofficial world poker championship (who happened to be chess master) have been published recently on the web.
Viswanathan Anand was interviewed by Susan Polgar right after his successful defending of the 2008 World Chess Championship. Post world championship Anand is impressed by today’s strong [...]
Rapid Chess Tournaments Reports 2008-11-04 06:47:12 An important rapid chess tournament is currently taking place at the French resort of Cap D’Agde. The 16 participants were divided into 2 groups, the top four from each groups going forward to the knockout stages.
Among the numerous young stars who participated in the French rapid chess event, the name of former World Chess [...] Read more:Rapid
, Tournaments
Anand reclaimed World Chess Championship Title 2008-10-30 07:04:19 Viswanathan Anand
of India has retained his FIDE World
Chess Championship title after drawing the 11th game in the 2008 World Chess Championship in Bonn, Germany. Anand and his challenger, 2006 World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia will be sharing the €1.5M prize fund.
The 2008 World Chess Championship had ended earlier than expected [...] Read more:Title
Chess Books and More 2008-12-07 04:03:06 Waiting for the chess.org.il updates on the Dresden Chess Olympiad, it is a good opportunity to review some of the interesting references of chess in the online media.
Washington Post’s Alan Cooperman recommends on two chess books: the fictional chess thriller Zugzwang, authored by Ronan Bennett and the nonfictional White King and Red Queen written by [...] Read more:Books
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