Month: September 2006

Below is an open letter for FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov from GM Boris Gelfand of Israel about his concerns: To FIDE PresidentMr. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Dear Mr. Ilyumzhinov, Around a year ago FIDE adopted a new system of World Championship....

This was the 23rd game between Chigorin and Steinitz in the 1892 World Championship. Chigorin was White and the score would have been tied if he could convert the huge advantage into a win. All he had to do...

Thank you so much for your feedbacks and suggestions for my newly revamped website www.SusanPolgar.com. I received hundreds of comments and email with many wonderful suggestions. In the coming weeks, there will be many additional improvements. Please feel free...

Picture courtesy of official website These are the 3rd round pairings for the leaders: 1 Akopian, Vladimir……. 2713 (2) …… Landa, Konstantin……. 2584 (2) 2 Neverov, Valeriy…….. 2556 (2) …… Krasenkow, Mikhal……. 2635 (2) 3 Bartel, Mateusz……… 2561 (2)...

This is the picture of the beginning of game 2 (from the official FIDE website). I am not at the playing site so I cannot tell you how Topalov was during the game. However, from this picture, Topalov looks...

There were more than 10,500 unique logins to this blog to follow my LIVE commentary and analysis between 12 PM and 1 PM (New York time)! This shows the enthusiasm for an exciting and contrasting chess battle! Thanks for...

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.e3 e6 7.Bxc4 Bb4 8.0-0 Nbd7 9.Qe2 Bg6 10.e4 0-0 11.Bd3 Bh5 12.e5 Nd5 13.Nxd5 cxd5 14.Qe3 Bg6 15.Ng5 (Instead 15.Bxg6 fxg6 16.Ng5 Re8 17.Qh3 Nf8 18.Qb3 and draw...

Concurrent with the World Chess Championship Match between Veselin Topalov and Vladimir Kramnik, the FIDE Presidential Board held its quarterly meeting on September 22-23 in Elista, Russia. The Board evaluated the process initiated two years ago and judged it...

Kramnik, Vladimir (2743) – Topalov, Veselin (2813) [E04]WCC Match 2006 – Game 1, 09-23-2006 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 dxc4 5.Bg2 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 a5 7.Qc2 Bxd2+ 8.Qxd2 c6 9.a4 b5 10.axb5 cxb5 11.Qg5 0–0 12.Qxb5 Ba6+= 13.Qa4...

I gave you my observation of game 1. I will post full analysis later on today. Please feel free to post your comments and analyis for others to see. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar