Just arrived in Oxford to start the BBC filming. I am looking forward to promoting chess to the non-chess playing audience. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Kramnik, Anand and round 6 matchups in Corus
Round 6 – Friday the 19th V. Kramnik – V. AnandT. Radjabov – R. PonomariovP. Svidler – L. AronianV. Topalov – D. NavaraA. Motylev – M. CarlsenS. Karjakin – A. ShirovL. van Wely – S. Tiviakov What is your...
Kings among pawns in Juneau, Alaska
Kings among pawnsTournament chess returns and Juneau has no shortage of talent, but becoming the best means playing the best By KORRY KEEKERJUNEAU EMPIRE Tuesday nights at Juneau Chess Club meetings in the downtown public library take a predictable...
Radjabov wins again with Black – extends lead
Photo by Frits Agterdenbos at www.chessvista.com GM Navara (2719) – GM Radjabov (2729) [E61]Corus Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, 18.01.2007 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 0-0 5.Bg5 c5 6.d5 b5 7.Nxb5 Ne4 8.Bc1 a6 9.Na3 Qa5+ 10.Nd2 e6...
Shirov down for the count again
GM Shirov (2715) – GM vanWely (2683) [B90]Corus Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, 18.01.2007 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 0-0 10.0-0-0 Nbd7 11.g4 b5 12.g5 b4 13.Ne2 Ne8...
1/2 – 1/2
Final position GM Ponomariov (2723) – GM Kramnik (2766) [D45]Corus Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, 18.01.2007 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Bd2 Bd6 7.Bd3 0-0 8.0-0 dxc4 9.Bxc4 e5 10.Qc2 exd4 11.exd4 Nb6 12.Bb3 Bg4...
Games of the day: Aronian – Carlsen / Anand – Svidler
Aronian – Carlsen2007 Corus – Round 5 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.Qc2 Bb7 6.Bg2 c5 7.d5 exd5 8.cxd5 Nxd5 9.0–0 Be7 10.Rd1 Qc8 11.Bg5 h6 12.Bxe7 Nxe7 13.e4 0–0 14.Nc3 Nbc6 15.Rd2 (This to me...
Corus Round 5
Round 5 Group A – Thursday the 18thR. Ponomariov – V. KramnikV. Anand – P. SvidlerL. Aronian – M. CarlsenS. Karjakin – A. MotylevA. Shirov – L. van WelyS. Tiviakov – V. TopalovD. Navara – T. Radjabov Chess Daily...
Radio Interview with Topalov
Dutch radio broadcasted a one hour interview with Vesilin Topalov by Hans Böhm (former Dutch chess player). The introduction is in Dutch but the interview itself is in English. Click here to get to the website and from there...