I just saw the following on ChessBase, one of the sites which I follow daily: “Magnus watch: Carlsen’s performance is now at 2895 and his theoretical world ranking is number two, at 2792 rating points, six behind Anand and four ahead of Vladimir Kramnik. The official deadline for submitting results to FIDE for the July […]
Courage and determination!?
Tiger Will Miss Rest of Season With InjuryAPPosted: 2008-06-18 14:08:49Filed Under: Golf, Sports SAN DIEGO (June 18) – Tiger Woods is done for the year, but not without one last major that he said might have been his best ever. Woods explained why Wednesday when he revealed he will have season-ending surgery to repair a […]
Counting squares
Vojtek, Vladimir – Vesselovsky, Serguei (2000), presented by Andreas Black to move. Is this a win, draw or loss for Black? 8/8/3p2pp/3P4/2k1K1PP/8/8/8 b – – 0 47 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
3 straight for Carlsen
GM Carlsen (2765) – GM Volokitin (2684) [D56]Foros – Round 10, 18.06.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 0–0 7.e3 Ne4 8.Bxe7 Qxe7 9.Rc1 c6 10.Bd3 Nxc3 11.Rxc3 Nd7 12.Qc2 dxc4 13.Bxc4 e5 14.Qe4 Re8 15.0–0 exd4 16.Qxe7 Rxe7 17.Nxd4 g6 18.Rd1 a6 19.f3 c5 20.Ne2 b5 21.Bd5 Ra7 22.Nf4 […]
Shirov 1-0 Svidler
GM Shirov (2740) – GM Svidler (2746) [D16]Foros – Round 10, 18.06.2008 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 e6 6.e3 c5 7.Bxc4 Nc6 8.0–0 cxd4 9.exd4 Be7 10.Bg5 0–0 11.Re1 Bd7 12.Qd2 Rc8 13.Rad1 Nb4 14.Ne5 Nbd5 15.Bxf6 Nxf6 16.d5 Bb4 17.dxe6 Bxe6 18.Qc2 Qb6 19.Bxe6 fxe6 20.Nd3 Bxc3 21.bxc3 Nd5 22.c4 […]
Van Wely 0-1 Ivanchuk
GM Van Wely (2676) – GM Ivanchuk (2740) [A04]Foros – Round 10, 18.06.2008 1.Nf3 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.e4 e5 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Nc6 6.Be3 Qf6 7.Nxc6 dxc6 8.Nc3 Qe7 9.Bd3 Nf6 10.h3 Nd7 11.0–0 0–0 12.Qc2 Ne5 13.Be2 g5 14.Rad1 Be6 15.b3 Rfe8 16.Bh5 g4 17.Bxg4 Bxg4 18.hxg4 Nxg4 19.Bf4 Be5 20.Qe2 Qh4 21.Qf3 Nh2 […]
The big wall
In the last 10 years, there have been a number of young players who have been dubbed as “can’t miss” chess phenoms (Bu, Ponomariov, Bacrot, Radjabov, Karjakin, Lahno, Nakamura, etc.). Unfortunately, at one phase or another, they all hit the brick wall. Some do manage to progress after a brief halt. What does Carlsen have […]
A battle for history
Carlsen is moving closer to the #1 ranking in the world. After coasting in the last 2 games, he has a battle in his hands in this round against Volokitin, another very talented young player. GM Carlsen (2765) – GM Volokitin (2684) [D56]18.06.2008 – Foros – Round 10 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 […]
Morning brain booster
Troitsky 1896, presented by Andreas White to move. How should White proceed? 2k5/2P5/1P6/5K2/8/5np1/8/8 w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Svidler turns 32
This is description of Svidler by ChessBase: Peter Svidler was born on June 17, 1976, in Leningrad. He learned to play chess when he was six, became a grandmaster at 18. He won the Russian Championship four times (1994, 1995, 1997, 2003), twice before he was 20. In 2005 he shared second with Vishy Anand […]