World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand shares his memories of the city he calls home with Manisha Mohite My earliest memory of Chennai is living in one of those grand Railway Houses, off Haddows Road (my father was with the...
An endgame marathon
GM Ponomariov (2718) – GM Mamedyarov (2742) [A33]2008 Tal Memorial – Round 3 – www.russiachess.org/eng, 20.08.2008 1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.a3 d5 7.cxd5 exd5 8.g3 Bc5 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.Bg2 0–0 11.0–0 Re8 12.Qa4...
Hastings success
More chess success for Hastings Published Date: 20 August 2008By Julia Taylor Hastings chess prodigy Stuart Conquest has won the British Chess Championships for the first time. Grandmaster Stuart, 41, became the World Under 17 Chess Champion in 1984,...
More 2008 US Open Videos
Here is the second video of the US Open. It is a six minute view of the championship and blitz tournament. In video sequence I identified the following players: Jessica Lauser, Jarod Pamatmat, Chaitanya Vaidya, Joseph Bradford, Rade Milovanovic,...
Leko wins, Shirov 0-3
GM Leko (2741) – GM Shirov (2741) [B90]2008 Tal Memorial – Round 3 – www.russiachess.org/eng, 20.08.2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.Be2 0–0 9.0–0 Be6 10.Qd2 Nbd7 11.a4 Nb6 12.a5...
Morozevich overwhelms Kramnik
Morozevich, A (2788) – Kramnik, V (2788) [D45]2008 Tal Memorial Moscow RUS (rd 3), 20.08.2008 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.g4 Nxg4 8.Rg1 Nxh2 9.Nxh2 Bxh2 10.Rxg7 Nf8 11.Rg2 Bd6 12.e4 Ng6...
Quick draw between Ivanchuk-Alekseev
Tal Memorial Round 3 – Final position GM Ivanchuk (2781) – GM Alekseev (2708) [C42]2008 Tal Memorial – www.russiachess.org/eng, 20.08.2008 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.0–0 0–0 8.c4 c6 9.Qc2 Na6 10.a3...
A Classic Picture
Special thanks to Philippe, Webmaster de Chess & Strategy (http://www.chess-and-strategy.com/), for sharing this picture. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Letter from FIDE President
I just received the above letter from FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov about the Women’s World Championship. Click on the actual letter to enlarge it. The text version is below: Dear chess friends, During last several days I have received...