The diagram above is based on the Morozevich vs. Kamsky game at the Tal Memorial today. It is White to move. How can White draw this game? 6k1/4b3/4p1P1/4P3/3P1p2/7K/7P/8 w – – 0 55 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Korchnoi did it again!
In round 5, the evergreen Korchnoi was the first “Experience” player to score a victory against the “Already Stars” team by beating GM L’Ami. In round 6, he did again against GM Stellwagen to give the “Experience” team the...
The final countdown
Final Round Pairings:Vassily Ivanchuk – Alexei ShirovBoris Gelfand – Alexander MorozevichS. Mamedyarov – Vladimir KramnikGata Kamsky – Ruslan PonomariovEvgeny Alekseev – Peter Leko Official website: http://www.russiachess.org/ Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Ivanchuk survived big scare, leads by full point
Ivanchuk held on for a draw against Ponomariov to extend his lead to a full point heading into the final round. After scoring his first win four rounds ago, Mamedyarov lost 3 straight. Round 8 results: Ponomariov, Ruslan –...
Exciting game and spectacular blunder
Black just played 53…Qf4After an incredibly exciting game which Morozevich was pushing hard to win and Kamsky had winning chances near the end, the game seemed to be headed toward a draw with 54.Qxf4. For whatever reason, Morozevich played...
The unstoppable Wang with 6-0 record
Wang Yue (2704) – Ljubojevic, L (2555) [E12]3rd NH (round 6), 26.08.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.Nc3 Bb7 5.a3 d5 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bg5 Be7 8.Qa4+ c6 9.e3 0–0 10.Bd3 Re8 11.0–0 Nbd7 12.Rac1 a6 13.Rfd1 Bd6 14.Qb3...
Kramnik makes move, Shirov wins first
Kramnik, V (2788) – Alekseev, Evgeny (2708) [A37]2008 Tal Memorial (8), 26.08.2008 1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 e5 4.g3 g6 5.Bg2 Bg7 6.0–0 d6 7.a3 Nge7 8.b4 h6 9.Rb1 Rb8 10.d3 0–0 11.Bd2 Be6 12.Ne1 f5 13.Qa4 f4 14.e3...
New Blog Layout
A few days ago, Nick (a volunteer admin at the http://www.chessdiscussion.com/ forums) approached me about the layouts of my chess blogs. The previous layout of this blog was done a while back and it is not really so efficient...
First draw of the day in Moscow
Leko, P (2741) – Gelfand, B (2720) [C42]2008 Tal Memorial (8), 26.08.2008 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.0–0 Be7 8.c4 Nb4 9.Re1 Nxd3 10.Qxd3 c6 11.cxd5 cxd5 12.Qb5+ Qd7 13.Qb3 0–0 14.Nc3...
NH continues
NH “Experience” vs. “Already Stars” Round 6 Matchups: Wang Yue – Ljubojevic, LjubomirCheparinov, Ivan – Agdestein, SimenStellwagen, Daniël – Korchnoi, ViktorCaruana, Fabiano – Jussupow, ArturL’Ami, Erwin – Bareev, Evgeny Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar