The following was sent by Grandmaster Emil Sutovsky (of Israel) to 20 of the top players in the world: Dear colleagues, On behalf of the World Championship and Olympiads committee (WCOC), I’d like to ask your opinion regarding the...
The 700 lbs Gorilla Issue: To Draw or NOT to Draw
An Open Debate: The 700lb Gorilla Issue In the past few days, thousands of chess fans gave their opinions about the recently concluded Candidates’ Matches in Kazan. The main complaint was there were too many draws, over 90%. Even...
Official response by FIDE to ECU President
Dear all, With great surprise we read the announcement of Mr Silvio Danailov on 25 May, accusing the members of the FIDE World Championship Committee as being responsible for the high percentage of …draws(!) in Kazan. A non-chess reader...
The final game: Gelfand vs Grischuk
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The dark horse prevailed
Israeli grandmaster Gelfand to challenge champion Anand in 2012 Published: 26 May, 2011, 02:31 Boris Gelfand of Israel will meet India’s Vishy Anand, the reigning chess world champion, in the 2012 world championship match. That comes after the veteran...
It’s over! Anand’s challenger is Boris Gelfand!
It is amazing that Vishy Anand’s challenger for the World Championship title is actually older than him!! The oldest player in the field of 8, Boris Gelfand, bested all the younger players to earn the right to play for...
Candidates Final Match LIVE!
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…and the fifth draw
And the fifth draw … Tuesday, 24 May 2011 Series of draws in the final match of the Candidates Matches for FIDE World Championship went on with the game 5. Russian Alexander Grischuk, playing white, and Israeli Boris Gelfand,...
A hard fought battle ended in another draw
Alexander Grischuk – Boris GelfandCandidates’ Final Match – Game 5Courtesy of Chessbomb and Chessdom, with analysis by GM Naiditsch 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 Today we start on time, 13.00 and Sasha opens with 1.d4. 2… e6 3. Nf3...
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