Round 1 in brief by Malcolm Pein Official Olympiad website: http://www.dresden2008.com/ The defending champions Armenia were convincing winners as nearly all the other top seeds struggled. Only Azerbaijan matched Armenia’s 4-0 as Levon Aronian crushed Fabiano Caruana in the...
His play was impressive
Greed is goodBy Malcolm PeinLast Updated: 12:01am BST06/09/2008 Veselin Topalov emerged as the new leader of the 400,000 Euro Grand Slam Final in Bilbao as he tempted the teenage prodigy Magnus Carlsen into an over-optimistic pawn sacrifice and then...
People in glass houses…
People in glass houses…By Malcolm PeinLast Updated: 12:01am BST 02/09/2008 An outstanding festival of chess is prospect at the Grand Slam Final underway in the Basque City of Bilbao. Six of the world’s finest players, who qualified by virtue...
London Chess Centre
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The Yogurt Warfare
Don’t mention yogurt…By Malcolm PeinLast Updated: 12:01am BST 30/05/2008 The Cold War rivals Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi face each other over the board again at the 4th Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup which begins tomorrow at National Academy of...
An unusual novelty by GM Van Wely
Loek van Wely is an expert in this line of the King’s Indian and introduces a strange looking novelty the subtlety of which his opponent fails to appreciate. L. Van Wely – S. DyachkovRussian Team ChampionshipDagomys King’s Indian Classical...
Major sponsorship for English Chess Federation
Boost for school chessBy Malcolm PeinLast Updated: 12:01am GMT 29/02/2008 The English Chess Federation has secured a ground breaking new commercial sponsorship that should provide a huge boost to chess in schools. Holloid Plastics Limited of Basingstoke has agreed...
20 seconds per game
Boil for just 20 minutesBy Malcolm PeinLast Updated: 12:01am GMT 14/02/2008 The first ever Lexmark 20 Seconds Chess Tournament took place at Hammersmith in west London on Saturday 19th January. Victory in this original format went to David Howell...
Game analysis
Two masters at playBy Malcolm PeinLast Updated: 12:01am GMT 11/02/2008 I will continue my tribute to both Bobby Fischer who passed away recently and Svetozar Gligoric who recently celebrated his 85th birthday by giving a win for each against...
The Yugoslavian legend
A grand old masterBy Malcolm PeinLast Updated: 12:01am GMT 09/02/2008 Svetozar Gligoric the Yugoslav Grandmaster and former world title Candidate recently celebrated his 85th birthday and in his honour an 85 player Rapid Chess tournament was held in his...