What is your #1 chess event of the year?
– Kramnik – Topalov
– Kramnik – Fritz
– Mtel
– Topalov became #1 in the world
– The rise of Magnus Carlsen
– Something else?
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Without question, the performance of Kelly Cottrell Finegold at the 2006 U.S. Championship; the first person since Bobby Fischer to achieve a perfect score.
Susan’s decision to run on the USCF Executive Board of course!!
For me the match Topalov Kramnik…Now We have only One chess World champion…
But If kramnik don’t play the championnat in Mexico…
The WCC, of course.
It has to be Kramnik-Topalov match. I think it brought a lot of attention.
For example, I did not follow chess for the past 10 years at all (Probably from 1995 and matches Kasparov-Anand and Karpov-Kamsky)! Then I’m getting caught by drama in Elista and here is what I suddenly see:
– I find that I still love chess!
– Then, There is enormous number of games on the internet, that you can download and analyze, using fancy readers and softwares.
– GMS play online blitz and you can watch that live! Events are covered with live games (not inconvenient newspaper format like back then, really not that far ago)
– Computers started dominating and becoming useful tool for training and understanding chess in some ways.
+++++
So it is Elista then.
“Susan’s decision to run on the USCF Executive Board of course!!”
Think you could possibly kiss up just a bit more, son? I don’t think you’re abasing yourself quite enough.
Poor Susan, having to listen to this phony flattery all day.
Anybody who doesn’t think the end of a 13 year old schism isn’t the #1 event, hasn’t been following the game very long.
for me, it’s the rise of carlsen- i think he has the skills to be a world champ- but it’s not just carlsen – it’s also nakamura, radjabov, negi, and other young talents that are making chess exciting by playing more tactical chess than typically seen from top GM’s
Kramnik-Topalov.
Easy.
“What’s the #1 event of the year?”
Hmmmm…Fischer actually showed signs of being an understanding, modest human being!
Okay, okay, I know, I know, I was dreaming again…
Biggest event worldwide in chess:
From the chess-scene perspective: Chess cheating, illegal computer assistance, and cheating players caught.
From the chess-event perspective: Topalov-Kramnik unification match.
From the local (USA) perspective: Susan, Dr. Mikhail Korenman, Randy Bauer and Paul Truong announce their US Chess Federation Executive Board candidacies.
also…on the local (US) chess scene, Onischuk and Zatonskih played outstanding chess shile winning the 2006 US Chess Championships.
http://www.uschesschampionship.com/
http://www.uschesschampionship.com/2006/news/finalreview.htm
I was very proud of Lenier Dominguez in Barcelona
I don’t think it’s Kramnik-Topalov match. It was too .. 00…
Topalow #1 – I was. He deserve it!
The toilet gambit.
lol @ paul serrano. kramnik-topalov……but Susan’s decision to run is not less than equal to it! at least for us americans. shew…lifesaver lol
The rise of Magnus Carlsen!
The fall of Veselin Topalov, my hero!
Fischer’s dispute with a Swiss bank was definitaly my chess highlight of the year!
the #1 chess even was definitely the unification of the crown in Kramnik Topalov.
Now there are many other interesting happenings but they are not really the #1 event of the year. for example we must admit that world wide more people paid attention to the Kram Topa match than to the fact that Susan is going to save chess in USA. and I do super support her. this is a super significant happening in USA.
I was not pleased with the US Championships. I think the tournament should have chosen a challenger to the previous champion. I also do not like all the low level chess players in the championship. It ruins the prestige of the title. The upsets should not be allowed in a Championship.
Nakamura must have had his rating hit hard. If you want the highest rated players to participate for the Championship then do not put their rating at risk. In many countries to day the top players do not participate. look at Russian right now. the top players are not there.
After the big mess this year at the US Championships we might not have the best players participate next year.
1. Kramnik-Topalov Game 5, I guess.
2. Kirsan re-elected. Confirmed his meeting with aliens.
3. Kramnik lost to Fritz.
Unification of World Chess Championship!
It was kinda cool this summer to see GM Charbonneau, IM Krush, and WGM Shahade in attendance for the WNBA All-Star Game at Madison Square Garden. Hats off for young superstar WFM Tatev Abrahamyan for blowing away the field with a 9-0 in Ecuador this summer in the Pan Am Youth Championships.
None of the listed.
I think #1 chess event is the creation and rise of Rybka, the strongest chess entity in history, the first to go over the 3000 mark.
#1 Kramnik-Topalov
pure entertainment
#2 Kramnik-Fritz
back-rank killer-knight
#3 rise of Carlsen
presumingly drawing the most crowds next to #1 and #2
#4 comeback Topalov
great fighting spirit and great comeback results
Kramnik-Topalov of course, although Danailov almost threw the match down the toilet. I hope Kramnik laughs at Mexico 2007. That tournament should be a candidates event with Topalov included. If the Mexicans won’t accomodate a solution something like this then as far as I am concerned they can go on a permanent siesta and just forgeddaboudit.
The Hales Corners Challenge presented by the Southwest Chess Club in Wisconsin. Great event.
Kramnik-Topalov, by a mile. The chess was terrific and, though the future of the title remains a bit uncertain for now, the match allows us to have more hope for a unified championship than we’ve had in thirteen years.