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World Championship 2008: the commentators speak
28.08.2008
– Just 46 days to go until the start of the World Chess Championship in Bonn, Germany. The match between Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik will be covered by a battery of online commentators, including GM Yasser Seirawan in English, GMs Artur Yussupov, Dr Helmut Pfleger, Klaus Bischoff in German, GM Miguel Illescas in Spanish. Here are pre-match
interviews with the experts.
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The Fritz11 shootout mode
28.08.2008
– How do you get Fritz11 to play a game against itself? If you don't know, it's easy – and, best of all, you can start the game from a chess position of your choosing. Learn how in the latest
ChessBase Workshop.
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Tal Memorial 09: Ivanchuk wins by a full point
27.08.2008
– Ivanchuk-Shirov: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 c5 5.Bxc4 e6 6.0-0 a6 7.dxc5 Bxc5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.Ne5 Ke7 10.Be2 Bd7 11.Bf3 Nc6 12.Nxc6+ draw. That was it, Vassily Ivanchuk won the 2008 Tal Memorial a full point ahead of his nearest rivals (Morozevich, Gelfand, Ponomariov and Kramnik). His performance of 2861 took Ivanchuk to number two in the live world rankings.
Final report.
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Rising Stars lead Experienced team by 24.5:10.5
27.08.2008
– How does he do it? Chinese GM Wang Yue won all of his first six games, and drew in round seven to take a one-point overall lead with 6.5/7 and a 3034 performance. Second in line is Ivan Cheparinov with 5.5/7 and a 2818 performance. 77-year-old Viktor Korchnoi won a second game for Experienced, and almost won a third which he tragically lost on time.
Report after round seven.
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Magical Moments with Mikhail Tal
27.08.2008
– The ongoing Tal Memorial is a very fine tournament, but there's very little
about the play that would remind us of the man being honored. In his
Wednesday night Playchess lecture Dennis
Monokroussos provides us with a special treat: a vintage Tal game which starts
positionally but in which Tal suddenly switches modes and overwhelms his opponent
with wave after wave of attacks.
Enjoy.
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Tal Memorial 08: Kamsky beats Morozevich, Kramnik, Shirov win
27.08.2008
– The orbital flight that took him to number one in the world is over, Alexander Morozevich came crashing down to earth with a second loss, this time with the white pieces against Gata Kamsky. Vladimir Kramnik chalked up a second win, this time against Evgeny Alekseev, while Alexei Shirov improve his dismal last-place score with a win against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.
Round eight report.
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The Great ChessBase Simul Hunt (2)
27.08.2008
– The German Grandmaster Karsten Müller has chosen three further games submitted by readers. They are all tough, if relatively brief, fights and include a loss by a 14-year-old Magnus Carlsen in a display in Norway (where his overall score was +28 –1 =1). Contributions to our Simul Hunt continue to arrive, and more articles will be appearing. In the meantime,
enjoy the latest crop of battles.
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Acropolis 2008: Smirin wins ahead of Parligras on tiebreak
26.08.2008
– The 23rd Acropolis 2008 International Open Chess Tournament was won by the Israeli GM Ilia Smirin, for the second consecutive year. He tied for first place with the Romanian GM Mircea Parligras but won on tiebreak points. WGM Anastasiya Karlovich provides us with impressions of the tournament location in Athens and portraits of the players in her
big pictorial report.
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Tal Memorial 07: Ivanchuk beats Morozevich, takes lead
25.08.2008
– What a round: four out of five games decided, the only draw a cliff-hanger. Ponomariov beat Shirov, Leko beat Kamsky (with black!), Alekseev beat Mamedyarov. A heart-stopping victory by Vassily Ivanchuk over player-on-fire Alexander Morozevich pushed the latter down from number one in the world on the Live List to number two behind Vishy Anand.
High drama in Moscow.
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Professor Arpad E. Elo – a fond remembrance
25.08.2008
– If Arpad Elo were still alive he would be a hundred and five years old today – three years past the age of 102 that he was supposed to survive to, as foretold by a Budapest gypsy when he visited Hungary in 1970. In reality he died in Wisconsin, USA at the age of 89. A close associate and family friend, Elmer Dumlao Sangalang, looks back at
the man who revolutionised chess.
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Rising Stars: the Experience team without a chance
24.08.2008
– Remember how hard-fought these contests used to be? Well, in round five of the third NH Chess Tournament that pits Rising Stars against Experienced GMs it was 77-year-old Viktor Korchnoi who scored the first full point for the latter. Otherwise there were nine draws and 14 losses. Chinese GM Wang Yue leads the field with 5.0/5 points and a theoretical performance of 3400.
Big pictorial report.
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Tal Memorial 06: Morozevich, Ivanchuk and Gelfand win
24.08.2008
– Two black wins: Boris Gelfand overwhelmed Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in a Semi-Slav (Anti-Meran); and Peter Leko was taken to the cleaners by Vassily Ivanchuk in a Closed Ruy Lopez (Chigorin). Ruslan Ponomariov was basically lost after eleven moves in a wildly tactcial Nimzo Indian against Alexander Morozevich, who moves to number one in the world on the Live Rating list.
Round six report.
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