A stunning victory for Vishy Anand from India, he is the all round winner of the best chess tournament we shall see in a long time. Magnus Carlsen came a half point behind Anand and all I can say is Magnus is improving rapidly. Every where I went people were saying that Magnus Carlsen is the most watched chess player of our time!
It is still to early to tell who is winning convincingly.Aronian is making full use of his opponents mistakes and it is wonderful to go through his games and see lost potential especially his game in round four by Vassily Ivanchuk from the Ukraine. We all know that chess is won by the person who makes the least amount of mistakes!
Here are some games with analysis from the third round:
Veselin Topalov-Vassily Ivanchuk 1-0
Replay the game with analysis
Magnus Carlsen-Viswanathan Anand 0-1
Topalov-Carlsen 0-1 Round 5
GM Joel Benjamin Replays the game with analysis.
Great win for Magnus Carlsen with the Alekhines defense/Classical variation. Carlson played this opening before with Black in a blitz game but not in standard game. I must say a very wonderful surprise and a brilliant win for Magnus! V. Topalov is now falling behind after being in front in the first three rounds. Vishy Anand is 1/2 a point ahead of Aronian and very soon Anand could quite easily maintain his lead. Anand is one point clear of the rest as of Round 6 with Aronian right on his heels, it is still all very close and a joy to watch.
Replay the game with analysis from Round 6
Radjabov-Carlsen 1-0
commentery with analyisis by GM Joel Benjamin.
Your comments are worth their weight in Gold! Who do you see as the all round winner?
Shirov had a very bad start making some very unusual errors as you will see from the analysis. Overall a nice game that went terribly wrong for Shirov. Overall there have been many Wins so far in this tournament, the latest is Aronian winning his match with Anand, it was I must say a brilliant game!Aronian said I was not playing aggressively I was playing the "Marshall". Also I must give mention to Ivanchuck who beat Leko with a wonderful Queen sac for a positional advantage and a piece up in the end game that made him win very convincingly.
Click for Anand-Aronian Round Two
commentary and analysis by GM John Fedorowicz
Click for Topalov-Ivanchuk Round 3
commentary and analysis by GM Nick De Firmian
Click for Ivanchuk-Aronian Round 4
commentary and analysis by GM Larry Christiansen
Many hollywood actors have taken up the game of chess it has been known that the late actor Heath Ledger played at least one game a day and at times he played chess in the Washington Square Park where beautiful stone tables are accessible to all. Earl Biggs, 63, who was a spectator at Ledger's early-morning games. "He'd usually lose. We played for a couple of dollars and he'd lose a few dollars. He just had fun, he loved it."
No matter where street chess is played, no matter how rich or poor the players are, the common denominator is an obsession with the game.
“It becomes an addictive thing,” said Eric Whitsett, who teaches chess at the tables in Washington Square Park. Whitsett claims to have once played for virtually 72 hours straight. “Your mind goes into analytical school. It starts to love it.”
Chess is a great outlet for exercising the brain if anyone know of any actor that plays chess can you please include a post with the news on how well they play. I did make a post a while back on Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, do a site search.
U.S.- born Fischer, who renounced his American citizenship and moved to Iceland in 2005, died Thursday at a hospital in Reykjavik from kidney failure, said spokesman Gardar Sverrisson. Gary Kasparov said that Fischer was the greatest chess player of all time. Spassky in France said he will be deeply missed and he was sorry to hear of his death.
Fischer's open mind and his "War on the Board" attitude has changed the way chess has been played over the years. I only hope that those who truly love chess will see him for his gift shared over the board and not due to his personal opinions of the world in general. We have to look at the great chess played by many champions who for one thing or another became challenged in more ways than one!
He lived one year for every square on a chessboard. As if his whole life was measured by the game he played. He ran out of squares on the chessboard of life.
Robert James Fischer was buried Monday 21 in a private ceremony at at Laugardaelir church outside the town of Selfoss. South of the capital city, REYKJAVIK.
The parish priest was Kristinn Agust Fridfinnsson. The funeral was attended by only a handful of people, including Fischer's longtime companion, Miyoko Watai, and friend and spokesman Gardar Sverrisson.
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