Masters and Hustlers
A Great insight into Masters and Hustlers of the Chess World! Well worth watching with Brilliant Commentary! It is my build up to the upcoming Street Chess in the World Info!
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Friday, April 4, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
The "Seventeenth Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament" 2008
It looks like Levon Aronian will be the winner of this special chess event that is Blindfold and Rapid. Melody Amber chess tournament, which uniquely combines blindfold chess and speed chess is an annual invitation-only event for some of the world's best players. It has been held in Monte Carlo from 1992 onwards and is sponsored by the Dutch billionaire and world champion of correspondence chess, Joop van Oosterom. Named after his daughter, the tournament is usually held in March of every year. To look at past events please go here: Melody Amber View the latest LIVE game here Round 11
Loek Van Wely-Alexander Morozevich 0-1
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Magnus Carlsen-Boris Gelfand 1-0
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Levon Aronian-Vassily Ivanchuk 1-0
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Viswanathan Anand-Alander Morozevich 1-0
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Saturday, March 8, 2008
Vishy Anand Wins Linares 2008
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!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Morelia-Linares Mexico-Spain 2008
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
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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?
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Morelia/Linares Tournament 2008
The Morelia-Linares tournament is taking place from February 15th to 23rd February in Morelia, Mexico, and from 28th February to 7th March in Linares, Spain.
The annual Linares chess tournament, usually played around the end of February, takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia, Spain, in which it is held. It is sometimes described as the Wimbledon of chess. It is one of the strongest annual tournaments held on the chess tour, along with the Corus chess tournament and Dortmund chess tournament.
Morelia/Linares tournament. The eight-player, double round-robin has a stellar field that includes (in rating order): Vishy Anand (India), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Alexei Shirov (Spain), Peter Leko (Hungary), Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Levon Aronian (Armenia), Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan) and Magnus Carlsen (Norway).
At the moment the site is down and when it is back up I will post all the information pertaining to this magnificent chess event.
Round 1: Friday, February 15th
Alexei Shirov-Vishy Anand 0-1
Magnus Carlsen-Vassily Ivanchuk 1/2-1/2
Peter Leko-Teimour Radjabov 1-0
Veselin Topalov-Levon Aronian 1-0
Round 2: Saturday, February 16th
Vishy Anand-Levon Aronian 0-1
Teimour Radjabov-Veselin Topalov 1/2-1/2
Vassily Ivanchuk-Peter Leko 1-0
Alexei Shirov-Magnus Carlsen 1/2-1/2
Round 3: Sunday, February 17th
Magnus Carlsen-Vishy Anand 0-1
Peter Leko-Alexei Shirov 1/2-1/2
Veselin Topalov-Vassily Ivanchuk 1-0
Levon Aronian-Teimour Radjabov 1/2-1/2
Round 4: Tuesday, February 19th
Vishy Anand-Teimour Radjabov 1/2-1/2
Vassily Ivanchuk-Levon Aronian 0-1
Alexei Shirov-Veselin Topalov 1-0
Magnus Carlsen-Peter Leko 1/2-1/2
Monday, February 18th Free day
Round 5: Wednesday, February 20th
Peter Leko-Vishy Anand 0-1
Veselin Topalov-Magnus Carlsen 0-1
Levon Aronian-Alexei Shirov 1/2-1/2
Teimour Radjabov-Vassily Ivanchuk 1/2-1/2
Thursday, February 21st Free day
Round 6: Friday, February 22nd
Veselin Topalov-Vishy Anand
Levon Aronian-Peter Leko
Teimour Radjabov-Magnus Carlsen
Vassily Ivanchuk-Alexei Shirov
Round 7: Saturday, February 23rd
Vishy Anand-Vassily Ivanchuk
Alexei Shirov-Teimour Radjabov
Magnus Carlsen-Levon Aronian
Peter Leko-Veselin Topalov
Sunday, February 25th Transfer to Linares, Spain
Click for Shirov-Anand Round One
commentary and analysis: GM Ronen Har-Zvi.
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
From the past: 36 video chess games at Linares.
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Friday, February 15, 2008
Washington Square Chess
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.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Robert (bobby) James Fischer Dies at 64
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.
My 61 Memorable Games
Great photos of Iceland by Harri Eliasson
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Corus Chess 2008
Map of Wijk aan Zee:
Corus Chess 2008
The tournament is being held from 11-27 January 2008 in Wijk aan Zee.
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Always exciting chess being played by many of the top chess players in the world, remember Teimour Radjabov has never lost to Gary Kasparov so playing against Viswanathan Anand and winning is no surprise to me. we are in for some good chess especially from the young chess players like Magnus Carlsen!
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Teimour Radjabov-Viswanathan Anand 1-0
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Levon Aronian-Veselin Topalov 1-0
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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov-Magnus Carlsen 0-1
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