03.09.2010– Aronian, Kramnik, Shirov and Wang Hao are playing in this classical double round robin, originally intended as a summit of the winners of selected Grand Slam tournaments. Magnus Carlsen disrupted the system by winning most of them, so other players had to be invited "on the basis of their sports merits". Aronian beat Wang Hao with black in round one. Annotated games, video impressions.
03.09.2010– ... on his position Black finally wanted to shake off in this game from the Spanisch Team Championship. What do you think, what should be the first step in this direction?
A) 17...Kh8
B) 17...f5
C) 17...Qb6+ 18.Kh1 and then 18...f5
The solution is here,
but first ponder over it with a larger version of the diagram.Читать дальше »
02.09.2010– He has just topped the latest FIDE rating list, for the fifth time in succession. Now Magnus Carlsen, 19-year-old chess phenomenon from Norway, is taking on the world. On Friday, September 10th, as part of his fashion promotion for G-Star, he will play a one-day match in New York against registered users, who are coached by three top international players and Garry Kasparov. Info and videos.
31.08.2010– It was a dream final: The World Champion vs the number one rated player in the world. Vishy Anand had scored a near-perfect 5.0/6 victory in the preliminaries, Magnus had finished at 3.5/6. But in the final the Norwegian worked over the Indian GM from the queenside to the kingside, winning the first game and the event. Jon Ludvig Hammer beat Judit Polgar to take Bronze. Final report.
30.08.2010– Back in 1989 Lance Martin stood in line with 200 people to watch Kasparov play
IBM's Deep Blue. "We have come a long way since then," he writes,
"we use computers to help us beat our opponents." His favourite chess
program is Rybka 4 by ChessBase, and the opening book sold with the engine.
Read his evaluation in this Chess
Cafe review.