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FIDE Women Grand Prix in Ulaanbaatar
31.07.2010
– That's ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠤ
in the local script. Founded in 1639, initially as a nomadic Buddhist monastic
centre, Ulan Bator changed its location 28 times and finally became the capital
and main city of Mongolia, with a population of one million. The Grand Prix
has twelve players, amongst them four former women's world champions. The prize
fund is € 40,000.
Intro and round one report.
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ChessBase Magazin 137 now shipping
31.07.2010
– Four top tournaments (Bazna, Astrakhan, Havanna and Poikovsky), with commentary
by the winners Carlsen, Eljanov, Karjakin and Bologan. But of course ChessBase
Magazine is also known for its opening articles – twelve in this issue,
on countering the Dutch, the 5.d3 Ruy Lopez, new perspectives in the Slav,
Steinitz, French, King's Gambit and more – not to forget the endgame section.
Full contents.
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Chinese Chess League Division A: midway report
30.07.2010
– The Chinese Chess League Division A is a huge double-round team event with a total of 18 rounds, spanning from April until December, and has all of the very best Chinese players, as well as a few imports. It just reached the midway point. The rounds are played throughout China including the Shanghai World Expo. Gu Xiaobing reports on the event bringing
pictures and games.
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Kavalek at Huffington: Fooling the gullible chess world
30.07.2010
– At the 1965 Student Olympiad Lubomir Kavalek faced a furious attack from a Romanian opponent, but found a funky defense which, for the next 25 years became a sleeper: nobody nobody played it, nobody wrote about it. It resurfaced in 1990 in Kasparov vs Spanish TV viewers, and two weeks ago was successfully used in the Dortmund Super-GM. In his latest column Kavalek
reclaims its authorship.
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Fabiano Caruana wins Biel 2010
30.07.2010
– The Young Grandmasters section finished with a three-way tie for first place, making tiebreak games necessary. In the semifinals Fabiano Caruana, who turns 18 on Friday, defeated France's Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the Armageddon stage. He then went on to beat the Vietnamese prodigy Nguyen Ngoc Truong 1.5:0.5 to take the title.
Final report.
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World School Championship – getting to know you...
29.07.2010
– Our reporter, WGM Anastasiya Karlovich, has been sending us extraordinary pictures from this children's event in Turkey. Now she has started to interview the players and their minders, to identify these young participants from all over the world – the stars of tomorrow. The result is a wonderful pictorial report filed after round seven of the School Championship.
You will melt.
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Biel: Three players share first, tiebreaks on Thursday
29.07.2010
– Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Fabiano Caruana all scored seven draws and two wins in the Young Grandmasters section at the Biel Chess Festival. The Vietnamese GM has the best Sonneborn-Berger, so Vachier and Caruana play two two blitz games, and the winner takes on Son in the final of two rapid games.
Illustrated rounds 7-9 reports.
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Daniel King: what can be done about the Catalan?
28.07.2010
– At the Super-GM in Dortmund there were seven Catalans, with five draws and
two white wins. And in those draws Black's prospects of winning were almost
zero. "It is really depressing if you are playing with the black pieces
and the summit of your ambitions is just to draw," says our Powerplay trainer.
GM Daniel King will tell us what to do on Playchess.com
on Thursday at 8 p.m. CEST.
See you then!
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Honorary Doctorate for chess grandmaster
28.07.2010
– Sir Harry Kroto was there – the emeritus professor who in 1996 received
the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the C60 (buckminsterfullerene)
molecule. He attended the same school as actor Sir Ian McKellan (Gandalf in
Lord of the Rings) – and a chess grandmaster, who last week was awarded an Honorary
Doctorate from the University.
Can you guess who that was?
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Of bishops and giant pawns
28.07.2010
– In endgames with bishops of opposite colours it is well known that the likelihood of a draw is particularly high. But when the bishop resembles a giant pawn, as in our present example, problems are of course also on the cards in this type of endgame.
What sequence of moves did Black (to move) use to bring about a winning position here?
Analysis by GM Karsten Müller on
ChessBase Magazine Online.
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FIDE moves Candidates matches to Kazan, Russia
27.07.2010
– Just days after a request from the Russian Chess Federation to move the 2011 Candidates matches away from Baku, Azerbaijan, FIDE President Kirsan Illumzhinov has announced that the match will indeed now take place in Kazan. If Topalov refuses to play in Russia, as he has threatened, he will (brace yourself) be replaced by Alexander Grischuk.
Sport Express report.
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Chess Classic Mainz – counting the days
27.07.2010
– The tenth edition of the Chess Classic Mainz has become a three-day event – but one at which you can see and play against dozens of world-class stars and strong grandmasters. There is also a 40-board simul with World Champion Viswanathan Anand and a 20-board 960 simul with women's world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk. It's just ten days away, but you can still
join the fun.
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