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31.08.2010 16:39 It's all in the endgame

Sanan Sjugirov of Russia was equal first at the world junior but lost on tie break. He played a couple of nice endgames, the first of which I will show today. Opposite coloured bishops can often give the endgame a drawish character, but here (see main illustration) White is effectively a king up. Can you see how he forced the win? Answer below. There was an English success at the World Chess Junior as Anya Corke scored 8.5/13 in the girls section. A Corke (2257) – C Forestier (2103). Dutch Defence ...

30.08.2010 12:48 Carlsen Wins Arctic Stars Over Anand

29.08.2010 16:49 Skilled at the Chessboard, Keyboard and Blackboard

Chess produces prodigies. So do mathematics and music. And while the relationship between chess and mathematics is clear, and many accomplished mathematicians are also skilled musicians, it is unusual to find a prodigy in all three areas. Noam Elkies, who turned 44 on Wednesday, is that rare triple threat. A Manhattan native, he graduated from Stuyvesant High School by age 15, and at the top of his class at Columbia University three years later. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard at 20. He became the youngest winner of the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition for undergraduates when he was 16. Ten years later, he became the youngest full professor in ...

28.08.2010 17:14 David Howell neglects British title defence to seek tougher challenges

England's youngest chess grandmaster David Howell, 19, made an ambitious and bold decision last month, when he opted to miss defending the British title he won in 2009. Instead Howell decided to test himself at higher levels, at three strong European chess events in two of which he was seeded near the bottom. The policy looked dubious in the early rounds of the young grandmasters invitation at Biel, Switzerland where Howell began with 1.5/6. But the Sussex teenager, who sometimes used to fade under pressure, fought back to a solid 3½/9. Then he made a strong 8½/11 total in the highly rated world rapids (30-minute games) in Mainz, Germany, losing only to Russia's elite GM Sergey Karjakin. This ...

28.08.2010 12:45 Anand, Carlsen Headline Arctic Chess Stars

27.08.2010 23:56 English and Flank Openings

Looking at Larsen's Opening

27.08.2010 17:14 A Nimble Chess Artist

The former U.S. chess champion Hikaru Nakamura is fast. The quicker the pace on the chess board, the more he seems to enjoy playing. His nimble skills helped him to secure a place for the next traditional Amber tournament, a blindfold and rapid chess extravaganza played every spring on the French Riviera. Competing at the NH tournament in Amsterdam, Nakamura, 22, led the Rising Stars to a 26-24 victory over the chess veterans, the Experience team, on Sunday. Another member of the winning team, the young Dutch champion Anish Giri, 16, had an identical 6-4 score as Hikaru, but only one could qualify for the Amber tournament. In the blitz playoff, Nakamura defeated Giri 2-0, ensuring ...

27.08.2010 01:34 Dragon Sicilians

A nice mixed bunch this month

26.08.2010 16:38 Dmitry Andreikin wins world junior title

The 49th World Junior Chess Championship ended Monday in Chotowa, Poland. Every country was invited to send its best young chess players, born in 1990 or later. The record field of 120 players, representing 55 countries, included 20 grandmasters and 34 IMs. Russian chess grandmasters Dmitry Andreikin, age 20, and Sanan Sjugirov, 17, shared first place with scores of 10-3. On tiebreak, Andreikin wins the gold medal. Andreikin had played in four previous World Juniors, with a best result of fourth place in 2007. This year, he was rated highest at 2650 and went undefeated despite facing eight GMs. Sjugirov won the most games (eight) but suffered one upset. Four chess players tied for ...

25.08.2010 16:38 Rising Chess Stars Win NH Chess Tournament

In the end, youth was served, but barely. The NH tournament in the Netherlands ended Sunday in victory for the young team of “rising stars.” They edged the “experience” team 26 to 24. Last year the experience team won, 27.5 to 22.5. The chess tournament was organized under the Scheveningen system in which the members of each group play all the members of the other group twice. The top players for the rising stars were Hikaru Nakamura of the United States and Anish Giri of the Netherlands, who each scored 6 points. Giri was ahead of Nakamura before the last round, but he lost to Peter Heine Nielsen of Denmark, while Nakamura drew with Boris Gelfand of Israel, the top-ranked chess ...

24.08.2010 17:10 A lesson in attacking play

A pawn sacrifice can be incredibly effective if executed properly. As attacking is our theme, that's the perfect excuse to feature a game by one of our favourite chess players, David Bronstein. Bronstein was a true romantic, valuing artistry above results, always prepared to have a hack at his oppon...

23.08.2010 16:39 An Unusual Double: Husband and Wife Win French Chess Championships

Marriages among top chess players are not common, but they are not as rare as they once were because more women play chess now than did 20 or 30 years ago. Sometimes the marriages are between chess players of different nationalities, but once they marry and settle down, they often play in the champi...

22.08.2010 18:12 Rising Stars Win; Nakamura Claims Amber Invite

22.08.2010 16:48 In Race for Global Chess Dominance, China Is Gaining on Russia

There was little doubt why the Soviet Union was so dominant in chess — the government poured money and other resources into programs that cultivated chess players. Yet even after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia remained the world’s leading chess country. Its strength might be a vestig...

21.08.2010 16:27 Chess still struggling to capture imagination of the masses in China

China is a unique phenomenon in world chess. The team only began to compete in around 1970 but within 30 years was a serious contender at men's level and No1 in women's chess. Yet the national game remains Chinese chess and the global version has little public support. The secret has been well-direc...

21.08.2010 13:40 Rising Stars Near Victory in Amsterdam

20.08.2010 16:53 Rising Chess Stars Open up a Lead at NH Tournament

The saying that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link is also true for chess teams. Unfortunately for the older team at the annual NH Tournament in the Netherlands, it seems to have three weak links right now. After seven rounds, the rising stars lead the experience team 19 to 16. The top ch...

19.08.2010 19:14 d-Pawn Specials

An interesting gambit in the Veresov!

19.08.2010 17:21 Two Win Diminished Chess Crowns

Boris Spassky, the future world chess champion, was once world junior champion. So were Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand, the current world chess champion. It used to be that the world junior championship was an important stepping stone for chess players who had dreams of becomin...

18.08.2010 17:21 Steinitz's Immortal Chess Game

Enough is enough and you throw in the towel. That's the elegant way to give up in boxing. In chess, there are more ways of resigning a game before you get actually mated. The manner Curt von Bardeleben did it 115 years ago during the legendary chess tournament at the English seaside resort of Hastin...

17.08.2010 17:03 The middlegame: The art of a successful attack

A lesson in creative aggression from Luke McShane. Over the last few weeks we have concentrated on the technical precision of endings, and by contrast we now move to a much messier phase of the game of chess – the middlegame and, more specifically, attacking. Often, the knack in playing a successf...

17.08.2010 14:53 King's Indian

Old lines, new lines, and a classic trap!

16.08.2010 21:57 Queen's Gambit, Slav Defence

Important new ideas in the fashionable Anti-Moscow Gambit!

16.08.2010 16:54 For Top Seeds, No Guarantee of Victory, or Success

In a sport like tennis, it is not unusual to see a top seed win a tournament. But in chess, the margin between a No. 1 seed and most of the field is often small, and the top chess player is usually not the prohibitive favorite. Three chess tournaments that ended last weekend illustrated that rule, a...

15.08.2010 23:28 Experience and Rising Stars Battle in Amsterdam

15.08.2010 18:34 French Defence

The sharp Poisoned Pawn Winawer!

15.08.2010 16:29 Alejandro Ramirez wins US Open

Chess Grandmaster Alejandro Ramirez of Costa Rica won the 111th U.S. Open in Irvine last Sunday. Ramirez, a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas, yielded draws only to top-seeded GM Varuzhan Akobian and his former UTD teammate, IM Julio Catalino Sadorra. His 8-1 score included a vict...

15.08.2010 16:27 Nimzo and Benoni

Time to catch up on the latest theoretical developments in the Nimzo!

15.08.2010 14:51 Caro-Kann, Pirc, Alekhine's and Scandinavian Defences

Coverage of the theoretical updates in Alekhine's Defence!

14.08.2010 16:47 Hats off to Gata Kamsky

The US chess champion Gata Kamsky triumphed in style to capture the Grenke Leasing World Rapid Chess Championship at Mainz. The 36 year-old scored 10/11 against mainly world class opposition. Kamsky wore his favourite New York cap throughout the event and it obviously brought him luck. Kamsky was on...

13.08.2010 16:56 An Annual Generational Clash Is Underway

Chess was once an old man’s game, but that has not been true for many years. Now, chess is a young man’s game and in any contest between chess players of different ages, the younger ones are often the favorites. Still, that does not diminish the intrigue of any clash of generations, which is why...

12.08.2010 15:55 Hou Wins Fifth Women’s Chess Grand Prix

It was a perfect final round match-up, but Antoaneta Stefanova was not able to pull off her dream finish. Stefanova, a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former women’s world chess champion, trailed Hou Yifan of China by half a point before the last round of the fifth Women’s Grand Prix in Ulan Bat...

11.08.2010 16:41 Showdown to Decide Winner of Women’s Chess Grand Prix

The luck of the draw sets up a final round matchup on Wednesday for the title in the fifth Women’s Chess Grand Prix in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Hou Yifan of China is the leader with 7.5 points after 10 rounds, while Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria trails by only half a point. They have not faced each...

10.08.2010 21:42 Daring Defences

A mixed selection this time!

10.08.2010 16:31 The endgame: Has Black done the right thing?

Schlechter-Tartakower, Karlsbad 1907. Black has just played ...g5. Is this good? RB A game from chess's romantic era, with two of my favourite chess players, both of whom – in true tragic-romantic tradition – died in poverty. Schlechter's death in 1918, of pneumonia aggravated by near-starvation...

10.08.2010 16:06 Open Sicilians

Important new ideas in a number of critical Sicilian lines

09.08.2010 17:39 Player Who Was Too Clever for the Health of His Game

For years, Alexander Morozevich stood out among the best chess players because of his creative play. But with creativity comes unpredictability, and Morozevich has had his ups and downs. Two years ago, Morozevich, a 33-year-old Russian, rose to a career-best ranking of No. 2 in the world. But he has...

08.08.2010 22:06 Chess, Chess, and More Chess!

08.08.2010 17:00 Chess: A 31-month cliffhanger

Aleksandr Surenovich Dronov of Russia edged Jurgen Bucker of Germany on tiebreak to win the 22nd World Correspondence Chess Championship. If any tournament that lasts 31 months can be called thrilling, this one qualifies. In the endgame of the crucial battle between the rivals, Dronov had an extra K...

07.08.2010 16:50 Michael Adams dominates on way to victory at the British Chess Championship

When Michael Adams won his first five games at the just finished British Chess Championship in Canterbury, there was talk that the 38-year-old Cornishman might emulate Bobby Fischer's legendary 11/11 in the US title contest of 1963. Adams's streak was halted by a couple of draws but he made sure of ...