[ed: an English version of this article can be seen here: http://www.chess.com/article/view/viswanathan-anand] சித்திரை மாதம், இருபத்தி ஏழாம் நாள், இரண்டாயிரத்திப் பத்து: பல்கேரிய நாட்டின் தலை நகரமான சோபியாவில், நில மடந்தையின் சீராரும் வதனமான...
A long time ago I read some book where the writer explained how Benjamin Blumenfeld, an excellent Russian player between the First and Second World Wars, took the idea of his gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.d5 b5!?) from the famous game Nimzow...
A chess match is an exciting struggle between two persons which, in most cases, allows one to find out which of them is the better player. The more games, the more justified the result (as long as no one dies from exhaustion). Therefore, it is n...
Anand, the actual worldchampion in chess, searched often and scored well in his WC-match against Kramnik in open center formations. He lost only one in a game with a stable center situations. Did that happen by chance? I do not think so. Open and...
Now that we're done with the Pogonina vs Chess.com game, I would like to share with you some impressions and games from the last tournament I have been playing in, the Russian Club Cup in Dagomys. Chess.com has been providing nice updates on the e...
Viswanathan (Vishy) Anand was born on December 11, 1969 in Chennai, India. Veselin Topalov was born on March 15, 1975 in Rousse (Ruse), Bulgaria. Anand is now 40.Topalov just turned 35. Topalov’s father taught him to play chess at the age of 8.A...
Max Weiss has the immense honor to be the co-winner (tied with Chigorin) of the longest [over-the-board] tournament in chess history, a true marathon of twenty players in a double round event through 64 days! A tournament that was organized t...
Vasily Smyslov, the former world champion, died on March 27, 2010. He was born on March 24, 1921. His passing has been reported in newspapers and chess sites that included some of his achievements and games. Smyslov first played for the world cha...
VASILY SMYSLOV (1921-2010) by Bill WallVasily (Vassily) Vasiliyevich Smyslov was born in Moscow on March 24, 1921 (March 24, 1946 was the day Alekhine died (1892-1946); Yasser Seirawan was born on March 24, 1960).In 1927, at the age ...
William Davies Evans was born in Pembroke, Gales, January 27, 1790. Marine by profession since age fourteen, he became sea Captain in 1819 in the United Kingdom Postal Service. By 1818, he had learnt the moves of chess. During his free hours in of...
It is said that few people in chess have been so uncomplicated and frank as Miguel Najdorf, and for this reason he created around him a very good atmosphere. Maybe for that, it is not surprising that at Buenos Aires 1939 during the Chess Olympiad,...
Bobby Fischer was having a very good performance at the Interzonal held in Palma de Mallorca in 1970. He had 14.5 points out of 19. His only loss was to the Great Dane, Bent Larsen. In round 21, he was to face the Brazilian prodigy Henrique Meckin...
Emanuel Schiffers, Russian chessmaster and chess writer, was born to German parents in St. Petersburg on May 4, 1850 and died there December 12, 1904. He was educated in his native city, studying the classical, physical, and mathematical faculties...
Josef Emil Krejcik (22 January 1885- 4 January 1957) was an Austrian chess master, problemist, journalist and author. He was born in Vienna and participated in many local tournaments there. His best result came in 1921, when he shared first with ...
Isidor Gunsberg (November 2, 1854, in Budapest – May 2, 1930, in London), English merchant, future challenger for the World Chess Championship and chess journalist began his career as the hidden operator of the chess automaton Mephisto! Nowadays t...
One of the reasons behind the “nemeses and customers” theory is that each chess player has his own style. It reminds me of the “Rock, Paper, Scissors” game where there is no one dominant item. The main three chess characters are:• Positiona...
Wesley So was born October 9, 1993. At the age of 14 years, 1 month, and 28 days he became an International Grandmaster (December 8, 2007). Only six players have done it at a younger age. In October 2008, he became the youngest player to ever be r...
Mikhail Chigorin (12 November 1850–25 January 1908) was born in Gatchina, near Saint Petersburg, and was the founder of the Russian chess school as well as the first grandmaster from Russia. He served as a major source of inspiration and influence...
The transitivity law does not hold for chess. That is, if player A usually beats player B, and player B usually beats player C, it does not imply that player A usually beats player C. In fact, sometimes it’s quite the opposite. While playing agai...
“He was not popular with his colleagues; he was surly, arrogant, conceited, and almost paranoid. People were out to poison him. Noise bothered him. Everything bothered him. Not naturally, he was in constant controversy with other players. They obj...
Aaron Nimzowitsch (7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935), one of the most influential players and writers in chess history, was born in Riga, (the birthplace of two chess geniuses: Mihail Tal and Alexei Shirov!) Latvia, one of the Baltic states, along ...
Richard Réti (28 May 1889, Pezinok – 6 June 1929, Prague) was an ethnic Jewish, Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. His older brother Rudolph Réti was a noted (musical) composer an...
Men tend to look down on women’s chess, joke about their level and style of play, and also discuss the female players’ looks whenever they have a chance. Continuing my story about the Russian Superfinal-2009 (Part 1 can be found here...
The world famous Mihail Tal was born in Latvia November 9, 1936. By the time he died June 28, 1992 he was celebrated for his achievements, style, and personality. On his way to winning the World Championship from Mikhail Botvinnik in 1960, he had ...
