The Quad took place at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico) for their centenial celebrations (founded Sept. 22, 1910) from Nov. 13 - 21. During the festival, Kasparov and Karpov both gave simuls. The relica of The Turk was there - maybe sightseeing - and an exhibition of Chess & Art was set up as well as lectures, workshops, films, etc.
Is the KG Dead?
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The kings gambit isnt dead. Its just that todays top players dont have the courage to play it........
Is KG dead?
After this game, Vaselin would certainly disagree.
Bravo Judit Polgar!
Dec 9, 2010
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It was like a stave through his heart.
Judit also beat Vaselin with the Dutch Defense no less
and a lovely little Ruy Lopez
Those five golden rings were the only good present. The rest was a bunch of stupid stuff.
I don't think the KG is dead so much. It seems to be a potent blitz tool to take your opponent into less familiar waters. and if you go a bit lower than the GM level IM Pruess has some pretty fantastic results, as anyone who watches Pardon our Blunders can attest to.
I used to play the English, and my friend Skip used to repond with f5. I would transpose into the Dutch, and I always beat him. When he had the white pieces, we were pretty even, so I've always thought the Dutch was a weak response to 1. d4 (f5 creates a positional weakness, blah, blah, blah.) Skip certainly didn't play it like Judit, though. I may have to reevaluate my opinion.
On to an entitrely different subject. I just got back from playing an OTB game face to face against real people at my chess club. I went down by a rook for a knight and a pawn in the early stages of a Najdorf Sicilian with white, but I hung on like grim death for a draw. It's almost more fun to overcome a mistake than it is to blow someone off the board.
Hooray for me!
The Kings Gambit is not dead as it was never a living thing 
. If you mean that it is seldom used at top-level chess, then I agree. Great opening to watch though
After going through all presented games, I think that she has actually got him in 2.2 - in that really lovely open Ruy. (I recollect there was a very short draw beween Toplove and Kamsky in "Kamsky comes back" match in a very sharp variant of Ruy.)
When she managed to won 2.3 Dutch, all that was left to her was to shake the chess world by KG, and she did it with style.
BTW, batgirl, if you are reading this, thank you for your blog articles on simple mates and matting paterns. It's a treasury and it was precious to me to actually start learning chess from there.
I met the KG in the street just yesterday.
Dec 10, 2010
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Kurt Russell's character in Escape from New York was named King's Gambit I believe. All the way through the movie every time he meets someone, they say "King's Gambit? I heard you were dead."
Dec 10, 2010
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Short - Bacrot
It hard to believe Bacrot made Short play to the end unless there was severe time trouble.
Although it's called the "King's Tournament," isn't not a thematic. Carlsen won in June 2010 (over Gelfand, Nisipeanu, Ponomariov, Radjabov and Wang Yue)
Our own David Pruess won this Mindsport 2008 game impressively. I believe it was a blitz time control.
Best played when you are drunk, I always play it then.
Gotta be honest, another KG thread seems superflous.
On this amateur level, and especially in blitz, the KG is not only not dead, but I face it so often (being a 1. ...e5 player) that I start yawning a little when I see it.
Dec 10, 2010
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streetfighter wrote:
rigamagician wrote:
Kurt Russell's character in Escape from New York was named King's Gambit I believe. All the way through the movie every time he meets someone, they say "King's Gambit? I heard you were dead."
Haha, very good! One of my favourite movies as a young teenager, along with Warriors. In case anyone believes you, his character's name is actually Snake Plissken
Oops. I knew it was something like that!
And I believe it was Mark Twain who said "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
Yes, folks, one more thread on the enigmatic King's Gambit, one of the mainstays of the 19th century, but seldom played nowadays in higher level chess.
But when it IS played.... wow!
The Ajedrez UNAM Quadrangular played last month in Mexico City (the Quad = Judit Polgar, Veselin Topalov, Vassily Ivanchuk and Manuel Leon Hoyos) was won by Polgar with a crushing +5-1=2 score. Ivanchuk with +1-2=1 and Hoyos with +0-3=1, the mini-tournament came down to one between Topalov and Polgar. Topalov eventually scored +3-3=2 but with all 3 losses (and 1 draw) to Polgar. To me, however, the cherry on the cupcake was Judit's sassy KGA win over the much higher rated Topalov.