With one half of the World Championship complete, Viswanathan Anand was leading Veselin Topalov by the score of 3.5-2.5. At the halfway stage, the players will switch colors, and Anand is playing White again. For Topalov, he has to avoid a loss, a...
After 5 rounds of the World Championship match, Viswanathan Anand was leading 3-2. It was a great recovery from the World Champion in his defence of the title. After his crushing loss in game 1, Anand won his next two games as White, and draw the ...
Viswanathan Anand, nicknamed the 'Tiger from Madras', the world champion recovered from a crushing loss in the first match of his World Chess Championship defence against Veselin Topalov to win the second and the fourth game, and take the lead in ...
After 3 games, the world championship battle was locked at 1.5-1.5. Anand had silenced anyone who thought that his morale was shattered by the crushing loss in game 1 by winning game 2. In game 4, Anand completed his comeback from the game 1 loss...
With the first two games being decisive, there was expectations for game 3. Anand proved his mettle by outplaying Topalov positionally in game 2, a day after suffering a crushing defeat in game 1. The score was tied at 1-1, and there was a rest da...
The result of game 1 was a shocker: not just because Anand lost, but because of the way he lost. Within an hour of the start, his position was lost, and he resigned in less than 2 hours, lasting only 30 moves. The question on everyone's mind was: ...
The first game of the World Chess Championship match in Sofia was a shocker: in just about an hour Anand was in a lost position. Was it because he was tired from a 40 hour trip to Sofia? Did he forget his preparation? Either way, Anand got off to ...
The turning point of last year's Chess Championship mathc between Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand was Game 3. After 2 draws, Anand's crucial victory in Game 3 changes the tide of the game, and unsettles Kramnik which helps Anand win 2 more ...
This one goes much further than the previous ones, going up to a 141 moves. White has got s pawns (1+1 = 2pts) and so has black (1+1 = 2pts). This is a common type of endgame but the position is strange. In normal games, the kings of the players i...
The previous two were 84 followed by 85 moves but this one does reach triple figures. White has two queens and a pawn (9+9+1 = 19 pts) while black has two queens (9+9 = 18 pts), and this should be a draw. However, in 100 moves, White is able to co...
So, the previous one was an 84 move one, eh. Well, this one is one better. White has got 4 knights (4*3=12 points) against Black's queen (worth 9 points). Obviously this is winning for White and he can force checkmate in 85 moves, avoiding p...
Here is one endgame study in which White mates in 84 moves: White has got 3 queens while Black has got 2 queens and analysis has proved that White can checkmate Black in 84 moves: ...
