Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov also drew their 10th game of the World Championship match in Sofia. The World Champion went back to his Grünfeld Defence and reached equality easily but then came a bit under pressure. Topalov had some chances...
The 9th game of the World Championship match in Sofia ended in a draw after Viswanathan Anand missed various wins. The game was a heroic fight that lasted 83 moves, when Veselin Topalov once again claimed a threefold repetition. Video added - actu...
Veselin Topalov has won the eighth game of the World Championship match in Sofia. He defeated Viswanathan Anand in an opposite-coloured bishop ending and thus levelled the score: it's 4-4, with four games to go. Video added.For all the match detai...
The seventh game of the World Championship match in Sofia, Bulgaria also ended in a draw. Challenger Veselin Topalov showed impressive opening preparation and put the World Champion under considerable pressure. However, Anand defended accurately a...
The former FIDE President Florencio Campomanes has died aged 83. Campomanes achieved National Master status as a player, and represented the Philippines at five Olympiads in the 1950's and 60's (wikipedia entry here). But it for his dedicated w...
The sixth game of the World Championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov ended in a draw today. For the third time a Catalan came on the board, and after an interesting fight between Anand's knight pair and Topalov's bishop pai...
Veselin Topalov and Viswanathan Anand drew the fifth game of their World Championship match in Sofia, Bulgaria. The two repeated the varation of the Slav that appeared in game 3, and again challenger Topalov couldn't prove a clear advantage with t...
Viswanathan Anand won the fourth game of the World Championship match against Veselin Topalov quickly and impressively. In another Catalan, it was the World Champion's turn to sacrifice a knight at an early stage, and like in the first game of the...
The third game of the World Championship match in Sofia today ended in a draw. Viswanathan Anand didn't go for the Grünfeld, but instead the World Champion seemed to be impersonating Topalov's nemesis Vladimir Kramnik and picked a variation of the...
Veselin Topalov defeated Viswanathan Anand in crushing style in the first game of the World Championship match in Sofia, Bulgaria. The Bulgarian started with 1.d4, which was answered by the Grünfeld Defence. At move 24 Topalov, probably still in h...
In a rare outbreak of common sense, the start of the world championship match between Vishy Anand (pictured) and Veselin Topalov has been postponed by one day. Anand had requested a three-day postponement and the Bulgarian organisers had refused ...
Five countries, 2000 kilometres, about a million potholes, an unexpected ferry and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. A member of the Anand team wrote a report of a crazy roadtrip through Europe.The following report describes the travelling of the A...
Viswanathan Anand and the All India Chess Federation have requested a 3-day postponement of the World Championship match, which is scheduled to start Friday, April 23rd. Due to the volcanic ash from Iceland, which has closed most of Europe's airsp...
We haven't given much attention to the upcoming FIDE presidential elections in Khanty-Mansiysk yet, but the recent news that the United States Chess Federation and the German Chess Federation have given their support to Anatoly Karpov, there's no ...
Australia has a surface of 7,617,930 km², (2,941,299 square miles), making it the 6th biggest country in the world. However, currently there are only three Australian grandmasters on the FIDE rating list (the 4th retired not long ago). How is...
Yesterday Vasily Smyslov was buried in Moscow. Many friends and fans visited the Moscow Central Chess Club to say goodbye to the 7th World Champion. We also say goodbye, with video footage, links and some games. (We invite you to contribute!)The f...
In 2010 the Mainz Chess Classic will be a much smaller event than in other years. Financial woes have hit the annual Rapid and Chess960 event hard: only two simuls, by Anand and Kosteniuk, and the Grenke Rapid World Championship will be held. Pres...
Magnus Carlsen today recovered completely from his bad start in Nice. The Norwegian defeated Levon Aronian, the winner in 2008 and 2009, in both the blindfold and the rapid game. Ukrainians Ivanchuk and Ponomariov lead the combined standings after...
In the 6th round of the Linares super-tournament, Veselin Topalov was in trouble against Francisco Vallejo until the Spaniard suddenly blundered a full rook. By then Gashimov and Gelfand had already drawn in a very theoretical Petroff. The last g...
The Dutch quarterly Matten provides a mixture of interviews, stories and anecdotes with a literary flavour, interweaved with drawings, cartoons and photos. We bring a review of the 7th edition in the Dutch language, together with a review of De Pi...
What do a game of chess and a nude decending a staircase have in common? To answer such questions, you must be prepared to leave your conventional ways of thinking at home and then fall down Marcel Duchamp's rabbit-hole of chess and art.A few week...
Chess players, perhaps insisting on their world-wide status as 'smart people', have always seemed to me more formalistic and pedantic than your average customer at the grocery's. But sometimes being 'wrong' is much more fun.How do you spell 'Korc...
Here's a confession: I've had Viktor Moskalenko's latest book Revolutionize Your Chess in my possession for weeks already, but I've been reluctant to review it. The reason, quite simply, is this: I don't like it at all. I loved Moskalenko's previo...
In Joueuse a housemaid sees two people playing chess, and then falls in love with the royal game. Starring Sandrine Bonnaire and Kevin Kline, Queen to Play (English title) opened in German cinemas yesterday, where it's called Die Schachspielerin. ...
