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Anand is the Chess World Champion 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Wed, 30 May 2012 12:56:00 +0000

Vishy Anand is the World Champion, again! He beat challenger Boris Gelfand in tie-breakers. The final score was 8.5-7.5. The tie break games were filled with excitement unlike the games with regular time controls.

Anand won game 2 of the tie breaks and held on with draws in Games 3 and 4 to win. Earlier, he faced some anxious moments in the 3rd game, where he made a couple of dubious moves. However, Gelfand was unable to capitalize due to severe time pressure and drew a winning game.

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Tournament Chess set

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Tue, 29 May 2012 08:22:00 +0000

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Gelfand holds Anand again, holding on dangerously

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Fri, 25 May 2012 07:52:00 +0000

Anand - Gelfand Photo from thechessdrum.net

Challenger Boris Gelfand drew with the black pieces against Anand again in the 10th game of the World Championship match. With only two more normal time games to go, Gelfand is now definitely considered to have equal chances in the match. Only if the match goes into a tie-break, most consider Anand to be the favorite since he plays more quickly.
http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/events/world-chess-championship-2012/world-chess-championship-anand-gelfand-game-10

The most stunning fact of Game 10 was that Gelfand was able to face an off-beat variation in the Sicilian Defence without even batting an eyelid. His preparation seems to be of the highest order since Anand has not been able to threaten him except in Game 8.

The draws keep coming in the World Chess Championships 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Sun, 20 May 2012 09:26:00 +0000

Gelfand and Anand drew their sixth consecutive game in the World Chess Championships 2012. The match is starting to evoke criticism, but there are some defenders who are quoting the reason of shortness of the match and that hence caution is justified.

Kasparov has even gone so far as to say that Anand has lost his motivation, which led to huge protests by the Indian media. Kasparov thought that Anand missed a chance to win in the third game, when he had to look at the game from a different angle and push through. After all, the playing strength is not very obvious with this level of preparation and Anand should grab the minutest advantage. Meanwhile, Boris is holding on well and even pushing Anand to the defensive quite a few times.

Anand will need to defend another game with black when they resume after the rest day.

Challenger Gelfand and World Champion Anand - Photo courtesy www.Chessdom.com

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Ivanchuk wins Capablanca Memorial Chess Tournament 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:57:00 +0000

The mercurial Vassily Ivanchuk won the Capablanca Chess Tournament of 2012 with 6.5/10. Dominguez and Nepomniatchi finished tied at 5.5 points a piece.

Vladimir Potkin, Quesada Perez Yuniesky, and Viktor Laznicka finished 4-6 in an all play all tournament.

Anand holds comfortably with the Semi-slav, again

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:50:00 +0000

Defending World Champion of Chess, Viswanathan Anand, held Challenger Boris Gelfand to a draw in the 4th game of the 12 game match being held at Moscow.

Anand deployed the Semi-slav against 1.d4 and drew quite easily. Gelfand changed the move sequence on move 10, but Anand was well prepared and played fairly quickly.

Replay and watch the game here!

Gelfand is lucky to hold the 3rd Game of World Chess Championship 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:37:00 +0000

V Anand came very close to winning the 3rd game of their World Champinship match, but played a safe move on the 35th, under some time trouble. Anand tried to steer Gelfand away from the Gruenfeld by playing an anti-Gruenfeld 3. f3

It appears that Gelfand is very well prepared for this match and is determined to hang on and trouble Anand.

The match is being held at Moscow, probably the World's Capital City of Chess. Anand is the defending Champion.

Anand, Gelfand draw the first two games

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Sat, 12 May 2012 19:20:00 +0000

The reigning World Champion, V Anand and Boris Gelfand drew the first two games in the Chess World Championships of 2012 in Moscow.

Gelfand did well to easily hold with black pieces in the first game, Anand returned the favor, doing the same in a Semi Slav in the second game.

Kateryna Lahno

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 07:47:00 +0000

Kateryna Lahno is one of the top female Grandmasters in the World. She had broken the World Record of Judit Polgar while becoming the youngest Woman Grandmaster in history at the age of 12 years and 4 months.

Bobby Fischer - Photo Book by Harry Benson (Powerhouse Books)

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:04:00 +0000

Harry Benson’s rare, exclusive photos of the elusive and controversial chess genius Bobby Fischer taken during the historic World Chess Championship match in Iceland in 1972 are collected by powerHouse Books for the first time, in Bobby Fischer.

See the video of the book on this page:
http://www.rupamedia.com/?p=921

Almira Skripchenko and Alexandra Kosteniuk - Battle of Chess Beauties

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:15:00 +0000

Two of the most beautiful Chess players - Almira Skripchenko and Alexandra Kosteniuk battle it out in an interesting game of wits.

Watch the game here:

Magnus Carlsen vs Hou Yifan

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:21:00 +0000

Carlsen vs Yifan. Sounds like fantasy to you? Well, they may actually play a couple of years from now considering the growing strength of Yifan, but until then watch a game that they played in 2008 at Cap d'Agde.

Watch the video on youtube here:
http://youtu.be/71X80RuxxPI

Mouse Trap Chess

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:57:00 +0000

Black opened with the Hamster gambit opening and white responded with the mouse trap.

Anthony Wiring Chess

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:01:00 +0000

Hope he is not receiving assistance through his antenna!

Hou Yifan beats Judit Polgar!

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:41:00 +0000

Still a teenager, but already the World Women's Champion, the Chinese star Hou Yifan leads with none other than Michael Adams at the Gibraltar Chess Tournament. Behind her are several International stars including former World Championship contenders!

She beat Le Qiang Leim in the previous round, but what caught the whole World's attention was her win against Judit Polgar. We have to go back decades to find a loss by Judit against another female player!

Rankings after Round 8 (From Chess-results)

1	GM	Hou Yifan	CHN	2605	6.5	2859.0
2	GM	Adams Michael	ENG	2724	6.5	2843.0
3	GM	Short Nigel D	ENG	2677	6.0	2790.0
4	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	AZE	2747	6.0	2778.0
5	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	IND	2700	6.0	2750.0
6	GM	Almasi Zoltan	HUN	2717	6.0	2748.0
7	GM	Howell David W L	ENG	2603	6.0	2737.0
8	GM	Movsesian Sergei	ARM	2700	6.0	2726.0
9	GM	Gopal G N	IND	2566	6.0	2720.0
10	GM	Svidler Peter	RUS	2749	6.0	2714.0

Levon Aronian bags Tata Steel Chess tournament, Carlsen second

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:38:00 +0000

Levon Aronian of Armenia did not give any chance to Carlsen to catch him up and in the end won the prestigious tournament at Wijk aan Zee of 2012. Aronian produced some gems in the tournament and Carlsen's usual efficiency was not sufficient. Caruana was the find of the tournament.

In Group B, P Harikrishna finished first and could be invited to next year's Group A. The chances appear more bright since Harikrishna is from India and the main sponsor is an Indian company.

GM Oliver Barbosa wins Delhi Open Chess (Parsvnath)

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:50:00 +0000

Oliver Barbosa of Philippines won the Parsvnath Delhi Open Chess tournament. He finished half a point ahead of two others who collected 9 points.

Wijk aan Zee 2nd round highlights and Interesting Live Chess Rating Observations

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:52:00 +0000

Levon Aronian is on 2/2 after the 2nd round of the Tata Steel (formerly Corus) Chess tournament of 2012. Aronian beat American Chess star, Nakamura. Caruana beat Karjakin. In other groups, Harikrishna beat Lahno and Tiviakov beat Timman. Young Sahaj Grover of India beat Paehtz of Germany.

After this round, we have some interesting observations to make on the Live Chess ratings.

Magnus Carlsen is just 13 points shy of Kasparov's all time highest FIDE rating of 2851
Aronian will surpass Anand as the 2nd highest ever FIDE rated player if he gains another ELO point but retains it until the end of the rating period.
Caruana is nearly 2750 at the age of 19 and is ranked 12 in the World!
Giri is 2735 and is No. 17 in the World!
Harikrishna has gained impressive ELO after his 2/2 start, but it remains to be seen if he can mantain it. He has had to face frustration many times to reach 2700.

FIDE Chess Rating list - Muzychuk, Yifan, Nakamura (live) notable moves

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:03:00 +0000

Notable points on the new FIDE rating list:

Nakamura is No. 12 (but No. 6 and just a couple of points away from No. 5 on the Live Chess Rating list.

Three ELO 2800+ players.

Anna Muzychuk is now ELO 2580 and No. 4 in the Women's world ranking list.

Hou Yifan is 122 points (!!!) ahead of the No. 2 in the World Junior Girls ranking.

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Chess Art

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:55:00 +0000

Can you find a win out of this?

Do you feel something like this sometimes?

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Bobby Fischer, the ultimate enigmatic Chess genius excelled at Table Tennis

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:52:00 +0000

Fischer played Table Tennis the way he played Chess: fiercely, ferociously, going for his opponent's jugular. He was a killer, a remorseless, conscienceless, ice-blooded castrator...' wrote Marty 'The Needle' Reisman in his autobiography The Money Player - The Confessions of America's Greatest Table Tennis Champion and Hustler.

From kenilworthchessclub.org:

Both Chess and Table Tennis are played within the confines of a physical space that you can grasp completely within your field of vision. There is nothing hidden in either game. Yet, paradoxically, in order to play both successfully you need to grasp the image of the board or the table in your mind so that you actually have a feel for where the corners are. In Chess we call this "board vision," and Table Tennis definitely has its "table vision."

Exotic Chess pieces

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:09:00 +0000

I always thought playing with non-standard chess pieces was awkward, although I wouldn't mind doing it on the beach and not in a tournament. What do you feel? What would be your comfort level?

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Abhijeet Gupta set to crack top 100 Ranking list

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:26:00 +0000

GM Abhijeet Gupta of India

India's talented 22 year old Abhijeet Gupta is all set to break into the top 100 club of the world. On the November 2011 list, the 100th ranked player was rated 2651, so if all goes well, Abhijeet should make it. It will help him receive attractive invitations to higher level tournaments.

Abhijeet hails from Bhilwara, Rajasthan and is a World Junior Champ (2008). His other notable performances are 1st at Dubai Open Chess 2011, and runner up at the Orissa GM tournament.

2012 Parsvnath International Chess Tournament

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 10:22:00 +0000

Several Grandmasters are expected to participate in the 10th Parsvnath International Chess Tournament 2012 which starts from 14th to 23rd January 2012

Venue: Ludlow Castle Sports Complex, Civil Lines, New Delhi.

Total Prize Fund: INR 15,00,000/-
First prize: INR 3,00,000/-
There are 30 main cash prizes and many other reserved prizes. Accomodation is being provided and the playing conditions are expected to be good.

The first round starts on Jan 15 2012.

Nakamura, Kasparov split

noreply@blogger.com (Facebook - Menas Jagadish) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:52:00 +0000

Nakamura and Kasparov are stopping their work together at Chess. The brief training sessions did not go far and it was always going to be rough with two strong personalities with differing views. Rex Sinquefield was funding the program.

What probably sealed the nail on the coffin was when Nakamura reportedly said that Kasparov was mainly strong in opening preparation.