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Chernyshov wins Moscow Open 2010
08.02.2010
– This event took place from Jan. 30 to Feb. 7, just before the 9th Aeroflot Open (Feb. 8–19) – which meant that many strong players were in the Russian capital to participate in both tournaments. Four players shared first in the Moscow Open, with 7.0/9 points. The winner was Konstantin Chernyshov on tie-break, with the decisive factor being that he had the most wins.
Illustrated report.
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Bisik-Bisik with Garry Kasparov – Part 3
07.02.2010
– In the first
part Garry talked about his growing up years and his collaboration with
Magnus Carlsen. In part
2 he touched on the preparations made for his very first match against Karpov
and the recent K-K anniversary exhibition match. In this third part Kasparov
answered questions about “making a comeback”, his family, politics and a new
variant of Fischer Random chess.
Interview.
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Sherlock Holmes chess
06.02.2010
– A very original sequence happened in this Sicilian encounter from the recently finished festival in Wijk aan Zee. The black knight is attacked, but onto which square it should go now is only one question (A).
The other interesting issue is: what was actually White's last (and best!) move (B),
as a reaction in turn to which black move (C)?
What do you think, Watson?
The solution is here,
but first ponder over it with a
larger version of the diagram.
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Solutions to our Christmas puzzles – Part two
05.02.2010
– We gave you the solutions for the first five or our 2009 Christmas
puzzles a few days ago. Here is part two, which contains all the pretty
letter problems submitted by GM Pal Benko, the construction problem provided by
Indian GM Sandipan Chanda, and the solution to a truly unique chess problem composed
back in 1991 by mathematician Noam Elkies. Enjoy.
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Gibtel Masters – Adams wins in play-offs
05.02.2010
– Nine players were tied for first after ten rounds, and four went into the tiebreaks. British GM Michael Adams eliminated first Jan Gustafsson of Germany in an Armageddon game, and then Francisco Vallejo (who had knocked out Indian GM Sandipan Chanda) to take overall victory at the Gibtelecom Masters in Gibraltar. There was a prominent visitor during the second half of the event.
Final results.
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Mr ‘First Saturday’ – Laszlo Nagy in Budapest
04.02.2010
– Once a month a world-renowned tournament is conducted in Budapest. It provides budding players with an opportunity to test their skills and achieve title norms. Carlsen, Sutovsky, Milov, Radjabov, Sofia Polgar, Nakamura have passed through the grinding mill of the tournament that has been running for 17 years now, organised by a former chemist in the Hungarian army.
Big pictorial report.
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Fire on board...
04.02.2010
– ... has become Alexei Shirov's trademark. In the tournament in Wijk aan
Zee, which Shirov started with five wins in a row, the 37-year-old chess
magician from Riga once more justified this reputation.
In many middlegame positions he managed to put his opponents under
pressure with inventive attacking play. And even in the endgame, one
always has to take into account that Shirov might set the board on fire.
This happened in the eleventh round in his game against Vladimir Kramnik, where he played 35.c5! in the diagram position. GM Karsten Müller has analysed the endgame for
ChessBase Magazine Online.
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Gibtel Masters – four leaders with one round to go
03.02.2010
– The leaders, with 7.0/9 points, are Sergei Movsesian, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Michael Adams and Jan Gustafsson. The Gibtelecom Chess Festival is being held in Gibraltar, which is basically a giant rock on the Spanish Mediterranean coast (but a British overseas territory). In winter it is populated by chess players, who on a free day's outing got to know some of the
native residents.
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ChessBase show: Colle against the Queen's Indian
03.02.2010
– Due to a problem with the server, or at least his connection to it, last Wednesday night's ChessBase presentation by Dennis Monokroussos was cut off practically from the very beginning. So we'll try it again this week at the usual hour: Wednesday night at 9 p.m. ET/Thursday morning at 3 a.m. CET. The hero of our narrative:
Frederick Dewhurst Yates.
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Solutions to our Christmas puzzles – Part one
02.02.2010
– From Christmas 2009 to New Year's day 2010 we published our yearly suite of chess puzzles. This time the theme was Revenge of the Humans –
we presented problems that were designed to stump computers, but which at the
same time human beings were able to comprehend. Today we bring you the solutions
to the first five installments, with the rest to follow soon. Enjoy.
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Fritz 12 – learning without the manual
02.02.2010
– It is not a completely trivial task to get to know all the functions of a program as sophisticated as our chess playing flagship Fritz 12. You can browse through the condensed handbook or read the extensive reference manual supplied with the program. But now you can also simply follow multimedia instructions, recorded by an expert. Visit the new
Fritz 12 workshop by Nick Murphy.
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Edward Winter's Chess Explorations (36)
01.02.2010
– The Editor of Chess
Notes discusses a quintet of positions submitted by readers. The common
theme is that in each case it has so far proved impossible to find the full
game-score. Can further details about the games be discovered? Even if not,
readers will certainly enjoy some entertaining and instructive play from a cast
which includes Ehlvest, Nimzowitsch, Pachman, Simagin and
Soultanbéieff.
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