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In this review I will be talking about How to Beat Titled Players video course by GM Igor Smyrnov. He claims that to beat stronger players (300 points higher than yourself) ‘you need to have special knowledge which is not presented in the chess books’ and also ‘some unique skills’ that only strong players possess […]

Game of The Month (December 2013) Viswanathan Anand-Magnus Carlsen 9th Game World Championship, Chennai 2013

“Tal is Tal!” So goes the Russian proverb. Our columnist reviews a recent book on the wizard of Riga-Ed.

  Veteran GM Boris Gelfand needs no introduction to our readers. He played the last World Championship Match with Viswanathan Anand in 2012 losing it by a narrow margin (6-6 in classical games and 1½-2½ in Play-off rapid games). In this article first published in ChessPro.ru he offers his opinion on the recent Anand-Carlsen Match-Ed.

I have watched numerous interviews with Anand and Carlsen after the end of the World Chess Championship in Chennai. I wanted to figure outwhat was the main reasons of Carlsen’s success and what happened to the Tiger from Madras? Did Anand got outplayed because of Carlsen’s superior preparation? Was it the psychology of the competition […]

The Anand-Carlsen World Championship Match is now history, with Magnus wresting the title with the score, 6½-3½. A premonition of the disaster for Vishy was seen in their encounter in Tal Memorial Tournament, Moscow 2013.

In the current column on ChessPublishing.com the author draws your attention to two theoretical battles in the recent World Championship Match-Ed.  

In his reviews of the first two volumes (Botvinnik Review I and Botvinnik Review II) of the trilogy chessbibliophile examined Botvinnik’s road to world championship and the immediate aftermath. Here he deals with the final phase of his career and don’t miss the videos (1,2,3,4). -Ed.

World Chess Championship is over. For some it was a great excitement, for some it was a big disappointment. Nevertheless, it is a tremendous step forward for the world of chess in general. Norwegian prodigy, Magnus Carlsen, was able to win the Match with a very impressive 6.5 – 3.5 score. We prepared a big pictorial […]

Mr. L.P.Khadilkar (1939-) is a senior arbiter who has conducted several tournaments in India and a keen observer of the game. Age has not withered his spirit or dimmed his zest for life. He happens to be the grand nephew of late Vinayakrao Khadilkar who crossed swords with the likes of Mir Sultan Khan. No […]