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Game of The Month (December 2013)
Viswanathan Anand-Magnus Carlsen
9th Game World Championship, Chennai 2013
Black, a young player was completely outplayed by a former world champion. He still managed to reach the following position. Two minutes before the time control his position appeared hopeless with 38.Qe5.
Questions:
1)What did he do?
2)Who were the players?
Black to Play
38…Rg1+! 39.Kh2 Rh1+! 40.Kg1+ Rg1+!=
Draw and thereby hangs a tale: He was once a favourite of Caissa
Chess is one of the most popular sports in the world, with about 700 million players worldwide.
No wonder big companies and organizations like Motorola, Geico, NBA and NHL use chess for their ad campaigns.
Here we present you the list of 11 best video chess commercials:
“Tal is Tal!”
So goes the Russian proverb.
Our columnist reviews a recent book on the wizard of Riga-Ed.
The 3rd FIDE World Cup in Composing was held in the second half of 2013 under the aegis of WFCC*The event directed by Dmitry Turevsky included both studies and problems. In the Two-mover Section there were as many as 45 entries. At the moment Preliminary results have been announced.They will be declared final after two months allowed for claims of anticipation and unsoundness.
As of now Kenan Velikhanov, a well-known composer from Azerbaijan has claimed the First Prize.
White to play and mate in two moves
1. Nd3! Threatening both 2. Bd7 # and 2.Nd4 #
1…Rxd3 2. Bxd3 #
Or 1…Qxf4 2. Ng7 #
Courtesy:Thanks, Ms Julia Vysotska!
Want to increase your chess rating? Chess players spend many hours studying without much of a result.
They read books, study long opening variations, and accumulate chess knowledge but the rating seems not to go up.
Sounds familiar? If so, this post was written with players like you in mind, that want t improve at chess and increase their ratings.
It will only take a few minutes of your time, but if you follow this advice that could completely change the way you play and boost your Elo.
Magnus Carlsen is not just any chess player. In 2004, he became a grandmaster at the age of 13. In 2010, at the age of 19, he became a youngest ever chess player to be ranked number 1 in the world.
In 2013, at the age of 22, Carlsen became 16th World Chess Champion. After becoming a world chess champion he was asked what would he prefer: being world’s number 1 or having a world chess championship title? He shrugged his shoulders and said, both.
We present a pictorial report of the entire Carlsen’s chess career, a timeline from 2000 to today.
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.
He may have lost the world championship match. But he continues to win hearts with grace, modesty and dignity. Today (11th December) happens to be his birth day and we wish him a long and happy life.
This series is our tribute to a great player-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 that gave an edge to Norwegian Prodigy? Or just a bad lack for Anand? There many reasons for the outcome of the Match as we know it:
