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Kamsky and Onischuk Pull Ahead at U.S. Chess Championship — While their rivals only managed draws, Gata Kamsky and Alexander Onischuk won their games Tuesday in Round 5 of the U.S. Chess Championship. They now lead the championship with 4 points each. Hikaru Nakamura, the defending chess champion, Yuri Shulman, Jesse Kraai and Alexander Stripunsky all trail by half a point. Tuesday, Kamsky had White against Larry Christiansen, who played an off-beat system against the Ruy Lopez. Christiansen ended up with the bishop pair, but Kamsky had more space in the center and a half-open f file to attack Black’s king. That was too much and Kamsky pried open Christiansen’s king position rather easily. Christiansen resigned on ...
World chess championship: Anand's decisive masterstroke — Topalov's aggressive style made for a classic chess match. But in the final game, Anand was just too good for him. World chess championship matches were once truly epic in scale. Alekhine and Capablanca (1927) slugged it out in 34 games over 10 weeks, while Kasparov and Karpov made the first move of their first extraordinary encounter on 10 September 1984. It ended when Karpov turned over his king on 9 February the following year, after 48 games. Things are different today. Rule changes, the emergence of computers – putting an end to adjournments – and the struggle to find sponsorship have led to a more compressed format. In Sofia, Anand and Topalov played 12 games over ...
Alien vs. chess predator — A bitter political fight between the eccentric, alien-spotting president of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilymuzhinov, and legendary chess champion Anatoly Karpov is splitting the chess world in two. The row over who will lead the World Chess Federation is also creating a schism in Russian chess circles, with both men claiming the support of the national federation – and both bringing in some unlikely heavyweight hitters to support their cause. In Ilyumzhinov’s corner is Kremlin economic aide Arkady Dvorkovich, the chairman of the Russian Chess Federation, while backing Karpov is his longtime rival for the world chess crown, Garry Kasparov – the strongest chess player of all time and now an outspoken ...
Final Four at U.S. Chess Championship Is Set — Holding true to form, the top four players in the U.S. Chess Championship, based on their pre-tournament ratings, qualified for the final on Thursday. They will play a mini-tournament amongst themselves, with each player facing each of the other competitors once, to determine a chess champion. The other 20 players in the chess championship will continue in their Swiss system tournament for another two rounds. They will essentially be playing for places fifth through twenty-fourth. The four finalists — Hikaru Nakamura, Gata Kamsky, Alexander Onischuk and Yuri Shulman — each scored five points in their first seven games and they did it in the same way: They beat most ...
In High-Stakes Chess, Rivals Can Suddenly Become Allies — When it comes to strange bedfellows, politics has nothing on chess. The sight last week of Garry Kasparov at a New York City fund-raiser for his longtime rival Anatoly Karpov, who is running for president of the World Chess Federation, was odd enough. Then there was Viswanathan Anand’s revelation in an interview that Kasparov had given him advice and looked over some of his openings before and during his victorious world chess championship match against Veselin Topalov. Kasparov and Anand also have a history of rivalry, and they competed for the world chess championship in 1995, a match that Kasparov won. Kasparov once even dismissed Anand as a “coffeehouse player.” ...
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