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India won the World Youth Olympiad Chess Championship!
Written by content team 27 August 2008
In the final round of the World Youth Olympiad Chess championship,
India defeated England 3.5-0.5 and emerged victorious in Turkey after
their triumph in World Junior Chess Championship. Adhiban, Sethuraman and
Priyadharshan scored victories against Zhou, Kilpatrick and Auckland to
help their country to get the gold medal. India won the World Youth Chess
Olympiad for the second time in a row. Russia defeated Azerbaijan 2.5-1.5
and finished on 28 points. India tied with same points and took the title
on better tie-break score. Report with pictures of the closing ceremony.
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World Youth Chess Olympiad : India and Armenia are leading after 7 rounds
Written by content team 26 August 2008
After the seventh round of the World Under16 Olympiad, the fight for
the top spot became tight again and there will be some decisive and
dramatic matches to be played tomorrow, since there are going to be two of
the last three rounds. Philippines defeated Russia 3-1 while India
outscored Georgia with 3.5-0.5. Armenia swept of England with 4-0 while
Azerbaijan surpassed Slovakia with 3-1. Turkey-A was also merciless
against Turkey-Mersin. Report with pictures.
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Abhijeet and Harika won the World Junior Chess Championship on the Independence Day!
Written by content team 17 August 2008
World Junior Chess Championship 2008 ended dramatically as it started.
Abhijeet Gupta won against David Howell to win the World Junior
Championship title. Arik Braun and Parimarjan Negi drew their game as
Eltaj Safarli and Maxim Rodshtein. Parimarjan Negi won the silver medal by
9.5 points. Third place was shared by Arik Braun, David Howell, Eltaj
Safarli, Hou Yifan and Bassem. Harika became the second Indian to win the
World Junior Girls Chess Championship. Harika has a unique record of
winning all the age group titles at the world level from under-10 to
under-20. The first Indian girl ever to become the junior world champion
was Koneru Humpy, also from Andhra Pradesh, in 2001. Report with
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Botswana: Creating Chess Cult in Africa!!
Written by Praful Zaveri 15 August 2008
The big African continent is in deep Chess slumber but one of its tiny
nations, Botswana is all set wake up the giant from its sleep by hosting
the 1st ever FIDE CACDEC FIDE Trainer’s Seminar at Gaborone from 03rd to
08th August 2008 and, in the process got 10Licensed Chess Trainers!
Botswana has only 31-rated players (inactive and active) inclusive of 1 FM
& 1 WFM and very few tournaments. As such, when FIDE decided to provide
this opportunity through cACDEC, it was wholeheartedly welcomed by the
Chess fraternity of Botswana with 10-trainers (including one from Somalia)
registering for the seminar. Report with interesting pictures of
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Anand beats Carlsen, wins World Rapid Chess Championship at Mainz
Written by content team 06 August 2008
It was the final
many were waiting for. Vishy Anand against Magnus Carlsen. The experienced
Indian against the young Norwegian. The reigning World Champion against
the player many consider to be the coming World Champion. But Anand used
his experience and skill to show why he is the World’s number one. He gave
his young opponent no chances and defended his title of World Champion
without trouble.
In the Computer World Championship, Rybka defended Chess960 title after
tough final with Shredder. In the women's section, Alexandra Kosteniuk won
the final against Kateryna Lahno to become World Champion. Report with
games and pictures. LatestChess has interviewed all the World Rapid
Chess Champions of the year 2008 -
Viswanathan
Anand,
Alexandra
Kosteniuk
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Vasik Rajlich, author of Rybka
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Carlsen and Fischer are both brilliant in simple technical positions : Viswanathan Anand
Written by content team 05 August 2008
GRENKELEASING
Rapid World Chess Championship is in progress as part of the Chess Classic
Mainz. World Champion Viswanathan Anand will try for the eighth time in a
row to defend his rapid chess title. All in all he won the main event of
the Chess Classic no less than ten times. Harry Schaack talked to the
World’s number one about the peculiarities of rapid chess and the
opponents he will face this year. In this interview he talks about the
psychology, his performance at Amber tournament, playing styles of
Morozevich, Bobby Fischer and Carlsen. Read the pictorial Interview
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Chess960 Rapid World Chess Championship : Not perfect, but entertaining
Written by content team 1 August 2008
The first half of the 2 FiNet Chess960 Rapid World Chess Championship
produced entertaining though not perfect chess. It also showed that
Alexandra Kosteniuk
was able to handle the challenge of the limited time and the uncommon
opening position best. After three rounds she leads with 2.5 points,
followed by Kateryna Lahno with 2 points. Victorija Cmilyte scored 1.5
points while Natalia Zhukova had three promising positions and spoiled
them all in time trouble to still remain on zero. Playing with a time
limit of 20 minutes plus 5 seconds increment per move time proved to a
crucial factor in all games. Read the report with pictures and games.
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Chess Art exhibition, a real visual treat
Written by content team 30 July 2008
An exposition of chess paintings and artifacts
"Schaakkunst" was hosted by city of Druten in The Netherlands. The
exhibition included new works and new
artists. It was a real visual treat to see these chess paintings. Most of
the chess art is for sale and you can find beautiful chess-sets and many
smaller articles, calendars, art prints, chess-art-wine, etc.
"Global Chess" exposition of Dutch Chess Art exhibition was opened on June
8th and closed on June 30, 2008. Total fifteen Dutch artists presented the
art work, all linked to the game of chess. Report with excellent chess
art paintings.
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World Rapid Chess Championship and Chess 960 World Championship at Mainz, feast for chess lovers!
Written by content team 29 July 2008
By now it’s a
tradition in Mainz: The best will meet. But the 15. Chess Classic Mainz
taking place 28. July to 3. August in the "Rheingoldhalle", will be
special. As it happens, the top three players on the live elo ranking list from 1 July,
joined by the World’s best women player, Judit Polgar, will compete from
1. to 3. August for the 13th GRENKELEASING Rapid World Championship: World
Champion and Number One Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen and Alexander
Morozevich. In contrast to the FIDE-World ranking list, the live elo list
includes the Aerosvit tournament in Foros, which finished in June and was
won in superior style one point ahead of the field by Norwegian superstar
Magnus Carlsen. Read the pictorial report.
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Cancer sufferer George wins award for chess idea
Written by content team 28 July 2008
A terminally ill cancer student has come up with an innovative way of encouraging youngsters to learn chess.
Anyone who has played will know it is not the easiest of games to learn. Pieces move forwards, backwards, left and right, diagonal, and even around corners. But chess fanatic George Eady, a second year student at Brighton University, has come up with a way to simplify the game, replacing the traditional rooks, knights and pawns with pieces depicting their movements.
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Interview with Vladimir Kramnik
Written by content team 25 July 2008
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster.
He was the World Chess
Champion from 2000 to 2007.
In October 2000, he beat Garry Kasparov and became the Classical World
Chess Champion. Kramnik
successfully defended his title against challenger Péter Lékó in a drawn
match in 2004, while he defeated reigning FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov
in a unification match, the FIDE World Chess Championship 2006.
Garry Kasparov described Kramnik's style as pragmatic and tenacious.
He is one of the toughest opponents to defeat, losing only one game over
more than one hundred games leading up to his match with Kasparov,
including eighty consecutive games without loss!
This interview was conducted by Czech journalist Pavel Matocha after the
rapid chess match between Vladimir Kramnik and Czech GM David Navara. The
interview was published in the Czech magazine "Weekly Euro". In this
interview, Kramnik talks about Czech GM David Navara, chess ethics, chess
world championship title, his upcoming match against Anand and his views
on Garry Kasparov's political activities.
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Chess960 computer chess world championship: The strongest chess tournament ever
Written by content team 23 July 2008
This is the first time we'll have a Fide-category 29 tournament, in other
words, the strongest tournament in the history of chess!
For the fourth time during the Chess Classic in Mainz, the Livingston
Chess960 computer chess world championship will be held. Last, year we saw
a four-program round robin with the strong participants Rybka, Shredder,
Jonny and Spike. Rybka, developed by
Vasik Rajlich won the final against the
German top program Shredder to clinch home the title. Both programs will
play in Mainz again this year and from 31st July to 2nd August. They will
be challenged by two top chess programs, the qualifiers from the ICC
online tournament: Naum, made by Alexander Naumov and Deep Sjeng, the
brainchild of Belgian programmer Gian-Carlo Pascutto.
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The Story of GM
Written by Praful Zaveri 09 June 2008
This is the
story of Govind Mohan Lal, affectionately known as
'GM'in the Chess
Circuit!
He had a bad day in the office and he was
livid with himself. He had drawn his crucial 6th round game against
his old foe that had pushed him into the joint 2nd spot with a score
of 5 points. Had he won that game, he would have propelled himself into the top
of the table. And, with 3-rounds remaining, would have been favourite to win
this championship.
Read the full story with very interesting
analyzed chess games.
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Random Simultaneous Chess Display by GM Abhijit Kunte and WGM Swati Ghate
Written by content team 05 June 2008
67 players played in the Random Simultaneous Chess
Display by GM Abhijit Kunte and WGM Swati Ghate-Teli. 4 games drawn and in
3 games the GMs had to face the defeat. Abhijit started the play with his
first move against Mr. Rahul Solapurkar, noted film personality. Swati
commenced her play with her first move against Mr. Ninad Bedekar, the
noted historian and Executive President of VHP, Pune.
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Peter Leko vs Magnus Carlsen in Miskolc : Carlsen defeats Leko 5-3
Written by content team 3 June 2008
Magnus Carlsen of Norway won the Miskolc rapid math
series by defeating Hungarian top Grand Master and the local hero Peter
Leko. In the eight match series first three games resulted in draws. In
the fourth and seventh game Carlsen defeated Leko, other games end up with
draw results. Carlsen managed to win the tournament without any defeat but
he escaped very narrowly in few games, especially in the second half of
the tournament.
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