Six million dollar World Chess Championship in Las Vegas? 25.08.2009 – Remember Ripley? A recent announcement tells us that there will be an official World Chess Championship match, starting on December 1st in Las Vegas. No, Anand is not...
FIDE and ChessBase News
2008 SPICE Cup International Invitational TournamentTexas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, September 19-28, 2008 http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/3329-2008-spice-cup-winners http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4930 Organisers: Susan Polgar, SPICE, and the Susan Polgar FoundationCategory: XVFIDE Average: 2605.5USCF Average: 2666.5Highest rated 10-player round robin chess tournament in U.S. history!www.susanpolgar.blogspot.comwww.SPICE.ttu.edu...
Rybka joins Chessbase family
Rybka 3.0 – Not just the strongest chess program in the world18.07.2008 – Developed by IM Vasik Rajlich, Rybka is the shooting star amongst chess programs. It won the 2007 world championship and leads easily in all computer rating...
Unite or Divide?
Photo and story from ChessBase Extract from Herald Chess Column, Scotland, Saturday June 28. Which country are you in? ‘Scotland’, I imagine, is the reflexive answer for most Herald readers; ‘Britain’ for a few others. Neither answer seems wrong....
Carlsen said no!
Picture from the official website Our friends from Chessbase just posted something very interesting about Carlsen in the last round. Karjakin, Sergey (2732) – Carlsen, M (2765) [D86]Foros (11), 19.06.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4...
Exception or not?
I just saw the following on ChessBase, one of the sites which I follow daily: “Magnus watch: Carlsen’s performance is now at 2895 and his theoretical world ranking is number two, at 2792 rating points, six behind Anand and...
Svidler turns 32
This is description of Svidler by ChessBase: Peter Svidler was born on June 17, 1976, in Leningrad. He learned to play chess when he was six, became a grandmaster at 18. He won the Russian Championship four times (1994,...
Team Kamsky fires back
To FIDE President Mr. Kirsan IlyumzhinovMay 29, 2008 Awaiting FIDE determination regarding the bid made by Mr. Oleksandr Chernenko for the Kamsky-Topalov match and the official contract from FIDE that determines the rights and obligations of both players, on...
Topalov – Kamsky: Real bid or poker game?
Chessdom:Kamsky – Topalov in Lviv15.03.2008 Alexander Chernenko, Gata Kamsky’s manager, claims in an interview with Russian “Sport Express” that match Kamsky-Topalov will take place in Lviv, Ukraine, for a prize fund “several times bigger” than 250.000 USD offered from...
Topalov interview
Topalov just recently gave a very interesting interview to Chess Express. You can read the English translated version on www.ChessBase.com. Here are just some of the Q&A: So are you starting to feel that you are once again playing...