The World Team Championship takes place this year in Ningbo, China, from July 15-27. The event is a 10-team, round-robin format (all play all), and the U.S. team is ranked eighth. GO U.S.A. U.S. Team Representatives: U.S. Champion Gata Kamsky , Alex Onischuk, Yury Shulman, Yasser Seirawan and Robert Hess.{Team Capt… Continue reading
by National Master Loal Davis Bolris Gelfand Gelfand Wins The Match with a crusher in the last round and earns the right to challenge Anand in 2012. In this game Boris (White) shows the superiority of a central attack; Black was pushed back on all fronts. The game was… Continue reading
Alexander Grischuk and Boris Gelfand have won their rapid playoff/tie-break min-matches to qualify for the Candidates Finals match which will determine who will get to cross swords with Viswanathan Anand for the World Championship in 2012. Alexander Grischuk … Continue reading
Kamsky and Gelfand qualified earlier under Classical time controls; Grischuk and Kramnik (not Rajabov as I posted earlier) won their Rapids Tie-Breakers. The Semi-Finals pairings are: Kamsky versus Gelfand and Grischuk versus Kramnik. Continue reading
by National Master Loal Davis Draw ! ! Kamsky wins the Match. Both Kamsky and Gelfand advance to the Semi-Final matches. Congratulations to them both for FIGHTING. The other two matches go into ‘over-time’ or rapid tie-breaks; did anyone even ‘want’ to win? Anyway – about the last Kamsky game… Continue reading
by National Master Loal Davis Mamedyarov Gelfand Wow – what a beautiful game by Gelfand. This guy is strong. Mamedyarov appeared to have ‘everything’ one wants on the White side of a Sicilian. After move 17 (DIAGRAM) White pitched a Pawn for what first appeared to… Continue reading
by National Master Loal Davis Veslin Topalov Gata Kamsky Kamsky wins a beauty – or Topalov ‘self-destructs’. You decide. Kamsky definitely had the better of the opening (Topalov’s 5. Qb3 smelled of fish) and by move 22 was prying open the ‘c’ file to White’s… Continue reading
Aronian seemed to be close to a victory but his opponent (Grischuk) managed to reach a drawn pawn ending……… 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Bc4 c5 8. Ne2 Nc6 9. Be3 O-O 10. O-O b6 11.… Continue reading
The games of the FIDE Candidates matches will be played in Kazan, Russia. The first round will have Veselin Topalov vs Gata Kamsky, Vladimir Kramnik vs Teimour Radjabov, Levon Aronian vs Alexander Grischuk and Boris Gelfand vs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. The winner of the entire series will qualify for… Continue reading
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov re-elected as FIDE President has at least four more years. He won the vote for FIDE President in Khanty-Maniysk convincingly with 95 votes, to 55 for Karpov, and 3 abstentions. Continue reading
