All Images Courtesy Of Derrick Bartotto. Viswanathan Anand had the single decisive game today – at the expense of Veselin Topalov. Anand’s game may well have been an offshoot of his preparation in his last World Championship match with Magnus Carlsen. Vishy’s twelfth move of b5 was a… Continue reading
by National Life Master Loal Davis Only one decisive game today. Click on any Diagram to step through the PGN file. “GCT London Chess Classic 2016” Round “3” White “Nakamura, Hikaru (USA)” Black “Anand, Viswanathan (IND)” 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5… Continue reading
Viswanathan Anand Anand wins the Champions Showdown 2016. The final day of Blitz allowed Nakamura to close the gap, but Vishy still won by a full point. There were many decisive games today that spanned twelve rounds. Many of the games were entertaining, albeit loaded with oversights, blunders, bluffs,… Continue reading
Viswanathan Anand Anand leads the field by a comfortable margin as we move through Day Four where there were Rapids played; that is a 15 minute game with a 5 second increment for each move. These guys play good quality games despite the time “constraint”. Below are the… Continue reading
Veselin Topalov who made such a big splash in Round 1 by taking out Fabiano Caruana, made a big splat in Round 3 by losing to Hikaru Nakamura – in 14 moves. As he “so horribly” misplayed this opening (rather well known), makes me rethink whether yesterday’s… Continue reading
The Champions Showdown is now being played ( 10-14 November, 2016 ) in St. Louis between Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov. They are competing in three different formats. Two classical round-robins (60 min. + 5 sec. delay) Two rapid round-robins (15 min. + 5 sec. for each… Continue reading
Viswanathan Anand Of the three decisive games today, the first to finish was Anand’s win over Vachier-Lagrave. In the Diagram below, White made what at first appeared to be a pseudo sacrifice by taking on e6. Alas there was a fly in the ointment. Anand stung with the surprising… Continue reading
All images courtesy of Derrick Bartotto. Magnus Carlsen wins the Blitz portion of the Your Next Move GCT (Grand Chess Tour) by a full point. # Name Pts SB 1 Carlsen, Magnus 11 95 2 Aronian, Levon 10 88 3 Anand, Viswanathan 9.5 82.5 Nakamura, Hikaru 9.5… Continue reading
Nakamura blew Anand away in the twelfth round; Vishy trying that Bb4 variation that he fared so badly with against Caruana. It was obvious that Black was striving to win a piece, and consolidate, and attack, all at the same time – with little development. That was just… Continue reading
Don’t count Anand out. He just took out the tournament leader, Karjakin. Anand now ties for first place with Caruana and three rounds to go. This “monumental” game was a tough/tough fight; opposite colored Bishops but with Rooks on the board. It was obvious that Anand was… Continue reading
