After the controversial Kramnik – Topalov and less controversial Anand – Kramnik matches, in 2010 the last match between the “Big Three” took place. As you might recall, after he lost the 2006 match, Veselin…
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Kramnik – Anand World Championship 2008
The long-awaited unification of the World Championship title after the Kramnik-Topalov match in 2006 greatly complicated FIDE’s task of organizing the subsequent World Championship cycle. The big problem was that FIDE already announced that the…
World Chess Championship Tournament 2007
After the unification match for the title of the World Chess Champion in 2006 between Kramnik and Topalov, it could have been expected the organization of subsequent World Championships would be simpler. But it wasn’t….
Another 14 Chess Gift Ideas For Chess Players
Disclaimer: All remarks and stereotypes about Christmas, chess players and women were made half-jokingly. For entertainment and laughter purposes. The author is a chess player himself. It was not our intention to offend anyone. Disclaimer2:…
Viswanathan Anand Birthday
There are many things in life that get better as they grow older: French Wine The Godfather Movie Madonna However, none of them got as better with time like the greatest Indian chess player that ever…
Chess tactics 107
Chess tactics 107 The example is taken from book written by Yochanan Afek- Extreme Chess Tactics
Is Mikhail Botvinnik the “bad guy” of modern chess?
Warning: Long post incoming! Leave all hope ye who enter! Last week, a very intriguing question, titled: Is it fair to say that Mikhail Botvinnik is the “bad guy” of modern chess? appeared on the Q&A website…
Carlsen – Caruana World Chess Championship – Tiebreak
Featured image credit: Niki Riga One King To Rule Them All After 12 games of the Carlsen and Caruana made history by drawing all games of the classical portion of the match, a rapid tiebreak…
Carlsen – Caruana World Chess Championship – Game 12
Featured image credit: Niki Riga The Final CountDrawn Game 12 of the World Chess Championship 2018 was supposed to be a bloodthirsty struggle. And indeed, things initially looked rather promising. After the third Sveshnikov, another…
Carlsen – Caruana World Chess Championship – Game Eleven
Featured image credit: Niki Riga The Calm Before The Storm? Regular readers of this blog know I have been a fervent defender of the draws between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana in their 2018 World…
Carlsen – Caruana World Chess Championship – Game Ten
Featured image credit: Niki Riga Draws are so boring! I hate it! I hate that Carlsen and Caruana set the new record for the most consecutive draws at the beginning of a World Championship match…
Carlsen – Caruana World Chess Championship – Game Eight
Featured image credit: Niki Riga Not This Time! In the game eight of the 2016 World Chess Championship Match against Sergey Karjakin, Magnus Carlsen lost in a dramatic fashion. Playing White, he played too riskily,…