Daily puzzle 081007

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

17.fxe6! Nxd4! [17...fxe6 18.Nxe6! Nxe6 19.Nd5 Qb8 20.Qg4+-] 18.Bxd4 Nxe6 [18...fxe6 19.Bxg7] 19.Qg4 Qd7 20.Nd5 with better chances for White, Cosulich-Ungureanu, Siegen (ol) 1970.

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Ural, Tomsk en Linex-Magic leading

After five rounds (and just two more to go!) Ural Sverdlovskaya, Tomsk-400 and Linex Magic are leading the field at the European Club Cup, with nine points. Today Vishy Anand played his first game as a world champion: for OSC Baden-Baden he drew modestly in twenty moves with White against Kazhgaleyev. In the women’s section Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo grabbed clear first today by beating Ladya Kazan while Interplast Tbilisi lost to Southern Ural Cheliabinsk. The organisation is providing excellent coverage including downloadable videos, which you can view here as well, in embedded form. Read more

Daily puzzle 071007

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

22.Nd6!! Bxd6 23.Rxh6+ [23.Rxh6+ Kg8 (23...gxh6 24.Qxh6+ Kg8 25.Qg6+ Kh8 26.Rf3) 24.Rh7 Rf7 25.Qh5] 1–0, Kondali-Djordjevic, corr 1970

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Weekly Endgame Study (39)

Every Saturday an endgame study is published at ChessVibes, selected by Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Read more

Daily puzzle 061007

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

19.Re5!! Qe7 [19...Nxe5 20.Bxf6] 20.Rfe1 Kh8 21.Bh4 Qf8 22.Nxf6 +- Planinec-Andersson, Sombor 1970.

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Daily puzzle 051007

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

17.f5!! Nc4 [17...gxf5 18.Qh5 Bxg5 19.Qxg5+! Kh8 20.Bd4!+-; 17...Bxg5 18.Bxg5 gxf5 19.Be7±; 17...exf5 18.Nd5 Qd8 19.Bb6] 18.fxg6 hxg6 19.Nxf7 Rxf7 20.Rxf7 Kxf7 21.Rf1+ Kg7 22.Qg4 Nxe5 23.Bd4+- Paoli-Kinnmark, Siegen (ol) 1970

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No top players at World Juniors

This week another big event started: the World Juniors (and Girls) in Yerevan, Armenia. In contrast with the European Club Cup, this tournament has to do without many top players. First seeded is Wang Hao (2643) from China, because players such as Radjabov, Carlsen and Karjakin clearly have something better to do. But winning this event is still a prestigious achievement (and generates an invitation for the 2008 Essent Tournament). Read more

Top players at European Club Cup

This Tuesday and Wednesday the football players already gathered for their second round and yesterday the international club chess players started their own little Champions League. Well, little, 56 men’s teams are participating and 18 teams in the women’s section. And not the weakest players you can imagine. Read more

Daily puzzle 041007

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

20.Rc8+! [20.Qxa5? Rxa5 21.Bd2 Rxa2!] 20…Rxc8 [20...Bf8 21.Rxa8 Qxd2 22.Bxd2 Bxd3 23.Bh6+-; 20...Be8 21.Qxa5 Rxa5 22.a4! ±] 21.Qxa5 Bxd3 22.b4! ± Portisch-Gheorghiu, Siegen (ol) 1970

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Power chess at its best

Moldovan Grandmaster Victor Bologan is one of the strongest chess players of the world. He won, among many other trophies, the super tournament in Dortmund.

He has just published: Victor Bologan’s Selected Games 1985 - 2004, a splendid game collection enbedded in the personal story (with many pictures) of his development as a player.

Bologan has deeply, yet very accessibly, annotated his games, but he has done more: he teaches about chess psychology, about how to choose an opening, and he generally selects lessons from his engaging material.

Garry Kasparov says this book “ought to be read by every chessplayer who is serious about continuing to mature as a player”. Please have a look at it here.

Corus again stronger than ever

The organizers of the Corus Chess Tournament again succeeded in bringing together a stronger participants list than ever before. In the Grandmaster group A of the 70th edition, 11-27 January 2008, not only the fresh world champion Anand plays but also the numbers 2, 3, 4 and 6 of the WCC in Mexico. (The organizers state, just like the Mexico organizers, that it will be the “strongest tournament in history” but that’s questionable.) Read more

Daily puzzle 031007

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

23…Rxd5! 24.cxd5 c4 25.Rxd4 cxb3 26.Rc4 Rc8 27.axb3 Nf2!–+ Kovacs-Zaitsev, Debrecen 1970

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Anand passes 2800 mark

We’re back home and here too the laptop is opened of course. The latest news is the appearance of the new rating list. He was already the world’s no. 1 and after Mexico naturally he still is, but yesterday Vishy Anand also passed the 2800 mark again. His new rating is 2801. Second is Vassily Ivanchuk, who had a fantastic chess summer. Read more

Daily puzzle 021007

What do you play with Black? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

41.hxg5! Rxe2 42.g6 Rb2+ 43.Ka6 Rb4 44.g7 Bxg7 45.Rxg7 Rxa4+ 46.Kb5 Rd4 47.Re7! Re4 48.Kc5 and White held the draw in Fischer-Matulovic, Palma de Mallorca 1970

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Closing ceremony

It’s over. Sunday 30 September was the last day of the world championship in Mexico and on the program was the closing ceremony. Viswanathan Anand is now officially world chess champion and besides the laurel wreath he received a typical Mexican cloth and a big bundle of flowers. ChessVibes presents you a compilation of the best moments from the ceremony, including the complete speech that Anand gave in Spanish, with English subtitles. Read more

Daily puzzle 011007

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

11.Rb1! c2 12.Qxc2 Nd4 and simultaneously Black resigned because of 13.Nxd4 Qxd4 [13...exd4 14.Ba3] 14.Be3 winning the queen. Bronstein-Tomic, Vinkovci 1970.

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