Archive for Viswanathan Anand
Thursday, November 08, 2012 14:16
Like last year, the drawing of lots for the London Chess Classic has been performed in advance and the full pairings are now available. This year, instead of involving the players themselves in the draw at the opening ceremony, the honour of conducting the draw was bestowed upon Liverpool’s Sacred Heart Primary School as a reward for the boom in...
Sunday, October 07, 2012 13:32
Tomorrow the 6th round of the Masters Final will be played in Bilbao, Spain. It is the first of five rounds that form the second half of the tournament, and Fabiano Caruana (Italy) is defending a four-point lead. The first half took place September 25-29 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Journalist/commentator Leontxo Garcia, Bilbao mayor Iñaki Azkuna and...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:45
The fifth Grand Slam Masters Final started with a bang. In Sao Paulo, Brazil world's number one Magnus Carlsen immediately suffered a loss against Fabiano Caruana. Levon Aronian won against Sergey Karjakin while Vishy Anand and Paco Vallejo drew their first game.
Caruana beats Carlsen in round 1 | Photos by Albert Silver courtesy of the official...
Monday, September 24, 2012 13:23
Today the fifth Grand Slam Masters Final starts in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The first round, scheduled for 15:00 local time (20:00 CET) has the following pairings: Anand-Vallejo, Aronian-Karjakin and Caruana-Carlsen.
The players during the opening ceremony on Sunday | All photos courtesy of the official website
Event
5th Grand Slam Masters Final
Dates...
Thursday, September 13, 2012 16:37
This week the organizers of the Grand Slam Masters Final, which will be held September 24th-October 13th in Sao Paulo and Bilbao, confirmed that the participants will be Vishy Anand, Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Sergey Karjakin and Francisco Vallejo Pons.
In a press release sent on Tuesday, September 11th the organizers finally...
Tuesday, September 04, 2012 22:47
While the crème de la crème of the chess world has gathered in Istanbul, two top players are missing: Magnus Carlsen and Vishy Anand. After last week's pictorial report about Carlsen's visit to New York, we have now also received a small report about Anand visiting Los Angeles. Like Carlsen, the Indian was involved in teaching. Ankit Gupta,...
Wednesday, August 01, 2012 14:39
As FIDE now publishes its rating lists on a monthly basis, the new lists have come out already. In the men's list World Champion Vishy Anand dropped to 6th place; the Indian is now behind Sergey Karjakin who won 6 points in Dortmund. In the women's list Anna Muzychuk has overtaken Hou Yifan in second place behind Judit Polgar.
The new FIDE rating...
Monday, July 16, 2012 17:05
I’m normally a bit skeptical when chess players give lectures – cobbler, stick to thy last! – but Vishy Anand’s recent Accenture lecture (posted on ChessVibes) is an absolute must-see for every chess enthusiast.
Vishy Anand during his Accenture lecture in Madrid | Photo Accenture España
The lecture, on the ambitious topic of decision-making, is...
Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:41
On June 12th, Vishy Anand gave a lecture on decision making in Madrid, which as part of a conference organized by Accenture. The lecture lasted 44 minutes and was posted in full at YouTube.
Vishy Anand during his Accenture lecture in Madrid | Photo Accenture España
On June 12th, Accenture, the largest consulting firm in the world, organized the...
Monday, June 18, 2012 12:38
After our lengthy interview with challenger Boris Gelfand, obviously we also took the time to speak to Vishy Anand, who was, and still is, the World Champion. In this second part, he speaks about the second half of the match, the tie-break, the opening choices, his controversial draw offer in the last game, the criticism that he and Gelfand played...
