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Beijing 2008. The 13th Computer Olympiad
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The 13th Computer Olympiad, 16th World Computer Chess Championship and a scientific conference on computer games will be held in Bejing (Peking), China. The events will take place from 27 July - 3 August 2008. (Arrivals and departures are scheduled for 26 July and 4 August, respectively.) The location is: Beijing Golden Century Golf Club, Qinglonghu Township, Fangshan District, Beijing.
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Telegraph chess: Polgar's birthday treat
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The Biel Chess Festival is one of the strongest chess tournaments of the year even in the absence of three times winner Alexander Morozevich. Judit Polgar of Hungary, the world's strongest ever female chess player made the early running, celebrating her 31st birthday by outplaying Loek van Wely in her tactical style. In round two Polgar put some pressure on the Norwegian chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen but he defended carefully for the draw and the pair share the lead with the American Alexander Onischuk on 1.5/2. L Van Wely a?? J Polgar GM Biel (1) Queen's Indian ...
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Harikrishna draws with Charbonneau, slips to tied third
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Montreal (Canada), July 27: P Harikrishna split the point with Canadian Pascal Charbonneau in a game of fluctuating fortunes to slip to the tied third spot after the seventh round of the eighth Montreal International Chess tournament here.
Harkrishna shares the third position with American GM Gata Kamsky.
The Indian adopted the queens gambit, which was declined by Charbonneau, who took the initiative with some sharp moves in the opening.
Harikrishna sacrificed a pawn in the early middle game and obtained excellent compensation by exposing his opponent's castled king.
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Telegraph chess: Nigel Short fails to break duck
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Nigel Short's misery continued at Montreal as he lost his fourth straight game, going down with the white pieces to Vassily Ivanchuk. Also in Montreal, Jovanka Houska, England's only female professional chess player, made the best possible start to the MonRoi International Women's Chess Grand-Prix Finale, winning her first two games. In round one, Houska defeated the Polish WGM Iweta Rajlich, and in round two she easily overcame the Quebec Chess Federation representative Myriam Roy, who is rated about 500 points lower than the other seven players and will do well to break her duck. Two Canadian chess players played a wild King's Indian in round three, but White always looked in control. ...
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As Technology Leaps Ahead, Concerns About Cheating Grow
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While cheating is not new, more attention is being paid now because of recent incidents and the increasing sophistication of computers and communication devices.
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Telegraph chess: Tussle for board youth
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Just two hundred and forty five young chess players from an original entry of 74,000 remain in the hunt after the British Land UK Chess Challenge Gigafinals were completed at Wellington College in Crowthorne and Manchester University. The sixty five section winners known as Ultimi go through to the Terafinal and will play for a first prize of A?2000 while one hundred and eighty more will compete in the Terafinal Challengers for a top prize of A?500 which is part of an extended prize fund this year down to 20th place. The North Leamington Community School and Arts College in Leamington Spa will host the climax to the year-long chess event, the largest of its kind in the world, on ...
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Telegraph chess: Short open and closed
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Following the success of the Canadian Open in Ottawa the Chess Federation of Quebec have organised a closed chess tournament at Montreal which includes Nigel Short and Vasily Ivanchuk. Short finished joint second at Ottawa on 7.5/10. The Chinese GM Bu Xiangzhi won outright on 8/10 thanks to a win with black in the last round over Vadim Milov. Short and Bu will probably cross swords again in September in Liverpool when the UK plays China. Short lost his first game at Montreal playing black against Polish GM Kamil Miton who also finished equal second at Ottawa. Playing black in the Bogo-Indian Defence Short saddled himself with an isolated queen's pawn but ...
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Chess, Lubomir Kavalek
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American chess grandmasters Alexander Ivanov and Varuzhan Akobian qualified Friday for the FIDE World Cup, scheduled for December in Russia. They shared first place at the Continental Chess Championship in Cali, Colombia, with grandmasters Julio Granda Zuniga of Peru and Darcy Lima of Brazil and international master Eduardo Iturrizaga of Venezuela, finishing with eight points in 11 games. Granda Zuniga won the title on a tiebreak. Also on Friday, Irina Krush won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship in Stillwater, Okla. She scored seven points in nine games, ending a half point ahead of the defending chess champion Anna Zatonskih and Maryland's Katerina Rohonyan. "Computers have a hard time to spot a combination where a sacrifice is followed by ...
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Speelman on Chess
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July is a prime time for chess, as evinced by the latest edition of Mark Crowther's splendid weekly magazine "The Week in Chess", which contains no fewer than 3700 games from 33 different chess events, currently in progress or recently finished; plus news of a further couple of dozen soon to get underway. Of the latter, I should mention the 40th Biel Chess Festival where play starts tomorrow and the 8th Montreal International, only a little weaker, which began on Thursday. This was preceded by the Canadian Open Championship, which was won by the Chinese chess grandmaster Bu Xiangzhi - who has gone on to Biel, ahead of a strong group half a point behind, including Nigel Short, who is playing in Montreal. Victory by a Chinese chess player would ...
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Barden on Chess
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This week's Canadian Open in Ottawa attracted a field of nearly 300, among them 22 chess grandmasters led by China's No1 Bu Xiangzhi and Nigel Short, who duly finished first and second. It was an impressive organisational effort since, unlike other recent Canadian Opens, the chess event lacked state funding. Private sponsors put up a $20,000 prize fund (A?10,000) while some embassies in the Canadian capital also provided finance. These included the British High Commission, whose backing supported Short, England's No2, and our youngest GM, David Howell, 16, the joint leader after six rounds. Bu Xiangzhi's games showed new ideas in the Slav ...c6, which has been high fashion since ...
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Telegraph chess: Solve black's secret
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Despite playing all nine game with black the Young England chess team hit back in their match against Middlesex scoring four wins to one to take the round 6-3 and narrow the gap to five points with two rounds and eighteen games to be played. Once again it was the play of Callum Kilpatrick and Peter Constantinou that caught the eye. Kilpatrick played a model Ruy Lopez with black and outplayed Bob Eames one of Middlesex's top scorers while Constantinou demolished the defences of David Ledger and finished with ...
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Telegraph chess: Send for the Chinese
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The 2007 component of the Liverpool Chess Festival will now be a match between the UK and China after the All India Chess Federation pulled out due to a clash of dates with their national chess championship. The Chinese have promised to send a world class chess team composed of four men, two women and two junior players. China currently has seven chess players rated in the world's top 100, second only to Russia. The events are part of a 3 year program leading up to Liverpool's Capital of Culture celebrations in 2008. The UK may have the strongest possible men's team but Nick Pert is standing by to replace Luke McShane if the latter is unavailable. Michael Adams, Nigel Short and Jonathan Rowson are ...
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A Gentle Hand
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Half a century ago, Vassily Smyslov became the chess champion of the world. His 12 1/2 - 9 1/2 victory over Mikhail Botvinnik in the 1957 world championship match in Moscow was the highest point of his chess career. A quarter-century later, the 61-year-old Smyslov finished second behind Hungary's Zoltan Ribli at the 1982 Interzonal chess tournament in Las Palmas, Spain, and qualified for the Candidates matches. His 1983 match with Robert Huebner of Germany had an unusual ending. When it ended in a tie, both players agreed to let the outcome be decided at the roulette table rather than playing tiebreaking games. Huebner's luck ran out and ...
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Speelman on Chess
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Today, two top class Rapidplay chess tournaments which have just taken place in different European cities: the 3rd Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup in Odessa and the chess even stronger 20th City of Leon Rapidplay. As One Day Cricket is to County and Test matches so Rapidplay is to Classical Chess: an accelerated form of the game which, however, still retains the main outlines. In Rapidplay games, the players typically have 25 or 30 minutes each for the game though nowadays they sometimes begin with rather less but with a time increment every move. ...
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Barden on Chess
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Economic necessity is likely to induce more chess tournaments below the world chess championship to use a rapid-play format where the entire game is concluded in around an hour. Rapid-play time limits allow anything from three to six rounds to be completed in a day, as against at most two rounds of classical long play. Hotel and venue costs, plus fees to grandmasters based partly on an event's length, currrently form a major part of GM tournament budgets. Odessa's Pivdenny Bank Cup has become an established top rapid chess event. The top-seeded Vasily Ivanchuk, ranked No4 in the world behind Vlad Kramnik, Vishy Anand and Veselin Topalov in ...
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Telegraph chess: Topalov is toppled
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It was a magnificent seventh victory for the world number one Vishy Anand as he was a comfortable winner over the world number two Veselin Topalov in the final of 20th Ciudad de Leon Rapid Chess tournament. Anand scored his second 3-1 win at the chess event taking both games with white and his seventh victory at Leon was also his third in a row. Anand had some nervous moments in the first game defending the Ruy Lopez but Topalov missed the strongest continuation and his attack fizzled out. Anand held comfortably with black in game three before scoring a second convincing win against Topalov's Sicilian Najdorf to ...
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Telegraph chess: Anand ready for hat-trick
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World No 1 Vishy Anand defeated Ruslan Ponomariov 3-1 in the first semi-final of the 20th Ciudad de Leon chess tournament in Spain to set up a final against Veselin Topalov. Anand is aiming for a third straight victory at the chess event. Anand won the first two games then drew twice to win 3-1, while Topalov had to fight harder against Rustam Kasimdzhanov. Topalov took a 2-0 lead, but Kasimdzhanov won game three with black to stay in the chess match. Game four was a tough struggle with Kasimdzhanov securing a slight advantage against Topalov's King's Indian Defence before ...
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Telegraph chess: Ay up, Chucks
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The chess tournament will be won by someone whose name ends in a?chuk' was the verdict of the Israeli GM Ilya Smirin after two of the three days play had been completed at the Bank Pivdenny Rapid Chess tournament taking place in Odessa. Alexander Grischuk made a clean sweep of his games on day one but now he shares the lead with Vasily Ivanchuk who repeated the feat on day two. The pair have 4.5/6 and have already played, Grischuk won. Grischuk's only defeat came at ...
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CHESS Lubomir Kavalek
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Vishy Anand is the top-rated chess grandmaster on the FIDE list. Yesterday, the Indian chess superstar also confirmed his status as the best rapid player in the world, winning the rapid event in the Spanish city of Leon featuring four former FIDE world chess champions. In the semifinals Anand defeated Ukraine's Ruslan Ponomariov 3-1, and Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov edged the Uzbek Rustam Kasimdzhanov 2 1/2 -1 1/2 . In the final match Anand beat Topalov 3-1. Here is the last game in brief. ...
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Speelman on Chess
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The 35th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting came to its conclusion a week ago today in the city's Civic Theatre in victory for the world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik by the impressive margin of a whole point. Kramnik is always especially comfortable in Dortmund, which is organised with the assistance of his manager Carsten Hensel and this was his eighth victory, outright or shared, in this great annual chess event. I left you last week, with Kramnik a shade ahead after four of the seven rounds but ...
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Barden on Chess
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Dortmund has been Vladimir Kramnik's most successful chess tournament over the years, and the world chess champion again impressed this week when he took first prize there with 5/7, a point or more clear of his elite grandmaster rivals. Recently the Muscovite has become quite deadly with the white pieces, and the Catalan Opening with 3 g3 shown in this week's game is his favourite weapon. When you play over the moves this win against Norway's wonderboy Magnus Carlsen, 16, looks ...
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Telegraph chess: So easy for Kramnik
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The world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik needed just a draw to secure his eighth tournament victory at the Sparkassen Chess Meeting held in Dortmund's Civic Theatre and he achieved it with consummate ease. Kramnik's Petroff Defence proved impregnable and it is quite possible that the Russian chess champion Evgeny Alexeev never managed to deviate from the champion's home analysis in the 31 move game. Kramnik looked particularly impressive in what is his favourite chess tournament and his unbeaten score of 5/7 put him a point clear of the field. He was never in any danger throughout. The seventh round featured ...
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Telegraph chess: Vasily wins easily
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The twelve chess players were rated nearly 2700 on average. Ivanchuk was unbeaten and won with a score of 7.5/11. I will devote most of today's chess column to the analysis of his victory with black over Alexey Shirov in typically creative style. The performance of Ivanchuk's 17 year old compatriot Sergey Karjakin should not be overlooked; he confirmed his status as a future chess champion and scored just half a point less than the victor. Ivanchuk's unusual 6a?¦Be7 succeeds in avoiding Shirov's prepared line and ...
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Speelman on Chess
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The annual Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting has been taking place this week at the city's Civic Theatre, starting last Saturday and finishing today. One of the absolute elite events in the chess calendar, Dortmund always packs a terrific punch and this year's tournament has been no exception with a fantastic line-up headed by the world number one Viswanathan Anand and the world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik, who were joined by three more in the top 11: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Peter Leko and Boris Gelfand; the inimitable Magnus Carlsen (currently 22nd in the world but who ...
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Chess, reading help prevent Alzheimer's
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How often elderly people read a newspaper, play chess or engage in mental exercise is linked to their Alzheimer's risk, says a U.S. study. The study, published in the online edition of Neurology, found a cognitively active person in old age was 2.6 times less likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer's disease than a cognitively inactive person in old age. The association remained after controlling for past cognitive activity, lifetime socioeconomic status, and current social and physical activity. ...
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Telegraph chess: Very clever kids' stuff
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The world's largest chess tournament, The British Land UK Chess Challenge, is now approaching its final stages, with over two thousand children vying for glory and thousands of pounds in prize money. The chess tournament began in the spring with over 70,000 children competing in 2,300 schools throughout the UK. From these emerged 8,000 Megafinalists who took part in 37 area championships for the title of Supremo and the chance to qualify for the third stage, the Gigafinals in July. There will be North and South Gigafinals to be staged at Wellington College, Berkshire on 7th and 8th July and in Manchester University over ...
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Telegraph chess: The strong and the weak
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The world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik taught the young pretender Magnus Carlsen a lesson as he took the lead of the Sparkassen Chess Festival in the fourth round played at the Dortmund Civic Theatre. The 16 year old Norwegian chess prodigy decided to play into the main variation of Kramnik's favourite Catalan Opening and was soon in trouble. Kramnik rapidly invaded weak squares on the queenside with the aid of a couple of nice tactical ideas and once a pawn had fallen the end was very swift. Kramnik reached 3/4 but saw world number one Vishy Anand renew his challenge with victory over the local GM Arkady Naiditsch who ...
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Telegraph chess: A walk on the wild side
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There were four draws at Dortmund which left the placings unchanged. Both world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and world number one Vishy Anand drew comfortably with black and looked fractionally better in the final position. The teenager Magnus Carlsen failed to exploit an extra pawn in the endgame against the Russian chess champion Evgeny Alekseev. The chess was more entertaining at the Aerosvit chess tournament being held at Foros in Ukraine where the seventeen year old Ukrainian Sergei Karjakin shares the lead with his compatriot Vasily Ivanchuk after eight of the eleven rounds. ...
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Telegraph chess: Russians on a roll
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The Russians rule after two rounds of the 2007 Sparkassen Chess Meeting being held at the Dortmund Civic Theatre. The World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik and the 2006 Russian Chess Champion Evgeny Alekseev both scored wins with white but in contrasting styles. Kramnik overcame Israeli number one Boris Gelfand who he will meet at the WCC chess tournament in Mexico in September by gradually advancing his queenside pawn majority. At the most auspicious time Kramnik forced an endgame with knight versus bishop and made his extra pawn count. As so often happens when Kramnik gets an edge, Gelfand never ...
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Telegraph chess: Comfortable for Anand
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The 2007 Sparkassen Chess Meeting at Dortmund started with the world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik making little impression against the world number one Vishy Anand who held the draw comfortably with the black pieces. The eight player round robin chess tournament takes place at the Dortmund Civic Theatre and includes four of the world's top ten chess players. Kramnik was still a doubt for this chess event the day before Saturday's first round as he was suffering from a severe respiratory infection but Dortmund is his tournament, he has won it seven times and his agent Carsten Hensel is based there. Anand rather ...
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