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In famous small town, chess attack is in the water — It’s been a famous spa resort dating back to the Roman Empire days, so it’s no surprise that there seems to be something in the water in the Black Forest town of Baden-Baden. The restorative powers of the hot springs in the German town seem to make chess players play more aggressively, to judge from two games there more than 140 years apart. Propelled by two wins in his final two games, world chess champion Viswanathan Anand of India captured the first Grenke Chess Classic Sunday with a 6½-2½ score, a half-point clear of U.S.-born Italian GM Fabiano Caruana in the six-grandmaster double round robin chess event. Two of his wins came against German GM Arkady Naiditsch, who emerged as a fan favorite at Baden-Baden with ...

Horseshoes and chess: What is black’s best move? — World Chess Champion Vishy Anand won the annual chess tournament at Baden-Baden, Germany this February. Amercian-Italian Fabiano Caruana rebounded from his recent slump to place second. This week’s position is from Anand’s game against Germany’s Arkadij Naiditsch. Naiditsch is white; Anand, black. Anand’s advanced h2 pawn and supporting h1 rook indirectly pin white’s king and rook, or else black’s h2 pawn promotes safely on h1. With this hint in mind what is black’s best move? Anand bullied white’s king with a check from d3 by advancing his d4 pawn. If the king snatches the poisoned pawn on d3, black’s rook slides over to d1, checking white’s king from a safe square. Irrespective of where the white king moves, black’s ...

2013 Moscow Aeroflot likely to be best remembered for controversies — Moscow Aeroflot has been the world's strongest chess open for a decade but its 2013 edition this week will be remembered for its time-limit controversies. The chess event had an impressive $150,000 prize fund, yet lasted fewer days amid rumours of cost-cutting at the Russian airline. Its time control changed from classical chess (4-6 hours per game) to blitz (20 minutes) and rapid (45 minutes). Most of the Russian grandmaster elite still competed, though some Western GMs switched to Gibraltar. In one strange incident the United States No2, Gata Kamsky, beat an opponent 2-1 with all three games ending with king, bishop and knight against king. Anatoly Karpov, the former world chess champion, was captured on video castling ...

Princeton Team Wins Title at a Top Amateur Event — The biggest social events of the chess world’s year are the amateur team tournaments held in four American cities over Presidents’ Day weekend. And there aren’t even any cash prizes. The payoff is the opportunity to connect with old friends. The biggest and oldest of the four chess tournaments is the World Amateur Team Championship in Parsippany, N.J. This year, it attracted 282 teams and 1,200 players. That was down from last year, when there were 294 teams and 1,300 competitors. Steve Doyle, the tournament’s director, said the lingering effects of Hurricane Sandy might have been responsible for the decline. There are competitions other than chess at the Parsippany tournament. One involves names. Each team chooses its own, and chess ...

India's grandmaster Viswanathan Anand gives chess a new opening in Britain — ... Though it does need stamina. Much stamina. In 1984 the World Chess Championship in Moscow between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, was terminated because of the threat to the health of the players. The chess match had lasted five months, with five wins for Karpov, three for Kasparov, and 40 draws, during which Karpov lost over a stone in weight and was reported to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Fortitude apart, however, chess seems to belong up in the clouds with philosophy or algebra not down in the mud with sweat and laces. And yet in India, the home of the IPL, the most passionate cricket nation in the world, the 2012 sportsman of the year did not hold a bat, or a squash racket or a hockey stick. He did not shoot or ...

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