by scribe | Aug 25, 2013 | current news, tournaments
We’re down to the final four players now in the World Cup, and it’s a final four that nobody in the world expected. Do you think I’m kidding? Let’s take a look. Evgeny Tomashevsky — 26-year-old Russian grandmaster, according to Wikipedia...
by scribe | Aug 22, 2013 | current news, tournaments
The fourth-round matches in the World Cup are complete, and again they were full of surprises and unbelievably nerve-wracking chess. To briefly summarize a long and sometimes agonizing day, the winners were Dmitry Andreikin (a surprise winner over Sergey Karjakin),...
by scribe | Aug 21, 2013 | chess clubs, current news, games, positions, tournaments
As you can see from the photograph, I am not the only creature in my household who has been following the World Cup with fascination! Ginger Snap is one of our temporary visitors, a foster kitten whom we are taking care of until she is old enough for someone to adopt...
by scribe | Aug 18, 2013 | current news, games, positions, tournaments
“We’re looking for heroes,” said Sergey Shipov in his commentary on the World Cup today at www.chesstv.ru. What Shipov meant was that some of the players with their backs against the wall — Aronian, Grischuk, Adhiban, Moiseenko, Hammer,...
by scribe | Aug 17, 2013 | current news, tournaments
On several occasions already, I’ve mentioned the Prediction Contest that was organized for the World Cup. In fact, I’ve probably started to bore my readers who couldn’t care less what my predictions were. But I hope you’ll indulge my whims a...
by scribe | Aug 16, 2013 | current news, tournaments
Today the second round of the World Cup finished, with playoffs for the 15 matches that were tied 1-1. This time there were surprisingly few lengthy playoffs. Thirteen of the fifteen playoffs were decided in the first two games, another was decided in the next two...
