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by scribe | May 1, 2010 | 2010 world championship, current news, games

Today’s game from the Topalov-Anand world championship match is dedicated to all the chess players who have ever been baffled by galloping knights. Anand steered the game into a position where he had two knights against Topalov’s two bishops. As befits...

Game 5 — Power outage, Topalov bangs his head against the wall

by scribe | Apr 30, 2010 | 2010 world championship, current news, games

Hi chess fans! As I promised yesterday, here is my quick translation of GM Sergei Shipov’s annotations for game 5 of the Topalov-Kramnik match. Actually, it’s not clear to me that I need to do this, because Shipov’s site actually has a link to an...

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by scribe | Apr 29, 2010 | 2010 world championship, current news, games, tournaments

Wow! Color me flabbergasted! I checked my blog stats this morning, and could not believe how many readers came to my blog yesterday. Seven hundred seventy (770) views! Just for comparison, that was more than ten times as many guests as I get on a typical day, and more...

There’s a match going on!

by scribe | Apr 28, 2010 | 2010 world championship, current news, games, people, tournaments

Although it might not be going on much longer. I’m referring, of course, to the Anand-Topalov world championship match, which started last weekend in Sofia. As most of the chess-speaking world knows, the challenger, Topalov, started out with a stunning win in...
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