by scribe | May 11, 2012 | 2012 world championship, Crestbook, current news, translations
The World Championship match between champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Boris Gelfand began today, with a rather short (24-move) draw. Gelfand appeared to have slightly the upper hand, but as GM Sergei Shipov said, “he considered a draw from a position of...
by scribe | May 25, 2011 | Crestbook, current news, tournaments
The interminable series of draws … finally terminated! In the last “classical” game of the final match to determine Viswanathan Anand’s next challenger for the World Championship, Boris Gelfand defeated Alexander Grischuk. Thus Gelfand wins the...
by scribe | May 7, 2011 | Crestbook, current news, tournaments, translations
This week the World Championship Candidates’ Matches got underway in Kazan, Russia. Once upon a time the candidates’ matches were marathons: 12 games in the quarterfinals, 12 in the semifinals, 24 games in the finals. They took a year or more to complete....
by scribe | Nov 1, 2010 | Crestbook, people, translations
My series of translations for www.crestbook.com continues today, with an interview of Alexei Shirov. Unfortunately, the interview is somewhat old, so it doesn’t cover such interesting topics as the recent Bilbao tournament or the outcome of the FIDE presidential...
by scribe | Jul 29, 2010 | Crestbook, people, tournaments, translations
Please check out my translation of the third and final part of the Alexander Khalifman interview on Crestbook! If you missed the first two parts, you can also find them here and here. Khalifman was the winner of the 1999 FIDE World Championship knockout tournament in...
by scribe | Jul 25, 2010 | Crestbook, current news, games, tournaments, translations
As the final day of the Dortmund tournament dawned, there was still an outside chance at a three-way tie for first. Ruslan Ponomariov was leading with a score of 6-3, while Le Quang Liem was tied with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov at 5-4. Le was paired against Ponomariov,...
