by scribe | Mar 31, 2013 | current news, openings, people, positions, tournaments
All of the eyes in the chess world are on London this morning, as the second-to-last round of the 2013 Candidates Tournament is under way. As most of you probably know already, the unbelievable happened in round 12. First, Vladimir Kramnik stunned Levon Aronian, who...
by scribe | Mar 20, 2013 | current news, games, people, tournaments
When the histories are written about this year’s Candidates Tournament, they will probably say very little about Round 5, which took place today. After all, all four games were drawn. But as opposed to round one, when all four games were also drawn, this round...
by scribe | Mar 16, 2013 | current news, people, positions, tournaments
In today’s second round of the Candidates Tournament, Levon Aronian and Teimour Radjabov scored the first two wins (against Gelfand and Ivanchuk, respectively) to move into first place. Magnus Carlsen continued his drawing ways, splitting the point against...
by scribe | Mar 15, 2013 | current news, people, tournaments
In the first round of the Candidates’ Tournament in London, all four games were drawn. I watched the last hour of the first round on ChessTV, which is broadcasting the games live in Russian with commentary from our friend GM Sergey Shipov and GM Genna Sosonko....
by scribe | Mar 14, 2013 | literature, off-topic, people
If you enjoy chess, math, puns, and Isaac Asimov — and really, who doesn’t? — then you might enjoy this book review at Goodreads. I’ll get you started (but I won’t post the whole thing, in order to respect copyright): The Biggest Lie...
by scribe | Mar 12, 2013 | Crestbook, current news, people, tournaments
If you’re interested in world championship chess, the place to be for the rest of the month is London, where the 2013 World Championship Candidates tournament will be held from March 15 to April 1 (with tiebreaks, which I devoutly hope will not be necessary,...
