by scribe | May 7, 2010 | 2010 world championship, endings, games
The tenth game of the world championship match could have been Topalov’s chance to break through and place Anand in an almost untenable position. Anand lost the thread in the middlegame and drifted into an inferior endgame, with a bishop and knight against...
by scribe | May 6, 2010 | 2010 world championship, endings, games
Here’s the thing about Veselin Topalov — he just can’t play it safe. For today’s game, Vishwanathan Anand prepared a variation of the Nimzo-Indian where he gives up a queen for two rooks. Topalov didn’t have to venture into the...
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...
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...
by scribe | Apr 17, 2010 | endings, games, people
A couple years ago, when Bobby Fischer died, I had the bright idea of writing an article about the aborted match between Sammy Reshevsky and Bobby Fischer from 1961. I think I may have even mentioned the idea on this blog. The thing that interested me about this match...
