A community portal about World Chess Championship with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Both men and women are eligible...
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A community portal about World Chess Championship with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Both men and women are eligible to contest this title. The World Champion is not necessarily the highest rated player in the world: the current champion, Vladimir Kramnik is rated third in the world as per the current FIDE rating list.
One of the nicest things about putting your own chess set together is that there are no rules. After all, this is one of points in matching a set of chess pieces to the chess board by yourself, instead of looking for a chess set that has already been put together for yourself.
Still, there is a set of guidelines that can be followed to make this process fast and easy for you.
Match the size of the King to the board square:
The first thing that must be considered is the size... Read Full Story
World champion Viswanathan Anand, who turned 40 on December 11, looks back on the year gone by and his upcoming World Championship match with Veselin Topolov. Read Full Story
Anand's birthday wish: To see chess in Olympics
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Mona Parthsarathi
New Delhi, Dec 10 (PTI) On the eve of his 40th birthday, the first chess player to become world champion in all three formats of the game, Indian ace Viswanathan Anand has just one wish -- to see his sport become an Olympic event.
"Obviously that would be for the (World Chess Federation) FIDE and the International Olympic Committee to decide.
Personally, it would be nice to have chess... Read Full Story
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Product Description A compilation of the best games of the current world champion from the Chess Informant series. Biographical information and tournament reviews accompany 100 games that have been selected as the best from his career. A total of 1052 games with 456 annotated by Anand are included. Repertoire trees for both White and Black allow you to examine Anands opening arsenal, and a Play Like Anand section demonstrates his combinational, defensive and endgame... Read Full Story
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PRESS RELEASE / Zurich, 2 April 2009
Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity to Play Against a World Champion at the Schachgesellschaft Zürich’s Jubilee!
The celebrations in August 2009 to mark the 200th anniversary of the Schachgesellschaft Zürich will be a dream come true for a few chess players. The world’s oldest chess club is offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at the simultaneous exhibition at Zurich Main Station on 22 August: 100 chess enthusiasts will get the... Read Full Story
Replace your old board with this beautiful storage board
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Product Description Beautiful 17″ High Gloss Wood Chess Board with 2 Storage Drawers…. More >>
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Great Woman Article. Alexandra Kosteniuk is the great and smart woman with so many achievements. She is the Russian chess Grandmaster and she is also the current Women’s World Chess Champion.
Alexandra Kosteniuk was born in April 23, 1984 in Perm, Volga Federal District, Russia. Alexandra Kosteniuk is the Grandmaster of Women’s World Champion 2008 until present. Her FIDE rating is 2525. She is in the number 8 on the October 2008 FIDE rating list for women. Her peak rating in April 2006... Read Full Story
World Champion Viswanathan Anand tamed former World Champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia in successive two encounters to win the rapid four-game chess series 3.5-0.5 in France.
The Indian, who was leading the series 1.5-0.5 after winning the first game and drawing the second with the Russian at Bastia, beat Karpov in both the remaining games to ensure a spectacular victory.
It was a Queen’s gambit declined by Karpov in the first game and Anand got an opening advantage after Karpov did not... Read Full Story
