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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Why you lose at Chess

Most of the games are decided by mistakes and blunders by either player. The reason is:

-- lack of knowledge of Opening Theory and Endgame Technique

-- incorrect utilization of Time

-- lack of Concentration and Focus during the Game

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Chess Classes at Sriram Sadhana Apartments

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Yifan Hou is the new 2010 World Women's Champion

Yifan Hou won the World Women's Chess Championship thereby becoming the Youngest ever player to win the crown (earlier record was held by Maia Chiburdanidze).

The Final was played between Yifan Hou (who beat Koneru Humpy) and Lufei Ruan (who beat Xue Zhao). The 4 game match was tied at 2-2 and in the Tie-Break, Yifan won the 2nd and 4th games (1st and 3rd were drawn).

The event was held at Hatay, Turkey, from December 2nd to 25th. It was a 64-player knockout tournament, with two-game mini-matches qualifying a player to the next round, until the final and 6th round, which is a four-game match to determine the champion.

Click here to replay the 4th game
Click here to download games in PGN: Regular & Tie-Break
Official Tournament Site
All WWCC reports on ChessBase & TWIC

Below is a video of Yifan Hou anaysing a game with David Navara at Corus 2009

Saturday, December 25, 2010

London Chess Classic 2010

Magnus Carlsen won the first place at the 2010 edition of the London Chess Classic.

Though Viswanathan Anand and Luke Mc Shane had tied with Carlsen at 4.5 points after 7 games (also Anand and McShane defeated Carlsen!), Carlsen was declared the winner due to the tiebreak system (greater number of blacks). The sofia system of scoring (3 points for win and 1 point for draw) led to a high percentage of fighting games.

Official Tournament Site
Download games in PGN and a Free Souvenir article in PDF
Reports on Chessbase and TWIC

Friday, December 24, 2010

63rd Russian Championship

Ian Nepomniachtchi is the new Russian Men's Champion. In an exciting final, he defeated Sergey Karjakin to win the event.

This year's event was held from Dec 11-22 at the Central Club of Chess in Moscow and was a 11 round all-play-all event with a time control of 40 moves in 90 minutes, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, and a 30 second increment for every move throughout the game. It carried a prizefund of 3.5 million rubles.

Though 71% of the games were drawn, the event had an exciting finish with Karjakin and Nepomniachtchi catching up with Svidler at the top of the leaderboard towards the final stages of the tournament.