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At Title Event, Asian Women Pursue World Domination — The Women’s World Chess Championship has provided more evidence of a shift in the balance of power in the women’s game to Asia from Eastern Europe. When the chess tournament began early this month in southern Turkey, 24 of the 64 players in the field were from Eastern Europe, which has long dominated women’s chess. By the quarterfinals, only one of the Eastern Europeans, Kateryna Lahno of Ukraine, was left in the competition. Four of the quarterfinalists were from China, and two were from India. The last quarterfinalist, Almira Skripchenko, is French, although she was born in Moldova. Lahno and Skripchenko were eliminated in the quarterfinals, and the semifinalists were ...

Chess Game of the Year — Every year, there are so many well-played chess games that it is almost impossible to choose one that was better than the others. Objectively, finding the best game of the year is probably impossible; what appeals to one person may not appeal to someone else, and vice versa. Still, it is an interesting exercise. Last year, this blog suggested that a game between Alexander Morozevich and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave played at the Biel International Chess Festival was a worthy candidate for game of the year because of its hair-raising complications and how it ebbed and flowed. This year, it is more difficult to choose one game that stands out. The games shown on this blog each have ...

Chess: The unglamorous art of defence — It might not be fun, it might not be pretty, but a solid defence is essential. We need little excuse to look at attacking chess, but the other side of the argument, the art of defence, we rarely discuss. No surprise really: in the playground did you dream of keeping a clean sheet or scoring a hat-trick? So to maintain a balance, it's the unglamorous but vital theme of defence in chess that we'll be considering over the coming weeks. RB: After failing miserably to find a plausible continuation in last week's position, I was hoping to redeem myself here. But no. All this does is reinforce my sense of chess inferiority. I imagine Howell must have been feeling pretty pleased with himself at this point. Although his ...

14-Year-Old Is Newest Chess Grandmaster — Illya Nyzhnyk, a 14-year-old from Ukrainian, qualified for the grandmaster title on Thursday by tying for first place at the Groningen Chess Festival in the Netherlands. Nyzhnyk is the 20th player to become a grandmaster before turning 15 and the 11th youngest ever. Most of those becoming grandmasters at such a young age have done it within the last decade. Bobby Fischer held the record as the youngest grandmaster (at 15 years, 6 months) for 33 years, from 1958 to 1991, until it was broken by Judit Polgar of Hungary. Nyzhnyk first attracted attention more than three years ago when he was 10 and won the B section of the Moscow Open by scoring 8.5 points out of 9. Since ...

Chess: The Year in Review — It was a momentous year in chess, for what was accomplished and who was lost. Viswanathan Anand retained the world title in a bruising match with Veselin Topalov. Hou Yifan, at 16, became the youngest world chess champion in history when she won the women’s crown in December. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who has been president of the World Chess Federation since 1995, won re-election despite a challenge from Anatoly Karpov, the former world chess champion. One of the stranger aspects of the campaign was that Garry Kasparov, another former chess champion, traveled the globe to support Karpov, his old rival. In a first, Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top-ranked chess player, became ...

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