Archive for April 15th, 2009

It is no simple business for World Champion Anand to play on first board in
the German Bundesliga with black against a player who is ranked 180 points below
him. The pressure is on to win at any cost. In his game against Solingen’s
Daniel Stellwagen, Anand accomplished this with a flourish. Visit our ChessBase
Magazine Blog or check it out directly in this article
by GMs Stohl and Postny.

The fourth FIDE Grand Prix Tournament started with a number of exciting games. Alexander Grischuk outplayed Boris Gelfand very nicely, while Lev Aronian crushed Shakhriyar Mamedyarov with the black pieces in 32 moves. Gata Kamsky hung on for dear life in a very grim position against Peter Leko and held a draw in 121 moves. Round one report with a wrap-up by GM Sergey Shipov

The fourth FIDE Grand Prix Tournament is being held from April 14–29, 2009, in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia.
The fourteen participants include Ivanchuk, Aronian, Mamedyarov, Leko, Kamsky,
Svidler, Karjakin and Grischuk. Average rating: around 2725 points. The games
have started – you can watch them on Playchess.com
or on our experimental live web client.

In 2004 he won the FIDE world championship in Tripoli, knocking out an insane
gauntlet of players, including Vassily Ivanchuk, Alexander Grischuk, Veselin
Topalov and Michael Adams. Last year the Uzbek GM assisted Vishy Anand, decisively,
in defending the World Championship title. Our Playchess
lecturer Dennis Monokroussos shows us an instructive attacking game by the king-maker.