Here is this week’s Garden State Chess League schedule :
Tuesday 8 p.m.
Kenilworth Karpovs at West Orange
Sparta vs. Summit (at W. Orange)
Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
Kenilworth Kortchnois at Hamilton
Thursday 8:15 p.m
Maplewood vs. Staten Island (at Kenilworth)
Mark Kernighan continued his run of recent successes with a 3-0 score & 1st-place finish at the Irving Ellner Memorial Swiss in Kenilworth. Ari Minkov & Greg Tomkovich tied for 2nd, with 2.5. Ted Mann & I were next at 2.0.
The event concludes this Thursday (5/7) with Joe Renna & Brian Balint playing to decide the 1 remaining prize :
While the TD worries about the latter possibility you can check-out Mark’s fine, final round win against me in java-replay or PGN.
Moldovan-Kernighancritical middlegame position
At six foot nine inches Miroslav Filip was an imposing presence at the chess board. But he became a world force in the 50s and 60s, represented his country in 12 consecutive Chess Olympiads and inflicted defeat on no fewer than three world champions (Euwe, Smyslov and Tal). Filip was born in Prague on October 27, 1928, and died there on April 27, 2009. Obituary by Raymond Keene.
FIDE decided to speed up the change in their ratings calculations, then turned more cautious about it. Polish GM Bartlomiej Macieja criticised them for balking, and Jeff Sonas provided compelling statistical reasons for changing the K-factor to 24. Finally John Nunn warned of the disadvantages of changed a well-functioning system. Here are some more interesting expert arguments.
Fighting against the Najdorf System with 6.h3 is old hat, but Black never really
actually had to fear the move that much – until a year ago, when Sergey
Karjakin showed that after the usual 6…e6 7.g4 b5 8.Bg2 Bb7 it was possible
to do without the safety move 9.a3. But in Nalchik he ran into a problem. Read
this article in CBM
126 (PDF) from our CBM
Blog or replay the
annotated game here.
The yearly Chess Classic in Mainz, Germany, will be held from July 27th to Sunday, August 2nd 2009, with World Champion Vishy Anand defending his Rapid Chess title against Levon Aronian, Arkadij Naiditsch and Ian Nepomniachtchi. Anand has won the main event eleven times – and feels the pressure every time he plays. Read all about this and his recent chess life in this indepth interview.