Archive for May 4th, 2009

The Kenilworthian is included in a list of “Ten Popular Chess Blogs” from Blogs.com. Looks like I’m just hanging in there at #10. I will have to post more often…

Hat tip to Jim West (who is #6).

I have annotated & uploaded Thursday’s Mann-Sturniolo game. Refer to post #492 for replay & PGN links.

Shocking news: a gunman stormed the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, a public university located in Baku, and shot 25, killing twelve, before turning the weapon upon himself. One of the victims of the massacre was leading Azeri chess problemist Mejnun Vahidov, who had worked at the Academy for over 30 years. His 200 published problems include many prize-winners. Horrifying reports.

“I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read GM John Nunn’s opinion,” writes GM Bartlomiej Macieja (pronunciation supplied), the original initiator of this debate. He presents proof for the fact, challenged by Nunn, that the K-factor and the frequency of rating lists are related to one another. Other readers have also weighed in, a wrap-up reply by John Nunn will appear soon. Long, interesting read.

In spite of his defeat in the final round, Peter Leko was one of those whose
performances caught our eye in the Grand Prix in Nalchik. At the very start,
the Hungarian should have taken a full point against Kamsky, in a line discussed
by GM Igor Stohl in his survey for CBM 123. Here’s a description
of the article (in PDF) and the annotated
game Leko-Kamsky, as always to be found in our CBM
Blog.