Archive for June 25th, 2009

Being blind or visually impaired does not mean you cannot enjoy chess. Naturally the games cannot be conducted as in normal events – the blind need a separate pegged board which they can touch during the games. And the moves are naturally exchanged verbally. The Junior Chess Championship for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Täby/Stockholm was won by
Daniel Pulvett of Venezuela.

How do you learn a new opening? Do you spend hours studying variations? Do you play through a dozen games which have been annotated in depth, including the most insignificant of variations? Why not just take a couple of minutes to take a look at the video from Andrew Martin’s DVD “The ABC of Chess Openings”? Then you will know what you have to do.
Start
Video or
Buy Andrew
Martin’s “ABC of Chess Openings, 2nd edition” in the shop.

Nisipeanu-Radjabov was an important theoretical game in Sicilian Dragon, which ended in a draw in 40 moves. Ivanchuk was slightly better the entire game against Kamsky, but a draw was agreed on move 55. For most of the time Gelfand-Shirov looked like a quiet game, but at some moment Gelfand had a study-like win, which both opponents missed during the game. Report.