Archive for August 25th, 2009

Remember Ripley? A recent announcement tells us that there will be an official World Chess Championship match, starting on December 1st in Las Vegas. No, Anand is not part of it, nor is Topalov, Kamsky, Kasparov, Kramnik or any of the usual crowd. You are going to have to click through to our news page to find out who is playing who. We bring you the official press release.

The fact that mating motifs can be decisive even in an ending was
demonstrated by Cheparinov in his first round game in Jermuk. With a clever
deployment of his passed pawn on the h-file, he forced Jakovenko’s king to the edge of the board, where it was unable to escape its fate.

Endgame analysis of Cheparinov-Jakovenko

Endgame DVDs by GM Karsten Müller

Recently Sergey Karjakin, once the youngest GM in chess history, and WIM Kateryana Dolzhikova, student of English linguistics, were married. After a brief honeymoon in the Crimea the two rushed to Jermuk, where Sergey played in the Fifth FIDE Grand Prix. Press officer Lilit Mkrtchian spoke to the pair about marriage, plans, chess and general interests. Interviews.

One was hit by a bug – the biological kind –, the other by an as
yet unexplained passion for cricket. But Hikaru Nakamura managed to win a brilliancy
in spite of two emergency trips to the bathroom during the game. And Peter Svidler
has regained all his normal determination after England had won the Ashes and
he could concentrate on chess. Report by Steve Giddins, pictures by John Nunn.

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