Archive for December 1st, 2009

Peter Svidler and Shak Mamedyarov drew their games and went through against Alexei Shirov and Viktor Laznicka after yesterday’s victories. Sergey Karjakin, who (would you believe it?) at 19 has been a grandmaster for seven years, defeated Nikita Vitiugov with black to join the two in round five. The other boards finished without decisions, so that tomorrow will see five tiebreak pairings.

ChessBase Magazine ends the year with a remarkable issue. The strongest and the most spectacular tournament are covered: Kramnik’s convincing victory
in Moscow, and Carlsen’s triumph in Nanjing. Two EU Championships add over 1800 high-class games, many
annotated by top scorers and winners (Eljanov, Gashimov, Radjabov, Vitiguov, etc.).
Order
CBM 133 now, or read this
preview.

The Editor of Chess
Notes reports on a stunning new book about Emanuel Lasker – a 1,079-page hardback whose contributors include Robert Hübner and Victor Korchnoi.
The editors, Richard Forster, Stefan Hansen and Michael Negele, have kindly allowed a selection of rare illustrations to be presented here, and we now whet readers’
appetite for one of the great chess books of all time.