The match for the title of World Robot Chess Champion will be held Saturday, May 19 on Strastnoy Boulevard. KUKA Monstr (Germany) and CHESSka (Russia) will battle it out for the title.
On the same day, the German visitor with artificial intelligence will play a demo match against one of the world’s strongest human players—Alexander Grischuk, the former World Blitz Champion and a representative of the Russian national team.
Both competitions will be held in blitz chess format, in which the players are given 5 minutes per game, in accordance with FIDE rules.
The Russian robot CHESSka, the first chess robot to beat grandmasters in blitz chess, was created by Konstantin Kosteniuk, Honored Coach of Russian Chess and an inventor with tens of registered patents. CHESSka is already well-known among Russian chess fans. This “chess terminator” has played against former world champions Vladimir Kramnik and Alexandra Kosteniuk, as well as Sergei Karyakin, one of Russia’s leading players, and has beaten a number of well-known grandmasters.
Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand drew a complex 37 move Gruenfeld Defence to leave their World Chess Championship match in Moscow tied at 1.5 each after three games. Anand came prepared for the Gruenfeld after meeting it in game 1 and played the sharp 3.f3. However it seems that it was Gelfand that landed the first important blow. 14...Bd7 15.Kb1 Rc8 16.d6 has been seen before and white has scored 4/4 but Anand smelled a rat and understood he would be facing 16...e4 with a dangerous initiative for black. Anand tucked his King in the corner with 16.Ka1 instead which still was met by 16...e4. The next few moves were very difficult to get right for the players with many plausible moves that will no doubt be tested either in this match or by others. Gelfand would have equalised if he'd found the short range tactic 23...Nb6 24.Nc3 Rd5!! winning back his pawn. After 23....Rfc5 24.Rd1! black had to work hard to hold the position and it seems likely it will turn out Anand missed something in the next few moves. As it was Anand looked increasingly nervous as his clock ticked down to a minute a move for the last 10. Anand's 35.Rh1 abruptly called an end to winning tries as it is a tacit draw offer and Anand offered a draw with a look after seeing Gelfand's move 37 and the players shook hands. It already was noticable in his last title match against Topalov that even though Anand is still a fine rapid player he doesn't handle time pressure all that well. Game 4 Tuesday 3pm Moscow time 12pm BST. Gelfand starts a sequence of four games where he has the white pieces three times. IM Malcolm Pein annotates.
Viswanathan Anand drew with black against Boris Gelfand in just 25 moves of a Semi-Slav 5.e3 in second game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery. They are tied at 1-1. Gelfand took some time after 14...Nf6 to choose between 15.Bg5 and 15.exd5, his eventual choice. Anand said the "position is supposed to be better for white just after 17.Be3. But I'd actually checked this and found that 17...Bf5 gives reasonable [play]". Anand had to be precise after this but with 19...Rfe8!, 21...h5! and 24...Kh7! Gelfand had nothing and offered the draw with 25.Rc5. Quotes from the press conference, photos and Malcolm Pein's notes in the body of the article. Game 3 Monday 3pm Moscow time, 12pm BST.
Boris Gelfand obtained an easy draw with black against World Champion Viswanathan Anand in the first game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow. No-one could recall the last time, if at all, Gelfand had chosen this opening. Although Anand was ready for the choice, as surprises of this nature were inevitable. Anand headed straight to a very unusual sideline but after Gelfand captured the pawn on a2 Anand slowed down and seemed unsure of himself. There were certainly alternatives to 13.Rb2 such as 13.Bg5. It seemed for a while like black might be significantly better but afterwards Gelfand said as far as he was concerned "There was no big advantage." The players quickly steered for a draw after this and the game was drawn in 24 moves. Malcolm Pein annotates game one below and wraps up the game with his take on it. Game 2 Saturday 3pm Moscow time 12pm UK.
On the 10th of May the opening ceremony of the World Chess Championship Match took place in Mikhail Vrubel Hall of the Tretyakov State Gallery. Mr. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, FIDE President, Mr. Arkady Dvorkovich, Chairman of Supervisory Council of RCF and Ms. Irina Lebedeva, General Director of the State Tretyakov Gallery welcomed the participants and guests. Also present were Mikhail Gorbachev, the 1st President of USSR, Aleksandr Zhukov, Chairman of Russian Olympic Committee and the 12th World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov.
Turkish Chess Federation, under the auspices of Sport and Youth Ministry and World Chess Federation, invites all member federations of FIDE to take place in the 40th FIDE World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. As an experienced organizing federation, the Turkish Chess Federation promises you a very good Olympiad and FIDE Congress with all necessary conditions.
Dmitry Jakovenko 2729 (RUS)won his game in the last round of 13th European Individual Chess Championship Plovdiv, March 19 to April 1, against Laurent Fressinet 2693 (FRA) and on 8.5 points is the sole winner of the 13th European Individual Chess Championship in Plovdiv, 2012.
Round eleven was as thrilling as it was expected. All the attention turned to the top-boards which would identify the medallists of the EIWCC and also decide the participants of the World Cup. Anna Muzychuk, who was leading one point ahead of the nearest pursuers, lost against Russian player Valentina Gunina. Another important for the final standings game was played between Tatiana Kosintseva and Nana Dzagnidze. The Russian player also needed to win in order to share the first place. Playing with black pieces she started to push h-pawn, destroyed the coordination of white pieces and converted her advantage into full point. As a result Valentina Gunina, Anna Muzychuk and Tatiana Kosintseva share the first place but better performance made Valentina Gunina the European Champion. Tatiana Kosintseva placed second and Anna Muzychuk is on the third place. 14 players qualifed for the World Cup.
Hungarian player Thanh Trang Hoang
Turkish Chess Championship among men lasted from 29th of January, 2012 till 5th of February Kemer, Antalya . 309 participants (52 more compare to previous year) including 19 title players together with 4 GMs, 6 IM and 6 FM, 3 CM took part in the event. Dragan Solak became the winner of Turkish Championship after his victory in the last round against Turkish youngster Ege Koksal. It was a first Turkish championship for Dragan Solak, who recently completed the transfer from Serbian Chess Federation to Turkish Chess Federation and is going to represent the Turkish national team in the next Olympiad. IM Mert Erdogdu made a draw against Ogulcan Kanmazalp and finished second. 18-years-old IM Firat Burak took the bronze medal.Turkish Chess Federation and general sponsor Is Bank provided a prize fund of about 12500 Euro.
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