Publisher: New In Chess, 2005
Edition: Magazine ISBN: 90-5691-143-0 pages: 108 Language: English
Garry Kasparov won his ninth Linares trophy and announced his retirement from professional chess.
Etienne Bacrot achieved the coldest success in his career.
Blindfold, Rapid, Combined? Vishy Anand won everything in Monaco.
Bent Larsen. The Great Dane celebrated his 70th birthday.
Emil Sutovsky: the joys of creativity.
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THE DAY KASPAROV QUIT On March 10, 2005 Garry Kasparov announced his retirement from professional chess at an improvised press conference in Linares. In the hours that followed the entire world was informed and the avalanche of reactions expressing utter surprise and deep admiration were further testimony of his global fame. The next day Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam sat down with Kasparov for an interview. Why did he quit? What are his plans? And what will happen to his laptop?
DRAMATIC FINALE IN LINARES Linares 2005 will rightly be remembered as the farewell triumph of Garry Kasparov. His feeble finish will be forgotten and forgiven and we will cherish the masterful attacks he played with the vigour of his best years. We should also remember the exploits of Veselin Topalov, who won his final three games to catch up with the early leader. The Linares tie-break favoured Kasparov, but the Bulgarian felt he was the moral winner. An extensive on-the-spot report with great analysis by Kasparov, Topalov, Anand and Adams!
ANOTHER BULGARIAN HOPE Eighteen-year-old Ivan Cheparinov took first prize in the Anibal Open, the sixth consecutive tournament the young man from Plovdiv won on Spanish soil.
ETIENNE BACROT WINS POIKOVSKY Why organize a top tournament in Poikovsky, a small oil-workers' village, lost in the snow-drifts of the Urals? Evgeny Atarov provides the answer.
ANAND'S ONE-HORSE AMBER RACE At the fourteenth Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament in Monaco, Vishy Anand set the tone by winning his first seven games. The most successful player of the past two years decided the race in both the blindfold and the rapid competition with one round to spare. Overall, Anand finished two and a half points ahead of runner-up Alexander Morozevich.
ROWSON'S REVIEWS
KASPAROV'S GOODBYE Jan Timman muses about Garry Kasparov's decision to abandon professional chess and reviews his amazing career.
BENT LARSEN: THE ORIGINAL FIGHTER On March 4, Bent Larsen celebrated his seventieth birthday. Jacob Aagaard pays tribute to his unique compatriot and his legendary fighting spirit.
A CRAVING FOR CREATIVITY At the Aeroflot Open, winner Emil Sutovsky played two games that would qualify for the brilliancy prize in any tournament. We're glad he accepted our invitation to explain both master pieces.
ALWAYS CORRECT Hans Ree read Siegbert Tarrasch, Leben und Werk by Wolfgang Kamm and, strangely disorganized as the book is, he found it a fascinating story about a hero of his youth.
JUST CHECKING Guess what Vishy Anand considers his best result ever?
Did they play your opening?
In this issue games with the following openings were annotated by world class players:
Sicilian Ivanchuk-Vallejo, by Nunn Adams-Vallejo, by Adams Anand-Topalov, by Anand Adams-Kasparov, by Dokhoian Sutovsky-Filippov, by Sutovsky Kramnik-Vallejo, by Nunn Anand-Kasparov, by Anand Svidler-Rublevsky, by Svidler
French Anand-Morozevich, by Nunn Cheparinov-Burmakin, by Cheparinov
Petroff Anand-Kramnik, by Nunn
Queen's Gambit Declined Topalov-Kasimdzhanov, by Topalov Bacrot-Bologan, by Bacrot Grischuk-Dreev, by Grischuk
Slav Kasparov-Vallejo, by Dokhoian Dreev-Dominguez, by Dreev Kasimdzhanov-Kasparov, by Kasparov
Queen's Gambit Accepted Bologan-Rublevsky, by Bologan
