Publisher:
New In Chess, 2007
Edition:
Magazine
ISBN: 978-90-5691-216-1 Pages : 108 Language: English
Mexico World Championship
Interview: Vishy Anand
Mainz Chess Classic
Amsterdam: Rising Stars vs Experience
UK-China
Carlsbad 1907 Centenary
Chinese School of Chess?
Just Checking: Artur Jussupow
NIC’S CAFÉ
VIVA VISHY He had Garry Kasparov’s blessing and bookmakers believed he was the safest bet, but few could have expected that Vishy Anand would win the World Championship in Mexico in such a sovereign manner. Virtually without a glitch the Indian superstar strode through fourteen long rounds, steadily improving his score and confidently averting defeat to finish one full point ahead of Vladimir Kramnik, the old champion, and Boris Gelfand, who at 39 years showed that there is no substitute for experience. Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam was on the spot and saw the most popular participant scale a new peak in his fabulous career. Plus great annotated games, including guest analysis by Veselin Topalov and Magnus Carlsen!
INTERVIEW: VISHY ANAND Twenty hours after he’s won the World Championship, Vishy Anand opens the door of room 1414 of the Sheraton Centro Historico hotel. With a welcoming smile, the new champ continues to be in high spirits, although he admits that his throat is beginning to feel a bit hoarse. A talk with a happy champion who first and foremost wants to enjoy the sweetness of his victory. Still, he doesn’t forget to call the privileges of Kramnik and Topalov in the new cycle ‘outrageous’.
RISING STARS RULE IN AMSTERDAM Last year the NH Hotels tournament was introduced to the chess calendar, which pitted a team of ‘rising stars’ against a team of ‘experienced’ players. The event was jointly sponsored by NH Hotels and Mr and Mrs van Oosterom, who are better known for the annual Amber tournament. Last year John Nunn came out of retirement to join the ‘experienced’ players, but this year he decided to enjoy the event as a spectator rather than as a player. At the Krasnapolsky hotel he saw the ‘rising stars’ win 26½-23½. Sergey Karjakin earned the coveted ticket to the 2008 Amber tournament.
TENTH CHESS CLASSIC TITLE FOR ANAND One of Europe’s most scenic rail lines runs from Koblenz to Mainz, along the Rhine river. Near the end of the line lies the Mainz Hilton and Congress Hall, the riverside venue of one of Europe’s great chess festivals – the Mainz Chess Classic. Ian Rogers saw Vishy Anand win his tenth Black Jacket.
UK INVITE CHINESE FIREWORKS At the Liverpool 800th Anniversary Summit Match the UK team got some Chinese food for thought as their guests trounced them 28-20. Our reporter from the banks of the Mersey is England’s Nigel Short, who doesn’t let the opportunity pass to criticize FIDE for seeing the UK not as one country, but as five, Northern Ireland excluded. ‘In short, this incongruous, illogical and unjust mess is a typical FIDE dog’s breakfast.’
CARLSBAD REVIVES GLORIOUS PAST To celebrate the centenary of the legendary tournament of 1907, chess returned to the Czech spa of Karlovy Vary, which in the history of our game is better known as Carlsbad. At the end of seven entertaining rounds Sergei Movsesian and Ruslan Ponomariov shared first prize in the Czech Coal Carlsbad Tournament. A report by David Navara, who had to settle for shared third place after a moment of chess blindness ruined an inspired effort in the penultimate round.
THE CHINESE SCHOOL OF CHESS? Prompted (and puzzled) by the UK-China match in Liverpool, Jonathan Rowson began to wonder if there is any such thing.
FROM LONDON TO CARLSBAD Jan Timman shares games and positions that struck him during his recent travels.
JUST CHECKING Who is Artur Jussupow’s favourite player of all time?
Did they play your opening?
In this issue games with the following openings were annotated by world class players:
Sicilian Short-Bu Xiangzhi, by Short Anand-Morozevich, by Anand Movsesian-Kortchnoi, by Movsesian Stellwagen-Ljubojevic, by Nunn Adams-Zhang Pengxiang, by Zhang Pengxiang Adams-Werle, by Timman Shirov-Laznicka, by Timman
Ruy Lopez Stellwagen-Jussupow, by Nunn Wang Hao-Short, by Wang Hao Movsesian-Navara, by Navara Anand-Grischuk, by Carlsen Leko-Grischuk, by Leko Karjakin-Beliavsky, by Karjakin
Slav Aronian-Anand, by PH Nielsen Grischuk-Svidler, by Svidler Kramnik-Anand, by Topalov Aronian-Gelfand, by Gelfand Jussupow-Smeets, by Nunn
