2017 Champions Showdown, Day 3
It was a good day for the underdogs/those who were trailing, as none of them lost ground on their opponents - though in every case they started off on the wrong foot.
It was a good day for the underdogs/those who were trailing, as none of them lost ground on their opponents - though in every case they started off on the wrong foot.
November 9 marked what would have been Mikhail Tal's 81st birthday, and I'll use the occasion to note two bits of Tal material. First, a small remembrance on ChessBase. I suspect that many of you will be familiar with the videos there...
First Saturday GM November 5 games Update
7th SO Peristeriou C.M. norm 24 games New
European Team Championship 172 games New
Uppsala Young Champions 9 games
Autumn Open ChessSquare 22 games
165th...
Some interesting chess is being played, but the quality of the games is decreasing as the time control gets shorter, thanks especially to the lack of increment. The last rounds were particularly horrible...
The chess on day one of the 2017 Champions Showdown wasn't the best you'll ever see, but it was entertaining. Before moving on, a couple of details need to be added to my initial description of the event.
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Achilleas Zographos's Music and Chess: Apollo Meets Caissa is a unique chess book - or perhaps it would be better to say that it's a unique book that's partially about chess. The author has a background in both music and chess, and teaches both in Greece.
World Chess Championship for the Disabled
World Chess Championship for the Disabled was held in Dresden (Germany) from 5th to 13th of October.
Official website: www.worldchess-disabled.com
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St. Louis is the entertainment capital of the chess world, and their latest offering is a new edition of the Champions Showdown. It is a vehicle for the United States's Big Three, and in addition there's the biggest of the big: the World Champion.
The main recent event to finish was the European Team Championship in Greece, won by a strong but still overperforming Azeri team, which finished ahead of the Russian team on tiebreaks. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov handled board 1 duties admirably...