Errol Tiwari

Last year, world champion Viswanathan Anand lost game seven of his world championship match to his challenger Boris Gelfand, an Israeli grandmaster, in a best-of-12 series.

In chess, in world championship matches, a player can reveal himself to his opponent by his choice of opening move.

The World Chess Federation’s rating list, or the FIDE rating list as it is usually called, is a prime indicator of the strength of a chess player in world championship matches.

Forty years ago, India had one FIDE titled chess player. His name was Manuel Aaron, and people actually remember him since he was the only entrant on the rating list for years.

The column presents the final part of Kasparov’s announcement of his candidacy for President of the World Chess Federation, FIDE.

Garry Kasparov has long been accustomed to hovering easily above his human opponents at a board game that he felt perhaps, was designed for him.

Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few; winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us – Kasparov Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has announced his candidacy for the presidency of the International Chess Federation, known by its French acronym, FIDE.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it.

The passed pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key.

We don’t really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions.

Recalling chess positions which existed previously, is critical for assessing a current position that you are playing.

In the Crosswords and Games page of The New York Times of April 20, 2013 there was a story about former world chess champion Garry Kasparov captioned ‘In Retirement, a Champion Is a Crusader for the Game.’

The FIDE World Cup is a knockout tournament which is being played in Tromso, Norway, and which concludes on September 3.

I honestly don’t like him playing chess. I mean I see him sitting there for ten minutes thinking four moves ahead before he makes one.

Before the introduction of the internet, say in the nineteen sixties, there were about 60 chess grandmasters worldwide.

Sultan Khan – White Capablanca – Black Hastings, 1930-1931 In this famous game White outplays his equally famous opponent.

The following game was played in 1965 between Dragoljub Velimirovic and Lubomir Kavalek in Belgrade.

Nine hundred chess players from 29 countries participated in the Common-wealth Chess Champion-ship that was held in South Africa earlier this month.

Karpov v Kasparov White: Anatoly Karpov Black: Garry Kasparov World Championship Match Moscow, 1985 Game 16 October 15, 1985 1.

Israel’s Boris Gelfand has won the Tal Memorial ahead of Carlsen, who placed second, and world champion Vishy Anand who finished almost at the bottom of the table.