Chess with Errol

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.

Fischer v Spassky, Game 6; Queen’s Gambit Declined, Tartakower Variation. 1.c4

The eyes of the chess world are planted on Thessaloniki, Greece, where twelve of the planet’s finest chess players are competing in the fourth stage of the FIDE Grand Prix round robin tournament.

The FIDE Presidential Board has confirmed that Chennai, India, will serve as the venue for the World Chess Champion-ship match between defending champion Viswanathan Anand and the highest ranked player in the world, Magnus Carlsen, from November 6 to November 26, 2013. 

White to play This position was reached in a game between Adolf Anderssen [White] and Johann Hermann Zukertort in Breslau, 1862.

It is not difficult to remember a time during the 1970s and 80s, when Maurice Broomes laid a genuine claim to ‘hero status’ in chess circles in Guyana.

The London 2013 Candidates chess tournament will be remembered not only for its high quality of play, but also for the extraordinary collective talents of its eight participants.

It is better to concentrate on a game of chess than play a “there it is shoot it” game.

Something innovative is happening in chess at the FIDE World Chess Can-didates’ Tour-nament in London.

Three weeks ago, I came upon a story published on the internet captioned ‘The name of the game is domination’ by Albert Silver.