This month we present a lightly edited excerpt from Chess Evolution Top GM Secrets Newsletter #156. Top GM Secrets is released every Friday of the week. The newsletter contains twenty-plus pages of great chess material written by top grandmasters Arkadij Naiditsch and Csaba Balogh, along with theoretical articles by GM Alexander Khalifman, puzzles, endgames, and more. A Great Game by Anand! By Csaba Balogh Anand,Viswanathan (2797) - Aronian,Levon (2777) 4th Zurich CC Classical SUI (2.3), 15.02.2015 Gruenfeld Defence [D97] Anand has a terrible personal score against Aronian, but in this game he takes a nice revenge. It would be very interesting to know how long his preparation … [Read more...]
Garry Kasparov, Part III 1993-2005
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov, Part III 1993-2005 by Garry Kasparov Match with Anand World Championship Match Kasparov - Anand (New York, 10 September - 10 October 1995): 10½-7½. Initially it was planned that my match with the winner of the PCA cycle would be held in Germany - such an offer had been made to me during the 1994 Moscow Olympiad by the organisers of the Dortmund tournaments. The venue had already been selected and all the conditions agreed. However, the German Chess Union, who were one of the Federations unhappy with the outcome of the FIDE Congress in Moscow and the conditions of the proposed agreement with the PCA, effectively announced a boycott of the match. Early … [Read more...]
Magnus Carlsen was Very, Very Lucky!
This month we present a lightly edited excerpt from Chess Evolution Newsletter #143. CEWN is released every Friday of the week, the newsletter contains twenty-plus pages of great chess material written by top grandmasters Arkadij Naiditsch and Csaba Balogh. Magnus Carlsen was Very, Very Lucky! by Arkadij Naiditsch Carlsen,Magnus (2863) - Anand,Viswanathan (2792) WCh 2014 Sochi RUS (6), 15.11.2014 Sicilian Kan [B41] We often hear people say that World Champions never blunder. In fact, World Champions blunder very rarely and even more rarely a one-move tactic. And what is even more rare is that after a blunder the opponent doesn't use the mistake, and this is precisely the case … [Read more...]