2013 World Chess Championship: Vishy Anand vs Magnus Carlsen – Game 2 (Video)


YouTube Added: Nov 10, 2013

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This is a Game 2 review of the much anticipated 2013 World Chess Championship match between defending champion Viswanathan Anand of India, and the challenger 22-year-old chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen of Norway. Anand has .5 points and Carlsen has .5 points going into round 2.

The Halloween Gambit (Video)


YouTube Added: 30.10.2013

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This video highlights some variations to be aware of in the aggressive Halloween Gambit of the Four Knight’s Opening (Müller-Schulze Gambit or Leipzig Gambit), where white sacrifices a knight early in the game for a single central black pawn, a pawn storm in the center, and a lead in development. The Halloween Gambit is likely not too scary an opening for the black player who is aware of lines where the material is given back favorably in exchange for development, or for the black player who knows how to meet the complex variations where the material plus is maintained. In short, the Halloween Gambit is likely not going to be played on a serious level due to it not being sound, but it certainly has its practical chances in a faster time control game, or even against an unsuspecting opponent. Have some fun with it!

Magnus Carlsen vs Levon Aronian – 1st Sinquefield Cup – 2013 (Video)


YouTube Added: 22.10.2013

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This is the final round game between Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian from the 1st Sinquefield Cup chess tournament. The tournament was held in the United States – Saint Louis, Missouri at the Saint Louis Chess Club & Scholastic Center (Home of the World Chess Hall of Fame). We observe a closed system of the Ruy Lopez with the bulk of play following on the queenside, where black has a space advantage and pressure on an overextended pawn, and white has a nice outpost on c4. At the elite level of chess you can be certain a pawn will not be lost without some form of compensation, as was the case in this game where a struggle to untangle ones pieces ensues. This is the last chess tournament game Magnus Carlsen will play until the 2013 World Chess Championship Match where he’ll play as the candidate to the reigning World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand. Game 1 of the 12-game match for the 2013 World Chess Champion title between Anand and Carlsen begins on November 9th, 2013.

Game Of The Century (Chess): Donald Byrne vs Bobby Fischer (Video)


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This is a game analysis from a tournament held in New York City on October 17th, 1956. Bobby Fischer (13-years-old) played the Grunfeld (Gruenfeld) Defense opening against a strong master at the time, Donald Byrne. The game is now given the label, Game of the Century. The white king ends up getting trapped in the center of the board. Fischer spent the latter part of his life in Reykjavik, Iceland. This defense has been played by some of the world’s best. (kasparov, fischer, carlsen, anand, kramnik)

Bobby Fischer vs Boris Spassky – 1972 World Chess Championship (Match of the Century) – Video


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Game 6 between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky from the 1972 World Chess Championship (Match of the Century) was the greatest one of the entire battle. It includes a rare beginning of the game by Fischer with 1.c4, a masterful game best described by International Master Anthony Saidy as “It was like a symphony of placid beauty.”, and has attributed to it a wonderful act of sportsmanship by Boris Spassky who, after the game, stood up and applauded Fischer for the masterpiece he just played. Game 6 propelled Fischer into the match lead, one that Spassky would never overcome. The match was held in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Shortest Game In World Chess Championship History: Vishy Anand vs. Boris Gelfand (Video)

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This is game 8 (eight) from the 2012 Fide World Chess Championship match between the current champion, Viswanathan Anand (India), and challenger Boris Gelfand (Israel). After a record 17 moves played, this game now acts as the shortest game in world chess championship history.

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Brilliant: Levon Aronian vs. Viswanathan Anand (75th Tata Steel Chess – 2013 – Video)



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Levon Aronian competes against the current World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, in the 4th Round of the 75th Tata Steel Chess Tournament (2013). The game is sure to not disappoint the dynamic/tactical/aggressive chess player as the wild Meran Variation of the Semi-Slav defense takes center stage and a masterpiece is produced. Many have already described this brief 23 move encounter as “Anand’s Immortal”.

Magnus Carlsen vs. Vishy Anand (2012 Chess Masters Final – Bilbao – Video)

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The #1 ranked chess player in the world, Magnus Carlsen, battles the reigning World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, in Round 9 of the 2012 Chess Masters Final in Bilbao. The opening is a Sicilian Defense, Canal-Sokolsky Attack where Carlsen sacrifices a pawn to induce kingside weaknesses. Anand’s defense proves to be a very difficult task. Might Magnus Carlsen be the challenger for the 2014 World Chess Championship title, and might this game be a preview of an ensuing battle?

Into The Night With Garry Kasparov And Billionaire Peter Thiel Discussing The Future Of Technology (Video)

Flashback:

Bilderberg 2013: Full List Of Attendees:

  • Peter A. Thiel, President, Thiel Capital

Ron Paul’s Biggest Supporter Is Bilderberger, International Financier Peter Thiel

For your entertainment.


Magnus Carlsen Vs Alexander Morozevich – World Blitz Championship 2012 (Video)

Already after the 15th move white is already lost and 16. f5 is making things worse (… but this is blitz chess).

21. Bf6 would have been better than 21. Nf6.

Morozevich could have ended this game a lot faster:

33. … Ng4!!! 34. Qe1 Rd1 35.Qxd1 Nf2+

… instead of  34. … Rd6:

34. … Rd1+ 35. Kg2 Rxc6!

… instead of 35. … Kg7:

35. … Rc1+ 36. Kg2 Rd2+ 37. Be2 Rxe2+ 38. Qxe2 Rc2

… instead of  37. Bd5:

37. …Rdd2! 38. Qf1 Bh3 39. Qe1 b2

Later on Carlsen even missed to win the game after 46. …Kf8?? …

… with 47. Qb8+!, …

…but then again this is blitz chess. 🙂

Great game!!!

Hope you’ve enjoyed it.



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Magnus Carlsen vs Alexander Morozevich – World Blitz Championship 2012 · English Opening: Agincourt Defense. Agincourt Variation (A13) · 0-1

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Morozevich vs Carlsen – World Blitz Championship 2012 – A80 Dutch – 1:0

FIDE (World Chess Federation) President, Alien Abductee And Former President of the Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Meets With Muammar Gaddafi

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Rep. Ron Paul: War On Libya Totally Unconstitutional


Russian Space Oddity: Ground Control to Colonel Gaddafi (TIME, Jun 14, 2011):

When the U.S. and France asked Russia last month to help mediate the war in Libya, they were probably not expecting a self-proclaimed emissary of alien life to show up in Tripoli for a meeting with Muammar Gaddafi. But on Sunday evening, as NATO air strikes continued on the Libyan capital, the besieged Colonel took the time to entertain a Russian politician named Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, best known for his claims that extraterrestrials took him on a mystical tour of the galaxy in their spaceship in 1997. Far from convincing Gaddafi to step down, the visit seemed geared toward giving him a confidence boost – and an unlikely lesson in the game of kings.

For the past 15 years, Ilyumzhinov has also presided over the world chess federation, known as FIDE, which makes him the first head of an international body to meet with Gaddafi since the U.N.-backed bombing campaign against him began in March. In a video shown on Libyan television on Sunday night, Ilyumzhinov praises Gaddafi’s resilience. “It’s a great honor for me to be here to see that you are very well, healthy, because many people… gave wrong information,” he said in stilted English. (See what mediating in Libya could cost Medvedev.)

The two men then played a rather awkward game of chess. Allowed the first move, Gaddafi made a clumsy opening, nervously moving his pawn from F3 to F4, and Ilyumzhinov took the piece and moved it back for him. The game ended in a draw and a handshake for the cameras, after which Ilyumzhinov told reporters that Gaddafi had promised never to leave Libya, regardless of the West’s support for the rebels battling to overthrow him. The two-hour chat, Ilyumzhinov said, was held not in an underground bunker, where many western experts had presumed Gaddafi to be hiding, but in “one of the administrative buildings in the Libyan capital.”

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New York City Cops Bust Chess Game


ROOKED: Junior Mendoza says cops only “should have given us a warning.”

Drop that bishop and come out with your hands up!

A squad of cops in bulletproof vests swooped into an upper Manhattan park and charged seven men with the “crime” of playing chess in an area off-limits to adults unaccompanied by kids — even though no youngsters were there.

“Is chess really something that should be considered a threat to the neighborhood?” Inwood resident and mom Joanne Johnson wrote Mayor Bloomberg, the City Council and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly after the raid.

“This incident is an embarrassment to the officers from the 34th Precinct who felt that it was necessary to use their badge and authority to issue such a random summons.”

The knights in Kevlar armor gave all seven suspects desk-appearance tickets.

The chess tables where they were ticketed for “failure to comply with signs” are in a fenced-in area where posted notices read: “Adults allowed in playground areas only when accompanied by a child under the age of 12.”

Police said the rule protects kids from pedophiles or others who might want to harm them.

A police source added, “It’s the broken windows theory . . . small things can turn into bigger things. Some citizens may see it as police harassment, but God forbid something happens to a child, people would be complaining, Why didn’t the police enforce these rules? That’s what they would be griping about.”

Yacahuda “Y.A.” Harrison, 49, one of those chess aficionados, said he saw those signs months ago and “asked the [Parks] ranger if we had permission to be there.”

“The ranger said, ‘Oh no, that’s fine, that’s only written for pedophiles.’ “

Since then, he said, parents have welcomed him and the other players — and even had their kids take chess lessons from them.

“The day we got picked up, there were no kids” in the playground, he said. “They treated us like drug dealers. All we were doing was playing chess.”

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