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Contents
Editorial.................................................................................................................4
Malcolm Pein on the latest developments
60 Seconds with...
...........................................................................................7
Grandmaster and author Tiger Hillarp Persson
Another Carlsen Conquest
...........................................................................8
Yochanan Afek watched Magnus Carlsen’s return to Wijk aan Zee
A Swedish New Year
.....................................................................................16
John-Paul Wallace opted for Stockholm rather than Hastings
Rock Stars
.........................................................................................................20
Matthew Lunn reflects on two top performances at Gibraltar
Slow Starter Prize
.........................................................................................24
Carlsen was again slowly away, but still won at Baden-Baden
Garry and the Lords
.....................................................................................30
Garry Kasparov visited the House of Lords and gave a simul
Find the Winning Moves
.............................................................................32
Several tricky endgames need solving this month
Back to Basics
.................................................................................................35
Nick Ivell on the concept of the short side and the long side
How Good is Your Chess?
..........................................................................36
Daniel King takes a look at the Chinese super-talent Wei Yi
Forthcoming Events
.....................................................................................39
Where will you be playing in March and over Easter?
Never Mind the Grandmasters................................................................40
Carl Portman returned after 10 years to the Shropshire Congress
The Komodo Files...........................................................................................42
Danny Gormally decided it was time to finally work with an engine
Opening Trends...............................................................................................47
Anish Giri has assisted the Sicilian Taimanov’s climb
Solutions............................................................................................................48
Bernard Cafferty
..........................................................................................49
The leading English chess authority is 80 and still winning
Home News.......................................................................................................50
Success for Adams, Ashton, Harvey, Hebden, Vakhidov et al
Overseas News
...............................................................................................52
Ernesto Inarkiev took the Moscow Open by storm
New Books and Software...........................................................................54
The latest reviews from Sean Marsh and Wil Lilburn-Quick
Saunders on Chess
........................................................................................58
John reflects on the success of the Gibraltar Chess Festival
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bottom), Ray Morris-Hill (pp.1, 7, 10, 30-31, 50-51), John Saunders (p.5,
top), Georgios Souleidis (pp.24, 27-28), Sophie Triay (pp.1, 4, 23, 36).
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March 2015
New World Order
I have never been ‘outed’ on Twitter
before. An interview with Veselin Topalov
during the Gibraltar tournament gave the
game away. For a couple of months now,
plans have been laid to launch a new Grand
Prix – we won’t call it that – consisting of
three existing tournaments and a fourth to
come next year. The cycle will include Norway
Chess in Stavanger, the Sinquefield Cup in St.
Louis, USA, and the London Chess Classic, as
well as another event to be announced.
The world’s top players have been invited
and an announcement with dates should be
out before we go to press. However, I can
confirm the 7th London Chess Classic will be
happening with the likely dates December
4th to 14th.
relatively poor form. Since then we have had
some evidence to suggest Caruana is human
after all and in 2015 he has actually been
supplanted as world number two by
Alexander Grischuk, while two more players,
Anish Giri and Hikaru Nakamura, have become
members of the 2800 club.
At time of writing the top-10 looked like this:
1 Carlsen
2862.9
2 Grischuk
2812.6
3 Caruana
2803.1
4 Nakamura
2802.5
5 Giri
2802.5
6 Topalov
2798.1
7 So
2788.0
8 Anand
2786.7
9 Kramnik
2783.0
10 Vachier-Lagrave 2770.1
The only stable feature has been Carlsen
way out in front. I suspect the recent rise of
Wesley So has been a motivating factor for
Hikaru Nakamura. So switched his allegiance to
the USA and during Wijk aan Zee Nakamura
even temporarily lost the US number one spot.
agreement with
Barclaycard
that secures free
internet chess for UK schools. If you are a parent,
teacher or chess tutor please go to
Yes2Chess.org and register up to 100 players for
friendly games or the
Yes2Chess International
Challenge,
an international competition open to
children in UK, USA, Germany, Spain, Portugal,
Norway, Sweden and Denmark. We are also
happy to accept registrations from other
countries, but not for the competition.
Registration is free of charge and later this
year I hope to have some online lessons
available as well.
Tough at the Top
After his heroics at St Louis, Fabiano
Caruana was widely thought to be the man
who should be Magnus Carlsen’s next
challenger. I’d like to give a nod to our editor
who said at the time he thought Caruana’s
astonishing score was not just a product of
his enormous talent, but also his opponents’
Say Yes2Chess
I am delighted to announce that
Chess in
Schools and Communities
has renewed its
Spain says Sí in School
Great news from Spain where a resolution
to make chess a compulsory subject in
Spanish schools was passed unanimously last
week in the Spanish parliament. There was
cross-party support to act on a
recommendation from the Congressional
Education Committee to: “Ask the
government to implement the Chess in
School program in the Spanish education
system, following the recommendations of
the European Parliament.”
Congratulations go to IM Leontxo Garcia,
Spain’s ‘Mr Chess’, who has been lobbying for
many years. Garry Kasparov also made
representations.
The European Parliament vote referred to
was in 2012, with the Spanish politicians
acting after hearing of the results from
scientific studies on the educational benefits
of chess undertaken by the universities of
March 2015
Loose lips sink ships... Veselin Topalov (pictured centre) let slip, during a
press conference at the recent Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, plans
for a new “golden league” of tournaments due to start later this year .
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of weeks ago Purling’s founder Simon Purkis
appeared on the BBC programme
Dragons’
Den,
pitching for finance. His project was at a
very early stage and he didn’t have much of a
track record of sales when the programme
was filmed in May 2014. The dragons gave
him short shrift. I wonder what would have
happened if Richard Farleigh, successful
entrepreneur and internationally-rated
player, had still been on the panel.
No One Should Have No One
The charity
Age UK
has recently begun a
campaign highlighting the plight of over one
million elderly people in the UK who live alone
with no contact with friends or relatives. The
chess community could certainly help by
reaching out to elderly people who play
chess for example. I spotted a heart warming
story from New York recently where a boy
came up with a novel project for his Bar
Mitzvah – the Jewish ceremony that
transitions a child into adulthood.
As part of the Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah,
boys and girls are expected to perform some
act of charity or other good works. Zachary
Targoff had the idea to find an elderly New
Yorker, who loves chess like he does, to play
with once a week. DOROT, a communal
organisation was able to pair Zachary and 90-
year-old Holocaust survivor Herman Bomze
together. The pair play on a hand-carved set
given to Herman by his father, who unlike
Herman was unable to leave Vienna after the
Nazis took control and died in the
Buchenwald concentration camp.
Zachary’s ‘mitzvah’ – or worthy act, has
inspired a regular inter-generational chess
club where young and old meet to play
regularly in NYC.
Leontxo Garcia (centre) chats with Jon Speelman and Nigel Short at the 2011 edition of
Gibraltar. Garcia is not only Spain’s leading chess journalist, but has also played a prominent
role in convincing the Spanish Government to add chess to the curriculum in Spain.
Girona and Lleida that detected an
improvement in maths and reading scores
amongst the children who were taught to play.
A third study is also underway in Spain and I
await the results of the research undertaken
by CSC with funding from the Education
Endowment Foundation. Children in 50 UK
schools have been taught to play chess with
another 50 acting as a control group.
Bishop lent Russell Goodfellow the money
during a trip to Gibraltar to take part in a
chess competition in 2008.
“The court heard how there was no proof
of the loan, but Mr Bishop showed bank
statements from the time, showing the
money coming out of his account – which
he says he lent to Mr Goodfellow. Mr
Goodfellow counter claimed that he did not
owe the cash as he had ‘made a bet’ with
Mr Bishop about the ‘time difference
between the UK and Gibraltar’, which is one
hour ahead of the UK, which covered the
£160. Mr Bishop claimed the bet ‘never
took place’.
“The Judge Gordon Beech, called a halt to
the civil proceedings saying: he could not tell
the two men to ‘be nice to each other’.”
Rocky Relationship
The game received some less welcome
publicity recently when two English club
players had their dirty linen washed in public.
I quote from the report in the
Daily Telegraph:
“A seven-year legal battle between two
warring chess players has been brought to a
halt after a judge ruled their row wasn’t black
and white.
“Judge Gordon Beech told the former
friends he could not ‘force them to be nice to
each other’ after they appeared in court to
settle a dispute over a £160 loan.
“Kent County Court had heard Geoffrey
Dragons Blunder
Some readers might have noticed we have
added some lovely sets to our range
produced by Purling London which has set
out to become a luxury brand. Just a couple
Excavations at Angel Street, Northampton have unearthed the site of a medieval antler workshop. Archaeologists from the Museum of
London Archaeology even found two discarded chess pieces, with the game popular with the educated classes in the 12th Century.
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