Showing posts with label Garri Kimovič Kasparov. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garri Kimovič Kasparov. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Pop-Up Ad
After speaking for three hours about Rubio’s autobiography, he finally realized that she was used to reading more intellectual books, and suddenly it came to his mind a pop-up advertisement he saw while he was secretly trying to sign up for Bernie 2016’s newsletter.
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Hillary Clinton
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Winter Is Coming
13th World Chess Champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov is back! On 28th and 29th April he’s gonna take on America’s three superstars Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Hikaru Nakamura in the Ultimate Blitz Challenge at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, United States.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Cryonics
An ice storm is silent but deadly – heavy ice-build-up cuts off roads and halts vehicles, and can bring roofs, power cables and trees crashing down. Check out these cars and trees coated in ice glaze in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo: Prisma Bildagentur AG/Alamy/Alamy.
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Friday, February 12, 2016
Monday, December 28, 2015
Under the Mountain
A boy expresses a yawning shock while playing 13th World Chess Champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov during a simultaneous exhibition against 18 young players in Zagreb, Croatia, on Sunday, December 27, 2015. Photo: Xue Qun/新华通讯社 (Xīnhuá News Agency)/Corbis.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Cencio dice mal di straccio
There were American sanctions during the Ukraine crisis even against the Russian billionaire and chess sponsor Gennady Nikolayevich Timchenko and the governor of the Krasnodar Krai, Alexander Nikolayevich Tkachyov, who headed the organizing committee for the last World Chess Championship. But the two don’t have any function in the FIDE anymore. If 53-year-old Russian Ilyumzhinov gives up his mandate and there will be new elections, his opponent Garry Kimovich Kasparov would incidentally not entitled to stand as a candidate: against former World Chess Champion, in fact, the FIDE Ethics Commission has imposed a two-year ban for corruption. [Read more].
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Monday, November 9, 2015
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Life of Pi
Henry Edward Bird – Paul Charles Morphy
London, 1858
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London, 1858
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17. ... Rxf2!! “I raise my hat to the great chess artist, but the crude 17. ... Bg4! was correct, or even, according to Euwe, the slow 17. ... Bf5 and ... Bf5-g6”, 13th World Chess Champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov wrote in his book “My Great Predecessors (Part I)”, p. 38.
18. Bxf2 Qa3!! A whole Rook sacrificed is not enough for Morphy! Black sacrifices his Queen too! 19. c3! Bird defends as strenuously as possible. 19. ... Qxa2 20. b4 Qa1+ 21. Kc2 Qa4+ 22. Kb2? White’s defence collapses. Kasparov said that after 22. Kc1 Morphy would have had nothing better than 22. ... Bf5! 23. Be1! Qa1+ 24. Kc2 e3+ 25. Kb3 exd2 26. Rxa1 Re8 27. Ba6 dxe1Q 28. Raxe1 Rxe1 29. Rxe1 Bxh2 30. Bb7 Be4 31. Bxc6 Kf7 with only a slight plus for Black. But after 22. Kc1 Bf5! 23. Be1! Morphy would surely have played 23. ... e3! 24. Qb2 a5! and Black’s vehement attack can continue. 22. ... Bxb4!
23. cxb4 Rxb4+ 24. Qxb4 Qxb4+ 25. Kc2 e3! 26. Bxe3 Bf5+ 27. Rd3 Qc4+
28. Kd2 Qa2+ 29. Kd1 Qb1+ 0 : 1. Morphy’s Mona Lisa.
Bust of Paul Charles Morphy by Eugène-Louis Lequesne
Friday, May 1, 2015
Azerbaijan Pavilion
Nigel David Short – Garry Kimovich Kasparov
Battle of the Legends; rapid match game 2; Saint Louis, April 26, 2015
Sicilian Defence B91
Battle of the Legends; rapid match game 2; Saint Louis, April 26, 2015
Sicilian Defence B91
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. g3 e5
7. Nb3 Nbd7 8. a4 b6 9. Bg2 Bb7 10. 0-0 Be7 11. Re1 Rc8
12. Nd2 h5! A straightforward, thoughtful theoretical novelty! For 12. ... Rc5 13. Nf1 Qa8 14. Qd3 0-0 15. Ne3 Rfc8 see Marinković – Erdogdu, 10th European Individual Chess Championship, Budva 2009, whilst for 12. ... Nb8 13. Nf1 Nc6 14. Ne3 Nb4 15. Nf5 Bf8 16. Bg5 h6 17. Bxf6 Qxf6 18. Ne3 h5 see David – Paragua, 37th Chess Olympiad, Turin 2006. 13. Nf1 h4 14. Ne3 g6 15. Re2 hxg3 16. hxg3 Rxc3! “This is a case of Black using his hand rather than his brain when performing the sac. Kasparov has done it so many times in the past, and he even accused once Movsesian of ‘lack of chess culture’ for allowing the sacrifice. True, the situation there was different as White had castled long”, Grandmaster Dejan Bojkov said. 17. bxc3 Nxe4 18. Bb2 Ndf6. We’d have much preferred 19. ... f5! so to obtain a tight grip on the centre. 19. c4 Qc8. 19. ... Qa8 looks more natural. 20. Nd5! Nxd5 21. cxd5
Ng5 22. c4! a5! Obviously, after 22. ... Qxc4?? 23. Rc2 Her Majesty is trapped. 23. Rc1 Ba6 24. Qb3 Qg4 25. Rcc2 Bc8 26. f4 Nh3+ 27. Kf1 f6 28. Qf3 Qf5 29. Re4?! White’s Rook is very badly placed here, but at least it defends the f4-Pawn. “However, if Short had found 29. Ba3! things might have not ended that well for Kasparov. The threat Rc2-b2 is hard to parry and as the Bishop on e7 needs to protect d6 as well Black would be in trouble”, Bojkov said. 29. ... Kf7 30. Rce2 Qg4 31. fxe5. While this is not bad, “31. Ba3! was still strong”, Bojkov said. 31. ... Qxf3+
32. Bxf3 dxe5 33. Rh4? A clear error. Much stronger was 33. Rh2 Bf5 34. Kg2 Bc5 35. Bc1, where White remains somewhat superior. 33. ... Rxh4 34. gxh4 Nf4 35. Rd2 Bc5 36. d6
Bh3+ 37. Ke1 Bb4 38. Kd1
38. ... Bd7! A wonderful move which should decide the game brilliantly! Black prefers to hang on to his Bishop pair rather than win back the Exchange. 39. Rh2 Bxa4+ 40. Kc1 Bxd6
41. Kb1 f5 42. Bc1 e4? Both players were in tremendous time constraints. The most consistent continuation was 42. ... Nd3 43. Bd5+ Kg7 and Black remains on top. 43. Bh1? White’s last chance was 43. Bxe4, although even then Black keeped an edge by 43. ... Nd3! 44. Bd5+ Kg7 45. Rd2 Nxc1 46. Bc6! Bb4 47. Rd7+ Kf6 48. Bxa4 Ne2. 43. ... Nd3. Now it is all over. 44. Re2 Bd1 45. Rd2 Bb3
46. Rxd3 exd3 47. Bd5+ Kf6 48. Kb2 a4 49. Kc3 b5 50. Kxd3
Bxc4+ 51. Bxc4 bxc4+ 52. Kxc4 f4 53. Kd4 0 : 1.
Garry Kimovich Kasparov
Photo: Austin Fuller
Photo: Austin Fuller
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Baku Baku
Garry Kimovich Kasparov – Nigel David Short
Battle of the Legends; rapid match game 1; Saint Louis, April 25, 2015
Bogo-Indian E11
Battle of the Legends; rapid match game 1; Saint Louis, April 25, 2015
Bogo-Indian E11
1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 Bb4+ 4. Nbd2 c5 5. a3 Bxd2+ 6. Qxd2 cxd4 7. Nxd4 0-0 8. e3 d5 9. cxd5 Qxd5 10. Nb5 Qc6. The alternative was 10. ... Nc6 11. Qxd5
exd5 12. f3 Bd7 13. Bd2 a6 14. Nd6 Rab8 15. Rc1 Rfd8 16. b4 b5
17. Nf5 Re8 ½ : ½ I. Sokolov – Timman, London 2008. 12... e5 13. e4 Nbd7. Another way is 13. ... Be6 14. Qf2 Bb3 15. Be2 Qe6 16. 0-0 Nc6 17. Be3 Rfd8 18. Bd1 h6 19. Rc1 Rd3 20. Be2 Rd7 21. Bd1 Rd3 22. Be2 Rd7 23. Bd1 ½ : ½ Gelfand – Andreikin, Moscow 2013. 14. Qf2 Nc5 15. Be3 Nb3 16. Rd1 Be6 17. Be2 Rfd8 18. 0-0 Ne8?! As Kasparov observed after the game, the very impressive Knight on b3 is quite useless. 19. Qg3 f6 20. f4! Grabbing energetically the initiative on the Kingside. 20. ... Nd4 21. Bh5! Bc4
22. fxe5! A very deep Exchange sacrifice, reminiscent of Garry Kimovich in his prime! 22. ... Bxf1 23. Rxf1 Kh8 24. Nd5? The most consistent continuation was 24. Qh4! (with the threat of Bh5-g6) since now 24. ... Kg8 is effectively met by 25. Nd5! Rxd5 26. exd5 Qxd5 27. Bxd4 and White wins. 24... Rxd5 25. exd5 Qxd5 26. Qf2? “[I] Was still winning after ’human’ 26. Kh1 though”, then Kasparov said. 26. ... fxe5 27. Qf8+ Qg8 28. Qe7 Nf6 29. Rxf6! Two Exchanges sacrifices in the same game! 29. ... gxf6 30. Bh6 Nf5 31. Qxf6+ Ng7 32. Qxe5 Rc8 33. Bf3 Qf7 34. h3 b5 35. Be4?! After the game Kasparov suggested 35. Bd2! Re8 36. Qd4 followed by Bd2-c3 retaining some pressure. 35. ... Re8 36. Qd4. On 36. Bxg7+ Kg8 37. Bd5 Rxe5 38. Bxf7+ Kxg7 wins. 36. ... Qe7 37. b4 Qe5. Black ruled out all danger and can even think about the initiative for the first time. 38. Qd7 Qa1+. As then Grandmaster Alejandro Tadeo Ramírez Alvarez demonstrated, after 38. ... Re7! 39. Qc8+ Ne8 suddenly is Black who has the upper hand, and White who has to fight for a draw! 39. Kh2. Now Black forces the draw: 39. ... Rxe4 40. Bxg7+ Qxg7 41. Qd8+ Qg8 42. Qf6+ Qg7 43. Qd8+ Qg8 ½ : ½. A very passionate game!
Garry Kimovich Kasparov vs. Nigel David Short
Photo: Austin Fuller
Photo: Austin Fuller
Monday, August 11, 2014
回到未来 (Back to the Future)
Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, has rarely tasted defeat in his long playing career. But on Monday, in an election for the presidency of the World Chess Federation, the game’s governing body, Mr. Kasparov received a stinging rebuke in his effort to unseat the incumbent, Kirsan N. Ilyumzhinov. Mr. Ilyumzhinov won handily, by a vote of 110 to 61 in Tromsø, Norway. [Read more].
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