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My friend, Max was excited. “See, isn’t that Garry?”
Then he was perplexed. “But this was how he looked 40 years before. What is he doing here now on the cover of ChessBase Magazine?”
“They are running a special on his ascent to the world championship through the Interzonal and the Candidates’ in which he beat Beliavsky, Korchnoi and Smyslov in succession”, I explained.
Moscow Interzonal 1982. Young Garry Kasparov contemplates his next move against Efim Geller. His anxious opponent and Misha Tal wonder what he would play. The game ended in a draw. | Photo: Boris Dolmatovsky, ChessPro
Max was bemused. “Not Smyslov! He would have retired long since after those matches with Botvinnik.”
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A sharp Grünfeld
The final tournaments of the Russian National Championships, played at the Central Chess Club in Moscow, are coming to an end. Twelve male and twelve female players are competing in the tournaments dubbed as Superfinals.
Before the ninth round, Ian Nepomniachtchi, the rating favourite, was alone in the lead. He had to face the very dangerous Daniil Dubov though, and he ended up losing the full point. His attempt to make a positional exchange sacrifice in a not-so-familiar variation of the Grünfeld Defence turned out to be a complete failure. Dubov went for an attack, and Black’s position on the kingside was soon in ruins.
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The Spanish Chess Federation organized a training match in which five of the strongest players from the Iberian country faced an international squad over ten days in La Palma, one of the Canary Islands. The double-round Scheveningen tournament came to an end on Wednesday, with the international team getting a 27:23 victory. | Pictured: Ivan Cheparinov facing Jaime Santos | Photos: Spanish Chess Federation (FEDA)
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Viswanathan Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and former world chess champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and is one of the few players to have surpassed an Elo ratingof 2800, a feat he first achieved in 2006.[2]
Anand is a five-time world chess champion.[3]He defeated Alexei Shirov in a six-game match to win the 2000 FIDE World Chess Championship, a title he held until 2002. He later became the undisputed World Championin 2007, and successfully defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008, Veselin Topalov in 2010, and Boris Gelfand in 2012.[4]In 2013, he lost the title to challenger Magnus Carlsen, and lost a rematch to Carlsen in 2014after winning the 2014 Candidates Tournament.[5]