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Monday, June 11, 2012
Karpov, Seirawan Draw First Chess Game in Saint Louis
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Hi everyone,
A special chess exhibition match is taking place between former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov and four-time U.S. Champion Yasser Seirawan. Their first game ended in a draw after 67 moves. The event features live commentary from GM Ben Finegold and WGM Jennifer Shahade, which can be viewed through the Chess Club's Livestream account at www.livestream.com/uschess.
Stalwarts Two - Is there a world outside the window?
Karpov and Seirawan are participating in an exciting competition that will test their classical chess skills along with their abilities at both blitz and rapid play. The scoring of the classical portion of the match has been slightly modified, with each game in the classical match worth two points.
The match format is as follows: Two Classical Games: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of a 30-second increment per move starting from move one Each Classical game is worth two points. Two Rapid Games: 25 minutes plus a five-second increment Each Rapid game is worth two points. Ten Blitz Games: Five minutes plus a two-second increment Each Blitz game is worth one point. Prize Fund: 1st Place: $10,000 2nd Place: $7,000
On June 13 at 4:30 p.m. Central time, immediately after the conclusion of the final blitz game, the players will participate in a live streaming press conference to answer questions from spectators, bloggers and journalists from all over the world. Stay tuned for more details.
Special Chess Show - Karpov versus Seirawan in Saint Louis
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
Hi everyone, SAINT LOUIS, May 24, 2012 -- The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis is going to host former World Champion GM Anatoly Karpov in a special match against four-time U.S. Champion GM Yasser Seirawan. The two will face off June 9-13 in a unique competition that will test their classical chess skills along with their abilities at both blitz and rapid play.
Tourney Format: Two Classical Games: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of a 30-second increment per move starting from move one
Each Classical game is worth three points. Two Rapid Games: 25 minutes plus a five-second increment Each Rapid game is worth two points. Ten Blitz Games: Five minutes plus a two-second increment Each Blitz game is worth one point. Prize Fund: 1st Place: $10,000 2nd Place: $7,000
The opening ceremony for the event will take place on June 9 at 6 p.m. Central and will feature a special book signing event for fans and spectators. Play begins on June 10 at 1 p.m. Central with the first round of classical chess. Visit www.saintlouischessclub.org/karpov-vs-seirawan for the full event schedule and more information.
The event will feature live commentary from GM Ben Finegold and WGM Jennifer Shahade. The Chess Club will be hosting a series of big events throughout the summer including the U.S. Junior Closed Championship, which will be held in Saint Louis July 10-16.
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hi everyone,
We find such creative work with chess that it's a pleasure to feature it on www.chessblog.com. Here is a nice photo montage uploaded by JessicaFischerQueen.
World Chess Champions from Morphy to Anand. Adolf Anderssen and Johannes Zukertort are included. There are two photos of each champion- one at the board followed by a head shot, then the page turns. In order of appearance: Morphy, Anderssen, Zukertort, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, and Anand.
Music is "Sanctus" composed by Handel, performed by Ernst Reijseger,, Voches de Sardinia, and Moses Silla.
Could Karpov's chess advice have helped Mexico and England in FIFA World Cup 2010?
Hello Everybody,
Chess is one sport where you can analyze your mistake at every step! In the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2010 fans say England lost to Germany and Mexico to Argentina after two controversial referee decisions! What if both Mexico and Germany knew how to remain calm?
In an interview to Big Think Karpov spoke about remaining calm even after making a poor move and other interesting concepts.
Question: How do you remain calm after you realize you’ve made a poor move?
Anatoly Karpov:No, this is a very important and this is good question because many people would call back the situation, they missed chances, and then of course it will spoil the rest of the game. But it is concerning not only special situation during the game, but also the bad result of previous game for the next game you play. So, in my life, I tried and I succeeded in many cases to forget everything that was in the past.
So, of course you need to make some analysis and not to repeat mistakes, but it’s extremely important to accept situation like it is, the real situation, not with thoughts of regrets of what you missed and okay, two moves ago you had winning position now, you have to defend a difficult position and probably you might lose the game. So, this thought shouldn’t be when you play chess game. And so later on maybe you analyze and then you will, how to say, make some conclusions.
But during the game... and this is also very important part for chess education because chess is getting ideas how to accept the real situation and how to be objective. To be objective and to meet unexpected situations and to adapt to this immediately and to start to think and to solve the problems. You have to develop this. I don’t think it comes from your childhood or with birth."
So, what if Mexico and England had kept their calm instead of letting a controversial decision disturb their stability?
Four players - D. Jokovenko, V. Bologan, N. Vitiugov, S. Karjakin - were jointly leading after the tenth round at the XI Poikovsky Karpov Tournament in Poikovsky. Poikovsky is located in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region of Russia.
Earlier, in the ninth round, Grandmaster Dimtry Jakovenko was leading by half a point. However, he lost his game to Alexander Onischuk while Sergey Karjakin, who was only half a point behind, drew his game. Only one round is left to be played.
You can read interesting articles about the tournament at Chesspro.ru in Russian or at Chessbase.com in English. You can find the official website of the tournament here.
Here's one more video for you, of my game from the last World Blitz Chess Championship, in which I drew 12th Men's World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov. The game was hard-fought all the way to the end.
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