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<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/17/AR2008081701896.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/17/AR2008081701896.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Levon Aronian won the second FIDE Grand Prix tournament in Sochi, Russia, on Thursday. The Armenian grandmaster scored 8 1/2 points in 13 games, edging Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan by a half point. The American Gata Kamsky shared third place with Wang Yue of China, each finishing with 7 1/2 points. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sergey Karjakin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Levon Aronian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sochi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wang Yue]]></category><category><![CDATA[Azerbaijan]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/10/AR2008081001833.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/10/AR2008081001833.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ World champion Vishy Anand of India is fast and deadly. It was evident in his 3-1 victory over the fast-improving Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the final of the 13th Grenkeleasing Rapid World Championship in Mainz, Germany, this month. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viswanathan Anand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnus Carlsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mainz]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grenkeleasing AG]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/03/AR2008080301423.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/03/AR2008080301423.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Last Thursday, Leinier Domínguez Perez was just a draw away from winning the traditional six-grandmaster tournament in the Swiss city of Biel. But drawing when you need to is not easy. The Cuban grandmaster lost the last-round game to Etienne Bacrot of France, allowing Evgeny Alekseev of Russia to catch up. Each winner finished with 6 1/2 points in 10 games, but the former Russian champion won the title in a playoff. The pre-tournament favorite, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, finished third with 6 points, followed by Bacrot with 5 1/2 , the American Alexander Onischuk with 4, and Yannick Pelletier of Switzerland with 1 1/2 points. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Etienne Bacrot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dominguez Perez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viswanathan Anand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Kramnik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evgeny Alekseev]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnus Carlsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yannick Pelletier]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Switzerland]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/27/AR2008072701576.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/27/AR2008072701576.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Who was the winner of the oldest published chess game? What opening was played?<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124435349" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124435349" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072001674.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072001674.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At his best, Alexei Shirov is the most creative of chess players. He leaves his victims speechless with imaginative attacks, breathtaking and astonishing combinations, and elegant and precise endgame play. In 1998 Shirov defeated Vladimir Kramnik, qualifying for the world championship match against Garry Kasparov. A collapse of that match weighed heavily on Shirov for the next decade and affected his play. Not anymore. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexei Shirov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anatoly Karpov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dmitry Jakovenko]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ernesto Inarkiev]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garry Kasparov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sergei Rublevsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Kramnik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Azerbaijan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071301632.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071301632.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Four foreign grandmasters, Evgeny Najer of Russia, Parimarjan Negi of India, Lubomir Ftacnik of Slovakia and Alexander Moiseenko of Ukraine, shared first place at the traditional World Open, played in Philadelphia over the Independence Day weekend. They scored seven points in nine games. The title went to Najer, who beat Negi in the blitz playoff in the sharp Najdorf Sicilian. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/06/AR2008070601632.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/06/AR2008070601632.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Bobby Fischer despised short events and demanded that the world championship matches be fought to 10 wins, draws not counting. He also wanted to play the U.S. championship as a double round robin. The longer the tournament or the match, the better the chances for a stronger player to prevail. One nasty opening surprise in a short tourney and you are out, as the former world champion Vladimir Kramnik experienced in the eight-grandmaster Sparkassen tournament in Dortmund, Germany. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Special to The Washington Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Kramnik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vassily Ivanchuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Fischer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dortmund]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ian Nepomniachtchi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jan Gustafsson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Leko]]></category><category><![CDATA[Azerbaijan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901695.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901695.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Chess is magical and beautiful. Just read "Secrets of Spectacular Chess" by Jonathan Levitt and David Friedgood (recently issued by Everyman Chess), and you realize that almost everything is possible on the chessboard. This excellent study on the aesthetics of chess is full of fascinating examples created by players and composers. The current edition is vastly enlarged from the 1995 original. Among the new material is the amazing 1999 game between Kasparov and Topalov in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. Kasparov considered it his best game, involving "the best combination ever." Was he being objective, or was it just another example of his great salesmanship? Let's see.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124436895" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124436895" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/22/AR2008062201816.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/22/AR2008062201816.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Magnus Carlsen, the Mozart of Chess as we called him four years ago in this column, is unstoppable. The 17-year-old Norwegian grandmaster won the 12-player Aerosvit tournament in Foros, Ukraine, last week in grand style. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnus Carlsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vassily Ivanchuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Onischuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mikhail Tal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viswanathan Anand]]></category><category><![CDATA[AeroSvit Airlines]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/15/AR2008061501598.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/15/AR2008061501598.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Draws in chess can be as fascinating as brilliant wins. In his 1982 book "Draw!" Wolfgang Heidenfeld presented 64 incredible games, all ending in a draw. He tried to select games in which neither side has missed a demonstrable win -- a difficult task indeed. Heidenfeld did not quite succeed, but his idea of collecting captivating draws has merit. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joshua Friedel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hikaru Nakamura]]></category><category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Imagination Over Experience ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/08/AR2008060801683.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/08/AR2008060801683.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ You don't have to live in a big city to become a grandmaster. Joshua Friedel comes from the small New Hampshire town of Goffstown, where he was born in 1986 and lived most of his life. For several years he was regarded as one of the most talented American juniors, and last month he met the final requirements for the grandmaster title. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Imagination]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[Experience]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ His Next Move ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060604433.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060604433.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ He is already one move behind. He's overslept on the morning of his big chess tournament. So Marte Garner slips on his bluejeans and a white T-shirt and races through his Barry Farms apartment. He passes his rook, his little brother, and his bishop, his older one. His mother, the king, is rushing, too, on her way to work. The pawn whispers goodbye and pushes out the red door, racing for another chance to play the game of his life: survive and be among the last pieces standing.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124439227" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124439227" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[DeNeen L. Brown]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[His]]></category><category><![CDATA[Next]]></category><category><![CDATA[Move]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goldie Deane]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harriet Tubman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Apple iPod]]></category><category><![CDATA[Urban Arts Academy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northwest (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beyonce Knowles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frida Kahlo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ho Chi Minh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamal Garner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joan of Arc]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mahatma Gandhi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Malcolm X]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marte Garner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sitting Bull]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tonya Garner]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eastern Senior High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lincoln Middle School]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/01/AR2008060102066.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/01/AR2008060102066.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Vassily Ivanchuk continued his victorious march yesterday in Leon, Spain. The Ukrainian grandmaster won the 21st Magistral Ciudad de Leon rapid tournament, defeating world champion Vishy Anand of India 2 1/2-1 1/2 in the final match. In the last, decisive game, Anand dropped a piece after he mishandled one line of the Nimzo-Indian defense. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anatoly Karpov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viktor Korchnoi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Kramnik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magistral Ciudad de Leon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vassily Ivanchuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pavel Tregubov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viswanathan Anand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baguio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boris Gelfand]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Navara]]></category><category><![CDATA[Efim Geller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garry Kasparov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Odessa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruslan Ponomariov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sofia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yuri Drozdovskij]]></category><category><![CDATA[Berlin Wall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philippines]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Mind Over Matter ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/25/AR2008052501797.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/25/AR2008052501797.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Yury Shulman clinched a spot on the Olympiad team by winning the U.S. championship last week in Tulsa, Okla. With five wins and four draws, the Chicago grandmaster finished undefeated with a 7-2 score, edging his friend, the Manassas grandmaster Alexander Onischuk, by a half point. In the 24-player, Swiss-style event, IM Larry Kaufman of Potomac, who won this year's U.S. senior championship, ended with a 3-6 score. Anna Zatonskih won the women's title, defeating Irina Krush in a grueling playoff. The two players shared first place with a 7 1/2 -1 1/2 score. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Mind]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matter]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/18/AR2008051801982.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/18/AR2008051801982.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Arthur Bisguier is the ultimate American grandmaster. His chess career spans more than six decades and is full of amazing twists and unexpected turns, crisscrossing the United States and the world. The former U.S. champion describes his life and games in "The Art of Bisguier," a two-volume work he produced with Newton Berry. The second volume, "Selected Games 1961-2003," was recently issued by the Russell Enterprises. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/11/AR2008051101839.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/11/AR2008051101839.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Last Monday, Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan, Wang Yue of China and Magnus Carlsen of Norway shared first place at the FIDE Grand Prix tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan. They scored 8 points in 13 games. At 17, Carlsen was the youngest participant, but also the top-rated player of the event. He staged a great finish, winning the last two games. Wang and Gashimov, both 21, were the only undefeated players in the powerful field of 14 grandmasters. The winners were followed by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan and Alexander Grischuk of Russia with 7 1/2 points; and by Michael Adams of England and Peter Svidler of Russia with 6 1/2 points. The others, including the American grandmaster Gata Kamsky, finished below 50 percent.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124440934" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124440934" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baku]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Grischuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Azerbaijan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnus Carlsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Valeri Yandemirov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wang Yue]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emil Sutovsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garry Kasparov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Adams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Svidler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Akopian]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/04/AR2008050401685.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/04/AR2008050401685.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sergei Tiviakov won the European Individual Championship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, on Friday. The Dutch grandmaster scored 8 1/2 points in 11 games. Ukraine's Kateryna Lahno won the women's title with the same score. The event attracted 337 men and 159 women. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042701948.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042701948.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Are we done with the Poisoned Pawn variation of the Najdorf Sicilian? Just as the possibilities in this sharp, overanalyzed opening seemed to be exhausted, the young Azerbaijani grandmaster Rauf Mamedov came up with a new, brilliant idea and scored an amazing victory against Russia's Dmitry Kokarev. The game was played at the European Individual championship, underway in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, with nearly 200 grandmasters participating. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rauf Mamedov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Byron Hood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Craig Saperstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Yeager]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dmitry Kokarev]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward Lu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jacob Steinhardt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joey Regalbuto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plovdiv]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tucson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catalina Foothills High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[National High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/20/AR2008042001861.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/20/AR2008042001861.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In "Jon Speelman's Chess Puzzle Book," issued by Gambit Publications, the English grandmaster explains: "Tactics is a combination of vision and calculation; both are necessary and neither is obvious -- even to the best players -- during the hurly burly of practical play." The book is a tactical delight. Speelman's entertaining selection of game fragments and compositions ranges from simple tactical themes to chess wizardry and can be enjoyed by beginners as well as tournament players. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Navara]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sochi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vassily Ivanchuk]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/06/AR2008040601996.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/06/AR2008040601996.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Last year the publisher Everyman Chess began offering electronic versions of its books. The idea has great practical value in tracking down new ideas in the openings. Thousands of games are being played in the world every week. The books on openings can't keep up with the hectic pace, but the e-books can be updated on the Internet. For example, when the powerful Azerbaijani grandmasters Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Teimour Radjabov recently picked up the addictive Jaenisch gambit in the Spanish opening, most of their new ideas have been challenged by the world elite only last month. Other players such as two young Americans, Joshua Friedel of New Hampshire and Raymond Kaufman of Potomac, Maryland, quickly jumped on the bandwagon. Their game from last month's Foxwoods Open produced a stern test in one of the gambit's main lines.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124442360" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124442360" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Morozevich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foxwoods Resort Casino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joshua Friedel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Levon Aronian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnus Carlsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nigel Davies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Potomac (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raymond Kaufman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vadim Zvjaginsev]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veselin Topalov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viswanathan Anand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Kramnik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Foxwoods Open ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/30/AR2008033001687.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/30/AR2008033001687.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Levon Aronian dominated this year's Melody Amber blindfold and rapid tournament in Nice, France. The Armenian grandmaster finished with 14 1/2 points in 22 games, leaving his closest rivals -- Norway's Magnus Carlsen, Russia's Vladimir Kramnik, Hungary's Peter Leko and Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov -- with 12 points. Aronian shared first place in the blindfold competition with Kramnik, Topalov and Russia's Alexander Morozevich, all at 6 1/2 -4 1/2 . However, Aronian triumphed in the rapid games, ending with an impressive 8-3 score. Ukraine's Vassily Ivanchuk, who called the event "the greatest tournament," finished second with 6 points. He was the most creative player in the field. Here is his win against Topalov in the Panov Caro-Kann. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Foxwoods]]></category><category><![CDATA[Open]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veselin Topalov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Ivanov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Kramnik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[GM Alexander Shabalov, GM Julio Becerra and International]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Morozevich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Hess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foxwoods Resort Casino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnus Carlsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mashantucket]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Leko]]></category><category><![CDATA[Salo Flohr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vassily Ivanchuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yuri Shulman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/23/AR2008032301657.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/23/AR2008032301657.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Chinese wunderkind Hou Yifan, 14, won the Isbank Ataturk Women Masters in Istanbul last Thursday. She finished with seven points in nine games, a point clear of Sweden's Pia Cramling. On the way to her victory, Hou defeated the U.S. women's champion, Irina Krush, mostly a positional player who found herself drowning in the intricacies of the sharp Sveshnikov Sicilian. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vassily Ivanchuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sergey Karjakin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hou Yifan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Irina Krush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Istanbul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pia Cramling]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602131.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602131.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Joel Benjamin played in 23 consecutive U.S. championships, helped IBM's Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in 1997 and recently described his career in a new book "American Grandmaster," issued by Everyman Chess. This month, he won the Millennium Festival's Open section in Virginia Beach with four wins and one draw. He also defeated grandmaster John Fedorowicz in an exhibition game. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garry Kasparov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pia Cramling]]></category><category><![CDATA[IBM Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emanuel Lasker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Istanbul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joel Benjamin]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Fedorowicz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Beach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/09/AR2008030901425.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/09/AR2008030901425.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ World champion Vishy Anand of India won the prestigious Morelia-Linares tournament in Spain on Friday, scoring 8 1/2 points in 14 games. The rest finished as follows: Norway's Magnus Carlsen, 8 points; Armenia's Levon Aronian and Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov, 7 1/2 points; Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan, 7 points; Ukraine's Vassily Ivanchuk, 6 1/2 points; Hungary's Peter Leko and Alexei Shirov of Spain, 5 1/2 points. After winning in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, in January, Carlsen had another great result and should move to sixth place in the world on the next FIDE rating list.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124444354" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124444354" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexei Shirov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viswanathan Anand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnus Carlsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garry Kasparov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lev Polugaevsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Levon Aronian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Leko]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sergei Karjakin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sergei Movsesian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vassily Ivanchuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veselin Topalov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Azerbaijan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/02/AR2008030201706.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/02/AR2008030201706.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With a blistering start in the second half of the elite Morelia-Linares tournament, Norway's Magnus Carlsen, 17, moved to second place. He defeated Peter Leko of Hungary and Alexei Shirov of Spain, and on Saturday drew with the world champion Vishy Anand of India. With four rounds to go, Anand leads with 6 1/2 points in 10 games, Carlsen has 6 points and Armenia's Levon Aronian 5 1/2 points. The event finishes in Linares, Spain, on Friday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremy Silman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnus Carlsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Svidler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viswanathan Anand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chess Federation]]></category><category><![CDATA[ChessCafe.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Morozevich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexei Shirov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anatoly Karpov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Lamprecht]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glenn Flear]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karsten Muller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Levon Aronian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Leko]]></category><category><![CDATA[Simon Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tibor Karolyi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Kramnik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/24/AR2008022401665.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/24/AR2008022401665.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The world champion, Vishy Anand of India, is leading at the halftime of the elite Morelia/Linares tournament with 4 1/2 points in seven games. Alexei Shirov of Spain and Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria are a half point back. Levon Aronian of Armenia and Magnus Carlsen of Norway have 3 1/2 points. Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine and Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan scored three points. Peter Leko of Hungary is last with 2 1/2 points. Yesterday, the players flew from Morelia, Mexico, to Linares, Spain, where the double round-robin event resumes on Thursday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Levon Aronian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viswanathan Anand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Marshall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexei Shirov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joel Benjamin]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Fedorowicz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnus Carlsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morelia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Leko]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vassily Ivanchuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veselin Topalov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Beach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Azerbaijan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/17/AR2008021701894.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/17/AR2008021701894.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There are victories and defeats to be remembered forever. Last month at the Corus chess festival in the Dutch town of Wijk aan Zee, a 13-year-old Chinese girl, Hou Yifan, defeated the English grandmaster Nigel Short. It was an exceptional victory, a historical feat. Short, who played the 1993 world championship match against Garry Kasparov, was thoroughly destroyed in 23 moves after he misplayed the Berlin defense in the Spanish opening. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nigel Short]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garry Kasparov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Corus Group plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adolf Anderssen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emanuel Lasker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hou Yifan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johannes Zukertort]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leonid Stein]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sousse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Kramnik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/10/AR2008021001836.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/10/AR2008021001836.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Veselin Topalov's knight sacrifice against Vladimir Kramnik of Russia at the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee last month looked astonishing. But the duel of the former world champions will be remembered for the follow-up. Instead of pummeling the black king that was stuck in the middle, the Bulgarian grandmaster calmly posted his other knight as a Trojan horse in the enemy camp. Kramnik, dumbfounded by the chaotic situation, not only gave a piece back, but let Topalov storm through the gates. After the game came the shock: the knight sacrifice, not entirely correct, had been waiting in the Bulgarian's pipeline for several years, fine-tuned by computer engines.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124446400" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124446400" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veselin Topalov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Kramnik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Corus Group plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ivan Cheparinov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jan Timman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/03/AR2008020302578.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/03/AR2008020302578.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Hikaru Nakamura won the sixth Gibtelecom Masters in Gibraltar on Thursday with an incredible comeback. The former U.S. champion dropped two draws and lost one game in the first half, but won his last five games. With two rounds to go, Nakamura was still 1 1/2 points behind top Chinese grandmaster Bu Xiangzhi, who rocketed to the lead by amassing 7 1/2 points in the first eight games. When Bu stumbled, losing one game and making a short draw in the last two rounds, Nakamura caught him. They both scored eight points in 10 games, but in the playoff Bu didn't have a chance against Nakamura's blitzing skills. The American secured the $24,000 first prize by winning both playoff games. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hikaru Nakamura]]></category><category><![CDATA[Varuzhan Akobian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Hook]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward Lu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ilya Kremenchugskiy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicholas Cravotta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Fraser]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shane Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gibraltar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/27/AR2008012701448.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/27/AR2008012701448.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Levon Aronian of Armenia won the elite Corus grandmaster tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, yesterday with an 8-5 score. They edged world champion Vishy Anand of India and Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan by a half point. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnus Carlsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Kramnik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viswanathan Anand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Corus Group plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fabiano Caruana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Levon Aronian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sergei Movsesian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Azerbaijan]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Serbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slovakia]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/20/AR2008012001521.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/20/AR2008012001521.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The man who put chess on the globe is gone. Robert James Fischer died last Thursday in Reykjavik, Iceland, at age 64. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Fischer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boris Spassky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reykjavik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert James Fischer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lajos Portisch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mikhail Botvinnik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tigran Petrosian]]></category><category><![CDATA[W.J. Baird]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iceland]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voice of America]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/13/AR2008011302376.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/13/AR2008011302376.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Dutch coastal town of Wijk aan Zee is an addictive place despite the howling winds and the cold you are certain to get when playing chess there. Every January, many amateurs as well as the world's best players gather under the same roof in a huge tournament hall, sneezing their way through one of the world's most attractive chess festivals.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124447498" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124447498" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lajos Portisch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andy Soltis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leo von Kuijk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/06/AR2008010601970.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/06/AR2008010601970.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Three major U.S. events finished in the last week of 2007. In Las Vegas, Hikaru Nakamura and David Pruess shared first place at the North American Open, scoring six points in seven games. Alexander Ivanov won the Eastern Open at the Westin hotel in downtown Washington. He ended with seven points in eight games, a full point ahead of his nearest rivals. In Miami, defending champion University of Texas at Dallas won the 2007 Pan-American intercollegiate team championships, winning five matches and drawing one. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sergei Tiviakov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Westin Hotels & Resorts Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Ivanov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anatoly Karpov]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Pruess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Enrico Paoli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garry Kasparov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hikaru Nakamura]]></category><category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reggio Emilia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viswanathan Anand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zoltan Almasi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Azerbaijan]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Texas at Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/30/AR2007123001857.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/30/AR2007123001857.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The chess world was conquered in 2007 by players in their 30s. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/23/AR2007122302021.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/23/AR2007122302021.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Vassily Ivanchuk, the world's No. 2-rated player and the reigning world blitz champion, loves to play chess on the Yucatan peninsula. The Ukrainian grandmaster repeated his last year's victory at the Carlos Torre Memorial, a 16-player knockout event, on Saturday in the Mexican city of Merida. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/16/AR2007121601680.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/16/AR2007121601680.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Gata Kamsky triumphed at the World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, yesterday, winning the final match against Alexei Shirov of Spain 2 1/2 -1 1/2 . The Brooklyn grandmaster, the only undefeated player among the 128 participants, earned $120,000 for his brilliant victory. He also qualified for the match against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria next year that decides who plays in the 2009 world championship.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124448952" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124448952" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/09/AR2007120901042.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/09/AR2007120901042.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The semifinals of the World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, are a clash of two generations. Two experienced, 30-something grandmasters, the American Gata Kamsky and Alexei Shirov of Spain, are under pressure from two 17-year-old talents, Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Sergei Karjakin of Ukraine. Yesterday, both opening games, Carlsen vs. Kamsky and Shirov vs. Karjakin, were drawn. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sergei Karjakin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexei Shirov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evgeny Alekseev]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnus Carlsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/02/AR2007120201790.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/02/AR2007120201790.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Gata Kamsky became the only remaining American as the World Chess Cup field in the Russian town of Khanty-Mansiysk dwindled from 128 players to 16 grandmasters yesterday. He will face the four-time Russian champion Peter Svidler next. The brutal knockout format already claimed the top three seeds: gone are Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine and two Azerbaijanis, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Teimour Radjabov. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antalya Province]]></category><category><![CDATA[Westin Hotels & Resorts Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abby Marshall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Naroditsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Mehler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ettie Nikolova]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Myer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Livorno]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Svidler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Chiang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stuart Wagman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tigran Petrosian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vassily Ivanchuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/25/AR2007112501241.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/25/AR2007112501241.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The World Blitz Championship finished Friday in Moscow with a dramatic last- round duel between world champion Vishy Anand of India and the world's No. 2-rated player, Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine. Having been on the ropes most of the game, the enigmatic Ivanchuk suddenly made three devastating knight leaps, forcing Anand to resign. Ivanchuk won the world blitz title with 25 1/2 points in 38 games, one point ahead of Anand. The defending blitz champion, Alexander Grischuk of Russia, shared third place with the American Gata Kamsky, both finishing with 23 1/2 points. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vassily Ivanchuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viswanathan Anand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Grischuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Albertson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emanuel Lasker]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Nunn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veselin Topalov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Kramnik]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/18/AR2007111801229.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/18/AR2007111801229.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik dominates the second Tal Memorial in Moscow, one of the year's strongest tournaments. Before today's last round, the Russian grandmaster amassed a remarkable score of six points in eight games and has secured first place. His closest rival, Alexei Shirov of Spain, is 1 1/2 points behind.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124451364" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124451364" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Kramnik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Las Palmas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexei Shirov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bilbao]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evgeny Alekseev]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jan Timman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Levon Aronian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruslan Ponomariov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Miles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veselin Topalov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chess Champions League]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/11/AR2007111101179.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/11/AR2007111101179.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The gold medals at the European Team Chess Championship in Crete, Greece, went to the Russian men and women Tuesday. The men's team clinched first place by winning eight matches and drawing one, scoring 17 match points. Armenia finished second with 14 points; Azerbaijan was third with 13 points. Russia's women's squad won the championship with 15 points. Poland shared second and third place with Armenia, both scoring 13 points, but the Polish team got the silver medals with a better tiebreak. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek ]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ivan Cheparinov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Svidler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Fischer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garry Kasparov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judit Polgar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scheveningen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veselin Topalov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Azerbaijan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category><category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/04/AR2007110401236.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/04/AR2007110401236.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former U.S. champion Hikaru Nakamura continued his triumphant European journey with a victory at the Corsican Masters on Tuesday. In the final match of the knockout competition, he defeated former FIDE world champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan. Nakamura not only wins first prizes, but he plays quality chess as well, often sparkling with beautiful combinations. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Navara]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hikaru Nakamura]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barcelona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vassily Ivanchuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ivan Cheparinov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rustam Kasimdzhanov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bundesliga]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Uzbekistan]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/28/AR2007102801305.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/28/AR2007102801305.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Hikaru Nakamura, 19, dominated the 10-player Casino Barcelona tournament, finishing first with seven points in nine games, a full point ahead of the top-rated grandmaster Lenier Perez Dominguez of Cuba. Can the former U.S. champion repeat what he achieved Friday in Spain against much stronger opposition? Can he close the rating gap between him and the two young superstars, Norway's Magnus Carlsen and Ukraine's Sergei Karjakin? Is he good enough to challenge the world's top junior Teimur Radjabov of Azerbaijan? We do know that Nakamura can fight and play brilliant chess. All he needs are invitations to the elite events to improve further. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magnus Carlsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sergei Karjakin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hikaru Nakamura]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bilbao]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judit Polgar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reinaldo Vera]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veselin Topalov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Azerbaijan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102101189.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102101189.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The world junior championship is one of the most unpredictable competitions in chess. It began in 1951, and some of its previous winners, including Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Vishy Anand, went on to become world champions. But many junior titleholders are long forgotten, and some don't even play chess anymore.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124454051" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124454051" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hikaru Nakamura]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yerevan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ahmed Adly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anatoly Karpov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barcelona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boris Spassky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garry Kasparov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michal Krasenkow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viswanathan Anand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zaven Andriasian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Azerbaijan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/14/AR2007101401046.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/14/AR2007101401046.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Brooklyn grandmaster Gata Kamsky led Spanish team Linex Magic Merida to a victory at the 23rd European Club Championship in Kemer, Turkey, on Wednesday. The team won six of seven matches and tied one in the tournament, which attracted 30 teams and featured some of the world's best players. World champion Vishy Anand was greeted by a standing ovation from his peers when he arrived in the playing hall, but his top-rated German team, OSC Baden-Baden, finished only fourth. Alexander Grischuk played for Russian team Ural Sverdlovskaya, which finished second with five wins and two ties. In the Fianchetto Grunfeld defense, Grischuk turned strong positional pressure into a devastating mating attack against Boris Avrukh of Israel. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Grischuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garry Kasparov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baden-Baden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boris Avrukh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ural Sverdlovskaya]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viswanathan Anand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess  ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/07/AR2007100701133.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/07/AR2007100701133.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ World champion Vishy Anand stays on top of the Oct. 1 FIDE rating list with 2,801 points. Vassily Ivanchuk moves to second place, a position he held in 1991 and in 1992, with 2,787 points. Vladimir Kramnik has 2,785 points, and Veselin Topalov is fourth with 2,769 points. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Shabalov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hikaru Nakamura]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viswanathan Anand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anatoly Karpov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Fischer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boris Spassky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Houdini]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vassily Ivanchuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veselin Topalov]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Kramnik]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kazakhstan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/30/AR2007093001050.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/30/AR2007093001050.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With an impressive, steady performance, Vishy Anand of India won the World Chess Championship in Mexico City on Saturday. The world's top-rated grandmaster was the only undefeated player among the eight chess giants. He amassed 9 points in 14 games and finished a full point ahead of the defending champion, Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, and the oldest participant, 39-year-old Boris Gelfand of Israel. The rest scored as follows: Peter Leko (Hungary), 7 points; Peter Svidler (Russia), 6 1/2 points; Alexander Morozevich (Russia) and Levon Aronian (Armenia), both 6 points; and Alexander Grischuk (Russia), 5 1/2 points. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Leko]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Kramnik]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viswanathan Anand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Grischuk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Morozevich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boris Gelfand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Levon Aronian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Svidler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/23/AR2007092301067.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/23/AR2007092301067.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's showtime at the World Chess Championship in Mexico City! To defend his title, world champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia is almost forced to defeat Vishy Anand of India today. Before yesterday's round, Anand, the world's top-rated player, was leading the eight-grandmaster double round-robin event with 5 1/2 points in eight games, half a point ahead of Israeli grandmaster Boris Gelfand and a full point ahead of Kramnik. The championship finishes Sunday.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124455913" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124455913" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess Today Celebrates ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/16/AR2007091601342.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/16/AR2007091601342.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "Chess is an art and should be played in a creative way," opined Czech President Vaclav Klaus during his visit to the Czech Coal Carlsbad tournament, played under his auspices. The president presented Viktor Korchnoi, 76, with the Chess Legend Award and stayed on for four hours to follow the first-round games. The eight-grandmaster tournament was a centennial celebration of the great 1907 event in the popular Czech spa. It was also 100 years ago that the idea of creating a tournament world championship, similar to the current FIDE world championship underway in Mexico City, was considered. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Today]]></category><category><![CDATA[Celebrates]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/09/AR2007090901378.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/09/AR2007090901378.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Poisoned Pawn variation in the Najdorf Sicilian is more than half a century old. It attracted players of various styles -- from the Don Quixotes, who charge forward no matter what the cost, to the buccaneers, who grab any pawns and pieces coming their way. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/02/AR2007090200997.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/02/AR2007090200997.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In 1967, Bobby Fischer walked away from what looked like an easy winning position and set back his campaign for the world chess championship by three years. After a dispute with the organizers over scheduling the games, Fischer dropped out of the Interzonal Tournament in Sousse, Tunisia, held to select candidates for the world championship. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/26/AR2007082601008.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/26/AR2007082601008.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The world's top-rated grandmaster, Vishy Anand, is also the best rapid player in the world.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124458731" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124458731" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/19/AR2007081901196.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/19/AR2007081901196.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The 1907  Carlsbad tournament,  the first of four great chess events in the Czech spa, began 100 years ago today. It featured most of the world's best players of that time, already called "grand masters," although this title had not yet been officially established. The Prague Chess Society plans a centennial celebration of this fabulous tourney by organizing the Czech Coal Carlsbad Chess Tournament Sept. 7-15 under the auspices of Czech President Vaclav Klaus. The invited grandmasters are: Alexei Shirov (Spain), Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine), Vladimir Akopian (Armenia), Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland), Jan Timman (the Netherlands), Sergei Movsesian (Slovakia) and the Czechs David Navara and Viktor Laznicka. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/12/AR2007081200937.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/12/AR2007081200937.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Boris Gulko, 60, won the 108th annual U.S. Open in Cherry Hill, N.J., this month. The veteran grandmaster clinched the title on tiebreak after he shared first place with Alexander Shabalov, Sergey Kudrin, Benjamin Finegold, Michael Rohde, Michael Mulyar and the Virginian Anton del Mundo, all scoring 7 1/2  points in nine games. Hikaru Nakamura scored seven points, leading a group that included Maryland players Alex Barnett, Tegshsuren Enkhbat and Ronald Henry, and Virginia's Abby Marshall, 16, a winner of the joint under-2200 prize. The traditional event attracted more than 400 players. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501088.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501088.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Magnus Carlsen won the elite grandmaster group at the 40th chess festival in the Swiss city of Biel last week. The brilliant 16-year-old Norwegian grandmaster had to beat the top-rated Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan in the last round to catch Alexander Onischuk, a Maryland grandmaster and former U.S. champion. They shared first place in the tournament with 5 1/2   points in nine games, but Carlsen prevailed in the playoff 3 to 2. Radjabov, Alexander Grischuk of Russia, Judit Polgar of Hungary and Yannick Pelletier of Switzerland finished a half point behind the winners. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/29/AR2007072900763.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/29/AR2007072900763.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ What  will happen after all the coaches who helped to create the strong chess talents in the Soviet Union are gone? Will we ever know what they preached?<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124502029" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124502029" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/22/AR2007072201066.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/22/AR2007072201066.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ American grandmasters Alexander Ivanov and Varuzhan Akobian qualified Friday for the FIDE World Cup, scheduled for December in Russia. They shared first place at the Continental Championship in Cali, Colombia, with grandmasters Julio Granda Zuniga of Peru and Darcy Lima of Brazil and international master  Eduardo Iturrizaga of Venezuela, finishing with eight points in 11 games. Granda Zuniga won the title on a tiebreak. Also on Friday, Irina Krush won the U.S. Women's Championship in Stillwater, Okla. She scored seven points in nine games, ending a half point ahead of the defending champion Anna Zatonskih and Maryland's Katerina Rohonyan. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/15/AR2007071500907.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/15/AR2007071500907.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Half a century ago, Vassily Smyslov became the chess champion of the world. His 12 1/2 - 9 1/2  victory over Mikhail Botvinnik in the 1957 world championship match in Moscow was the highest point of his career. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/08/AR2007070800800.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/08/AR2007070800800.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Vishy Anand is the top-rated grandmaster on the FIDE list. Yesterday, the Indian superstar also confirmed his status as the best rapid player in the world, winning the rapid event in the Spanish city of Leon featuring four former FIDE world champions. In the semifinals Anand defeated Ukraine's Ruslan Ponomariov 3-1, and Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov edged the Uzbek Rustam  Kasimdzhanov 2 1/2 -1 1/2 . In the final match Anand beat Topalov 3-1. Here is the last game in brief. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess  ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/01/AR2007070100954.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/01/AR2007070100954.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Undefeated with three wins  and four draws, Vladimir Kramnik of Russia scored a convincing victory at the elite Sparkassen tournament in Dortmund, Germany, yesterday. The world champion ended with five points in seven games, a full point ahead of his nearest rivals, Vishy Anand of India, Peter Leko of Hungary and the young Russian champion Evgeny Alekseev. Other players finished as follows: Shakhryiar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan, 3 1/2  points; Magnus Carlsen of Norway, 3 points; Boris Gelfand of Israel, 2 1/2  points, and Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany, 2 points.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124504340" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124504340" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/24/AR2007062401102.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/24/AR2007062401102.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At 56, Anatoly Karpov has a hectic traveling schedule, but chess still plays a big role in his life. In the last few years, the former world champion could fit in only simultaneous exhibitions and rapid tournaments. It has been a while since he played chess at the slow, classical pace. This month, however, he took part at the Gorenje tournament in the Serbian town of Valjevo. He finished third with a 5 1/2 -3 1/2  score, one point behind the winners, Michael Roiz of Israel and Suat Atalik of Turkey. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/17/AR2007061700988.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/17/AR2007061700988.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Boris  Gelfand is an ultimate chess professional, and his knowledge of openings makes him one of the best theoreticians in the world. At 39, the Israeli grandmaster may not win as many games as he used to, but he is still hard to beat. That was a bad omen for Gata Kamsky, the top-rated American grandmaster, who lost to him 3 1/2 -1 1/2  in the Candidates final match in Elista, Russia, this month. Gelfand, Armenia's Levon Aronian, Hungary's Peter Leko and Russia's Alexander Grischuk qualified for the World Chess Championship to be played in Mexico in September. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/10/AR2007061000948.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/10/AR2007061000948.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The second round of the Candidates matches is underway in Elista, Russia. Four winners of the six-game matches will qualify for the World Chess Championship in September in Mexico. The scores after yesterday's games:  Peter Leko (Hungary) vs. Evgeny Bareev (Russia) 3-1; Boris Gelfand (Israel) vs. Gata Kamsky (U.S.) 2 1/2 -1 1/2 ; Levon Aronian (Armenia) vs. Alexei Shirov (Spain) 2 1/2 -1 1/2 . The Russian duel Sergei Rublevsky vs. Alexander Grischuk was tied 2-2. In their first game, Grischuk took advantage of Rublevsky's predictable opening repertoire, preparing a fascinating knight sacrifice in the Scheveningen Sicilian defense. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/03/AR2007060300969.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/03/AR2007060300969.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The heroic battle between Magnus Carlsen of Norway and the top seed Levon Aronian of Armenia was the most dramatic of all Candidates matches in Elista, Russia, last week. Being on the verge of elimination, Carlsen, 16, fought back fearlessly, equalizing the match score several times. Aronian finally ended it during yesterday's tiebreaks by winning two blitz games and the match with the score 7-5. He will play Alexei Shirov of Spain in the next round.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124508002" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124508002" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/27/AR2007052700796.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/27/AR2007052700796.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Scoring seven points in nine games, Alexander Shabalov clinched the U.S. title in Stillwater, Okla., on Wednesday. The victory in this year's 36-player event is Shabalov's fourth win in the U.S. championships. The defending champion, Alexander Onischuk, ended with 6 1/2  points. Gregory Kaidanov, Yuri Shulman and Julio Becerra Rivero finished with six points. All five grandmasters qualified for the next FIDE World Cup. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/20/AR2007052001184.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/20/AR2007052001184.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Rising from the ashes as he did last year, the Bulgarian grandmaster Veselin Topalov fought his way back and again won the M-Tel Masters yesterday in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is his third overall victory in the annual double round-robin event. This time he finished with 5 1/2  points in 10 games. American Gata Kamsky, Krishnan Sasikiran of India, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania ended with five points. England's Michael Adams came in last with 4 1/2  points. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/13/AR2007051301142.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/13/AR2007051301142.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Great chess players usually lead great teams. The world's top-rated grandmaster, Vishy Anand of India, anchored the OSC Baden-Baden team that finished first in the German Bundesliga last month. Alexander Morozevich, the world's fourth-rated player, was the top board for last year's European Club champion, Tomsk-400. On Friday in Sochi, his team won the Russian team championship, 9-0. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chess ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/06/AR2007050601228.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/06/AR2007050601228.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Which chess upset is bigger? Is it Levon Aronian's 4-2 defeat of the world champion Vladimir Kramnik in a six-game rapid match yesterday in the Armenian capital of Yerevan?<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124511923" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124511923" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS: Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/29/AR2007042901079.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/29/AR2007042901079.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The flamboyant French champion Vladislav Tkachiev won the  eighth European Chess Championship this month in Dresden, Germany. The former Kazakh grandmaster, who found his new home in Cannes, defeated Emil Sutovsky of Israel in the playoff final. Tatiana Kosintseva of Russia won the European women's title. According to the organizers, the 11-round Swiss championship attracted 550 players, including 184 grandmasters. It served as a qualifying event for the next FIDE World Cup. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS: Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/22/AR2007042201056.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/22/AR2007042201056.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Latvian-born grandmaster Alexei Shirov, who now lives in Spain, is an attacking genius. At times, his chess seems  from another planet -- too deep to understand, too confusing to imitate. His astonishing and penetrating attacking masterpieces are quoted in many books. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS: Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/15/AR2007041500549.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/15/AR2007041500549.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Gata Kamsky won the Ninth Foxwoods Open, played April 4-8 in Mashantucket, Conn. The top-rated U.S. player -- No. 19 on the April FIDE list -- shared first place with grandmasters Zviad Izoria, Ildar Ibragimov and Alexander Stripunsky, all scoring seven points in nine games. Kamsky defeated Izoria in a blitz game playoff. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS: Lubomir Kavalek  ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/08/AR2007040800780.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/08/AR2007040800780.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Indian superstar Vishy Anand is the top-rated chess player in the world, according to the new, corrected FIDE list of April 1. It looked like an April Fools' joke when FIDE first insisted on not rating the prominent Morelia/Linares tournament that ended last month with Anand's convincing victory. Anand now has 2786 rating points on the corrected list and is followed by Russia's Vladimir Kramnik and Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov, both with the rating of 2772.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124513958" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124513958" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek ]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Final Four ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/01/AR2007040100824.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/01/AR2007040100824.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ World champion Vladimir Kramnik won the 16th Melody Amber Rapid and Blindfold tournament in Monaco last week with a spectacular score of 15 1/2   points in 22 games. The Russian grandmaster finished two points ahead of his nearest rival, Vishy Anand of India. The  star-studded supporting cast of 10 other grandmasters could not match these feats. Kramnik sealed his overall victory by winning the blindfold event with an incredible 9-2 score. Anand was equally brilliant in the rapid play, finishing first with 8 1/2  -2 1/2 . Kramnik sprang the most important opening novelty of the tournament on  16-year-old Magnus Carlsen of Norway -- an astonishing knight sacrifice in the Botvinnik variation of the Semi-Slav defense. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Final]]></category><category><![CDATA[Four]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS: Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/25/AR2007032500812.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/25/AR2007032500812.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ What is the best first move in chess? What defenses should black play? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS: Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/18/AR2007031801118.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/18/AR2007031801118.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The traditional nine-round open tournament in the French town of Capelle la Grande is one of the most popular events in Europe. This month it attracted more than 600 players from 57 countries, including 93 grandmasters and 80 International Masters. Six grandmasters shared first place with seven points, but Wang Yue of China became the tournament winner with the best tiebreaker. California's IM David Preuss was the top American finisher, scoring 5 1/2 points and making a grandmaster norm. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS: Lubomir Kavalek  ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/11/AR2007031101103.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/11/AR2007031101103.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Vishy Anand triumphed in Linares, Spain, on Saturday, winning the prestigious Morelia-Linares tournament with 8 1/2 points in 14 games. With his victory in this traditional eight-grandmaster double round-robin event, the Indian superstar moves to the No. 1 spot on the FIDE rating list. Sharing second place, a full point behind Anand, were two grandmasters who made this year's event memorable and exciting: 16-year-old Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Alexander Morozevich of Russia. Half of their games were decisive, with each player scoring four wins, three loses and seven draws. The rest of the field finished as follows: Armenia's Levon Aronian and Russia's Peter Svidler, seven points; Ukraine's Vassily Ivanchuk, 6 1/2 points; and sharing the last place were Hungary's Peter Leko and Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov with six points.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124515600" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124515600" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek ]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Look at Some of the Players ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/10/AR2007031001331.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/10/AR2007031001331.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Look]]></category><category><![CDATA[at Some]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Players]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESSLubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/04/AR2007030400938.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/04/AR2007030400938.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With the help of a spectacular knight sacrifice, the Indian grandmaster Vishy Anand defeated the 16-year-old Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen yesterday in Linares, Spain. Anand leads the prestigious Morelia-Linares tournament with 6 1/2   points in 10 games, a full point ahead of Carlsen and Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine. The 14-round event ends Saturday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESSLubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESSLubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/25/AR2007022500979.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/25/AR2007022500979.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The  magnificent run of Magnus Carlsen at the prestigious Morelia-Linares tournament made headlines last week. The 16-year-old Norwegian grandmaster was outplaying some of the world's best players and after six rounds led the formidable field with four points. He edged India's Vishy Anand and Armenia's Levon Aronian by half a point before yesterday's last round of the first half. The double-round robin event moves from Morelia, Mexico, to Linares, Spain, this week. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESSLubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESSLubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/18/AR2007021800825.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/18/AR2007021800825.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When is a poisoned pawn poisoned? For several decades the famous Poisoned Pawn variation in the Najdorf Sicilian could not deliver the final judgment. Blacks took the pawn and most of the time survived. Whites lately felt that the line needed more venom. They threw in more pawns, effectively renaming it the Poisoned Pawns variation, and began winning. It was recently tested at the Corus tournament in January and in the following game from the German Bundesliga this month between the German grandmaster Thomas Luther and the Slovakian grandmaster Lubomir Ftacnik.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124517878" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124517878" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESSLubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR2007021101087.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR2007021101087.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the iconoclastic work "My System," published in 1925, Aaron Nimzovich presents his encounter with Semyon Alapin as a wonderful example of bad pawn snatching. This brilliant game, played nearly a century ago, must have made a lasting impression on Hikaru Nakamura. The former U.S. champion sacrificed the same pawn as Nimzovich to defeat the Russian grandmaster Vladimir Epishin in Gibraltar this month. The victory was Nakamura's best achievement at the Gibtelecom Masters and helped him to a shared second place. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS: Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/04/AR2007020400974.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/04/AR2007020400974.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Armenian grandmaster Vladimir Akopian won the fifth Gibtelecom Masters in Gibraltar Thursday, scoring 7 1/2 points in nine games. The popular annual event began like a battle of the sexes with the women triumphing over the men. In the first round, Akopian, one of the pre-tournament favorites, lost to American International Master Irina Krush, and former U.S. champion Hikaru Nakamura succumbed to IM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant of Georgia. In the end, Nakamura finished half a point behind the winner, sharing second place with Alexander Areschenko of Ukraine and Emil Sutovsky of Israel. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS: Lubomir Kavalek  ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801049.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801049.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The first major event of the year, the elite Corus grandmaster tournament, finished yesterday in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, in a three-way tie for first place among Levon Aronian of Armenia, Teimur Radjabov of Azerbaijan and Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria. They scored 8 1/2 points in 13 games, edging world champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia by half a point. They were followed by Vishy Anand of India, 7 1/2 points; Peter Svidler of Russia, 7 points; David Navara of the Czech Republic and Sergei Karjakin of Ukraine, 6 1/2 points; Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine, 6 points; Alexander Motylev of Russia, and two Dutchmen, Loek Van Wely and Sergei Tiviakov, 5 points; Alexei Shirov of Spain and Magnus Carlsen of Norway, 4 1/2 points. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek ]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS: Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/21/AR2007012100782.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/21/AR2007012100782.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Teimur Radjabov was blowing the competition away at the Corus elite tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, like the powerful windstorm that hit Europe last week. The 19-year-old Azerbaijani grandmaster had an incredible start -- five points out of six games. The winds died down on the beaches, but the chess show in the small Dutch town was as fierce as ever. The world's top-rated player, Veselin Topalov, won two games over the weekend and took the lead with six points after eight rounds. Radjabov is half a point back after losing to the Armenian Levon Aronian. World champion Vladimir Kramnik, four-time Russian champion Peter Svidler, Ukraine's Sergei Karjakin, 17, and Aronian have five points. The Indian grandmaster Vishy Anand lost to Topalov and Kramnik, and has four points together with the Czech grandmaster David Navara. The 13-round event ends next Sunday.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124520763" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124520763" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESSLubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/14/AR2007011400738.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/14/AR2007011400738.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The traditional Corus Chess festival, one of the major events of the year, is underway in the Dutch coastal town of Wijk aan Zee. The powerful A-group features the world's top three grandmasters, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, Vishy Anand of India and  world champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia. All three drew their first-round games but won yesterday. The event ends Jan. 28. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESSLubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS : | Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/07/AR2007010700849.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/07/AR2007010700849.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Every July during the San Fermin fiesta, huge, ferocious bulls stampede through the town of Pamplona, knocking down brave Spaniards and others who dare to run with them. The end of December is usually reserved for the stampede of Alexander Morozevich. The Russian grandmaster won the Pamplona traditional tournament for the third time just before the new year, scoring six points in seven games. He finished a full point ahead of his countryman, Dmitry Jakovenko. Alexei Shirov of Spain ended third in the eight-grandmaster event, with 4 1/2  points. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[:]]></category><category><![CDATA[|]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESSLubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/31/AR2006123100740.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/31/AR2006123100740.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The last week of a dramatic year   ended with a bang in the nation's capital, where two major chess events finished Saturday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESSLubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS: Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/24/AR2006122400496.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/24/AR2006122400496.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The  future of the FIDE world chess championships looks brighter. On  Thursday  FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and the Dutch businessman Bessel Kok signed a memorandum of understanding launching an Amsterdam-based company called Global Chess BV to manage the championships and other chess ventures in the next five years.  But for Kok to succeed, FIDE has to establish stable rules for the world championship cycles that go beyond the next year.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124523556" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124523556" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Post]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/17/AR2006121700602.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/17/AR2006121700602.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ David Bronstein was the Michelangelo of modern chess, sharing with the famous Italian Renaissance artist a love of beauty. Carving his masterpieces on the chessboard, Bronstein perceived the royal game as an art. When he passed away this month at the age of 82, the chess world lost a marvelous and exceptional artist whose games and writings influenced generations of chess players. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESSLubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/10/AR2006121000778.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/10/AR2006121000778.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The chess giant David Bronstein died Tuesday in Minsk, Belarus, at the age of 82. The same day,  world champion Vladimir Kramnik lost the Man vs. Machine contest, 4-2, in Bonn, Germany. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESSLubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESSLubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/03/AR2006120300665.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/03/AR2006120300665.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With an incredible blunder against the computer program Deep Fritz 10 last Monday, the world champion Vladimir Kramnik redefined the difference between human players and computers: Machines don't overlook mate in one move. The mate led to Kramnik's loss of the second game, the only decisive result so far in the Man vs. Machine six-game match in Bonn, Germany. It deprived Kramnik of the half-million dollar bonus he would have gotten for winning the contest. After yesterday's fifth game, the computer led 3-2. Tomorrow is the last game. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESSLubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/26/AR2006112600655.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/26/AR2006112600655.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On Saturday in Bonn, Germany, world champion Vladimir Kramnik began a six-game match against the computer program Deep Fritz. The first game of the Man vs. Machine World Chess Challenge was drawn in 47 moves. Kramnik enjoyed a typical endgame advantage from the Catalan Opening, but the computer defended well. The match ends Dec.  5. The commercial version of Kramnik's opponent, Fritz 10, was just released by Chessbase. It is expected to challenge the top program on the market, Rybka 2.2, invented by Vasik Rajlich, an American International Master living in the Hungarian capital of Budapest.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124526047" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124526047" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/19/AR2006111900744.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/19/AR2006111900744.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Everybody loved Mikhail Tal. Books and songs were written about the legendary world champion whose imaginative attacking style and amazing, unexpected combinations captured our hearts. "You played like Tal" is still the highest praise to any attacking player. A memorial tournament, honoring the great chess magician from Riga, Latvia, and featuring some of the world's best players, finished Thursday in Moscow. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESSLubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/12/AR2006111200685.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/12/AR2006111200685.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Shortly after losing the world championship match to Vladimir Kramnik last month in Elista, Russia, Veselin Topalov appeared in a four-grandmaster double round Essent tournament in the Dutch town of Hoogeveen. The Bulgarian won two games but was twice smashed by Hungary's Judit Polgar and once by Azerbaijan's Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. The elite event ended Oct. 28 with a dead run between Polgar and Mamedyarov, both scoring 4 1/2   points. The Azerbaijani had a better tiebreaker and was declared the winner. Topalov ended with 2 1/2 points, and the Dutchman Ivan Sokolov managed only a half a point. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESSLubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/05/AR2006110500661.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/05/AR2006110500661.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Everyman  Chess has produced a chain of interesting books throughout the years, explaining openings in its "Starting Out" series or targeting specific defenses and variations. Recently it came up with a new opening concept, presenting variations that are "ambitious, sharp, innovative, disruptive, tricky, enjoyable to analyze; ones not already weighed down by mountains of theory, and ones unfairly ignored or discredited." It sounded like a tournament player's dream. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS Lubomir Kavalek  ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/29/AR2006102900553.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/29/AR2006102900553.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Seventeen-year-old International Master Zaven Andriasian of Armenia, playing before his home crowd in Yerevan, won the World Junior (under 20) Championship this month, scoring 9 1/2 points in 13 games. The top-finishing American, IM Robert Hungaski, ended in 46th place with 6 1/2 points.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124528193" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3525124528193" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek ]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/22/AR2006102200671.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/22/AR2006102200671.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Russian  team Tomsk-400 won the 22nd European Club Cup, played Oct. 7-15 in the Austrian town of Fuegen. The team was led by the Moscow grandmaster Alexander Morozevich, who posted the best performance rating of 2916 in the event. Tomsk-400 shared first place with two other Russian teams, Ladya Kazan (with Teimour Radjabov and Rustam Kasimdzhanov) and the pre-tournament favorite Ural Sverdlovskaya (Peter Svidler, Alexei Shirov, Vladimir Akopian, Alexander Grischuk), all winning five and drawing two matches. Morozevich's team won the title on a superior tiebreak. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ CHESS Lubomir Kavalek ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/15/AR2006101500766.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/15/AR2006101500766.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Vladimir Kramnik of Russia is the undisputed chess champion of the world. He defeated Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov on Friday in the $1 million World Chess Championship in Elista, Russia. After the regular 12 games finished in a 6-6 tie Thursday between the 31-year-old players, Kramnik won the rapid-game tiebreak 2 1/2 -1 1/2. The match unified the world title and ended the schism in the chess world that began in my kitchen 13 years ago. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lubomir Kavalek]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[CHESS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lubomir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kavalek]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
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