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Gelfand to Play Grischuk in Candidates’ Finals — The final two players in the World Candidates Matches in Kazan, Russia, were anything but expected when the chess event began. Alexander Grischuk of Russia and Boris Gelfand of Israel won playoffs on Monday to advance to the final, which begins on Thursday. Grischuk beat Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, a former world chess champion, and Gelfand defeated Gata Kamsky of the United States. Kramnik was one of the favorites before the candidates matches began, but he could not beat Grischuk in the regulation part of their match. He came close in the fourth and last game, until an oversight by Kramnik allowed Grischuk to escape from a losing position. From the beginning, Grischuk’s strategy seemed ...

Boris Gelfand and Alex Grischuk step up battle to face Vishy Anand — The favourites were eliminated, so two outsiders are competing Saturday in the candidates final to decide who meets India's Vishy Anand, the holder, in the 2012 world chess championship match. Israel's Boris Gelfand and Russia's Alex Grischuk play game three of their six-game series in Kazan. Gelfand, ranked world No16, is a 42-year-old veteran who has a career record of doing well in major chess events without winning. Grischuk, 27, world No12, divides his time between chess and poker and was only included among the eight candidates as a late substitute. But the Muscovite has knocked out Levon Aronian and Vlad Kramnik, the two prime favourites, while Gelfand eliminated the US chess champion Gata Kamsky ...

How to Cook in Chess — Actually, "to cook" in chess has nothing to do with culinary pleasures. It is a dreaded word chess composers don't want to hear. A chess composition is cooked when there is a different solution unintended by the composer -- a dual solution. But a composition can be also cooked when someone creates a sound problem or study from an unsound work and eliminates the dual solution. You can also have it both ways as our story shows. Last year we published a chess study composed by Ladislav Prokes and Oldrich Duras, but as pointed out by Prof. Noam Elkies, the study was "cooked." Recently, we learned that a Slovakian player, Ivan Novak, discovered the same dual solution already in ...

When Chess Grandmasters Fail to Live Up to the Title — There are drawn games among top chess players that are even more exciting than decisive victories, especially when they are riddled with errors and attacks. Two such games occurred in the semifinals of the World Chess Championship Candidates Matches in Kazan, Russia — one a face-off between Gata Kamsky and Boris Gelfand, and the other pitting Vladimir Kramnik against Alexander Grischuk. In the diagram below from Game 3 of the Kamsky-Gelfand match, Gelfand had just made a mistake with 28 ... Qh5 instead of 28 ... Qd7. Kamsky then should have moved 29 Bc4, which would have given Black two bad options. If Gelfand played 29 ... Rc4, then after 30 Qb6 Qf5 ...

Chess can put kids on level with adults — For most children, our modern industrial society is restrictive. Their social status and economic worth are postponed until adulthood. But chess can offer a rare entry into the adult world. Children who are reasonably good at the game can find themselves playing at least as well as, or even better than, educated adults. These adults - who might be doctors, lawyers, professors or other successful professionals - often become friends, providing access that is unavailable to most children or even adults of lesser status. It's no small boon. When future grandmaster and U.S. chess champion Yasser Seirawan of Seattle was 17, he told me with wonderment and appreciation about such relationships and ...

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