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Vladimir Kramnik(2772) vs Vishwanathan Anand(2783) Game 5 today World Chess Championship Match, October 2008 Bonn, Germany Match Score V Anand 2.5 - V Kramnik 1.5 Kramnik 0.5, 0.5, 0, 0.5 V.Anand 0.5, 0.5, 1, 0.5 Kramnik opens with white in the 5th game of the World Chess Championship match. Both the players have displayed high quality of play so far. Anand has shown something more than just preparation, and that is a lot of heart and of course, good old preparation. Expect Kramnik to go all out from here on. How about 1. e4 from Kramnik? ;-) A 12 game match is unfortunately very short for these two players and there is no choice but to play aggressively throughout. Anand cannot relax and try to draw the rest of the games. This approach usually boomerangs. In addition to this, Anand has lost matches where he lead, for example, against Kamsky and Karpov. And Kramnik has won after falling behind initially against Leko and Topalov. We will post analysis on game 5 live with annotations on ...

There is an initiative that has been started to name a Belgrade Street after Chess Legend Bobby Fischer. The Balkan Insight says "Look for non-Serb names, too, like Theodore Dreiser, Archibald Rice, Anton Chekov, Anne Frank, Samuel Beckett, Georges Clemenceau, Patrice Lumumba, and President Kennedy. Often these people had some direct connection with Serbia, like Jacob Grimm, of the Brothers Grimm, who learned Serbian so he could read the country’s folklore in the original. In 2007, a decision was made to name a street after the late Japanese Ambassador Keisuke Oba, who had been associated with the former Yugoslavia for 30 years, and who is buried in Belgrade. An initiative is now underway for a street to be named after the legendary chess champion, Bobby Fischer." We also noticed a certain Prof. Leko. Can anyone tell us if he is related to someone we know well? The full article is available here

Did you know that Kramnik was comprehensively beaten by Alexei Shirov in a 10 game Candidates match in 1998? Kramnik's later wins over Kasparov, Leko, and Topalov overshadowed this loss. Kramnik lost to Shirov -2 +0 with seven draws. Shirov won the 4th and the 9th games of the match with in a Petrov (Modern Attack) and Neo-Grunfeld Defense game respectively. The 9th game win was with black. The Shirov - Kasparov match for the title did not materialize for want of sponsorship.

World champion Vishy Anand leads after the fifth round of the Morelia Linares chess tournament. Standings after 5th round: 1. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2799 3½ 2892 2. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2739 3 2836 3. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2755 2½ 2760 4. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2780 2½ 2742 5. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2733 2½ 2767 6. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2735 2 2692 7. Lékó, Peter g HUN 2753 2 2682 8. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2751 2 2676

Come on in. Everyday we will put up live analysis and post-mortem ! Here is the list of players that we consider masters at winning and masters at drawing. Its interesting to see some players who belong to these groups by character :) Winning masters: 1. Garry Kasparov (73.08%) 2. Paul Keres (71.67%) 3. Max Euwe (71.43) 4. Lajos Portisch (66.14%) 5. Efim Geller (66.07%) Drawing masters: 1. Gyula Sax (76.32%) 2. Peter Leko (75.96%) 3. Andras Adorjan (72.09%) 4. Gennadi Sosonko (71.52%) 5. Ulf Andersson (67.86%)

The focus will obviously be on the Kramnik - Anand rivarly and now that they are tied for the top spot in the world with exactly the same ELO points, this tournament will more or less serve as a tie-break. Topalov has lost a lot of the headlines to the top two, so he'll probably grab this chance to try and get some. Carlsen, Mamedyarov, and the ever dangerous Judit Polgar are others to watch. The Group A of the Corus Chess Tournaments reads like a Who's who in chess. Here's the list updated with the January 2008 Ratings. Note that Ivanchuk for example, appears second but is ninth in the world because he slipped by the time the Corus tournament was announced and the Ratings list was updated. Same with Leko and Aronian too and so on. Kramnik moved up. World Rank, Name, Country, Rating GM Group A 1 GM Viswanathan Anand India 2799 9 GM Vassily Ivanchuk Ukraine 2751 1 GM Vladimir Kramnik Russia 2799 3 GM Veselin Topalov Bulgaria 2780 8 GM Peter Leko Hungary 2753 6 GM Shakryar Ma...