Tal Memorial chess tournament : Viswanathan Anand draws with B...

Checkmate? Indias world champion Viswanathan Anand and Russias Vladimir Kramnik play during a round 6 game of the Alekhine Memorial chess tournament in St. Petersburg on Sunday. The tournament is a 10-player single round competition, with the first half held ...

Kramnik, who was a world champion for seven years, believes that age and motivation are the biggest advantages for Carlsen against Anand.

The elite of the chess world will be among the participants, including Russian GM Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Gelfand from Israel, and Chinese GM Ding Liren.

Vladimir Kramnik, former world chess champion and one of the Candidates who was in race to challenge Viswanathan Anand for the world title, believes the Indian Grandmaster has a chance to beat Magnus Carlsen in the world championship match later this year if ...

The 43 year old Anand has successfully defended his title against Russia's Vladimir Kramnik in 2008, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in 2010 and Boris Gelfand of Israel in 2012. Anand is also a former World Junior Champion, winning the under-20 title in ...

Black to play. This is from Kramnik-Fressinet, Alekhine Memorial 2013, a variation from a sensational win by the French grandmaster. Two pieces down, how does Black continue? Answers to me at The Spectator by Tuesday 14 May or via email to ...

The tournament showed that rumors of the death of classical chess were somewhat exaggerated. It was a vivid spectacle, there was a high number of decisive games… Yes, it ended up being a wonderful tournament, but Im not sure it was the best ever.

Armenian GM Levon Aronian defeated Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in Round 2 of the Alekhine Memorial in Paris. Aronian has 1 point after Round 2. Michael Adams (UK) defeated Peter Svidler of Russia. Adams had 2 points and is the tournament leader at ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian beat Russia's Vladimir Kramnik in the 2nd round of Paris-hosted Alexander Alekhine Memorial. UK's Michael Adams is leading the tournament with 2 points, followed by France's Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ...