On this day, November 9, 1985, Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.

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This was game 2 of the 1974 World Championship Candidates Match in Moscow, Russia. The winer of the tournament would get the chance to play for the world title in 1975. Karpov opens with e4 and Korchnoi responds with the Sicilian Dragon. Karpov plays the extremely aggressive Yugoslav Attack, a line involving opposite-side castling and violent attacks. Korchnoi plays a topical line with 12. …Nc4 to exchange white’s strong bishop on b3, however this maneuver costs him valuable time to start his own attack against white’s king. Karpov sacrifices a pawn with 14. h5 to open the h-file, and proceeds with a fantastic prophylactic plan involving 16. Nde2! and 19. Rd3! – entirely preventing black’s attacking ideas revolving around an exchange sacrifice on c3 so that white can direct his full attention to the kingside. Karpov finishes the game with a sharp tactical sequence, sacrificing another pawn to open lines against black’s king. Korchnoi was unable to defend and resigned after 27. Qh8+, in light of 27. …Ke7 28. Nxd5+ Qxd5 29. Re1+.

This article is a summary for the full article on Soviet Chess – Anatoli Karpov vs Victor Korchnoi that includes some more info as well as an interactive chessboard for the video, please visit Wiliam’s site.

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Today marks the 100th birth anniversary of Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and three-time World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik.

Botvinnik became world champion in 1948, 1958, and 1961, and he played a total of 1202 games.

He was one of the pioneers of new trends in chess, made a significant contribution to world chess design and became a great chess teacher.

His students include World Champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov.

He died in May 1995.

Source: http://english.ruvr.ru

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By Chess Coach Will Stewart (USCF 2256, FIDE 2234). Follow William on Facebook and Twitter

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CEZ Chess Trophy 2011 was held from 12th to 19th June in Prague and featured a number of attractive events.

The main guest of the festival was the World Champion Viswanathan Anand, who played a simul (Anand scored 25:1, he lost against Petr Boleslav) and made the ceremonial 1st move at the start of the match between David Navara and Sergei Movsesian.

The match between Navara vs. Movsesian consisted of six classical games (90 min for 40 moves, 30 min till the end, increment 30s per move, rated by FIDE) and David Navara won by a narrow margin 3,5-2,5.

There have been a number of lectures given by the legendary Grandmasters Lubomir Kavalek and Vlastimil Hort, and famous study composer Yochanan Afek, additional simul given by GM Jan Smejkal, and exhibition of postage stamps with chess motives. Another exhibition presented photos of famous chess player visiting in Prague – Vera Mencik and Alexander Alekhine during Olympiad 1931, Paul Keres and Klaus Junge during the tournament in 1943, Vasily Smyslov and David Bronstain during the match Prague – Moscow 1946 etc.

Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, watched the whole simul as one of his sons played, it was actually the last game to finish. Klaus then invited Anand to visit his office in the Prague Castle.

Former World Champion Anatoly Karpov also visited Prague to open one of his chess schools this Tuesday.

More info about the event here: http://www.praguechess.cz/index.php

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The third match between Czech grandmaster David Navara and Armenian GM Sergey Movsesian ended in draw (1,5:1,5) in chess festival Cez Chess Trophy 2011.

This year Movsesian represents the Armenian national team, but he is a citizen of Slovakia and is considered the strongest chess player in the country.

World champion Wiswanathan Anand and the 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov also arrived in Prague. Anand will give lectures, while Karpov will open a chess school in Czech Republic’s capital.

Source: http://news.am

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It’s safe to say that Katie Price always attracts a sizeable crowd of complete and utter mentalists avid fans whenever she does one of her book signings across the country.

But now the former glamour model is attempting to do something which most people of sound mind would probably advice against; to bring together the biggest group of KP fans ever so that she can break a world record for the largest book singing by a single author.

The current champion for this bizarre record is chess player Anatoly Karpov who managed to sign 1,951 copies of his book in 8 hours. Katie obviously wants to do one better than that when she releases her new tome The Comeback Girl and has also promised to print the name of every fan who attends the event – which will take place on July 27^th at the O2 Academy – in the front of her next book.

Speaking about the record attempt Katie (who looked very much like Barbie to Leandro’s Ken when we spotted them out in London yesterday) said:

‘You know me, I’ve always had a competitive streak so when it was suggested that I try and break a Guinness World Record for a book signing, I thought “Bring it on”! I love meeting my fans and I can’t wait to make them part of this world record. I really hope they will come out to support me in Leeds on 27 July and as a thank you I’m going to dedicate my next book to them and print all their names in the front.’

Guess where we’ll be on July 27^th? That’s right – anywhere other than Leeds.

Source: http://www.mrpaparazzi.com

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It’s safe to say that Katie Price always attracts a sizeable crowd of complete and utter mentalists avid fans whenever she does one of her book signings across the country.

But now the former glamour model is attempting to do something which most people of sound mind would probably advice against; to bring together the biggest group of KP fans ever so that she can break a world record for the largest book singing by a single author.

The current champion for this bizarre record is chess player Anatoly Karpov who managed to sign 1,951 copies of his book in 8 hours. Katie obviously wants to do one better than that when she releases her new tome The Comeback Girl and has also promised to print the name of every fan who attends the event – which will take place on July 27^th at the O2 Academy – in the front of her next book.

Speaking about the record attempt Katie (who looked very much like Barbie to Leandro’s Ken when we spotted them out in London yesterday) said:

‘You know me, I’ve always had a competitive streak so when it was suggested that I try and break a Guinness World Record for a book signing, I thought “Bring it on”! I love meeting my fans and I can’t wait to make them part of this world record. I really hope they will come out to support me in Leeds on 27 July and as a thank you I’m going to dedicate my next book to them and print all their names in the front.’

Guess where we’ll be on July 27^th? That’s right – anywhere other than Leeds.

Source: http://www.mrpaparazzi.com

Chess daily news from Susan Polgar

It’s safe to say that Katie Price always attracts a sizeable crowd of complete and utter mentalists avid fans whenever she does one of her book signings across the country.

But now the former glamour model is attempting to do something which most people of sound mind would probably advice against; to bring together the biggest group of KP fans ever so that she can break a world record for the largest book singing by a single author.

The current champion for this bizarre record is chess player Anatoly Karpov who managed to sign 1,951 copies of his book in 8 hours. Katie obviously wants to do one better than that when she releases her new tome The Comeback Girl and has also promised to print the name of every fan who attends the event – which will take place on July 27^th at the O2 Academy – in the front of her next book.

Speaking about the record attempt Katie (who looked very much like Barbie to Leandro’s Ken when we spotted them out in London yesterday) said:

‘You know me, I’ve always had a competitive streak so when it was suggested that I try and break a Guinness World Record for a book signing, I thought “Bring it on”! I love meeting my fans and I can’t wait to make them part of this world record. I really hope they will come out to support me in Leeds on 27 July and as a thank you I’m going to dedicate my next book to them and print all their names in the front.’

Guess where we’ll be on July 27^th? That’s right – anywhere other than Leeds.

Source: http://www.mrpaparazzi.com

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Ex-world chess champion Anatoly Karpov today will open a children’s chess school named after him in Prague. Besides advising local chess players and keeping an eye on their training, Karpov will also hold competitions for young players from around the world.

In January the 12th world chess champion took part in a chess competition in Lidice winning 24 of 26 games and tying two.

Source: http://english.ruvr.ru

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