#chess champions

[secular-jew]

[krempov]

CHESS

STOCKFISH 15 rated 3900 sent a shockwave around the chess world defeating mankind.

But then Krempov sent a shockwaves back around the world holding of stockfish 15 rated 3900 with a draw. Giving some hope to mankind.

Watch the hero in action.

Krempovs moral its to sence defeat its to refuse defeat. Its to give it your all.

[detective-jane-rizzoli]

Bobby Fischer WAS a world chess champion (1972-75) who died in 2008, three years before the episode aired.

Robert James "Bobby" Fischer: (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

At 14, Brooklyn's Bobby Fischer was one of the country's youngest chess tournament players. In this photo, taken on June 21, 1957, he is about to move his queen during a match at the Manhattan Chess Club.

Photo: Hans von Nolde for the AP via CBS News

[columboscreens]

[twnj]

MSN Culture and Sports correspondent Alistor Kirkland managed to catch a few words from Shikamaru Nara, GM and former World Champion (seen in video above) on how his Candidates tournament has been going so far.

"Thank you Shikamaru, and welcome back. And congratulations as well."

"Thanks, man."

"So I think I can speak on behalf of the chess community when I say it's a surprise to see you back so soon. There's obviously been a big change in your life recently - do you think it has affected your game this week? I think your opponents would say your middle game in most of your matches today were somewhat distracted, or confused. Do you think it was wise to return when there was so many new faces in the game now?"

Needless to say Nara was concise and blunt as ever with his responses, despite at one point being handed his three month old son.

"That's not a serious question. This Candidates is missing some players, for sure- one in particular [...] but the games were fairly decisive. And no one has given me a good fight yet. But I don't know, man [...] I think I just need more sleep. Next question?"

Find out more later on this week where we have exclusive commentary on the highlights by GM and World Champion Temari Koroleva!

Unofficial Grandmaster headcannon madness by TWNJ, inspired by my friends and some crazy cute new-dad Shikamaru pics posted by @eeveleon and original GM by @notquitejiraiya

[mudwerks]

(via Lisa Lane, Chess Champion Whose Reign Was Meteoric, Dies at 90 - The New York Times)

Lisa Lane, an early star of American chess who was a two-time United States women’s champion and the first chess player to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated, died on Feb. 28 at her home in Carmel, N.Y., in Putnam County. She was 90.

[dozydawn]

IM Eline Roebers.

[secular-jew]

Islam, the number one enemy of human development and modern civilization.

"Iranian chess player Dorsa Derakhshani was given an ultimatum by the Islamic regime: either wear the hijab or you won’t be allowed to compete.

Not only she refused to wear the hijab, she joined the USA team and became a world champion".

@realMaalouf

[inbarfink]

[anatolykarpov]

[crescend0ll5555]

[walterdecourceys]

we could do one of those "guess what doesn't happen in this show" polls for chess except the options are all "anatoly has two children" "anatoly has one child" "anatoly has no children" etc

[indigosabyss]

Unexpected Baggage (Pt 2) — X-Men First Class & Ms. Marvel Fic

Erik sorted through the piles and piles of loose leaf evidence he had piled up over the years, trying to find some connection to the address the man from the bank had given him.

Strange girl with suspicious origins he was now responsible for aside, he was still planning on hunting down Shaw. In fact, knowing that he was doing the same thing to other kids made him all the more urgent.

Which meant he was going to have to arrange fake papers for Kamala, too, once he had an idea on who exactly he was searching for.

Speaking of Kamala, he craned his neck around to look at her sitting on the exact same seat she had taken upon entering the room. She was being strangely quiet.

"Everything okay?" He asked, trying to decide if that was a bad thing and if he really wanted the chatterbox back.

She grunted, eyes fixed on a strange plastic and metal device she was holding in her hands. It had a glowing screen on it, and music coming from some source, even though it was not nearly thick enough to contain a voice box.

"Are you okay just sitting in that chair for three hours?" He asked uncertainly.

"Mhm." She replied, jamming her hand on a button, "You told me to entertain myself, and I figured, might as well complete my X Pokedex while I'm stuck with no WiFi."

"... Pokedex?"

Her eyes snapped up like a shark that had smelled blood, "You don't have Pokemon here?"

"Uh..." He was beginning to regret asking. Yet his silence told her the truth.

Kamala inhaled sharply, grinning excitedly, "Oh, you're going to love this-"

He could be hunting down Shaw and his accomplices. It was disgusting that he had been walking free for more than a decade and yet the man was still breathing. Every minute wasted felt like a personal failure.

Yet, he spent an entire two hours being introduced to a video game(???) franchise about cutesy animal fighting rings, by a strange time-traveling girl. And it wasn't particularly fulfilling, but he couldn't find it in himself to consider that time wasted.

[thefrustrationqueen]

Bobby Fischer studied up on his game, 1962

Photo by Carl Mydans

[chessismyaesthetic]

Happy birthday Tigran Petrosian (1929-1972)!

One of my favourite chess players who most people haven't heard of, "Iron Tigran" was a Soviet-Armenian chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. When he beat Boris Spassky to defend his world title in 1966, this was the first time a world champion had beaten their closest rival in match play since the nineteenth century. In 1969 Spassky got revenge and Petrosian lost his title. He continued playing though and continued being a very tricky opponent. In total, was a candidate for the World Chess Championship eight times (1953, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1980) which means that for EVERY SINGLE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BETWEEN 1953 AnD 1980 Petrosian was either the champion or the candidate!!

He also won the Soviet Championship four times (1959, 1961, 1969, and 1975) which, given the quality of Soviet players at the time, was no mean feat. This was, after all, the age of Tal, Botvinnik, Korchnoi, Spassky, Smyslov, and Keres!

Art Zeller, Paul Keres and Tigran Petrosian with the Piatigorskys at the 1963 Piatigorsky Cup, 1963

He was insanely hard to beat, virtually unplayable at times, using a style heavily influenced by Aron Nimzowitsch's book My System and makes me think particularly of Nimzowitsch's dictum "First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy." In the Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games, Graham Burgess writes Petrosian invented:

"a unique playing style that oppnonents found very hard to handle. Often it wasn't even clear what they were fighting against, as Petrosian's deep prophylactic play would be preventing ideas that had not even occurred to them. Once his opponent's active possibilities were neutralized, Petrosian would squeeze relentlessly."

To give an example of how difficult an opponent he was, over the ten Olympiads he played in, he had 79 wins, 50 draws, and only 1 loss. In 1969, his final year as World Champion, he didn't lose a single tournament game.

Sam Copeland breaks down one of his best games with Spassky in the video below and you can check out some more of Petrosian's games here.