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Lots of fighting chess in this round. Three of the four games were decisive and all the winners had the white pieces: Anand over Svidler, Grischuk over Morozevich and Gelfand over Aronian, Leko and Kramnik drew. This puts the world's highest rated player and top seed Viswanathan Anand in the lead with 3.5 points. |
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| After four rounds there have been four decisive games. This time Levon Aronian adds his name to the 1-0 / 0-1 club, joining Anand, Kramnik and Morozevich. Atop the leader board are Kramnik and Anand with 2.5 followed by four players with 2.0. Peter Svidler and Peter Leko are bringing up the rear with 1.5. Monday is a rest day. |  |
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All games in round three began with1.e4, there were two Petroffs, a Scotch and a new fangled Marshall Gambit. Alexander Morozevich was the only player to win with a victory over Peter Swidler. Kramnik had a one pawn advantage in a rook and pawn endgame vs. Anand but just couldn't squeeze enough out of the position and settled for a stalemate. Included in this report is a video impression of the start of round three courtesy of ChessBase. |
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| Playing the black pieces vs. Levon Aronian, Viswanathan Anand has become the first player in this World Championship tournament to score a full point. Anand, currently the highest rated player in the world, composed a beautiful forty-one move masterpiece. The current World Champion Vladimir Kramnik also scored the full point with his fiercely complicated win over Alexander Morozevich. Round two games and impressions. |  |
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The first round of the 2007 World Championship was a placid affair with all games ending in draws and none of the games lasting longer than twenty-eight moves. This result was more or less expected as players typically feel each other out in the early stages of such a long tournament. Here are games and images from round one. |
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| What better way to celebrate a wedding anniversary than by challenging your soulmate to a game of chess? That was precisely Heather Haskell's train of thought when she convinced her husband to play chess with her on their special day. There is one twist however, Haskell, a stay-at-home-mom in the Bangor area, will play her husband in public, on a board with three foot squares, using people as pieces. This event has been cancelled. |  |
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The 2007 World Chess Championship will be getting underway this week in Mexico City with the opening ceremony scheduled for 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, September 11, 2007. The first round will commence at 3:00 p.m. EST on the following day. This tournament brings together eight of the world's strongest players and qualifies as a Category XXI event, the strongest ever in the history of chess. |
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| The Belfast Free Library will be expanding its offering of chess classes to children. Made possible by a grant from the Golden Rule Foundation, the library now offers chess instruction to students in first grade through high school. Scholastic chess coach Russell Kahn will be the instructor. |  |
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Fall is quickly approaching and so are a number of interesting chess events. The Washington County Chess Federation celebrates its one year anniversary with the WCCF September Swiss in Pembroke. The Eastern Maine Open in Orono and the Maine Open in South Portland are coming right up. There will also be a human chess match--where the pieces are real people--taking place at Broadway Park in Bangor. Here are the details. |
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| Students and chaperones from Chess-in-the-Schools, the wildly successful program that teaches chess to kindergarten through eighth grade children in New York's inner-city public schools, recently made the trek to downeast Maine for a cultural and chessic exchange with some of Maine's top scholastic players. In four fun-filled days, students enjoyed USCF-rated chess, blitz, bughouse, two cookouts, a lobster bake and most importantly, each other's company. |  |
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