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Chess news: Assisting a World Chess Champion Yields Dividends in a Title -- Chess players, even the best ones, can use help in developing strategies. That is why top chess players often employ trainers, also known as seconds, particularly when preparing for a match or important chess tournament. Players chosen as seconds usually have a variety of skills. Some are experts in openings, others are defensive specialists. Occasionally, they are even ex-champions. In last year’s world chess championship match between Viswanathan Anand of India, the defending chess champion, and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, Anand had four seconds: Peter Heine-Nielsen of Denmark, Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan (former champion of the World Chess Federation) ... Bennett and King on chess: Kasparov v Yusupov, Linares 1996 -- Variation from Kasparov-Yusupov, Linares 1996. How can White, to play, win from this position? RB I've puzzled over the position for half an hour now, and I still can't work out how to do this. Everything I've tried fails. 1 Ra7 - with the idea of the double capture of the pawn and bishop on a4 - runs into the well-known rook's pawn ending: 1...Bc2 2 Rxa4 Bxa4 3 Kxa4 Kb7 and Black's king will sit stolidly in the corner, blocking the pawn's path to promotion. I also looked at king moves, trying to see if there was a way to mate on the back rank, but 1 Kc6 Kb8 ruins that idea. Black's king always slips ... Anand and Carlsen Triumphant -- Last week was a busy time for some of the world's top chess players, most of them being involved in rapid chess exhibition matches. Yesterday, the world chess champion Vishy Anand of India defeated Peter Leko in an eight-game match in Miskolc, Hungary, with the score 5-3. Magnus Carlsen of Norway won yesterday's dramatic final of the XXII Magistral Ciudad de Leon in Leon, Spain, against one of the world's most active chess players, Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, with a 4-3 score. Ivanchuk came to Leon directly from Prague, where he participated in the CEZ Trophy eight-game rapid chess match at the end of May against the top Czech grandmaster David Navara ... | |