Gata, Gata, Gata! That’s what the crowd was chanting in Siberia.. or not.. As you can see from the picture, chess is not the most popular game in the world, especially when the tournament is held in the middle of nowhere.
Kamsky’s World Cup victory is especially impressive given the fact he had no real opening […]

Both Gata Kamsky and Alexei Shirov proved that experience outweighs age in their semi-final victories over Carlsen and Karjakin. Who would have predicted that it would be the “Battle of the Old Men” in the finals? Usually these grueling fast time controls favor the young, but Kamsky and Shirov are both in insane form so […]

Chess fans around the country have started to chant: Kamsky!, Kamsky!, Kamsky! Ok, maybe they haven’t, but I have! Gata Kamsky just defeated his greatest challenge yet, Ruslan Ponomariov, to move on to the semi-finals where he will be facing Darth Vad… I mean Magnus Carlsen. Speaking of Magnus, my Cheparinov upset prediction over Carlsen […]

Kamsky continued to “Use The Force” today in his tiebreak match against Peter Svidler. The first game saw Kamsky play a line of the English as white which is not considered too threatening. Nevertheless he managed to get a nice advantage with the bishop pair, but Svidler played accurately and held the position. In the […]

It was an extremely exciting day at the World Cup 2007 as most players fought hard to avoid elimination or clinch their spot into the next round. In the end, 5 players advanced to the quarterfinals: Magnus Carlsen, Alexei Shirov, Ruslan Ponomariov, Ivan Cheparinov, and Sergey Karjakin.
Carlsen, who won the first game of the mini […]