Disappointment at Corus

Today Sasikiran lost second game in Corus B, considering he is top rated its a rude shock that he is at the bottom now, he has slipped in the live rating and risks going below 2700, this doesn't seems good for him, he should have banked on oppurtunity he got to get more invites and at least stay in top 20. Similarly other Indians Gupta and Harika also should hvae done little better, at least Harika is OK. Hope they will do better in rest of the tournaments.

Mexico 2007

There will be a world chess championship by FIDE in Mexico in Sept 2007.
Whom I am rooting for? Silly question
Of course Anand!! I hope and think he will win. Only problem can be long games where he may lose patience, hope not!!
This will be really big tournament. Almost everyone has a chance.
But of course big three are Anand, Kramnik and Aronian in that order.
Leko can be a real threat.
Moro can decide the outcome by his unpredictable play but can not win.
Svidler needs more hunger.
Gelfand has had lot of opportunity but never been in the real top....
Grischuk is appears to be only outsider though is known to be talented but lately enjoying Poker more than chess.
I bet on Anand.
Want to get up early and finish work and be back by 2 for watching games live.

I want to be an IM

Ha Ha Ha!!
This is my small time dream! Not at all a priority.
I want to play lot of tournament chess and be an IM. I want to play first FIDE rated event in Jan2008 at Brownsville, TX.

Wish me Luck!!

let me know what it takes to be an IM?

No1

Anand come April 2007! Real King!!

Susan Polgar Chess Blog: Mtel 2006 - Who will win?

Susan Polgar Chess Blog: Mtel 2006 - Who will win?

Physics and Chess analogy by Richard Feynman

This is a link that Chessbase gave of a video of Richard Feynman a Nobel laureate. He explains beautifully how learning physics in nature is analogous to learning a chess. Great brains at work!!

Free Style Chess

It was a very exciting experience when I played eight games in freestyle tournament. Though it was very hectic, as almost all games went till end and had very little time in between games so it was almost continuous eight hours of play with tension. Lot more such tournaments should take place and these may decide fate of chess game in near future. I thought there will be much more players or teams taking part than 147 which were presents. May be it was not well publicized event. Organizers should have done more of marketing on all chess websites other than chessbase.
I think person with one engine and very fast computer won the first phase. Overall feeling is it was Rybka’s tournament. At least that’s the feeling one gets from name of the players.
After a while such tournament will loose the chess loving fans and it will become as a market place for different softwares. Machines are going to be faster day by day, and all this means that fun will be lost. Their speed increases exponentially!! So may be by end of the year when Kramnik plays Deep Fritz it will be a Last chance for human beings to defeat these monsters.

Queen Down!

Quite a disappointment!! Koneru should not have lost so early. Such opportunities don’t come often. She was in very good form. Especially after good corus tournament. Or is the lack of sponsorship has started show in her results. Feel so sorry for her! Hope she comes kicking after this setback!! All the best to her in future tournaments.
Good that Vijayalaxmi is still there in race. Hope she goes ahead and makes us proud! Best wishes to her!!