File this one under, “It's my blog and I'll post what I want to post!” Late last year world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik got married in Paris. Some photos of the wedding have now been posted at Kramnik's website. No real news here, but one of the pictures includes former world number one Boris Spassky, who is apparently close friends with Kramnik. Spassky, of course, was the fellow who lost the world championship, in pretty humiliating style, to Bobby Fischer in 1972.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
Two games down in the big World Chess Championship and two wins for Kramnik. But that doesn't tell the whole story.
Game One saw the quiet Catalan Defense from Kramnik, an ultra-solid opening fitting Kramnik's style. He obtained a small advantage out of the opening but Topalov was never in…
Former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer has died of kidney failure at the age of 64. The New York Times has an informative article here.
For chess fans Bobby Fischer was the classic example of the need to separate the art from the artist. Away from the board Fischer was an emotionally disturbed…
Ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod! Just try to guess why I am so excited right now. I dare you, just try.
I'll even give you some time...
Okay, so maybe the title gave it away.
The long awaited (among chess fans anyway) match between Viswanathan Anand of India and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia begins today.…
That's the headline in The New York Times. I'm not kidding.
Game five of the big reunification match for the World Chess Championship was supposed to be today. This was the match that was going to restore harmony to the chess world, after the big split in 1993 when Gary Kasparov refused to defend…
These photos were from the church ceremony held on February 4th. The civil ceremony took place on Dec 30 (or 31st, depending on the source). Some photos of the civil ceremony. They had a cake with the final position from his Elista win on it. Pretty cool.
P.S.: Looks like he may have to tangle with Topalov again in the next world championship cycle. If he wins Mexico City, then he has to play Topalov. If he does not win Mexico, he then plays the winner of Mexico, which may be Topalov.
Ilyumzhinov has spoken!
Dave S.-
Thanks for the clarifications. Things were a little confusing over at Karmnik's site.
Topalov isn't doing so well in Linares right now. And neither is Leko, who also lost to Kramnik in a match. Topalov is so uneven, brilliant one day fishy the next, that I wouldn't bet a lot of money on him winning Mexico City.