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Chess: Knight moves — The finely tuned positional antennae of Ulf Andersson sense a problem requiring a harmonious solution. More from the master of positional play, Ulf Andersson. How did he manage to improve his position? RB: Last week I went for an exchange sacrifice in the game Andersson-Tempone. It wasn't the continuation that Andersson chose, which should perhaps be enough to warn me against the move I am thinking of here – 1…Rd4. If White accepts the offer, 2 Bxd4 then 2…exd4 and the knight, which is pinned to the queen, is lost. But, of course, it's not going to be that simple. White can refuse to play ball and instead go ...

Senate Designates ‘Chess Day’ Before Heading Home — Passing a hard-fought deal to increase the country’s borrowing limit and reduce the budget deficit wasn’t all that the Senate did before recessing on Tuesday — at least for chess players. Overshadowed by the resolution of the fierce congressional debt-ceiling showdown was the Senate’s adoption of a resolution Tuesday designating Oct. 8, 2011 as “National Chess Day.â€� Introduced by Sen. John Rockefeller (D., W.Va.), the resolution recognizes the game as a “powerful cognitive learning toolâ€� and “encourages the people of the U.S. to observe “National Chess Dayâ€� with appropriate programs and activities.â€� It noted that “many studies have linked chess programs to the improvement of ...

Brute force or intelligence? The slow rise of computer chess — When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk." In 1770, a Hungarian engineer and diplomat named Wolfgang von Kempelen presented a remarkable invention to the court of Maria Theresa, ruler of Hungary and Austria. It consisted of a mechanical figure dressed in (what Europeans saw as) Oriental garb, presiding over a cabinet upon which a chess board sat. Full of gears ostentatiously placed in a front side drawer, The Turk was cranked up by hand, after which an opponent could sit down and play a game against the dummy. "Even among the skeptics who insisted it was a trick, there was ...

Michael Adams and Nigel Short face speed tie-break for British title — The British chess championship in Sheffield will be settled by a speed play-off this morning after the top seeds, Michael Adams and Nigel Short, both finished on 8.5/11. Jonathan Hawkins was half a point behind and seemed likely to be joined by Nick Pert. Adams, 39, and Short, 46, were both unbeaten and were at or near the top throughout. But there was almost an upset in the final round when Adams, who has not lost to a fellow Englishman for more than a decade, got into trouble against the Croydon schoolboy Yang-Fan Zhou, 17, and escaped with half a point. After drawing their head-to-head, the elite grandmaster pair were still locked together at the start of Friday's final ...

It Was Really No Contest at Two European Chess Events — One lesson from the recent Biel Chess Festival in Switzerland and the Sparkassen Chess-Meeting in Germany is that the gap in skills between the world’s best chess players and those in the second tier is sometimes too big to overcome. Magnus Carlsen, who is No. 1 in the world, captured first place at Biel by winning five games, drawing four and losing once. The resurgent Alexander Morozevich finished second with one less win and one additional draw. In Dortmund, Vladimir Kramnik, a former world chess champion, was a runaway winner, claiming the tournament title for the 10th time. Though he lost in the last round to Hikaru Nakamura, it was only because he passed up an easy draw and ...

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