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Pitching a Perfect Chess Game — Asked to name his best chess game, the legendary Bobby Fischer pointed to his encounter with Donald Byrne from the Rosenwald Trophy in New York in 1956, but admitted it wasn't perfect. "There is no perfect game in chess," he said. After all, we are human and we make mistakes. But according to the Hungarian writer and International Master Tibor Karolyi, Anatoly Karpov came close to playing a mistake-free game at the 1974 chess olympiad in Nice, France, and only a tiny error deprived him of creating a perfect game. It was played when we met on the top board of the USA-USSR match. It became one of Karpov's most analyzed chess games. Of the 17 games we played against each other in major chess competitions in ...

Chess: last of the brilliant Andersson manoeuvres — The positional master notes the seriousness of the situation – then fixes it. We conclude our survey of Ulf Andersson's positional play. White is threatening to manoeuvre the knight into e5, very much like the position from last week. How do you counter? RB: I haven't been doing too well with the Andersson positions. They've been too subtle for me, and this one seems beyond my powers as well. Can I stop the knight manoeuvre? 1…Nc6 doesn't help. White continues 2 Nf3 and makes the hop to e5 at his convenience. Since I can't stop the knight coming to e5, perhaps I should be making threats of my own. I can't see anything on the queenside – 1…a4 2 Ba2 leads to ...

On Chess: For some greats, money is no issue — Have you ever considered hiring a chess teacher for yourself or a child? You might ask Magnus Carlsen for his advice. Under the tutelage of Garry Kasparov for a year or so starting in 2009, the 20-year-old Norwegian became the highest-rated chess player in the world. But there is a rub: the question of affordability. According to Carlsen’s father, Henrik, Kasparov’s fee was $690,000 — probably more than the former Russian world chess champion made for any comparable effort in his career. For Magnus, whom Henrik described as “not that interested in money,â€� Kasparov’s fee probably was no big deal. Largely, because of a sponsorship arrangement with the clothing manufacturer G-Star, the chess whiz earned ...

Carlsen stays cool atop rankings — Magnus Carlsen of Norway is a distinctly modern chess phenomenon. At 20, he is the world’s highest-rated chess player. He is also a millionaire — thanks to a lucrative sponsorship agreement with the G-Star apparel company — who can look forward to an expanding list of such commercial deals in the future. Off the board and on the board, Carlsen seems to do it all with a minimum of storm and stress. Unlike the legendary Bobby Fischer, he is not — as he is happy to point out — obsessed with chess. Last year, Carlsen surprised the chess community by turning down an invitation to take part in the cycle for the world chess championship. After calling for changes in the selection process and ...

Two Big Chess Tournaments in the Two Biggest Cities — The biggest chess tournaments in the United States are usually held in places like Philadelphia and Las Vegas, not New York and Los Angeles. The reasons are cost (rents for tournament sites are higher in New York and Los Angeles) and convenience (inland chess tournaments tend to be easier to get to). Last weekend was an exception, with new top-level chess tournaments taking place in the two biggest cities. The competition in Los Angeles, at the First Metropolitan International Tournament, was slightly tougher and included Michael Adams of England, No. 28 in the world, and Loek van Wely of the Netherlands, No. 54. Adams lived up to his ranking by winning the chess tournament by ...

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