eldadorojo.com This year Wijk Aan Zee tournament victory went for Magnus Carlsen. As related in other posts he is going to be ruling chess for some time, specially is Kasparov is to be his long term trainer.
In spite of Carlsen victory the tournament started with a Spanish player on top, with 5 victories in a row [...]
The tournamente was played from the 8th to 15th of December of 2009. Its highest rated players being Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik. Chance had it they’ll battle each other on first round.
I have been following Magnus from some time since he appeared ocasionally as tournament winner as a child, being from Norway he was [...]
We could start arguing first if chess can be considered a Sport, or just a game. I believe this is a semantic problem. It would take us too far from today’s topic so for the time being let’s assume it is a non physical sport.
As with most other sports they are played mainly by males. [...]
It’s probably the best strategy game.
Rules are simple, there are 9 different figures, each of them is allowed simple movements. The objective of the game is even easier, just take your opponents king for victory.
Movements have changed over time, it seems chess originated in Asia and moved into Europe through arabs in Al-Andalus.
