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Kavalek in Huffington: September Chess – part one

10/11/2013 – The most significant chess event in Saint Louis, USA, was the first official world championship match between William Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort, staged in 1886. The most significant, that is, until the September 2013 Sinquefield Cup, a double-round tournament with Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura and Gata Kamsky. Huffington Post columnist GM Lubomir Kavalek elucidates.

Kavalek in Huffington: Kramnik triumphs in Norway

9/6/2013 – Torn between playing with his young kids in France and playing chess in Norway, Vladimir Kramnik, 38, made a choice that paid off. The former world champion won the 2013 FIDE Chess World Cup in Tromsø and collected $96,000. He finished the event undefeated, booking five wins in classical and four in rapid chess. Huffington Post columnist GM Lubomir Kavalek annotates two games of the winner.

Kavalek in Huffington: Chess Feast in Norway

8/10/2013 – From August 10 till September 5, 128 chessplayers will descend on the Norwegian city of Tromsø to contest the FIDE World Cup. Only two of the best players will be missing: the world champion Vishy Anand of India and his challenger Magnus Carlsen of Norway. Huffington Post columnist GM Lubomir Kavalek describes two of his encounters with Norwegian players. Highly entertaining.

Kavalek in Huffington: Tired chess brains in China

7/21/2013 – Saved from collapse by rich Russian sponsors, the FIDE Grand Prix moved to China this month for its fifth leg. Some of the world class players came to Beijing tired from the previous hectic schedule, having taken part in the Candidates Tournament, Alekhine and Tal Memorials, Norway Classic and Grand Prix in Zug and Thessaloniki. Huffington Post columnist Lubomir Kavalek analyses the consequences.

Kavalek in Huffington: Boris Gelfand in Moscow

7/2/2013 – At the age of 41, Jaromir Jagr should not have been playing in the Stanley Cup final and keeping up with the fast skating hockey players. At the age of 45, the Israeli grandmaster Boris Gelfand should not be winning major chess tournaments ahead of young talented players and world champions. But sometimes age doesn't matter, as Huffington Post columnist GM Lubomir Kavalek explains.

Kavalek in Huffington: Chess, the game of tension

6/10/2013 – When two thinkers clash the tension is obvious. Dramatic moments increase with higher stakes, nerves take over and players do things we don't expect them to do. But there is also tension on the board, reflected in the interaction of the pieces. All this was illustrated in the FIDE Grand Prix in Thessaloniki, as Huffington Post column GM Lubomir Kavalek analytically demonstrates.

Kavalek in Huffington: Sicilian and Spanish Dragons

5/25/2013 – In 1901 the Russian master Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky invented the name Dragon Variation for the pawn configuration d6, e7, f7, g6, h7 in the Sicilian, because it looked to him like the Draco constellation in the celestial sky. In his Huffington Post column GM Lubomir Kavalek describes a mirror constellation that he calls the Spanish Dragon. Extensive and instructive analysis.

Kavalek in Huffington: Alekhine and the art of chess

5/12/2013 – "To me, chess is not a game; it is art," said the great Alexander Alekhine, the fourth World Chess Champion. It is fitting that this year's Alekhine Memorial chess tournament was held in the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. In his Huffington Post column GM Lubomir Kavalek looks at a key game from this event and at a 1930 game by Alekhine.

Kavalek in Huffington: Remembering Robert Byrne

4/16/2013 – Robert Byrne, a prolific chess writer and one of the strongest U.S. grandmasters, died Friday, April 12, 2013, at the age of 84. He was a World Championship Candidate, U.S. champion and played for the U.S. team in nine chess Olympiads. For 34 years, he wrote an exceptional chess column for the New York Times. His good friend Lubomir Kavalek, also a writer, remembers his colleague.

Kavalek in Huffington: Kramnik's critical game

4/12/2013 – As the Candidates Tournament in London drew to a close there were two players in the lead: Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik. Both suffered unexpected defeats in the final rounds, with Carlsen squeaking by in the end to become the challenger for the World Championship match. GM Lubomir Kavalek has analysed the critical game that sealed Kramnik's fate in part two of his HuffPo column.

Kavalek in Huffington on Carlsen vs Anand

4/9/2013 – The world's top-rated chess player Magnus Carlsen of Norway qualified from the Candidates tournament in London to challenge the reigning champion Vishy Anand of India in the world championship match in the fall of this year. Carlsen, 22, won in the English capital by a squeaker after a dramatic last round, played on April Fools' Day. Read about this in Lubomir Kavalek's HuffPo column.

Kavalek in Huffington: Chasing Chess Legacy

3/9/2013 – The late Bobby Fischer would have been 70 today (he was born on March 9th 1943). At the age of 26 he wrote his famous book My 60 Memorable Games, which is considered one of the best game collections ever. At 21 Magnus Carlsen is too young to write about his games, but others like Kasparov, Polgar, Nimzowitsch have done it. Read about this in Lubomir Kavalek's HuffPo column.
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