If the game was a draw then the match would have moved to a day of rapid and blitz games on 13th something that many experts said would favour Anand.Anand tacitly offered draw by repeating moves but Topalov was not ready to accept it and the game went complicated till he made a mistake at move 31.There on Anand had a slight upperhand.

Whole Match Score Card: 

            Eventhough the championship started off with a few unusual talks, like postponing the match for 3 days due to Anand’s unexpected travelling time, no such thing happened except FIDE postponed the first round match a day considering Anand’s plea. It took 40 hours of road trip for Anand to reach Sofia from Badsoden,Germany. No flights were permitted on german air due to the volcanic ash. After the first match there were rumours that the Indian is not in his peak and with age his skills are eroding, but Anand bounced back with a win and equaliser in the second match. Anand had appeared vulnerable in the first game but the course of the match since then has shown that the defending champion has nerves of steel to back his fantastic preparation and probably we can believe his 3 day posponment plea was quite genuine. From the initial 3 matches its implicit that the whole tournament is going to be interesting for chess lovers.

Pinning:                Is a very common tactic in chess.It is a situation leading to a dilemma for the opponent so that moving a piece will make a more valuable piece vulnerable. “To Pin” refers to the restriction of the opponent so that free movement of his piece is not possible.Pieces which can move infinitely along horizontal, vertical or diagonal can pin other pieces. A king cannot be pinned,as soon as the king is pinned it will become a check and King should be moved.Bishops, Rooks & Queens can pin opponents pieces whereas a King, Knight, and Pawn can’t make a pin. A Relative pin is a situation where the pinned piece is shielding a piece other than a king but relatively of higher value. An Absolute pin means the pinned piece is shielding a king, so the movement of the pinned piece becomes illegal, as it will result in a check to the king(If movement of a piece leads to check then its illegal move).In the picture the black knight is pinned by a White queen and it is an absolute pin.

Skewering:                          Is something that almost opposite to pinning. Here the more valuable piece is on attack and thus forcing the opponent to move that piece which in turn will lead to the capture of a relatively less valuable piece.Here also absolute and relative is present.The picture shows an absolute skewer, as the black king is on check it should be moved which will result in losing the queen.

Stalemate:
                           Is a situation leading to a draw.It happens when its a player’s turn to move and he doesnot have any valid move and his King is not in a check.Usually this happens when there are less number of pieces on the board.Some pieces will be blocked by opponents, some will be on absolute pin.

Fork:
              A tactical move which will bring a profit in terms of opponent’s pieces. Fork is a situation when a piece attacks two or more pieces of the opponent simultaneously, thus resulting in a material gain.Any piece can create a fork, Knights are famous in forking moves, while bishops, rooks, queen, pawn and even king can create a fork. A Royal fork means the king and queen are forked which will eventually result in loosing queen in most cases. A Grand fork happens when the fork is made of  King, Queen and one or both Rooks.

The table shows very a battle board game in which only a few moves are shown just to elaborate on the various notations. “e4″ means white pawn at e2 moves to e4. “e5″ means black pawn at e7 moves to e5. The move written as 0-0 is a special move “Castling King side”. If the King castles on the queenside it would be written as 0-0-0. The noted as “d5″ means the black pawn at d7 moves to d5.“exd5″ is another special move denoting a piece capture, here it is a white pawn capturing a black piece located at d5.“dxc1=Q” is yet another special notation denoting a black pawn(d2) captures a piece at c1 and the pawn gets transformed into a Queen.“Bxc6+” means white bishop captures a piece at c6, and the plus sign means the movement resulted in a “check” to the black king. “d4++” indicates the movement of a black pawn to d4 square and the “++” sign indicates that white lose the game, the d4 movement resulted in a checkmate.

    Evenif he lost to Fischer the world honoured him for his sportsmen spirit.He marked a difference in the chess world even in the post Fischer era.Regarding his contributions to modern chess, Spassky opening theory are still famous, risky yet amoung favourites.Eg:-King’s Gambit and a revised Marshall Attack for black and variations in Ruy Lopez.Spassky is considered among all time Legends of Chess with all his contributions to the modern Chess and his brilliant games against Tigran Petrosian (World Championship match 1969),Bent Larsen (USSR vs Rest of the World 1970) and ofcourse Fischer is also in the list.

Chess is a fun game with relatively easy to learn rules. It helps you become more patient. After all, this is a game that relies on the mind’s ability to find solutions to problems.Its battle on a board,but a patient one.The game is played between two opponents.

Begining from the root,it requires

• A square shaped board divided into 64 squares alternatively colored in black & white;
• 32 pieces: 16 white pieces for one player and 16 black pieces for the other player.

The chess board is placed in between the two opponents in such a manner that each of them has a black square on the left corner of the board. Both players start off with an identical set of 16 pieces: 8 Pawns, 2 Rooks, 2 Knights , 2 Bishops, a Queen and a King.

Certain Rules

· Each player must move one piece at a time. So, in fact, the game is played in a succession of moves.

· Each piece moves after a certain rule, from one square to another

· Game always starts with the player having the white pieces, making the first move

· Some pieces are more important than others depending on their range of action and their value; for example: the queen is the strongest piece on the board because it has the greatest range of action while the king is the most important piece because it is the main piece targeted by the enemy attack. Similarly Knight can jump over another piece in a certain way.

A player can capture a piece; he takes that piece outside the board and move his own piece in its place.

Aim of a game:

The game revolves around attacking the other side’s king. When a king is under the threat of being captured it is said that the king is in check. When a king is in check it must be moved otherwise it risks being captured. The objective of each player is to Checkmate his opponent. That means bringing the enemy king in such a position that when attacked it has no available square on which to move. When a player checkmates his opponent king he wins the game. There are times when both sides can’t win the game. In this case the game ends at equality and it is said to be a draw.

With this the ROOT ends,Now to a bit professional side of the game,

NOTATIONs:

Notation is an important way of playing professionally.
It comes under the heading how to play chess in a technical way.A chess board consists of rows and columns, or (RANKS & FILES).Each rank is designated (from 1-8) and each file is designated (from a-h).

The board shows ranks and files,and a coins’ movement is noted on the basis of this rank and files.a1 is first row first column,similarly h8 is row 8 ,column 8

Now notations for each movements

1. + check

2. ++ double check (the king is simultaneously checked by pieces)

3. =/ check mate

4. X or : capture

5. ! Good move

6. !! Excellent move

7. ? Bad move

8. ?? Very bad move

9. = Game is equal

How to record a move??

This i will explain with the help of an eg:

The fig shows a chess board in which the white pawn and black pawn had made a movement.It can be recorded like e2-e4 d7-d5.Hope that clarifies the way of recording a game,atleast to a small extend

Three phases of the game:

1. Opening
2. Middle game
3. End game

In the opening every player must try to gain a position in the board,and simultaneously prevent the opponent from doing the same.

The middle game is as important as opening and end,where we must try to avoid loosing our position in the board,most players prefer to comcentrate their play in the centre of the board so that he got access to every region on the board.

The End game is characterized by a small number of pieces on the board. Because of the small number of pieces the result of the end game is sometimes more predictable than that of the middle game. In this part of the game sometimes even the smallest advantage could be exploited into helping you win the game.

Another important term in chess is tactics.Tactics in chess usually involves a succession of moves which are based on forcing the opponent into making moves that disadvantage him. The purpose behind the tactical procedure is to gain material or positional advantage,this is usually tried in the middle game when the coin count is high,and difficult to detect a trick.