Viswanathan Anand of India is fighting Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria for retaining his championship title. The challenger Topalov is a Bulgarian GrandMaster and 19th world champion. He is in good form and this is his final step to the world crown.Chess world says this tournament is between the strongest players on the planet. Anand the defending champion is oldest player to win world no:1 at the age of 37 in 2007 April, is considered to be the best player in blitz chess.The match begun on April 21st in Sofia, …

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 …

             A professional approach to the battle boards needs proper understanding of the various aspects of the game.In a very formal game its compulsory that we should mark the moves and this is called notating the moves. There are a number of chess notations, of which algebraic notation is the one very commonly used.Eventhough there are other notations like reversible algebraic, figurine algebraic, smith, descriptive etc FIDE, the international chess federation is currently promoting the algebraic notation only.Now the need of noting down is to record a game of chess, …

The Soviet chess grandmaster and tenth World Chess Champion who held the title from 1969-72 was born in January 30, 1937.Spassky was born in Leningrad, and learned chess at the age of five when he was on an evacution train from his birth place.His international debut was on 1953 at the age of 16.From that day the growth of the 16 year old was tremendous. He was USSR champion twice, 1961 & 1973 and many other significant titles.

ROBERT JAMES FISCHER or commonly BOBBY FISCHER was an American chess GRANDMASTER.He is among the most respected chess players in modern era.He was born in March,1943 & died inJan,2008.He learned rules of the game at the age of SIX and was US champion 8 times.Bobby, who died at the age of 64, was a prodigal child, a grandmaster and before age 30 a world champion who triumphed in a Cold War showdown with Soviet champion Boris Spassky.
Started at age 14 he played 8 united states chess championships and won all …