Gelfand – Anand, Game 7: Dancing Knights!

Here is my translation of GM Sergey Shipov’s analysis of the seventh game of the World Championship match. I was going to call this post “OLd Man Chess” because Shipov criticizes Anand at one point for playing like an old man. But I decided that...

First Blood — Details to Come!

Boris Gelfand has won the seventh game of the Anand-Gelfand match, and has now taken a one-game lead with five games remaining. He conducted a very impressive queenless mating attack. As GM Sergey Shipov says, Anand was “not recognizable” in this game,...