Bobby Fischer: The God of the Gods

Vladimir Kramnik Wins Unified World Chess Championship! (1/2 NTV+@061014)

* Kramnik is making last moves before Topalov's resignation in the last rapid game of the WCC match. * a short fragment of the press-conference with Vladimir Kramnik after FIDE WCC 2006 match. фрагмент послематчевого интервью с Владимиром Крамником 13.10.2006 Vladimir Kramnik: "This was a very tough match, and I think I did a good job, considering the odds given to the opponent... Maybe it was the first case in the history of the world championship matches when one of the players had extra point and extra White. I am glad I managed to win under such circumstances.

Vishy Anand after winning Groningen in 1998

In December and January (98-99) FIDE staged its world championship, with a hundred of the strongest players in the world gathered in Groningen to determine who would play against Karpov in the finals. It was also a long affair, going on for weeks and draining the strength of the participants who went on to the end. After the game Anand and Aruna face the photographers. You can hear them talking to Arvind Aaron. Then they turn to Emmanuel Omuku (FIDE Rep.)and ask about arrangements for transport to Lausanne. There are none, no plane reservations or anything. A Dutch organiser and some Indian friends try to help out with constructive suggestions. Anand and Aruna ended up making all arrangements themselves. There the hotel just barely had rooms for them and Ubilava, and Anand’s suite was about $500 a night. All this was quite disturbing, since there were going to be more people coming (Jussupov and Leko). Fortunately the next day the hotel told them that FIDE was receiving special prices and they could take advantage of that. So they ended up paying 220 SFr, around $150, per room. After they had solved all problems and settled down Anand discovered that he had just three hours left for preparation for his opponent in the world championship final!

The Tee Shirt Shoppe Presents: Kasparov vs Deep Blue

http://www.teeshirtshoppe.com The classic battle between man and machine concludes in this stunning final chapter. See more at The Tee Shirt Shoppe. http://www.teeshirtshoppe.com

Endgame: Challenging the Masters

This video describes the fifty-year quest to build a computer that can defeat the world chess champion. Keywords: Deep Blue, Kasparov, Computer History Museum, Mastering the Game: A History of Computer Chess, Artificial Intelligence, algorithm, heuristic, IBM, Ken Thompson, Murray Campbell, Feng-Hsiung Hsu, David Levy.

Alta Vista ad featuring Garri Kasparov

Garri Kasparov gives a simultaneous chess games exhibition but finds unexpectedly tough opposition in a little child that has used Alta Vista search engine with the query "How can I beat Garri Kasparov's Evans Gambit?". Garri needs to take a chair and start deep thinking. (anuncio de Altavista en el que Kasparov da unas simultaneas de ajedrez pero encuentra una fuerte oposicion en un chavalin que previamente habia buscado en Altavista "Como derrotar al gambito Evans de Kasparov".)

David Shenk

David Shenk talks about "The Immortal Game." In his wide-ranging and ever-fascinating examination of chess, Shenk gleefully unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinite possibilities. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. - Book Passage David Shenk is an award-winning, national-bestselling author of five books, and a contributor to National Geographic, Slate, Harper's, National Public Radio, The New Yorker, Gourmet, Wired, and The American Scholar. He has written about music, technology, politics, bioethics, the brain, corporate malfeasance and kids' toys. He lectures frequently, and regularly appears on TV and radio.

Chess With the Geeks

This is a previous project created using iMovie HD on a 1.83 ghz Intel Core Duo iMac 17". Chess With the Geeks is supposed to be an instructional video on how to play chess...yes we know the checkmate setup was not checkmate...we were pressed for time and was not able to correct the footage. Nontheless, it was a fun video to setup. Background music is from the My Sassy Girl OST.

Mentoring PSA - Chess

There are approximately 14 million young people in America who may not have a productive adulthood without positive intervention. Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) provides one-to-one mentoring relationships between adult volunteers and children in 460 programs throughout the U.S. They have partnered with the Ad Council for this PSA campaign which encourages individuals to volunteer for BBBS and share simple, life-changing moments with a child. For the latest effort, BBBS teamed with the White House and the First Lady to support her 'Helping America's Youth' initiative and deliver a message about the importance of mentoring. The campaign communicates that by becoming a Big Brother or Big Sister, you can be the person who brings magic into the life of a child. Viewers and listeners are urged to visit www.bigbrothersbigsisters.org to find out how they can get involved with their local Big Brothers Big Sisters agency.

CHESS ANIMATION VIDEO

An interesting chess animation video. Two characters are playing a game of chess with clocks, and one of them is taking a long time to make a move. The other player falls asleep and begins to dream about the chess pieces interacting with each other!

The conclusion is a bit dramatic...!

To see this video on Google Videos, click here.

World Chess Champion-Under 12

Master Srinath Narayanan recently won the Under 12 section of the world Youth Chess championship held at Belfort, France from 19th July to 28th July 2005. On back home, he was given a grand welcome at Anna International Airport, Channai, Tamilnadu, India. Watch for this boy, who is predicted to be another Viswanathan Anand from India by many stalwarts who happened to come across him.

BEAR CHESS!

This 3-minute video is hilarious! Two teddy bears are in the same room, reading different books. One is reading "How to Take Anyone in Chess," and gaining confidence from this book, convinces the other bear to play (watch the video to see how!).

The game begins. The camera shows the first moves, then speeds up as the moves as the game is played, when the game ends in victory for the bear who was reading a book on spiders! The losing bear begins reading a new book: "12 Steps to Coping with Loss." A must-see!


To view this video on Google Videos, click here.

VIDEO: "THE TOUGHEST OPPONENT"

"It's your move."

So begins this 3 minute, 30 second video shows two (friends?) playing a very intense game of chess at the park on a picnic bench, with a clock. It is very well done, and quite entertaining!

Tournaments are the only placces intense chess is played!

To watch this video on Google, click here.

JUDIT POLGAR SIMUL FROM 1999

In a tribute to her brilliant victory at the 2006 Essent Hoogoveen tournament, including two wins over the #1 ranked player in the world, Veselin Topalov, here is footage from a simul Judit Polgar gave in Germany in 1999. It looks like she is playing 30 people of all ages at once.

A "simul" (short for "simultaneous exhibition") is when a stronger player plays against many weaker players at the same time. The stronger player, moves from board to board, usually taking the white pieces in every game, and plays a move. The opponents do not play their reply until the master has returned to their board. When the simul-giver returns, the opponent plays their next move, and the exhibitor plays the reply, often instantly.

This video runs for more than 9 minutes. To see it, click here.

FROM A SPANISH TV SHOW

Two men sit down and face off, with the clock ticking...who will win this chess match? Watch the 1-minute video to find out! The end is very amusing!

To see this video on Google, please click here.

GOOGLE: 3-D CHESS GAME

This video is awesome! If you are a child (or an adult!) who has an artistic interest in chess, this one is for you. Watching this video can help develop a child's imagination for the game and help instill a love of chess.

The video features a 3-D chess game in outer space on a floating board! Watch the exciting conclusion, and how it comes about! A great example of teamwork at the end.

Watch it here at Google Videos (4 minutes).

"CHESS FEVER" (WITH FOOTAGE FROM THE MOSCOW, 1925 TOURNAMENT!)

"Chess Fever," a 1925 "silent" film, was directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin. It features actual footage from the very strong Moscow, 1925 tournament! You can see players like Jose Raoul Capablanca, Richard Reti, Frank Marshall, Carlos Torre, etc. actually playing at the board! (Chess was so much different back then...).

The movie has no words, but the scenes are accompanied by Classical music. It is 19 minutes long, and fun to watch, especially from a historical chess perspective!

To see "Chess Fever" on Google Videos, click here.

PAWNS IN LOVE!

Watch this cute video (7 minutes) about a white and black pawn that fall in love. But in chess, the two armies have to do battle! How is this resolved?

Click here! From Google Videos.

STARS AT TURIN OLYMPIAD; KIDS PLAYING CHESS

Check out this very nice 4 minute video! Produced in Switzerland, it begins with the extremely tense and intense players who competed in the recent Chess Olympiad, held in Turin, Italy in May and June. Stars like Vassily Ivanchuk, Gata Kamsky, Elizabeth Paehtz, and Alexandra Kosteniuk are recognizable, among many others.

Then, the video departs the tense scene and we look in on scholastic competitions. It's not clear what event the footage is from, but it very much looks like a Nationals-type event in Europe. It shows kids and adults playing chess with much less intensity that the stars shown in the first minute. At the end, the kids receive their trophies and other prizes, and their excitement is contagious!

Click here.

BETTY BOOP CHESS CARTOON FROM 1932

Below is a link to a funny cartoon episode (6 minutes) featuring Betty Boop characters, dressed as chess pieces and playing on a chess board!

The scene begins with two men playing chess, and suddenly the characters emerge, bringing the chess pieces to life.

At the end of the cartoon, the scene shifts back to the two men; they have grown much older (apparently still playing the same game of chess) as shown by them both growing very long beards!

To view the video, click here.