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Anand faced the Grünfeld against Magnus Carlsen during the first game of the World Chess Championship 2014 and drew in a Rook and Queen ending. The Game of the Century between Donald Byrne and 13-year-old Bobby Fischer on October 17, 1956, featured this opening, although arriving in the Grünfeld via a transposition of moves (using 1.Nf3 Nf6 2 ...
Alexander Kotov vs Alexander Konstantinopolsky, USSR Championship, Moscow 1948, King's Indian Defence, Fianchetto Variation (E67), 0-1 Another dandy with the King's Indian to defeat that year's Soviet co-champion. Alexander Konstantinopolsky vs Andor Lilienthal, USSR Championship, Moscow 1948, Grunfeld Defence, Exchange Variation (D85), 1-0
Offbeat King's Indian. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857443615. Ward, Chris (2004). The Controversial Samisch King's Indian. Batsford. ISBN 9780713488722. Golubev, Mikhail (2006). Understanding the King's Indian. Gambit Publications. ISBN 1-904600-31-X. Cherniaev, Alexander (2008). The Samisch King's Indian Uncovered. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978 ...
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
The system was dropped altogether from the mid-1990s, being replaced by a series of short, knockout-style matches among qualifiers. From 1998 to 2004, these tournaments were for the FIDE World Championship. Since 2005, the Chess World Cup has filled a somewhat similar role to the Interzonal. As with the Interzonals, players qualify via zonal ...
In the game of chess, Indian Defence or Indian Game is a broad term for a group of openings characterised by the moves: . 1. d4 Nf6 [1]. They are all to varying degrees hypermodern defences, where Black invites White to establish an imposing presence in the centre with the plan of undermining and ultimately destroying it.
To achieve the title, players must win three norm tournaments – competitions which themselves must meet certain criteria – and surpass an International Chess Federation (FIDE) rating of 2500.
Salo Flohr vs Lev Aronin, USSR Championship, Moscow 1948, King's Indian Defence, Classical Variation (E92), 0–1 Another triumph for Black in the King's Indian. Vladas Mikenas vs Lev Aronin, USSR Championship, Moscow 1949, King's Indian Defence, Classical Variation (E90), 0–1 Mikenas was a perennial Lithuanian Champion who was also of near ...