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Ponomariov Victorious in Dortmund — Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine only needed a draw on Sunday to win the Sparkassen Chess-Meeting tournament in Dortmund. He accomplished that without too much difficulty against Le Quang Liem of Vietnam and finished with a score of 6.5 points. The result should put Ponomariov in the top 10 in the world, according to Live Top List, an unofficial ranking site that has proved accurate in the past. Le Quang, 19, the lowest-ranked competitor in the field, who was playing in his first elite chess tournament, performed far better than expected and was second with 5.5 points. Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, the top seed, who has won Sparkassen nine times, had a disappointing ...

For 2 New U.S. Chess Champions, Diverging Paths Ahead — The two newest United States chess champions have very different future plans. On Monday, Irina Krush, 26, won the women’s chess championship for the third time, earning $16,000, her biggest payday. Krush said of her prospects of earning a living as a professional chess player, “I am actually at the stage where I am going to get into it more than ever.” Samuel Shankland, 18, who won the junior chess championship in a playoff on Tuesday, plans to quit playing professionally for the time being, and perhaps for good. He is beginning studies at Brandeis University in Boston in the fall. “I’m going to go down the other road and see where it goes,” he said. Krush, who also won ...

How to Make Chess Sizzle — For years, chess players have bemoaned that chess is not as popular as poker, particularly when it comes to attracting television coverage. While part of the complaint doubtless has to do with the desire of some chess players to have their egos stroked, the real issue is money. Poker players earn more because they have higher exposure and name and face recognition. In the United States, more people would recognize the poker personality Phil Hellmuth than Viswanathan Anand, even though Anand is the world chess champion and has been one of the top three players in the world for almost 20 years. Not surprisingly, Hellmuth earns more money. The question of whether chess can ...

The endgame: How does White promote a pawn? — Is there a way to make a breakthrough from this position on the chess board? Over the last few weeks we've been looking at endgames and, in particular, pawn promotion. After a queen exchange there's little chance of a checkmating attack, so getting a pawn to the other side of the board has to be the ultimate aim in most endings. RB Somewhere in the recesses of my memory is a basic position similar to this one, though with three pawns rather than four facing each other, that allows the chess player with the move to create a passed pawn. So I'm going to try to drag up that position and try to use it as a starting point. Let's imagine there are no e-pawns. White would ...

Fooling the Gullible Chess World — Identity theft in chess is rather common. Sometimes a full chapter is lifted from a chess book, other times a player claims credit for a single move that wasn't his. Here is one such story. It was a furious attack launched against me at the 1965 Student Olympiad in the Romanian mountain resort of Sinaia, a perfect onslaught by a local chess player that even Bobby Fischer would have approved of. For the first 11 moves of the Sicilian Najdorf, I was under fire from the 30-year-old Romanian student Traian Stanciu. By move 12, my black pieces were in crossfire. Suddenly, a funky defense crossed my mind and I realized I was not only safe, but my chances to turn the game around were excellent. For ...

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