Judit Polgar shared her impressions on the tie-break for the World Champion title that was held yesterday on her blog. The event delighted the Hungarian player.

The Times of India reports that the strongest Indian player Humpy Koneru won't play got the national team at the upcoming Olympiad which will be held in Turkey. Her father and coach Ashok said: "Humpy would not like to talk anything about the Olympiad."

Grandmaster Nigel Short, who played in October a nostalgic blitz match in Leuven, Belgium against Garry Kasparov, and lost this competition by a narrow margin, 3.5-4.5, answered a couple of Mikhail Golubev’s questions for our website.

M.GOLUBEV: How would you evaluate the match and your result?

The pairings for the round-robin London Chess Classic which starts from Saturday 3^rd December had been announced. The players drew following numbers: 1. Nigel Short 2. Vladimir Kramnik 3. Levon Aronian 4. Magnus Carlsen 5. Michael Adams 6. Viswanathan Anand 7. David Howel l8. Luke McShane 9. Hikaru Nakamura.

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Magnus Carlsen's manager Espen Agdestein is already in Chennai and answered on the questions of Livemint.com.

The web site DNA India published excerpts from an interview with the 1993 World Championship Candidate Nigel Short about the match Anand - Gelfand, who still continues his career and vis

A friendly match between GM Nigel Short and the strongest Iranian player GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami is taking place in Tehran.