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Chess Ratings Inflation Leads to a Record Ranking — There are two firsts in the current ranking of the world’s top chess competitors, which was released on Tuesday. Four of the chess players have a rating (the number used to create the rankings) of 2,800 or higher, and 47 players have a rating of at least 2,700. Before Garry Kasparov did it in 1990, no chess player — not even Bobby Fischer at his peak — had crossed 2,800. Now six have done so. A rating of 2,700, which used to be the level at which chess players were considered elite, has become almost ordinary. In fact, the average rating of the world’s top 100 chess players is 2,701. But ratings inflation — caused in part by looser rules guiding them — makes it difficult to compare different eras. The ratings system was ...

Chess: The battle of Kasparov's pupils — The Russian chess master has mentored both Carlsen and Nakamura – and the former is favourite to win in London, as this earlier victory suggests. DK: This week it was revealed that Hikaru Nakamura, the US chess no.1, has been receiving tuition from the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Although Kasparov retired in 2005 to go into Russian politics, he hasn't made a clean break with the chess world. He insists he won't return to playing serious tournament chess, but pulling strings behind the scenes as a coach is the next best thing. What makes this news so intriguing is that not too long ago Kasparov was tutoring the world no.1 Magnus Carlsen. By all accounts their working relationship came to ...

Chess and poker - alike and so different — I was watching ESPN Sunday night, and I noticed the World Series of Poker was being shown. One of the announcers noted that there was an "expert" chess player at the final table. In chess lingo, an expert is someone just below master level (unlike bridge, where an expert is above master). Over the years, I have met many bridge, poker, backgammon and chess players, and many who play more than one of those games, if not all. Often these game players talk about what skills are necessary to be a top player in each. Of course, the commentators on ESPN gave their 2 cents about poker and chess. Phil Hellmuth, a famous poker player, said that a lot of chess players ...

Michael Adams takes gold as England struggle at Euro Team Championship — Michael Adams's individual gold medal was the standout of an uneven and sub-par England performance at the European team chess championship which ended at Halkidiki, Greece on Friday. The British chess champion scored an unbeaten 6.5/9, outplayed Ukraine's chess star Vasily Ivanchuk in the decisive final round and nosed out Armenia's Levon Aronian for the top board gold. Gawain Jones, 23, added to his growing reputation with zestful play and a 6/9 total but David Howell, arriving straight from the middle of his university term, had four defeats in his five games. Overall England, seeded No8, ended 22nd among 38 teams. Germany were the shock team winners, beating the Chess Olympiad champions ...

Masters of the Game and Leaders by Example — Fewer than 2 percent of the 47,000 members of the United States Chess Federation are masters — and just 13 of them are under the age of 14. Among that select group of prodigies are three black players from the New York City area — Justus Williams, Joshua Colas and James Black Jr. — who each became masters before their 13th birthdays. “Masters don’t happen every day, and African-American masters who are 12 never happen,â€� said Maurice Ashley, 45, the only African-American to earn the top title of grandmaster. “To have three young players do what they have done is something of an amazing curiosity. You normally wouldn’t get something like that in any city of any race.â€� The chess federation, the game’s ...

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