"The abnegation of reason is not the evidence of faith, but the confession of despair."
- J.B. Lightfoot
Saturday, February 21, 2009
He's a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and he's currently battling Bulgarian grandmaster, Veselin Topalov, in an eight game match for the right to challenge Viswanathan Anand for the Chess World Championship later this year.
For any American to reach the pinnacle of the chess world is rare indeed. Two American grandmasters have done it in the past: Paul Morphy (circa 1860), and, of course, the incomparable Bobby Fischer in 1972.
Kamsky's an underdog, and he's not expected to win the match, but he just evened it out today with a win as white.
Go, Gata!
Bird,
I love your chess posts if for nothing else to show me how much there is that I don't know. :)
This chess world of yours is as alien to me as our world of "Star Trek" is to Rod. But I'm glad for the windows into it. It makes me feel smart for a minute.