fbpx

Anand-Gelfand 2012: Blogs for Game 12

As the world awaits game 12 of the 2012 World Chess Championship Match between Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand, I thought I might mention the best chess blogs that are providing coverage of the event. Below is a list of 12 Blogs I have been visiting to read more about the Anand-Gelfand match:

Alexandra Kosteniuk’s blog on Chess news.

The former Women’s World Chess Champion has been providing fun insights into the match between Anand and Gelfand.

 

Chess Magazine Black and White.

This is a blog site for India’s first chess news magazine.

 

Chess in Translation

Interviews with Russian grand masters on the Anand-Gelfand match are translated into English and posted here. Sergey Shipov’s commentary is quite good.

 

Chessdom

An extensive blog with everything you need to know about the 2012 World Chess Championship match. This site includes a live broadcast of every game.

 

World Chess Championship Blog

Mark Weeks provides his unique perspective on Anand vs Gelfand 2012.

 

Susan Polgar’s Chess Blog

Susan provides live analysis of all the games from the 2012 World Chess Championship.

 

Red and White Chess

This blog takes comments on Anand-Gelfand from many sources and pastes them into each individual game from the match.

 

Chessalee

Perhaps the most artistic of all the blogs covering the Anand-Gelfand World Chess Championship match.

 

Dana Blogs Chess

Chess master and author Dana Mackenzie provides analysis of the entire Anand-Gelfand match.

 

The Chess Improver

GM and acclaimed chess teacher Nigel Davies shows readers how to improve in chess through studying the games of the 2012 World Chess Championship match.

 

Chess Strike

This blog provides pgn chess games and video analysis of the Anand-Gelfand match.

 

Fpawn Chess Blog

My former chess teacher Michael Aigner posts interesting commentary on the 2012 World Chess Championship.

 

 

 

 

 

Published by chessmusings

Chris Torres is a nationally renowned scholastic chess coach working in the San Francisco Bay Area. His classes have attracted players of strengths ranging from rank beginners to world champions. A chess professional since 1998, Chris is widely recognized as one of the main driving forces behind the explosion in popularity and sudden rise in quality of scholastic chess in California. Chris Torres served as the President of the Torres Chess and Music Academy from 2005-2020 and currently is recognized as a correspondence chess master with the United States Chess Federation. Since 1998 Chris Torres has taught 6 individual national champions as well as led multiple school teams to win national championship titles. In addition, Chris Torres has directed and taught at 10 different schools which have been California State Champions at chess. In 2011 and 2012, several former and current students of Chris Torres have been selected to represent the United States at the World Youth Chess Championships. Mr. Torres’ hobbies include playing classical guitar and getting his students to appear on the national top 100 chess rating lists.

3 thoughts on “Anand-Gelfand 2012: Blogs for Game 12

Leave a Reply

%d