Michael Adams wins Second Ruy López International in Mérida

Grandmaster Michael Adams; The winner, with a 2822 performance

"He led all the way, and top English GM Michael Adams never let it slip. He won the eight player round robin event with 5.5/7 and a 2822 performance. Second was Chinese GM Zhang Pengxiang, third and fourth were shared by GM Gabriel Sargissian, Armenia, and Indian GM Koneru Humpy. A special guest at the tournament was Spanish playwright and chess aficionado Fernando Arrabal." - Chessbase

Final Standings Result

List of World Chess Champion 1886 to 2007

I got this list from Wikipedia. Just for sharing.

Acknowledge World Champions 1886 - 1993

Name	Years	Country
Wilhelm Steinitz	1886–1894	Austria / United States
Emanuel Lasker	1894–1921	Prussia / Germany
José Raúl Capablanca	1921–1927	Cuba
Alexander Alekhine	1927–1935	Soviet Union ( Russia) / France
Max Euwe	1935–1937	Netherlands
Alexander Alekhine	1937–1946	France
Mikhail Botvinnik	1948–1957	Soviet Union ( Russia)
Vasily Smyslov	1957–1958	Soviet Union ( Russia)
Mikhail Botvinnik	1958–1960	Soviet Union ( Russia)
Mikhail Tal	1960–1961	Soviet Union ( Latvia)
Mikhail Botvinnik	1961–1963	Soviet Union ( Russia)
Tigran Petrosian	1963–1969	Soviet Union ( Armenia)
Boris Spassky	1969–1972	Soviet Union ( Russia)
Robert J. Fischer	1972–1975	United States
Anatoly Karpov	1975–1985	Soviet Union ( Russia)
Garry Kasparov	1985–1993	Soviet Union / Russia

FIDE world champions 1993–2006

Name	Years	Country
Anatoly Karpov	1993–1999	Russia
Alexander Khalifman	1999–2000	Russia
Viswanathan Anand	2000–2002	India
Ruslan Ponomariov	2002–2004	Ukraine
Rustam Kasimdzhanov	2004–2005	Uzbekistan
Veselin Topalov	2005–2006	Bulgaria

Acknowledge World Champions 2006–Present

Name	Years	Country
Vladimir Kramnik	2006–2007	Russia
Viswanathan Anand	2007–present	India

Classical World Champions 1993–2006

Name	Years	Country
Garry Kasparov	1993–2000	Russia
Vladimir Kramnik	2000–2006	Russia

Who will be the next person to wear the crown?

Bobby Fischer the Chess Legend

Bobby Fischer One of The Greatest Chess Player Ever!

"Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind" -- Bobby Fischer

Who is Bobby Fischer? A very natural talented chess player ever! I look up to him as a legend and genius of the great chess game played ever. He inspired me to love the game of chess for whatever it is. Bobby Fischer is considered to be one of the most gifted chess players of all time. Short biography of the world great chess player Bobby Fischer:

Full Name : Robert James Fischer (known as Bobby Fischer)
Country : United States
Born :March 9th, 1943 - Chicago, Illinois United States
Start : 6^th years old (1949)
Awards :
: US Junior Chess Championship 1956
: Age 12^th – US National Master
: US Open Championship 1957
: Age 14^th – International Master
: Age 15^th – Grandmaster
: World Chess Champion in 1972
: 2785 the highest rating (1972)

Fischer's road to the world championship shows highly controversial with a lot of demand by Fischer on his own good reason. In 1972, Fischer beat the World Champion Boris Spassky 12.5 – 8.5 with 7 won, 1 lose and 11 draw conquering the world crown for the title 11^th World Chess Champion, meaning that Fischer has already broke the Soviet monopoly of the world title in history. After winning the world championship, Bobby Fischer never returns to defend his title against Anatoly Karpov in 1975. He disappeared for a long time and no more active in chess competition. Nevertheless, he is still among the best known of all chess players around the world.

I like very much the games played by Bobby Fischer. Most of the games showing very high quality and stand at its own class. Wonderful and brilliant! This is what I say before 'the beautiful art of chess'.

For the introduction, I post one of his game played when he is 16th years old. How Bobby Fischer played against his opponent in this position?

Bobby Fischer VS Shocron Leonardo, Mar Del Plata 1959

How white continue to winning this game?

Rxe6! A good move by Fischer! An exchange sacrifice. Now if Black plays fxe6 White will reply with Qxe6+ followed by Qxe5. White then has a winning position, although material is level, with Bd4 coming up and the Black King in trouble. But instead Black tried a clever defense: Qc8 pinning the Rook. How did Fischer get out of that one?

The brilliant answer (not easy to find, I guess) was Bd7!!. Now if Black plays Qxd7 his Queen is now undefended so White can play Rxg6+ winning the Queen. If Black does anything else with his Queen the White Rook will escape.

I will bring more interesting and wonderful games played by Bobby Fischer in the future. Hopefully you will like it. Thanks.