Summary
The annual Melody Amber Tournament in ritzy Monte Carlo is both gimmicky and irresistible.
Take a dozen of the world's top grandmasters, including world champion Vladimir Kramnik and Indian superstar Viswanathan Anand, and place them in a unique format in which they play one rapid (Game/ 25) and one blindfold game against each of their opponents. The result: a fair helping of horrific blunders but also some of the most engaging and eccentric chess played on the top circuit.See the full content of this document
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Brilliance Behind Blindfold
Kramnik is the acknowledged master of the blindfold game, which in Monte Carlo means sitting in front of a blank board on a computer screen, clicking a mouse to move pieces that neither player can see.
Russian Alexander Morozevich and Spain's Alexei Shirov, both in the A...See the full content of this document
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