The 2012 London Chess Classic completed five rounds (there are nine) with many of the best players in the world including the all-time (so far) woman's chess champ Judit Polgar competing for the top prize.
There are several top chess competitions each year including blitz matches of as few as five minutes (or watch good players at chess.com battle in three minute matches) and up. Top-ranked Magnus Carlsen is leading so far with Vladimir Kramnik in second and the American Hikaru Nakamura in third. Nakamura defeated the second ranked player in the world Levon Aronian in the first round with and interesting and stifling defense. He has been said to have worked with former world chess champion Garry Kasparov recently and maybe that improved his game.
Viswanathan Anand of India is also in the running. He won a world chess title this year and is from India where the game was invented. For those that are a little bit far away from playing football yet enjoy following sport standings in the abstract the game of chess is fun to watch. With a little investment of time YouTube chess videos and play at chess.com (free)one can learn chess well enough to understand even simple opening of the Magnus Carlsen variation of the Magnus Smith trap in reply to the Sicilian Defense and the Fisher variation too.
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