Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Jul 5, 2009 12:01am.
The much anticipated clash between Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik failed to deliver any excitement in round 3 at Dortmund, being drawn in a mere 19 moves.
Kramnik seemed to surprise Carlsen in the opening and he quickly resorted to a repetit... Read more »
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FM FM_Eric_Schiller on Sat Jul 4, 2009 6:47pm.
The Swine Flu threatens to wreak havoc with major chess events this summer. England is expecting 100,000 new cases per day this August. If a player or member of staff falls ill, whole events will need to be shut down.
The British Championship and... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sat Jul 4, 2009 12:23am.
Round 2 at Dortmund threw up another thrilling endgame tussle for the purists.
The difference was that whereas in the first round Dmitry Jakovenko (pictured) was the unwilling victim, this time he had a chance to display his own endgame prowess ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Jul 2, 2009 1:52pm.
The first round of the Dortmund super-tournament saw Magnus Carlsen (pictured) defeat Dmitry Jakovenko to take an early lead.
Jakovenko tried to blunt Carlsen's attacking flair with the Berlin defence, but Carlsen showed his maturity with a displ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Jul 1, 2009 11:58am.
The traditional chess super-tournament in Dortmund, Germany takes place from 2-12 July.
This 37th edition of the tournament is a very strong double round robin featuring Magnus Carlsen (pictured) as the top seed.
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:56pm.
Veselin Topalov (pictured) is still ranked the world's number 1 player on the latest quarterly official FIDE ratings list, gaining a single point to stand at 2813 Elo. World Champion Viswanathan Anand is second on 2788 Elo and Magnus Carlsen is ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Jun 28, 2009 12:37am.
A French team took on the Olympiad Champions Armenia, led by Lev Aronian (pictured) in a rapid match in Paris from 24-25 June.
Each team had 4 players, who met in 8 rounds at a time control of 15 minutes plus a 10 second increment.
Armenia wer... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:50pm.
Despite it's proud chess history, the United Kingdom has seen very few strong tournaments in recent years - or decades come to that.
It is therefore with no small sense of excitement and anticipation that the London Chess Centre has announced the... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Jun 25, 2009 12:15pm.
Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) has won the strong Bazna King's Tournament in Romania with a score of 7/10, a clear point ahead of his nearest rival, Boris Gelfand.
Three consecutive wins in rounds 5,6 and 7 propelled Chucky to the top of the standin... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:53pm.
Following on from his win in the US Chess Championships in St. Louis, Hikaru Nakamura (pictured) has landed an invite to one of the world's most prestigious tournaments.
Nakamura will be playing with the world's elite in the 'A' Group at the Coru... Read more »
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Submitted by
manfrommanila on Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:07pm.
Stalled by a round 5 draw 11-year old Melwyn Kenneth Baltazar (Master Kenneth here at chess.com) eked wins in his last two games against Philippine Science High School sophomore Kevin Sicat and Metropolitan Chess Club's Malcolm Kwok to log 6.5 poi... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:21am.
Ivan Cheparinov (pictured), the Bulgarian GM better known as Topalov's second, has won the 3rd Ruy Lopez tournament in Zafra, Spain, held from 13-19 June.
Cheparinov won the 8-player round robin event with a score of 5/7 against an interesting fi... Read more »
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Submitted by
manfrommanila on Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:38am.
Kenneth Baltazar (Master Kenneth here at chess.com) ranked only 23 rd from a field of 312 players shares the early lead with 32 other players after 3 rounds of the 2009 Shell National Youth Active Chess Championship Kiddies Division held in the Ma... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:02am.
The 44th Capablanca Memorial tournament was held in Havana from 8-18 June.
In the elite group, Leinier Dominguez (pictured) was the top seed, and he won the 6-player double round-robin event with a score of 6.5/10. Dominguez clinched the victor... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:54am.
The latest chess super-tournament is currently taking place in Bazna, Romania.
This is the third edition of the tournament, and the format has changed to a double round-robin featuring six strong Grandmasters, including local star Liviu-Dieter Ni... Read more »
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Submitted by
manfrommanila on Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:39pm.
Host Vietnam sweep all the 38 gold medals in the team events and 42 gold medals in the individual events to emerged over-all champion in the 10th Asean Age-Group Chess Championship held June 6-15,2009 at the Thua Thien- Hue,Vietnam.The 25-man Phil... Read more »
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Submitted by
manfrommanila on Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:16pm.
The 2009 Shell National Youth Active Chess Championship start next weekend, when the National Capital Region, the first leg of the eight stage nation wide series unfolds June 20,2009 at the Mall of Asia in Pasay City,Philippines. The two day eve... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:27pm.
The 10th International Poikovsky Tournament in Russia has concluded with Alexander Motylev (pictured) finishing a clear winner by a full point with a score of 7/9.
Motylev was the only player to remain undefeated throughout the tournament, achi... Read more »
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Submitted by
FM FM_Eric_Schiller on Tue Jun 9, 2009 2:22pm.
10-year old Hansel Teoh (Hansel here at chess.com), from Monticello Academy (Sunnyvale) won the Polgar World Open Boys Under-11 Championship in Las Vegas this weekend (June 6-7) with a perfect 5-0 score and won the speed chess competition with... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Jun 9, 2009 11:41am.
The 17th Sigeman tournament in Sweden finished with top seed Nigel Short (pictured) the runaway winner with a score of 4.5/5.
This year's edition was a rather short single round-robin event with just 6 players and 5 rounds. Yet so complete was th... Read more »
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Submitted by
manfrommanila on Mon Jun 8, 2009 11:46pm.
11- years old Melwyn Kenneth Baltazar , a grade VI students of F.G.Calderon Integrated School edged out his older rivals via a higher tiebreak scores to rule the 2009 Malabon Rapid Chess Championship held June 7,2009 at the Plaza Hulong Duhat C... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Jun 7, 2009 2:30pm.
The final match of the rapid tournament in Leon, Spain, between Vassily Ivanchuk and Magnus Carlsen went right down to a final sudden death game in a thrilling climax to the competition.
After two draws in the opening 2 games, Ivanchuk took the l... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Jun 7, 2009 10:51am.
The 8-game rapid match between Peter Leko of Hungary and the world champion Viswanathan Anand of India finished today with a 5-3 victory for Anand.
Anand won game 2 with the white pieces and game 5 with the black pieces to earn the spoils. The ... Read more »
1351 reads | 15 comments | 3 votes:
Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Jun 7, 2009 7:15am.
Not so many years ago, the national Chinese Chess Championships would have been a relatively minor event on the world stage, but great strides have been taken by the country in recent years.
So the 2009 Chinese Individual Chess Championships in... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Jun 7, 2009 12:21am.
Following Ivanchuk's win against Morozevich in the first semi-final in Leon, Magnus Carlsen (pictured) also booked his place in the final by beating Wang Yue in a tough match.
Carlsen couldn't manage to win the first rapid game despite having a r... Read more »
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