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Local hero Paco Vallejo is comfortably the lowest rated player at the Chess Final Masters, but he produced a thrilling rook sacrifice in round 8 against world #2 Lev Aronian.
With both players running short of time in a complicated position, it... | Read More
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The 28th European Chess Club Cup is underway in Eilat, Israel. The competition will run from 11-17 October and features the top European clubs with very strong players representing them.
Top seeds SOCAR Azerbaijan will face still competition f... | Read More
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Magnus Carlsen made it two wins from two games in Bilbao, drawing level on points with Fabiano Caruana at the top of the leaderboard in the Chess Masters Final.
Magnus had the white pieces against tournament underdog Paco Vallejo Pons, and made h... | Read More
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The second half of the Chess Masters Final kicked off today in Bilbao with Fabiano Caruana holding a 4-point lead after the opening Sao Paulo leg a week ago.
Magnus Carlsen lost against Fabiano Caruana in the opening round in Sao Paulo, but he ex... | Read More
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The 13th Poikovsky Tournament in honour of Anatoly Karpov took place from 28 September - 7 October in Russia.
The tournament has had less media coverage than its strength might suggest, partly due to it clashing with several other big tournaments... | Read More
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In August there were conflicting and worrying reports that former world chess champion Boris Spassky had either fled, or been taken against his will, from his home in Paris back to Russia.
Spassky had lived in France with his third wife since 197... | Read More
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The 72nd Ukrainian Women's Championship took place from 25 September - 3 October in Kharkiv.
The format was a 10-player single round-robin with the top seed being Kateryna Lahno.
It was a very strong event for a national women's chess champion... | Read More
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FIDE PRESS RELEASE
FIDE announces the qualifiers to the coming World Cities Team Championship for the Sheikh Zayed Cup scheduled 21-29 December 2012 in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Olympiad champion Armenia will lead 32 city teams in the $150,... | Read More
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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov held a half point lead going into the final round of the 2012 FIDE London Grand Prix at Simpson's-In-The-Strand. Playing with the white pieces in the final round the Azeri player took no risk against Peter Leko, aiming to cl... | Read More
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Hikaru Nakmaura ended his disastrous string of four consecutive losses at the London Grand Prix by beating Anish Giri in the 10th round. However, the top-seeded American still lies in last place with just one round remaining.
The other games in ... | Read More
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After a rest day on Sunday, the refreshed players were in a fighting mood in round 9 of the FIDE London Grand Prix!
Boris Gelfand lost his first game of the tournament against Alexander Grischuk, which allowed Shakhriyar Mamedyarov to snatch the... | Read More
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FIDE have published the official October 2012 chess rating list (September list here). The list only includes results from completed tournaments that have been submitted to FIDE in time to be included in the calculations.
Results from tournaments... | Read More
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Fabiano Caruana will take a 4 point lead into the Bilbao leg of the Chess Masters Final after finishing with a draw against world #2 Lev Aronian.
The Armenian had a strong position against Caruana, but he slipped at crucial stages and failed to t... | Read More
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Yesterday, in round 7 of the London Grand Prix, Vassily Ivanchuk and Rustam Kasimdzhanov played a mere 11 moves before agreeing a draw. Well, the rest must have done them good, because they both won their games in round eight - the only players t... | Read More
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Fabiano Caruana scored his third win in four games at the Chess Final Masters in Sao Paulo to extend his lead in the tournament.
Lev Aronian is in second place after drawing with Magnus Carlsen, but the battle between the world's #1 and #2 featur... | Read More
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Boris Gelfand kept his lead in the London Grand Prix after 7 rounds by beating Michael Adams.
Ratings favourite Hikaru Nakamura lost his third game of the tournament against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov to prop up the standings. The other games in roun... | Read More
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Official Website Report
Humpy Koneru won the 6th stage of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Ankara and placed second in the overall Grand Prix series after Hou Yifan. Hou Yifan had already clinched first place in the overall Grand Prix cycle and is ... | Read More
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Two of the most prominent figures in the American Women's chess scene have confirmed their participation for Chess.com's 9th Blitz "Death Match", set to take place Sunday October 28th at 11:30 AM Pacific, 2:30 PM Eastern. International Master Anna... | Read More
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Hikaru Nakamura lost with the white pieces against Wang Hao in round six of the FIDE London Grand Prix. Nakamura blundered with 45.Nxa4 and resigned two moves later.
There were two other decisive results in the round: Veselin Topalov won an im... | Read More
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Humpy Koneru won her game in the penultimate round of the FIDE Ankara Women's Grand Prix to ensure a nailbiting finish to the tournament and the series!
Humpy Koneru must win the Ankara Grand Prix to finish above Anna Muzychuk in the overall Gr... | Read More
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The 13th Poikovsky Tournament in honour of Anatoly Karpov takes place from 28 September - 7 October in Russia.
The tournament is a 10-player single round robin with an international field. Games start at 15:00 local time (09:00 UTC) and 3 October... | Read More
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In the third round of the Chess Masters Final in Sao Paulo, Brazil, all of the games were hard fought but ended drawn. Therefore Fabiano Caruana still leads the tournament, ahead of Lev Aronian in second place and Magnus Carlsen in third.
Thursda... | Read More
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Anna Muzychuk and Humpy Koneru are fighting for victory in the Ankara Grand Prix, and also for the top spot in the final Grand Prix standings (behind Hou Yifan).
In round nine of the Ankara Grand Prix Anna Muzychuk scored a vital win against Hump... | Read More
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After beating Magnus Carlsen in the opening round of the Chess Masters Final, Fabiano Caruana thrashed Sergey Karjakin in round 2 to claim the sole lead.
Magnus Carlsen seemed to show no ill-effects from his traumatic loss to Caruana yesterday, r... | Read More
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Leader Boris Gelfand was permitted to play his 5th round game at a slightly earlier time by the organisers, in respect of the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur. The result was a draw with the black pieces for the Israeli against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.... | Read More