Submitted by
FM FM_Eric_Schiller on Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:09pm.
I come to chess.com for chess, not politics. I am a political activist, but I confine my political activities to the streets and to the huge progressive blog dailyKos. So it was somewhat surprising what I found that the blog was going to hold its ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Aug 23, 2009 12:17pm.
An exciting last round in the Jermuk Grand Prix saw Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) win with the black pieces to finish the undefeated sole winner on 8.5/13.
A great result for the popular Ukrainian, who re-enters the world's top 10 after a recent po... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:16am.
The 2009 NH 'Rising Stars v Experience' Tournament in the Netherlands runs from 21-30 August. This event will pit a team of young talents against a team of more experienced players.
It's an interesting idea for a team tournament, but last year ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:28pm.
The British Team have defeated the Netherlands at the Howard Staunton Memorial tournament in London. Or perhaps one could say that Nigel "Nosher" Short (pictured) defeated the Dutch team since he scored a remarkable 8/10, achieving a performance... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Aug 16, 2009 11:36am.
Peter Leko (pictured) leads the Jermuk Grand Prix after seven rounds with a score of 5/7. This powerful event has been enormously entertaining with lots of great games and decisive results.
A selection of some of the most entertaining games is ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:43am.
After three rounds at the Jermuk Grand Prix in Armenia, there is a three-way tie at the top between Lev Aronian, Ivan Cheparinov and Peter Leko (pictured) on 2/3.
The Bulgarian Cheparinov won against Jakovenko in the first round in a Four Knights... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Aug 9, 2009 11:33am.
14 year-old US International Master Ray Robson (pictured) from Florida has earned his first Grandmaster norm by tying for first place in the Arctic Chess Challenge in Norway.
Congratulations to Ray - only 2 more to go for the GM title!
GM Monika... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Aug 9, 2009 10:41am.
Veselin Topalov (pictured) has pulled out of the Grand Slam Final in Bilbao. The apparent reason is a financial one, although the prize fund has not yet been confirmed. It seems the harsher financial climate this year may shoulder some of the ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Aug 9, 2009 1:28am.
The 18 year-old David Howell (pictured) won the 2009 British Championships in Torquay with a score of 9/11.
It was a convincing victory in a tough competition, with the youngster finishing with seven wins and four draws.
A crucial draw with bla... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Aug 6, 2009 1:57pm.
Even if you can't remember what happened in the first four Grand Prix events, and more to the point, have forgotten what the winner qualifies for*, the 5th Grand Prix is still a major chess competition, which will be eagerly followed by chess fans... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Aug 3, 2009 12:13pm.
Lev Aronian (pictured) made up for the disappointment of losing to Hikaru Nakamura in the Chess 960 championship in Mainz by winning the main event - the Grenkeleasing World Rapid Chess Championship.
The big shock occurred in the qualifying round... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:58pm.
Hikaru Nakamura (pictured) has clearly got the hang of Chess960! After a disappointing first day in the qualification round-robin, he won all three of games on the second day to book his place in the final against Aronian.
Nakamura's form conti... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:56pm.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (pictured) won the Biel GM Tournament with a score of 6/10, half a point ahead of Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexander Morozevich.
Maxime drew his last 2 games, but it proved enough to win since Chucky lost to Moro in the penulti... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:47pm.
The Chess Tigers Mainz Classic is underway with it's usual entertaining variety of events.
Lev Aronian (pictured) sparkled on the first day of the 'Chess 960 Rapid World Championship' winning all three of his fascinating games against Nakamura, M... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:20pm.
The 2009 British Chess Championships is underway in Torquay. This huge event features over 800 competitors in total, taking part in opens, junior championships (for every age from 16 down to 8!), and many other competitions, with the National Ch... Read more »
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Submitted by
IM dpruess on Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:09pm.
The Mainz Chess Classic has a variety of fun events. It has an open action event, and an open Fischer Random action event. It also has World Championships in both action chess and Fischer Random (action), each of which features 4 players: the defe... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:26pm.
Rounds 7 and 8 at the Biel GM tournament finally saw some potentially decisive breaks from the pack in this 6-player, 10 round event.
The main beneficiary is 18 year-old Frenchman Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (pictured) who comfortably outplayed Caruan... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:30am.
The 24th international rapid chess tournament in Villarrobledo, Spain took place from 25-26th July, with 124 competitors slugging it out for the title won by Veselin Topalov last year.
At the end of the 9 round Swiss event, it was the German Gran... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:55am.
Alexander Morozevich suffered his second consecutive loss with the black pieces in round six at the Biel GM tournament.
After obtaining a good position out of the opening, Moro was trying to press home his advantage when he erred badly with 43...... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:45am.
What happened to our regular single round victory? All games in round 5 at the Biel GM tournament were drawn, although Alekseev and Caruana battled it out in Sicilian Dragon that provided some real interest.
The expected game of the round barel... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:54pm.
Round 4 of the Biel GM Tournament saw the pattern of one white victory out of three games continue. This time it was the turn of young Fabiano Caruana (pictured) to earn the full point with a win over the leader, Alexander Morozevich.
As a resu... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:27pm.
The 'London Chess Classic' tournament announced recently now has a confirmed venue (see the press release below).
The line-up is:
Magnus Carlsen
NOR
2770
Vladimir Kramnik
RUS
2759
Ni Hua
CHN
2724
Michael Adams
ENG
2703
Hikaru Nakamura
... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:09am.
At the recent San Sebastian tournament Hikaru Nakamura won a blitz playoff against Ruslan Ponomariov to take the title. Unfortunately, due to a problem with the live game relay, there was a long delay before the moves of the second game were ava... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:32pm.
There seems to be a rule that Biel will have one decisive game per round, and the obliging game today featured Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) against Fabiano Caruana.
Another apparent rule is that there are no Petroff's or Berlin's. Yay! After Mor... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:20pm.
Round two of the Grandmaster Tournament at the Biel Chess Festival continued the high entertainment factor of round one, with a dash of schadenfreude.
Alexander Morozevich (pictured) won again to lead on 2/2, a clear point ahead after just 2 rou... Read more »
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