Submitted by
SonofPearl on Fri Sep 5, 2008 8:35am.
US Champion Yuri Shulman (pictured) won the recently held Montreal International Chess Tournament by a clear point from a strong field that included his compatriots Hikaru Nakamura and Varuzhan Akobian.
All three players together with Gata Kamsk... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Sep 4, 2008 1:16pm.
Veselin Topalov (pictured) humbled Magnus Carlsen in the only decisive game in round 3 of the Grand Slam Final to replace him at the top of the leaderboard. Carlsen responded to Topalov's novelty 14...a6 with the pawn sac 15.b4.
The sacrif... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Sep 4, 2008 12:08pm.
The knock-out format of the Women's World Chess Championship in Nalchik claimed the reigning champion as it's highest profile victim in the second round.
Xu Yuhua (pictured) lost the first game of her match to Svetlana Matveeva of Russia and fai... Read more »
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Submitted by
Patzer24 on Wed Sep 3, 2008 11:19pm.
As usual week 2 of the US Chess League was full of great chess action. So without further delay let's get right into it and see what happened this week in the US Chess League.
The first match of the week was the New Jersey Knockouts against th... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Sep 3, 2008 1:01pm.
The game of the round once again featured the Norwegian wunderkind Magnus Carlsen who took the fight to Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) by playing the Dragon, which seems to be finding a regular place in his repertoire. Kudos to Carlsen!
The D... Read more »
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Submitted by
jay on Wed Sep 3, 2008 9:32am.
Yep! It's Erik's birthday today! I don't want to let the cat out of the bag, so if you want to know how old he is, you'll have to put together the following math riddle:
Erik's age is the Nth Prime Number...
where N is the Gth Prime N... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Sep 2, 2008 1:22pm.
The Grand Slam Final - a.k.a. the strongest chess tournament of all-time (average rating a staggering 2775) just got started in Bilbao and Magnus Carlsen (pictured) won his first round game with the Black pieces against Lev Aronian to take 3 point... Read more »
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Submitted by
erik on Tue Sep 2, 2008 11:08am.
Chess is a perfectly mathematical game where steel-cold calculation wins and emotions are irrelevant, right? Wrong! International Master and famed chess author Jeremy Silman says: "Much has been made of psychology in chess, but rarely have I seen ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:02pm.
The First Grand Slam Final Chess Masters will be taking place between 1-13 September 2008 in Bilbao, Spain. Just to refresh all our memories, this event, as previously reported, has been conceived as a 'final' tournament pitting the winners ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:22pm.
There have been a large number of withdrawals from the Women's World Championship. All the Georgian players have withdrawn as expected (due to the recent conflict in the South Ossetia region): Maya Chiburdanidze, Nino Khurtsidze, Maya Lomine... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:58am.
It's an entertaining concept for a tournament, but the organisers are going to have to consider boosting the relative strength of the 'Experience' team in future years. For the third year in a row, and this time by a devastating 33.5-16.5 ma... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:21am.
What do Grandmasters do to relax? Well, at the end of the Mikhail Tal Memorial there was a big blitz tournament over two days featuring 18 of the strongest players in the world, including all of the competitors in the main event, except Alex... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:59am.
The rising stars of the ...err...'Rising Stars' team have eclipsed the 'Experience' team to ensure victory in the NH Tournament with 2 rounds still to go.
All the young 'uns have played well, but Wang Yue (pictured) of China has been spectacular... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:24pm.
Despite some much publicised off-the-board battles, and the consequent absence of some strong Georgian players from the event, the Women's World Chess Championship kicks off tomorrow (29 August) in sunny Nalchik, Russia.
A total of 53 entrants a... Read more »
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Submitted by
Patzer24 on Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:05pm.
The US Chess League kicked off it's first week with some exciting chess action. Now with the league having 14 teams there were 7 hard fought matches, each team hoping to start out the season in strong fashion.
The feature Monday night match wa... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:13am.
Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) won the Mikhail Tal Memorial in Moscow by a clear point from the rest of the field. Going into the last round it had been an exciting tournament full of great fighting chess...but the players evidently felt that h... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:29am.
It's tough at the top. After winning in round 6 at the Mikhail Tal Memorial to take the lead - and the no.1 spot on the unofficial 'live' rankings list, Alexander Morozevich then lost to Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) in a thrilling game in rou... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:57am.
The NH Tournament in the Netherlands has been dominated by the 'Rising Stars' team but in the fifth round the margin of victory was the narrowest yet and at long last a member of the 'Experience' team won a game!
Well done Viktor Korchnoi (pictu... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:30am.
The US Chess League is a national chess league, split into East and West divisions, with 14 teams in total taking part this year - 7 in each division.
Eastern Division Teams:
Boston Blitz
Philadelphia Inventors
New York Knights... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:30am.
The 83rd French National Chess Championships, held in Pau, finished on 23rd August. Etienne Bacrot (pictured) defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in a rapid playoff to take the title for the sixth time.
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Bacrot, Etienne &... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:17am.
The official FIDE world ratings are updated and published every quarter, but since the advent of a daily updated unofficial 'live rating' list, chess fans have been able to see for themselves how the ratings of the 2700+ elite change with every ga... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:44am.
The 3rd NH Tournament in the Netherlands, pitting a 'Rising Stars' team against an 'Experience' team is turning into a rout as the 'Rising Stars' continue to show no mercy for their illustrious elders in this one-sided event.
In the fourth round... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:07am.
The First Grand Slam Final Chess Masters will be taking place between 1-13 September 2008 in Bilbao, Spain. Just to refresh all our memories, this event, as previously reported, has been conceived as a 'final' tournament pitting the winners ... Read more »
1050 reads | 14 comments | 1 vote:
Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:30am.
There is a saying that "Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes, not old ones". Unfortunately for the 'Experience' team at the NH Tournament in the Netherlands, chess seems to have a virtually infinite number of new mistakes ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:34pm.
There were two decisive games in the 5th round at the Mikhail Tal Memorial in the GUM Exhibition Hall, near Red Square in Moscow. Ruslan Ponomariov (pictured) overcame Peter Leko and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov defeated Gata Kamsky.
Vassily Ivan... Read more »
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