Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Oct 6, 2008 1:30pm.
It's been a while since Peter Svidler (pictured) had a strong showing in a major event and his world ranking fell from 11th to 17th on the latest official FIDE rating list.
So it was about time that everyone's favourite cricket-loving Grandmaster... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Oct 5, 2008 11:08am.
Alexandra Kosteniuk (pictured) has proved yet again what a remarkable competitor she is by winning the women's individual blitz title at the World Mind Sports Games in Beijing. Alexandra beat Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria 2-1 in the final.
Th... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Oct 5, 2008 10:34am.
Congratulations are due once more to the team behind Rybka, which has again won the World Computer Chess Championship. Rybka finished on a seriously impressive score of 8/9, only giving up draws to Junior and Cluster Toga. Hiarcs finished seco... Read more »
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Submitted by
Clavius on Sat Oct 4, 2008 4:46pm.
Rybka came out on top of 9 other programs, conceding two draws and beating Hiarcs in their individual encounter.
RankProgramOriginHardwareScoreGamesSOSSoDOS
1
Rybka
USA
Cluster, 40 cores
8.0
9
37.0
31.25
2
Hiarcs
GBR... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sat Oct 4, 2008 5:47am.
Play time is over. This is the big one. The World Chess Championship between the defending champion Viswanathan Anand from India and the challenger Vladimir Kramnik from Russia, sponsored by Evonik Industries and Gazprom, will take place in ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sat Oct 4, 2008 1:04am.
There was a glut of exciting chess in round 1 of the Russian Superfinal in Moscow, and if your name was Alexander then you were in luck. The trio of Alexanders - Morozevich, Riazantsev and Lastin all won their opening games.
The day was also ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Fri Oct 3, 2008 7:52am.
The 2008 'Superfinal' Championship of Russia starts today in the Moscow Central Chess Club. Twelve of Russia's finest Grandmasters, including the defending champion and current World #2 Alexander Morozevich (pictured) will be participating in th... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Fri Oct 3, 2008 7:11am.
As previously previewed here and here, the 1st World Mind Sports Games are underway today in Beijing.
Unfortunately it now seems that new World #1 Veselin Topalov will not be among the competitors in the chess events at the games, but many other ... Read more »
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Submitted by
Chess_Pro on Fri Oct 3, 2008 4:19am.
The 16th World Computer Chess Championship is being held in Beijing, China – as part of the Computer Games Championship, with 28 different games. After five rounds two programs are in the lead, with 4.5 points: Rybka (USA) and Hiarcs (England). ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Oct 2, 2008 1:22pm.
Les Francais adorent les echecs! (Which I think means, The French love chess - please correct my bad French grammar in the comments if necessary ).
The French language magazine and website, Europe Echecs, is organising the third 'Circuit Espoir... Read more »
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Submitted by
Patzer24 on Wed Oct 1, 2008 11:11pm.
The US Chess League is now deep into the season in week 6. And with some critical match ups this week there would surely be some interesting chess.
The first match of the week was between the struggling New York Knights and the Seattle Slugger... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Oct 1, 2008 12:48pm.
The Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) was established in May 2007 at Texas Tech University with the aim of promoting 'college chess' as a bridge between scholastic and adult chess worlds. Unfortunately many young players, espec... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:28pm.
There's no lavish opening ceremony, no glamorous website* and little attention or fanfare, but ahead of the clash of mere mortals in Germany later this month, their silicon overlords are battling it out in Beijing.
The World Computer Chess Champi... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:27pm.
Now that there is an unofficial liverating website available for players over 2700 Elo, the sense of anticipation before the publication of the official FIDE quarterly rating list has largely gone. However, since the live ratings have no officia... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Sep 28, 2008 2:02pm.
Chess playing astronaut Greg Chamitoff, buoyed by his success in his game against ground control will now be taking on a much greater challenge - playing everyone on Earth!
The Earth team will be led by the Stevenson Elementary School Chess Club ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:10am.
Calling all chess fans in the Big Apple! On Friday September 26th at 5pm former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov (pictured) will be signing copies of his book How Life Imitates Chess at the Penn Station Borders store in New York. If you ask n... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:24am.
Vadim Milov (pictured), the Russian born GM now living in Switzerland has inflicted a rare defeat on the strongest chess engine currently available - Rybka 3. In a recent 8-game match with the silicon monster, Milov (rated a mighty 2705 Elo and ... Read more »
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Submitted by
Patzer24 on Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:26pm.
US Chess League week 5 continued on with some heated action. As the season goes on each match and each game becomes increasingly more important. With that said let's take a look at all the chess from this week:
The first match of the week feat... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:32pm.
As I write this sentence there are 21 days, 19 hours, 6 minutes and 49 seconds left until the World Chess Championship showdown between Viswanathan Anand (pictured) of India and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia starts in Bonn. I know this because the ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:03am.
The heyday of unchallenged Soviet domination of world chess is long gone, but modern day Russia still has an astonishing strength in depth at the royal game.
The Russian Championship 'Higher League' Final is an 11-round Swiss event which serves a... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:38pm.
The 2008 EU Individual Chess Championship in Liverpool has ended with Jan Werle of the Netherlands (pictured) winning with a score of 8/10.
Werle finished ahead of British players Mickey Adams and Nigel Short, and the French players Etienne Bacro... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:26am.
Just what will the rest of the world's top chess players be doing when the World Chess Championship between Vladimir Kramnik and Vishy Anand is taking place next month in Germany?
You might think they would take a break and enjoy the match with e... Read more »
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Submitted by
Patzer24 on Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:23pm.
The US Chess League is now through the opening phase and all the teams hope to shake off the dust and make some positive results as the matches are getting more important as the weeks go on.
Now let's see what took place in week 4 of the US Ches... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:59am.
Alexandra Kosteniuk (pictured) has won a well deserved victory in the 2008 Women's World Chess Championship. The dynamic Russian player took the title by drawing the fourth and final game against her young Chinese opponent, Hou Yifan.
The ... Read more »
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Submitted by
Telmo_Escobar on Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:55am.
Fourth game Hou Yifan-Alexandra Kosteniuk was drawn again, after another epic battle between two great players.
http://nalchik2008.fide.com/information/?lang=eng
or
http://nalchik2008.fide.com/?lang=rus
Hurrah fo... Read more »
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