The 1 July rating list has already been published at the FIDE website. World champion Viswanathan Anand is topping the list alone, Morozevich has passed Kramnik on number of played games and Carlsen... is number six.On the new FIDE rating list, An...
Vishy Anand still number 1 FIDE have published the latest official rating list and despite some early misleading reports from FIDE, the Aerosvit tournament was deemed (correctly, according to the rules) to be too late for the results to be include...
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Hi all, This week Chessedelic.com wil be covering several games from the Dortmund 2008 Chess Tournament with in-depth chess technical video analysis. You can find the videos here: http://www.chessedelic.com/tag/dortmund-2008/ Enjoy!
Today the Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2008 has really begun. Three players won with the white pieces: Kramnik, Leko and Gustafsson, against Van Wely, Ivanchuk and Naiditsch respectively. Update: games with commentary.Here are the games of the second ...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
This may be old news by now, but I'll post it anyway for those pawn jockeys that missed it. http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1815747_1815707_1815674,00.html
Three wins in the second round Now that's more like it After a disappointing first round of safety-first play, the 2008 Dortmund tournament sparked spectacularly into life in the second round. Kramnik opened his account by defeati...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
The Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2008 in Dortmund has started peacefully: all first round games ended in a draw. We have the games with comments.Here are the games of the first round: [TABLE=313]Links:Official website Games in PGN
All games drawn in a cagey first round It is sometimes said that in round-robin tournaments, it is more important not to lose in the first round than it is to actually win. In a relatively short tournament like Dortmund this is especially tr...
Yesterday, Peter wrote an interesting article about the Turkish club competition. I was especially fascinated by the team-setup.By Arne Moll"Teams consist of 10 boards, in which the first four boards can be filled freely but on the fifth board, a ...
The annual Dortmund tournament starts today, 28 June, as previewed recently here. Dortmund will be the last serious test for Vladimir Kramnik (pictured) before his world title shot against Vishy Anand in October. Dortmund has been a very hap...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
This month the Turkish League is underway, and the obligatory team set-up is quite original. Teams must have at least one lady, a junior player and four youth players.The Turkish Chess League, sponsored by ?Ѭ??Ö?? Bank, is being held in Kartepe, ...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Tomorrow night is the official opening, and Saturday the first round of the Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2008 in Dortmund will be played. We present the players and also the full pairings, because these are known already.From June 28 June till July 6,...
We are very proud to announce a new book we just published, written by GM Viktor Moskalenko: The Flexible French. In his much-praised fresh, explanatory style Moskalenko offers a combative & original repertoire in the French Defence. The four ...
From 3 until 7 july British IGM Nigel Short will play a rapid chess match against IGM Sergey Karjakin from the Ukraine. The match will take place in Kiev at the Academic Puppet Theatre. The games will be broadcast live. It will be interestin...
Ha, nice video with Anand! http://www.chess.com/video/view/anand-closes-deal-with-amd I suppose it is a good deal for him since AMD is the second-largest global supplier of microprocessors. WaldemarChessedelic.com, mind boggling chess blogging...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
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Vladimir Kramnik (pictured) was born on 25 June 1975 in Tuapse, on the shores of the Black Sea in Russia. His father was Boris, a renowned sculptor and his mother was Irina, a music teacher. He learnt to play chess at the age of 5 and ...
From July 3 till 7, in the Ukrainian city of Kiev, a rapid match will take place between Sergei Karjakin and Nigel Short. The rate of play is 25 minutes plus ten seconds a move. More information can be found at the official website.
