DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 090608
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Aerosvit Round 1
Carlsen beats Ivanchuk as favourites clash The Foros Aerosvit 2008 tournament opened with a bang as the favourites met head on in round 1. The game lived up to expectations as Ivanchuk played the King's Indian and sacrificed the exchange...
Two top events start today
After a quiet week, today two top events start. In Foros (Ukraine) it's time for the annual Aerosvit tournament and in Yerevan (Armenia) a strong rapid tourney takes place.The international chess tournament "AEROSVIT-2008" will be held June 8-19 i...
Aerosvit Round 1 - pairings
Carslen and Ivanchuk to meet in first round The Foros Aerosvit tournament starts today and the luck of the draw has brought together two of the current hot performers in the very first round. Magnus Carlsen, the 17-year old prodigy from Norw...
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Clichy wins French Team Championship
By drawing their match against rival Cannes, the Clichy team (with Pelletier, Nisipeanu, Edouard, Fressinet, Skripchenko, Jakovenko, Naiditsch and Apicella) won the French team championship last week.Every national team competition has its own sys...
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Making a move before your clock is running?
A well-known and much-debated issue from the Laws of Chess became very relevant during the recent US Women Championhips. Are you allowed to make a move before your opponent has pressed the clock?As could be seen in a video, Anna Zatonskih won the ...
New & full of opening novelties: Yearbook 87
Yearbook 87 has just arrived from the printers, and in this issue of The Chess Player's Guide to Opening News you will find answers to urgent questions like: -- Was Invanchuk's bomb 14.Qe6 in the 6.Bc4 Najdorf correct? -- Is Paul Morphy...
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Wu Tang Clan's RZA launches chess social network
Yesterday, world famous hip-hop star and Wu Tang Clan member RZA launched a chess social network. What? Hiphop and chess? Yeah.Wu Tan Clan's latest release isn't a record or movie project but an online chess platform, called WuChess, "the world...
1st World Mind Sports Games
'Mind Sports' games to follow Olympics. Millions of people around the world will tune into the Olympic Games in Beijing later this year, but the Olympics has always been a celebration of physical sports, leaving games that exercise the mi...
Karpov-Korchnoi on video
The first game Karpov-Korchnoi of the recent Pivdenny Bank Cup has been captured on video by the organizers. Dennis Monokroussos wrote a nice training post on it.[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"446","attributes":{"class":"media-...
Fischer's child to become a millionaire
If you were wondering what was going to happen with the money of the late 11th world champion, well, that goes to his Pinay daughter.
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 050608
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Review: The Chebanenko Slav According to Bologan
Finally, a great chess player has written an entire book on one of the most fascinating opening variations of modern chess theory: Slav with 4...a6, or the Chebanenko Slav. And the author, GM Victor Bologan, is not just a great player, he's also a...
Foros Aerosvit 2008
Aerosvit - (not to be mistaken with Aerosmith ) is the biggest airline in Ukraine and also happens to be the sponsor of an extremely strong chess tournament "Foros Aerosvit 2008" which will run from 7-20 June. The impressive...
Short wins in Romania
The King's Tournament in Romania was won by Nigel Short. He scored 7 out of 10, half a one and a half point more than a Lajos Portisch and Ulf Andersson.The King's Tournament was held May 24-June 3 in Bazna, Romania. It was an 11-player round-robi...
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Venue and details of Women's World Championship
FIDE announces Nalchik as hosts At the recent FIDE Presidential Board meeting in Athens, besides settling the venue for the Kamsky - Topalov match, the board also announced Nalchik, Russia as the venue for the Women's World Championship, to be...
Morozevich, well, he won of course
The header of this post couldn't have been different. In Sarajevo, Alexander Morozevich proved once again how easily he can beat 2600 players, and won with one and a half point difference.In the six-player double round robin "Bosna 2008" Morozevic...
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4th Pivdenny Cup for Tregubov
Pavel Tregubov won the 4th Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup on tiebreak, after finishing shared first with Yuri Drozdovskij, Boris Gelfand and Ruslan Ponomariov, half a point clear of Anatoly Karpov. A big pictorial report this time.The 4th Pivdenny Bank C...
Morozevich wins in Sarajevo
Moro destroys the field in Bosnia The mercurial Russian genius Alexander Morozevich (pictured) has won the category 18 double round-robin in Sarajevo with an utterly dominant performance, winning the tournament with a round to spare and ending wit...