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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 20:41
Gata Kamsky and Fabiano Caruana won their black games in round 7 of the Thessaloniki Grand Prix and so they are still tied for first place. Kamsky outplayed Rustam Kasimdzhanov in a Leningrad Dutch, while Caruana defeated Alexander Morozevich from a Symmetrical English. The other leader, Leinier Dominguez, escaped with a draw against Etienne...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 11:12
Richard Rapport won the 21st Sigeman & Co tournament in Malmö, Sweden on Tuesday. The 17-year-old Hungarian grandmaster tied for first place with Nils Grandelius and Nigel Short, but won on tiebreak: direct encounter (the results of the players in the same point group). In the last round Rapport defeated Jonny Hector, Grandelius beat Ivan...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 23:07
In the Thessaloniki Grand Prix's 6th round Fabiano Caruana and Gata Kamsky joined Leinier Dominguez in the lead. Kamsky won against Peter Svidler with 1.c4, while Caruana defeated Etienne Bacrot in a Scotch game. Vassily Ivanchuk lost in just 19 moves to Ruslan Ponomariov.
All photos by Anastasiya Karlovich courtesy of FIDE
The fourth Grand Prix...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 17:37
The Anand-Carlsen match will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Chenna, India. This was reported by the Times of India (quite remarkably, this hyperlink has "Alexei Shirov in it!?). The Hyatt is a 327 room, luxurious five-star hotel which was awarded the Best International Hotel Marketing in the World 2012 Award by International Hotel Awards in UK....
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 16:38
Ray Robson won the strong Chicago Open on Monday with a score of 7/9. The 18-year-old American grandmaster edged out GMs Joshua Friedel and Nikola Mitkov on tiebreak (modified median). The tournament drew over 20 grandmasters, including Aleksandr Lenderman and Victor Mikhalevski.
The 22nd annual Chicago Open was held May 23-27 and organized by the...
Monday, May 27, 2013 20:49
Who would have thought that Leinier Dominguez of Cuba would be leading the Grand Prix in Thessaloniki after five rounds? Especially since the Cuban lost his first game and drew the next, this was an unlikely scenario but three consecutive wins (today a fine rook ending against Rustam Kasimdzhanov) catapulted him to the top of the standings....
Sunday, May 26, 2013 21:42
Nigel Short and Ivan Sokolov are tied for first place after five rounds at the Sigeman & Co tournament in Malmö, Sweden. After an early loss, Short recovered and caught Sokolov in first place by defeating Loek van Wely in a fascinating game on Sunday. In general the tournament has displayed some really sparkling chess.
Nigel Short and Loek van...
Saturday, May 25, 2013 19:42
Clearly still affected by his dramatic game the other day, Vassily Ivanchuk lost his third game in a row in round 4 of the Grand Prix in Thessaloniki. Against Veselin Topalov, who played a 3.Bb5 Sicilian, the Ukrainian played fast, missed some tactics and had to resign after a bit more than hour of play. Leinier Dominguez defeated Peter Svidler in...
Saturday, May 25, 2013 10:33
The game Kasparov-Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999 is known to be one of the most brilliant chess games every played. It continues to inspire people, including the TLC Trio: a musical trio from Salt Lake City "made up of the colorful violins of Lauren and Connor Madsen and the lively piano of Tessa Young". On the theme of the 007 movie Skyfall, they...
Friday, May 24, 2013 20:07
The third round of the FIDE Grand Prix in Thessaloniki was marked by another dramatic time trouble loss for Vassily Ivanchuk, similar to the many examples at the London Candidates tournament in March. In a completely winning position, with less than a minute on the clock the Ukrainian couldn't find his way in the complications and even lost, on...
