Archive for Reports
Thursday, May 02, 2013 15:00
Timur Gareev performed a blindfold simultaneous exhibition on Tuesday in Saint Louis (USA) and scored 29 wins, four draws and zero losses. His opponents were all members of the Saint Louis Chess Club. The simul was held the day before the start of the 2013 US Championships.
We received the following press release from the organizers. The photos...
Wednesday, May 01, 2013 18:16
Levon Aronian won the Alekhine Memorial in St Petersburg on Wednesday. The Armenian grandmaster beat Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and caught Boris Gelfand, who drew his game with Vishy Anand. Aronian won because of a higher number of wins (or losses, as Nigel Short would probably repeat once more!). Vishy Anand ended third. Vladimir Kramnik won his last...
Wednesday, May 01, 2013 9:56
Veselin Topalov finished the Grand Prix in Zug in style, beating Sergey Karjakin with the white pieces in 41 moves. The Bulgarian grandmaster not only won the tournament with a 1.5 point margin, but also went up to number 4 in the live rating list. The other games all ended in draws.
Report & photos by Anastasiya Karlovich
In the 11th round...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 18:51
Boris Gelfand is the sole leader at the Alekhine Memorial in St Petersburg after eight rounds. On Tuesday the Israeli grandmaster saved a difficult endgame against Vladimir Kramnik, while co-leader Maxime Vachier-Lagrave lost with the white pieces to Nikita Vitiugov. The final round starts one hour earlier, at 11:00 CET.
The penultimate round was...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 17:35
Chess-news reports that 3-8 June there will be a strong rapid tournament in Kiev, Ukraine: the international festival "Sberbank Open". The main event is a 10-player rapid event with Anatoly Karpov, Sergey Karjakin, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Veselin Topalov, Peter Leko, Arkady Naiditsch, Sergei Zhigalko, Pavel Eljanov, Anton Korobov and Alexander...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 14:17
Espen Agdestein, the manager of Magnus Carlsen, still expects that FIDE will open a bidding process for the Anand-Carlsen World Championship match. In a telephone conversation with ChessVibes, Agdestein reacted to a recent interview with Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. "It seems FIDE is trying to fix a mistake by making another mistake."
At the beginning of...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:40
In the top encounter of the Zug Grand Prix's penultimate round, Veselin Topalov defended his lead in the best way possible: he defeated runner-up Fabiano Caruana with the black pieces. With one round to go the Bulgarian grandmaster is now a full point ahead of Hikaru Nakamura, who beat Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in just 22 moves. Alexander Morozevich...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 8:15
Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand, the two contestants in last year's World Championship match, were the two winners in round 7 of the Alekhine Memorial. Anand defeated Laurent Fressinet from a Scotch Opening that was not so clear for a long time, but just before the time control the Frenchman got into trouble. Gelfand won against Ding Liren...
Monday, April 29, 2013 16:02
Veselin Topalov maintained his lead in the 9th round of the FIDE Grand Prix in Zug. On Sunday the Bulgarian grandmaster drew with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Ruslan Ponomariov could have caught him in first place, but the Ukrainian GM lost to Teimour Radjabov, who finally won a game. Fabiano Caruana defeated Gata Kamsky with Black and is now half a...
Monday, April 29, 2013 14:55
In the sixth round of the Alekhine Memorial all five games ended in draws, and so Maxime Vachier-Lagrave remains in sole first place. On Friday the players, organizers and some journalists flew to Russia and on Saturday they enjoyed a rest day. Three more rounds will be played in St Petersburg.
The day after the fifth round in Paris everyone had...
