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Sunday, February 24, 2013 0:47
Both games in the first round of the Zurich Chess Challenge ended in draws. Caruana-Anand was a positional Najdorf in which the Italian had a slight edge until close to the time control. After some inaccurate play Anand took over the initiative and won a pawn, but it was still a drawn position. Kramnik-Gelfand was about equal from start to finish...
Saturday, February 23, 2013 15:16
Fabiano Caruana won a blitz event on Friday in Zurich of which the results were used for the drawing of lots for the Zurich Chess Challenge which begins today. The pairings for the first round are Caruana-Anand and Kramnik-Gelfand.
The Zurich Chess Challenge has begun | Photo Vladimir Barsky courtesy of the Russian Chess Federation
After last year...
Saturday, February 23, 2013 12:21
No less than seven grandmaster are tied for first after this round: Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine) Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France), Yu Yangyi (China), Anish Giri (Netherlands), Wesley So (Philippines), Ivan Cheparinov (Bulgaria) and Grzegorz Gajewski (Poland). Here's a report of rounds 4 and 5.
Anish Giri during the Golden Circle tour on Friday
As Oscar...
Friday, February 22, 2013 9:00
November 1960 saw the 14th Chess Olympiad take place in Leipzig in the former GDR, during the days of the Berlin Wall. (Come to speak of it, could this despicable wall still be a reason for some to avoid the now popular Ruy Lopez branch? Or more to the point, in general, why should we name opening lines after human misdemeanours? The Kalashnikov...
Thursday, February 21, 2013 18:18
On February 18th Garry Kasparov visited Georgia for a meeting and press conference at the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs about chess in schools. The 13th World Champion met with first deputy minister (and old friend) Zurab Azmaiparashvili, as well as the President of Georgian Chess Federation, Giorgi Giorgadze. The plan is to introduce chess...
Thursday, February 21, 2013 18:09
Bulgarian grandmaster Julian Radulski passed away on February 16th after a long illness. This was reported by Chessdom. Radulski won the Bulgarian Championship in 2011. His last rated tournament was the Bulgarian Championship in 2012, where he finishes 6th.
GM Julian Radulski (photo Wikipedia)
Thursday, February 21, 2013 13:27
After three rounds, there are still fifteen players with a 100% score at the Reykjavik Open, including top seeds Anish Giri and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Wednesday was the day of the gruelling double rounds – Ivan Sokolov decided to play only one, but this wasn't a successful strategy. In round 3 Fridrik Olafsson was too friendly to his opponent.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 17:21
Last Saturday we posted news about FIDE trying to introduce player licences. It seemed that with such a licence, it would be necessary for every player who wishes to participate in a FIDE rated event to first register with their national federation and send their passport number, which can lead to all kinds of problems. We have now received FIDE's...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 9:55
The Reykjavik Open started on Tuesday with a brief but special opening ceremony, because for the first time the Prime Minister spoke to the participants. In the first round almost all stronger players beat their opponents, but there were some exceptions. And, what about a successful Muzio Gambit? How romantic is that?
The first move for Anish Giri...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 8:00
Radoslaw Wojtaszek won the 2nd Vladimir Petrov Memorial, another strong rapid event which took place this weekend in Jurmala, Latvia. The Polish grandmaster edged out Vladimir Malakhov of Russia on tie-break after both players finished on 10.5/14. Third came Vassily Ivanchuk with half a point less. The Ukrainian dramatically lost in the last round...
