Archive for Reports
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...
Friday, May 24, 2013 14:18
Loek van Wely, Nigel Short, Richard Rapport, Ivan Sokolov, Emanuel Berg, Nils Grandelius, Hans Tikkanen and Jonny Hector are the participants of the 21st Sigeman & Co tournament, currently under way in Malmö, Sweden. After two rounds Sokolov, Rapport and Grandelius top the standings with 1.5 points.
All photos by Calle Erlandsson
A good...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 20:58
After two rounds there is a five-way tie for first place at the FIDE Grand Prix in Thessaloniki. On Thursday Alexander Morozevich defeated Peter Svider, who missed a tactic in a complicated, Spanish Four Knights middlegame. Fabiano Caruana defeated Vassily Ivanchuk in classical positional style, using a nice exchange sacrifice. After 6.5 hours of...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 13:05
Unfortunately the topic of cheating in chess is still quite topical. In this article we sum up a number of recent developments, helped by the Facebook group No more cheating in chess!! Cheat=ban for life.
Borislav Ivanov
The Bulgarian Chess Federation has suspended Borislav Ivanov from official events for a period of four months. (See PDF)
The...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 20:06
The 4th FIDE Grand Prix tournament started today in Thessaloniki, Greece. The participants are Etienne Bacrot, Fabiano Caruana, Leinier Dominguez, Alexander Grischuk, Vassily Ivanchuk, Gata Kamsky, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Alexander Morozevich, Hikaru Nakamura, Ruslan Ponomariov, Peter Svidler and Veselin Topalov. In the first round Svidler defeated...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 13:39
Russian inmates defeated US prisoners 15.5-4.5 in an online match performed via Skype last Wednesday. The event was supported by 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov.
A very special chess event took place last Wednesday, May 15th: convicts in the USA teamed up to play a chess match via Skype against inmates from Russia. Both teams consisted of ten...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 12:11
During the Pentecost weekend a number of chess tournaments were played and we'll look at a few: the Bussum Open, the Limburg Open, and the GM tournament in Calgary, Canada. GM Dimitri Reinderman was the strongest in the knockout phase that decided matters in Bussum. In Limburg there was a five-way tie for first place among GM Vladimir Dobrov, IM...
Sunday, May 19, 2013 20:52
Grandmaster, arbiter of several World Championship matches and world renowned chess collector Lothar Schmid passed away on Saturday at the age of 85. Schmid died in his home town Bamberg "of age-related illness", reports Chessbase.
Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid was born on May 10th, 1928 in Radebeul, a small town north west of Dresden, Germany....
Saturday, May 18, 2013 17:36
Sergey Karjakin won the Norway Chess tournament on Saturday. The Russian grandmaster was the only player to finish on 6/9 after a draw with Veselin Topalov in the final round. Magnus Carlsen drew his black game with Levon Aronian quickly to end on shared second place with Hikaru Nakamura, who beat Jon Ludvig Hammer. Just like in Wijk aan Zee this...
Friday, May 17, 2013 21:55
In a dramatic penultimate round Sergey Karjakin kept his half point lead despite losing his game to Peter Svidler because Magnus Carlsen also lost, to Wang Hao. There were two more decisive games: Vishy Anand defeated Jon Ludvig Hammer and Hikaru Nakamura beat Teimour Radjabov.
This report starts on Thursday the 16th, the rest day, when two of the...
