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Sunday, April 21, 2013 8:20
All games in round three of the FIDE Grand Prix in Zug, Switzerland ended in draws. Alexander Morozevich, Ruslan Ponomariov and Veselin Topalov are still in shared first place with eight rounds to go.
The standings remained the same after the third round of the Renova Group Grand Prix as all games ended in draws. One of the leaders, Veselin...
Friday, April 19, 2013 21:41
On Friday FIDE Vice President Israel Gelfer signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the All India Chess Federation in Chennai regarding the World Championship Match 2013 between Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen. The two parties intend to hold the match in November of this year in Chennai, India.
By signing a Memorandum of Understanding with...
Friday, April 19, 2013 21:12
Alexander Morozevich, Ruslan Ponomariov and Veselin Topalov are in shared first place after two rounds at the FIDE Grand Prix in Zug, Switzerland. In the second round Topalov beat Leko in a complicated game that started as a Ragozin Defence. Morozevich drew relatively quickly with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in a Grünfeld while Ruslan Ponomariov ground...
Friday, April 19, 2013 14:39
Tamir Nabaty won the Championship of Israel, scoring 6.5/9 in what was a Swiss tournament. GMs Ilya Smirin and Viktor Mikhalevski tied for second place with 6.9. WIM Olga Vasiliev won the women's section with 7/9.
The Israel Championship took place April 6th-14th at the Palm Beach Hotel in Acre, Israel. Acre (or Akko), situated at the northern...
Thursday, April 18, 2013 14:02
Magnus Carlsen has been included on TIME Magazine's list of "100 Most Influential People" for 2013. "(...) his intuitive style conserves the mystique of chess at a time when every CPU-enhanced fan thinks the game is easy," writes Garry Kasparov, who was commissioned to do the capsule for TIME.
I'm surprised and deeply honored. Inclusion in 2013...
Thursday, April 18, 2013 8:38
Like last year, the 41st edition of the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund will have ten participants: Vladimir Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana, Peter Leko, Wang Hao, Michael Adams, Dmitry Andreikin, Arkadij Naiditsch, Daniel Fridman, Georg Meier and Igor Khenkin. Before the 40th jubilee edition, the tournament was played with six participants for a...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 16:01
Today the third FIDE Grand Prix in the 2012-2013 series will be officially opened in Zug, Switzerland. The participants are Teimour Radjabov, Sergey Karjakin, Fabiano Caruana, Veselin Topalov, Hikaru Nakamura, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alexander Morozevich, Peter Leko, Gata Kamsky, Ruslan Ponomariov, Anish Giri and Rustam Kasimdzhanov. Most of the...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 19:47
After four rounds of play, IM Roy Saptarshi and GMs Mark Paragua and Zhao Zong-Yuan are tied for first place at the 13th Bangkok Chess Club Open. Especially for Saptarshi, who defeated Nigel Short in round 3, this is an excellent start.
The beautiful Dusit Thani Hotel in Pattaya, location of the Bangkok Open
Peter Darby sent us the following...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:24
Aleksandr Rakhmanov won the 15th Dubai Open on Monday. The 23-year-old Russian grandmaster scored 7.5/9 in a very strong field. Eight players tied for second place, including WGM Ju Wenjun of China, who scored a GM norm.
Rakhmanov & Kuzubov shake hands at the start of round 9 | Photos by Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh courtesy of Dubai Chess
The 15th...
Sunday, April 07, 2013 10:50
There’s a theory that a reviewer of chess books shouldn’t be allowed to review an opening book which deals with a system he has no experience with himself. This point of view has never made a lot of sense to me. Do we expect all reviewers of Richard Dawkins’ books to be evolutionary biologists? Should all reviewers of Chad Harbach’s The Art of...
