Archive for Reports
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...
Thursday, May 16, 2013 22:48
Despite a loss in the final round to Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alexander Moiseenko won the European Championship in Legnica, Poland. The Ukrainian grandmaster was leading for most of the tournament and eventually scored 8/11, edging out nine other grandmasters on tiebreak. Among them was 59-year-old chess legend Alexander Beliavsky, who thus qualified...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 20:13
Sergey Karjakin kept his half point lead at the Norway Chess tournament on Wednesday. The tournament leader defeated Hikarua Nakamura and his main rival Magnus Carlsen also won, against Jon Ludvig Hammer. Teimour Radjabov again wasn't a shadow of the player he used to be and lost without a real fight to Vishy Anand. Thursday is a rest day.
Flor...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 19:53
Bela Khotenashvili scored an upset victory at the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Geneva. In what was the tournament of her life (at least until now!) the International Master from Georgia finished clear first, with 8.0/11, a 2681 performance and her final GM norm. Half a point behind came Anna Muzychuk (Slovenia), while Tatiana Kosintseva (Russia) and...
