Archive for Reports
Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:56
Tigran L. Petrosian, the Armenian grandmaster who holds the same name as the 9th World Champion, retained his Armenian Championship title in Yerevan on Monday. Despite missing the leading players (Levon Aronian, Sergey Movsesian, Vladimir Akopian, Gabriel Sargissian) the tournament was still quite strong. Petrosian finished on 7/9, half a point...
Friday, January 25, 2013 22:07
With a quick draw against Wang Hao on Friday Magnus Carlsen got a bit closer to tournament victory in Wijk aan Zee. The Norwegian's lead in Tata Steel's A group decreased to a point as Levon Aronian won his game against Hikaru Nakamura. Fabiano Caruana is not having a great tournament and in this round the Italian got crushed by Anish Giri. Peter...
Friday, January 25, 2013 12:06
Fifteen players started with three wins at the Gibraltar Masters, among them favorites like Michael Adams and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. The second and third rounds saw a few more upsets, most notably the loss of Radek Wojtaszek of Poland against Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria.
Two Knights Game at Gibraltar beach | Photos © Zeljka Malobabic, Monroi...
Thursday, January 24, 2013 16:56
The 6th edition of the annual Grand Slam Masters Final in Bilbao was announced yesterday in a press release. Specific dates are not mentioned, and it's also not clear whether the first half of the tournament will again be hosted by a different host city (like Sao Paulo in 2011 and 2012). The organizers are urging FIDE "to hold discussions in order...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 20:21
Magnus Carlsen won yet another game at the Tata Steel tournament on Wednesday and is getting close to Garry Kasparov's "+7" (10 out of 13) in 1999 in Wijk aan Zee. This time the Norwegian won a pawn in the middlegame and ground down Erwin l'Ami after 65 moves to get to a 1.5 point lead in the A group standings. The second place is shared between...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 17:43
Big upsets were seen during the first round of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival's Masters tournament as top seeds GMs Vassily Ivanchuk and Gata Kamsky were both held to a draw. The tournament is a 10-round Swiss played in the Caleta Hotel in Gibraltar and has live online commentary every day and several side events.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 19:49
Magnus Carlsen increased his lead in the A group of the Tata Steel chess tournament to a full point on Tuesday, beating Hou Yifan with the black pieces in 66 moves. Runner-up Vishy Anand drew quickly with Peter Leko. In the 9th round Loek van Wely won against the player who is his team mate in the Dutch 3rd league, Ivan Sokolov.
In the B group top...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 16:13
At 15:00 CET today the clocks were started for the first round of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. It has become one of the strongest open tournaments of the year, and in this 11th edition the top 10 players are Vassily Ivanchuk, Gata Kamsky, Michael Adams, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, David Navara, Alexei Shirov, Le Quang...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 16:02
GM Mark Paragua of the Philippines won the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Cup, an international chess event held in Manila between January 14th and 20th, 2013. It was a nine round Swiss with seventy participants from six different federations. Local hero Paragua won US $ 6,000 after finishing on 7.5/9, half a point more than FM Haridas Pascua...
Monday, January 21, 2013 11:16
2012 in chess was, yet again, the year of Magnus Carlsen. The Norwegian prodigy finally surpassed Garry Kasparov’s highest ever rating, causing Sergey Shipov to remark in his review of 2012 at Crestbook: “He’s Kasparov’s heir – not Kramnik, Topalov or Anand”. The full article is here at Crestbook and brief extracts in English can be found here.
