Archive for Reports
Saturday, February 09, 2013 19:36
Here's a short but funny intermezzo in between our more serious chess coverage. "Chess pains" is the title of episode 18 from season 3 of the popular American sitcom Frasier, which ran for eleven seasons between September 1993 and May 2004. It was a spin-off of the famous comedy Cheers, from which the character Frasier, played by Kelsey Grammer,...
Friday, February 08, 2013 22:01
Arkadij Naiditsch joined Fabiano Caruana in the lead in round 2 of the Grenke Chess Classic in Baden-Baden. On Friday the German grandmaster beat Michael Adams in 79 moves and almost 7 hours of play. Both Anand-Caruana and Fridman-Meier ended in draws.
Naiditscih was the winner of the day in round 2
Arkadij Naiditsch emerged victorious after a...
Friday, February 08, 2013 18:24
Nadezhda and Tatiana Kosintseva have decided not to continue playing for the Russian women's team as long as Sergey Rublevsky is the captain. "Unfortunately, the Olympiad in Istanbul went for us in the atmosphere of a permanent psychological discomfort and all that in addition to the usual tournament pressure," said Nadezhda Kosintseva in an...
Thursday, February 07, 2013 20:41
Fabiano Caruana took an early lead at the Grenke Chess Classic in Baden-Baden on Thursday, beating Georg Meier with the white pieces in a French Defence, Rubinstein Variation. Superb opening preparation gave the Italian a slightly better position but a big time advantage, and at some point Meier started to make inevitable mistakes. Both Adams-...
Thursday, February 07, 2013 11:33
Soon after he won the 75th Tata Steel tournament, Magnus Carlsen travelled to the United States. His main destination was the Parallels Summit in Las Vegas, but earlier this week Carlsen also appeared on Rainn Wilson's Metaphysical Milkshake, an online show part of SoulPancake.
Carlsen sits down with Wilson at the back of his 1976 Chevy van and...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013 18:58
Ju Wenjun, the Chinese chess player who got stranded in Gibraltar after finishing the chess tournament last week, is finally on her way back home. The situation was solved on Wednesday afternoon, February 6th.
Ju Wenjun interviewed being interviewed by Gibraltar TV as she prepares to board her flight to London | Photo courtesy of Tradewise Chess...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013 16:32
Tomorrow the first edition of the Grenke Chess Classic starts in Baden-Baden, Germany. It's a six-player double round robin with Vishy Anand, Fabiano Caruana, Michael Adams, Arkadij Naiditsch, Daniel Fridman and Georg Meier. The full pairings are already known.
Early January we announced the tournament, and now it's there: the Grenke Chess Classic...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013 12:23
Once a year, the small village of Wijk aan Zee is in the chess world’s spotlights thanks to the traditional Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The event is famous because for its super strong A-group, won this year by Magnus Carlsen, and a B- and C-group which could form a prestigious main tournament in any other city!
By Lennart Ootes
However, the Tata...
Tuesday, February 05, 2013 15:20
The full line-up of the first "Norway Chess" tournament was announced today and it's an impressive list: Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, Teimour Radjabov, Sergey Karjakin, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Hikaru Nakamura, Wang Hao and Jon Ludvig Hammer.
Photos by New in Chess
Today the organizers of the "Norway Chess 2013"...
Tuesday, February 05, 2013 13:15
The 9th Pan-American Team Championship was won by the USA, who finished with 10 match points out of 6 matches. The other three participating teams were Cuba, Brazil and Uruguay. The tournament took place from 24th till 30th January in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
In the first round USA beat (the higher rated) Cuba and eventually they clinched the title with...
