World Cup: Gashimov, Gelfand, Jakovenko, Malakhov and Ponomariov also through

After Karjakin, Mamedyarov and Svidler, today five more players qualified for the World Cup’s quarter-finals: Gashimov, Gelfand, Jakovenko, Malakhov and Ponomariov. Pairings for tomorrow’s 6th round: Karjakin-Mamedyarov, Gelfand-Jakovenko, Ponomariov-Gashimov and Svidler-Malakhov. Read more

World Cup: favourites through, Li Chao & Wang Yue forfeited and out

Favourites Gelfand, Gashimov, Svidler and Grischuk all reached the World Cup’s 4th round yesterday, winning their minimatches in the tiebreaks. The story of the day was the forfeit of Li Chao and Wang Yue in their second rapid game. They arrived too late at the board, having a smoke in between games. Read more

Nakamura beats Carlsen in BNBank final

Hikarua Nakamura defeated Magnus Carlsen 3-1 in the final of the BNbank Blitz tournament, held Saturday, November 28th in Oslo, Norway. Carlsen won the first game and had good positions in games 2 and 4, but Nakamura had the strongest nerves. Read more

Carlsen & Nakamura in BNbank Blitz

Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura are the top favourites to win tomorrow’s BNbank Blitz 2009, a one-day blitz tournament in Oslo, Norway. Read more

World Cup tiebreaks round 1: more Chinese successes

After Yu Yangyi’s surprising success of yesterday, two more famous grandmasters were eliminated by Chinese rising stars in the tiebreaks today. Gabriel Sargissian lost to Li Chao and Emil Sutovsky went down against Zhou Weiqi. Tomorrow is already the second round and we’re left with 64 players. Read more

Carlsen wins World Blitz Championship

Magnus Carlsen has won the World Blitz Championship in Moscow. The Norwegian scored 10/14 on the third day and eventually finished three points ahead of Viswanathan Anand, who scored ‘only’ 8/14, just like yesterday, but still finished 2nd in the standings, 3 points ahead of Sergei Karjakin. Vugar Gashimov apparently had enough of his bad play and decided to ‘win’ on the last day: 10.5/14. Read more

Carlsen leads by a point after 2nd day World Blitz

Magnus Carlsen has taken over the lead from Viswanathan Anand on the second day of the World Blitz Championship in Moscow. The Norwegian scored 11/14 today (no draws!) while Anand ‘only’ managed 8/14, but he’s is still 2nd in the standings. Day 2 saw excellent scores for Karjakin, Mamedyarov and Kosteniuk. Read more

World Blitz Championship: strong start for Anand and… Karpov

After the first day of play in Moscow, World Champion Viswanathan Anand has become the favourite to win the World Blitz title as well. The Indian started with a fine score of 12 out of 14 and is 2 points ahead of Magnus Carlsen. On third place after 14 rounds we find… 12th World Champion Anatoli Karpov! Read more

Kasparov beats Karpov 6-2 in blitz match (UPDATE: video added)

History repeated itself in Valencia this week with Karpov and Kasparov meeting each other behind the chess board again, and the third day repeated what we had seen in the rapids: quite a sharp Garry Kasparov easily beating a slow Anatoli Karpov, who just couldn’t handle the clock. The 6-2 in the blitz brought the final score on 9-3 for Kasparov. Last video now up. Read more

Grischuk still the strongest blitz player in Moscow

Former blitz world champion Alexander Grischuk was the strongest on Sunday in the Moscow blitz championship, held in a park in the Russian capital. Alexander Morozevich shared second place with Sergey Karjakin who is now a Muscovite as well.
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