Archive for Moscow
Saturday, March 02, 2013 11:36
According to DGT, their clock did not malfunction during the Aeroflot blitz final in February. The strange behavior of the clock in the Nepomniachtchi-Svidler game was a rather the result of a manual clock setting by an arbiter who preferred to keep the option of two flags falling.
The final moments of the Nepomniachtchi-Svidler game, with the...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 13:52
The top group of the Moscow Open chess festival was won by Boris Savchenko. In the final round the Russian grandmaster kept his head cool in a highly complex with his compatriot Pavel Ponkratov, where both sides made mistakes while playing for a win. Savchenko emerged as the winner and became the only player to finish on 7.5 points, half a point...
Monday, December 31, 2012 10:30
Sergey Karjakin won the original Piterenka rapid/blitz tournament on Saturday where the prize was a piece of land in the Moscow region, along the river Piterenka. In the all-decisive Armageddon game Karjakin was a full rook down against Alexander Grischuk, who allowed a stalemate.
Sergey Karjakin | Photo Galina Popova for the Russian Chess...
Sunday, December 23, 2012 14:47
Yesterday the Russian Chess Federation announced the Aeroflot Open 2013. The good news is that it's actually going to be organized. The bad news (to many) is that the format has moved from classical chess to rapid and blitz.
The chess festival will be celebrating the 90th anniversary of Russia's leading airline Aeroflot. It will be held in Moscow...
Thursday, December 20, 2012 16:00
On December 17th, in Moscow's Central House of Literature, the Caissa Award was awared to 16 individuals. Sergey Karjakin (who couldn't attend the evening because he participated in the Mind Games in Beijing) and Valentina Gunina received the best players awards.
Anna Ushenina receives the Caissa Award from Mikhail Gorbachev
A chess night devoted...
Friday, October 05, 2012 11:58
For the first time since he moved back from France to Russia, Boris Spassky has appeared in front of a TV camera and the footage has appeared online. The 10th World Champion is doing reasonably well, and says he was not abducted but chose to return to Moscow himself.
Abduction or escape? What actually happened to chess legend Boris Spassky, who...
Thursday, September 06, 2012 18:54
Last Sunday we reported on the Moscow Blitz tournament which was won by Alexander Morozevich. Meanwhile, videos from this event have appeared on YouTube.
As we reported on Sunday, Alexander Morozevich won the Moscow Blitz Championship for this 6th time. He finished on 17/21 which was two points more than Vladimir Malakhov. The tournament itself...
Sunday, September 02, 2012 23:18
Alexander Morozevich won the Moscow Blitz Championship on Sunday. The Russian top grandmaster, who recently had to withdraw from the Biel tournament and also the Olympiad squad, secured victory with a round to spare. It was the 6th time that Morozevich won the Moscow Blitz.
Alexander Morozevich | Photo courtesy of the official website
The...
Friday, August 24, 2012 19:54
On Friday a Moscow court acquitted Gary Kasparov of participating in an "unlawful protest" last week outside the Pussy Riot trial. The court didn't trust evidence brought by the Moscow police, and decided to declare the ex-World Champion not guilty. Kasparov might still be charged with "biting a police officer".
Kasparov giving a statement to the...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:59
A new update on the Kasparov arrest saga includes descriptions of his meeting with the Moscow police and the Investigative Committee of Russia. Kasparov also wrote a new op-ed, now for The Moscow Times.
Garry Kasparov on Facebook
There have been some new developments since the last time we wrote about Kasparov's arrest last Friday outside the...
