Archive for July 30th, 2010
Profiles
Jul 30
Unofficial but widely recognized as Champions (pre-championship era):
Philidor
Howard Staunton
Adolf Anderssen
Paul Morphy
Official Champions:
Wilhelm Steinitz
Emanuel Lasker
José Raúl Capablanca
Alexander Alekhine
Max
Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Jul 30
Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzbek: Rustam Qosimjonov) (born December 5, 1979) is a chess grandmaster from Uzbekistan. In the Uzbek language, which since 1992 has officially used Latin script, his name is written "Qosimjonov". He was the FIDE world champion
Ruslan Ponomariov
Jul 30
Ruslan Ponomariov (born October 11, 1983) is a Ukrainian chess player. In the April 2006 FIDE Elo rating list, Ponomariov had a rating of 2738, making him number six in the world and the Ukrainian number one.
Ponomariov was born in Horlivka in Uk
Viswanathan Anand
Jul 30
Viswanathan Anand (born December 11, 1969 in Chennai (then called Madras), India) is an Indian chess grandmaster. In the July 2006 FIDE Elo rating list, Anand has a rating of 2779, making him the number two in the world (after Veselin Topalov). An
Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman (born January 18, 1966 in Leningrad) is a Russian chess player.
When Khalifman was 6 years old, he was taught chess by his father.
He gained the Grandmaster title in 1990 with one particularly good early resul
Fabiano Caruana won the Young Grandmaster Tournament in Biel today. The Italian was the strongest in a necessary play-off with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, whom he beat in the final.
The play-off final between Fabiano Caruana an
The 5th FIDE Women's Grand Prix takes place in Ulaanbaatar 29th July - 12th August 2010.
Players:
1 Koneru, Humpy 2595 GM IND
2 Yifan, Hou 2585 GM CHN
3 Stefanova, Antoaneta 2527 GM BUL
4 Sebag Marie 2519 GM FRA
5 Chiburdanidze, Ma
Among the most advanced means of learning how to play chess, the use of a chess tutorial may be the most appealing one, as it includes step by step all the stages one needs to go through in order to get the main skills required by the g
21st Czech Open 2010
Jul 30
The 21st Czech Open takes place in Pardubice 15th July - 1st August 2010. The main Czech Open starts 23rd July 2010.
Source
Dutch Open 2010
Jul 30
The Dutch Open takes place Tuesday July 27th (Sunday rest day) - Thursday August 6 2010.
9-round Swiss Open with 13 GMs and 12 IMs. Including: 2009 winner Erwin L'Ami, Sipke Ernst, Valentin Iotov, Viacheslav Ikonnikov, Elshan Moradiabadi, Leonid M