Archive for July, 2010
In the pentultimate round of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, Arkadij Naiditsch upset Vladimir Kramnik while Peter Leko came tantilizingly close to beating Le Quang. Ruslan Ponomariov took no risk and secured his first place in the standings.
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A few days ago, we published an open letter by GM Sutovsky about the current FIDE Candidates Matches problems. Yesterday, Veselin Topalov published an open letter in response to the news that part of the matches might be played in Kazan, Russia.
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Weekly Endgame Study (179)
Jul 25
Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving!
G. Umnov
1999
White to play and win
Next week the solution.
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New: Grandmaster Repertoire Volume 6 – Lubomir Ftacnik .
In this latest volume of the outstanding Grandmaster Repertoire series acclaimed expert GM Lubomir Ftacnik presents a complete repertoire for Black in the Sicilian. The backbone o
Biel R4: Younger and wiser
Jul 25
In the fourth round of the Young Grandmasters Tournament in Biel, the players showed their mature attitude by collectively avoiding too much risk.
Report and analyses by IM Robert Ris
With the help of a Tartakower Defence in a Queens Gambit Declined,
In round 7 of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov took revenge for yesterday’s sad loss while Anatoly Karpov visited the tournament he won seventeen years ago.
Perhaps the most exciting event of the day was not one of t
Biel R3: So on a roll
Jul 25
Wesley So won his second game in the third round of the Young Grandmasters Tournament in Biel, grabbing the sole lead in an extremely strong field.
Report and analyses by IM Robert Ris
After a long hard working day yesterday, fellow countrymen Dmitry
The Israeli GM Emil Sutovsky was recently invited by President Ilyumzhinov to discuss the current problems in the FIDE Candidates Matches cycle. Here is his open letter to the participants, with some radical solutions.
Dear colleagues!
On July 20 I w
Just published: New In Chess 2010 issue 5!
Only a handful of people have ever been allowed a look at David De Lucia’s astonishing chess collection. Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam shows the treasures and tells the story.
Further on-the-spot reporting
The Miguel Najdorf Memorial Festival took place in Warsaw 17th-25th July 2010. The main open A had three top 100 players: Sergei Zhigalko, Aleksej Aleksandrov and Bartlomiej Macieja with Jon Ludvig Hammer just below that mark. Julian Radulski won the