Archive for October 31st, 2010
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the Crown Group of the Univé Chess Tournament. The French grandmaster finished on 4.5/6 on Saturday, undefeated and a full point ahead of Alexei Shirov. Like last year Anish Giri scored fifty per cent while 2009 winner Ser
Weekly Endgame Study (193)
Oct 31
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!
S. Nosek
2008
White to play and draw
Next week the solution.
S
The 14th Unive Tournament took place in Hoogeveen, Netherlands 22nd-30th October 2010.
The 4 player double round robin sawAlexei Shirov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri and Sergei Tiviakov compete.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took clear first pl
The Pearl Spring Masters took place in Nanjing 18th-30th October 2010. Players: Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Vugar Gashimov, Wang Yue and Etienne Bacrot. 6 players 10 Round Double Round Robin. Magnus Carlsen repeated his win in
In the last round of the Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing Viswanathan Anand outplayed Etienne Bacrot in a Nimzo-Indian to clinch second place. Wang Yue started strongly and got a winning position against Veselin Topalov, but then the Chinese blew i