Archive for April, 2011
May 2011 FIDE Rating List
Apr 30
FIDE publishes May 2011 FIDE Rating List. The list of top players is published at dedicated page of FIDE ratings website. All players can check new ratings at the main page of FIDE ratings website.
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Andrei Deviatkin won the Doeberl Cup in Canberra, Australia. The Russian grandmaster finished on 7.5/9, half a point clear of GMs Dejan Bojkov of Bulgaria and Sune Berg Hansen of Denmark. As in previous years, Australia’s retired GM Ian Rogers
A few rounds into the preliminaries she was almost knocked out, but eventually she won the 2011 U.S. Women’s Championship: Anna Zatonskih. It was her fourth U.S. Women’s Championship title and second since 2009 when the U.S. Women’s Champio
New: Wojo’s Weapons, volume 2.
The late GM Aleksander Wojtkiewics scored a stunning 80.2% winning percentage with his Fianchetto King’s Indian. IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton make this score accessible to amateur players by clea
Kamsky retains U.S. title
Apr 28
Only Bobby Fischer, Sammy Reshevsky, Lev Alburt and Walter Browne did it before him: retaining the U.S. Championship title. Yesterday Gata Kamsky beat Yuri Shulman 1.5-0.5 in the final to remain U.S. Champion for at least another year, a prize he wo
In exactly one week eight days from today, the first games of the FIDE Candidates matches will be played. In Kazan, Russia the first round will have Veselin Topalov vs Gata Kamsky, Vladimir Kramnik vs Teimour Radjabov, Levon Aronian vs Alexander Gris
Hou Yifan won the first ‘Women Masters’ tournament held in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China. The reigning Women’s World Champion finished clear first, a full point ahead of Sheng Yang and Ju Wenjun.
Tournament winner Hou Yifan on the podium | P
The 15th Neckar Open was won by Arkadij Naiditsch. The German grandmaster scored a very convincing 8.5/9 in Deizisau, Germany. This year the tournament might well have been the biggest open in the world, with 753 participants. One of them, French top
The finals of the U.S. Championship start today in Saint Louis. In the men’s final the fight will be between Gata Kamsky, who eliminated Sam Shankland, and Yuri Shulman, who was too strong for Robert Hess. Anna Zatonskih beat Irina Krush in the
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov signed an agreement with Mr. Anant Asavabhokhin, the World Meditation Academy Chairman. The World Meditation Academy has been extremely active since it was set up and several courses in meditation are carried out b