Archive for July, 2011
Vladimir Kramnik on Saturday won the Sparkassen Chess Meeting for the 10th time. The Russian quickly drew with Anish Giri to secure first place. Hikaru Nakamura won his first game, against Georg Meier. Ruslan Ponomariov and Le Quang Liem drew. More l
Magnus Carlsen won the 2010 Chess Oscar. The prize is a result of votes by international chess journalists and awarded by Russian chess magazine 64. Last year Carlsen won his first Oscar.
Magnus Carlsen with his first Oscar in Moscow, November last y
In the last round of the Accentus GM tournament in Biel Alexander Morozevich defeated Yannick Pelletier. The Russian finished second behind Magnus Carlsen, who drew with Fabiano Caruana. The other game, between Alexei Shirov and Maxime Vachier-Lagrav
Ruslan Ponomariov also won his second game against Hikarua Nakamura. In today’s 8th round in Dortmund Vladimir Kramnik maintained his 2-point lead after drawing with second placed Le Quang Liem. The game between Georg Meier and Anish Giri also
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On July 28 in Moscow, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov met with Mikhail Gorbachev, the first President of the Soviet Union, the President of International Foundation for Innovation and Investment.
The leaders discussed issues of international p
This is what some of the critics had to say about Mihai Suba’s Dynamic Chess Strategy .
“Such a book on strategy has not been written since Nimzowitsch.”
Former Belgian Champion GM Luc Winants
“Suba is quite a story-teller,
With one round to go Magnus Carlsen on Thursday already secured victory at the Accentus GM tournament in Biel. The Norwegian drew with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and saw his closest rival Alexander Morozevich losing to Fabiano Caruana. The game between A
Summer chess in Ikaria
Jul 29
It’s summer, and it’s the time of summer chess events. After covering so many tournaments for this site in the past few years, I decided to play one myself again. For the first time since August 2007 I participated in a 9-round Swiss, on
Vladimir Kramnik is very close to winning his 10th Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund. Today the Russian defeated Georg Meier and extended his lead to two full points, as Le Quang Liem drew with Hikaru Nakamura. Anish Giri won against Ruslan Ponoma