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News

Chess Week on Twitter
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Monday, 16 June 2014
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Pogonina.com offers you a selection of the top-10 chess tweets from last week - a digest of the most important chess news in one short post.

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Sergey Karjakin Won Stavanger-2014
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Saturday, 14 June 2014


Sergey Karjakin won Norway Chess super tournament for the second consecutive year. Congratulations!

Final standings:



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Igor Lysyj and Olga Girya won Russian Top League'2014
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Saturday, 14 June 2014

Congratulations to GM Igor Lysyj on winning the Russian Top League-2014!

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The Russian Top League is a strong annual event that serves as a qualifier for the Russian Superfinal. The final field is comprised of 5 winners of the Top League, 3 medalists of the previous year's Superfinal and 2 otherwise highest-rated players.

The Top League'2014 took place in Vladivostok (the city where Natalia was born) from June 3 to 13. In the men's section Igor Lysyj, Vadim Zvyagintsev and Dmitry Jakovenko tied for 1st place with 6.5 points out of 9. Denis Khismatullin and Boris Grachev have qualified for the Superfinal with 6 points and better tie-break scores than their competitors.

In the women's section Olga Girya and Alina Kashlinskaya dominated the field and scored 7.5/9. The other three qualifiers earned only 6 points - Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, Oksana Gritsaeva, Aleksandra Goryachkina.

Full standings:

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Norway Chess 2014, Round 9 Odds
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Friday, 13 June 2014


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Current standings:

1. Karjakin - 5; 2-3. Carlsen, Caruana - 4.5; 4-6. Topalov, Kramnik, Grischuk - 4; 7-10. Aronian, Svidler, Giri, Agdestein - 3.5

Odds for Round 9, June 13:




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Norway Chess 2014, Round 8 Odds
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Wednesday, 11 June 2014


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Current standings:
1-4. Kramnik, Carlsen, Karjakin, Caruana - 4; 5-6. Agdestein, Grischuk - 3.5; 7-10. Topalov, Aronian, Svidler, Giri - 3.

Odds for Round 8, June 12:




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David vs. Goliath: Upsets of the Week
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Wednesday, 11 June 2014

By candidate master Peter Zhdanov, Editor of Pogonina.com

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In this special weekly column we will be looking at the most unexpected upsets that happened last week. Players usually face opponents of a similar level. Considerably less frequent are situations when a significantly lower-rated player succeeds in beating a much stronger adversary.

Last week 15 upsets occurred. I have personally seen two of them played out at Nezhmetdinov Memorial:

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Dmitry Kokarev Won Nezhmetdinov Memorial'2014
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Nezhmetdinov Memorial, a stage of the Russian Men's Chess Cup, was a 36th edition of a strong open tournament that took place in Kazan from May 30 to June 8. Out of 103 participants 23 have the GM title and 2 - the WGM title.


GM Zaven Andriasian (2611), left, took the bronze medal. GM Dmitry Kokarev (2628), centre, became the tournament winner. GM Boris Savchenko (2559), right, won the silver medal.


WGM Natalia Pogonina (2501) took the first women's prize and finished 12th overall. WGM Alisa Galliamova (2466) claimed the second women's prize and finished in 17th place.


Natalia Pogonina played 5 male GMs at the event, including the tournament winner.
She has achieved her all time personal rating record - FIDE 2508.3.


Pogonina.com Editor Peter Zhdanov & Natalia Pogonina at the closing ceremony.

Final standings

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Women's live ratings

The images are courtesy of Salman Shaidullin and the official site.

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GM Motylev - GM Eljanov annotated by GM Naiditsch
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By GM Arkadij Naiditsch, #1 German chess player
Best FIDE rating: 2737

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We are going to see a very nice positional win by the current European Champion Alexander Motylev, who was also the second of Karjakin for many years. It is a very difficult job to combine your own chess career and having somebody for who you are working most of the time, but it seems like Motylev managed to find the right way.

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Nezhmetdinov Memorial-2014
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Wednesday, 28 May 2014


Rashid Nezhmetdinov was a legendary attacking Soviet chess player. He also used to hold a master title in checkers.

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Venue: Kazan, Russia
Dates: May 30 - June 8
Format: 9-round swiss open
Time control: 90 m for 40 moves, 30 m for the rest of the game, 30s/move starting from move 1
Official site (in Russian)

So far 24 GMs and 2 WGMs have registered for the Nezhmetdinov Memorial - a stage of the Russian Men's Chess Cup.

Here is a preliminary list of participants rated 2400+:

Player ID Born Fed. Title FIDE rating
Popov, Ivan 4170350 1990 RUS GM 2650
Kokarev, Dmitry 4132181 1982 RUS GM 2628
Andriasian, Zaven 13302000 1989 ARM GM 2611
Timofeev, Artyom 4140419 1985 RUS GM 2603
Bocharov, Dmitry 4138716 1982 RUS GM 2598
Ponkratov, Pavel 4157800 1988 RUS GM 2595
Danin, Alexandre 4144031 1986 RUS GM 2594
Volkov, Sergey 4122763 1974 RUS GM 2584
Fedorov, Alexei 13500465 1972 BLR GM 2574
Frolyanov, Dmitry 4151976 1986 RUS GM 2572
Shariyazdanov, Andrey 4122747 1976 RUS GM 2568
Savchenko, Boris 4147332 1986 RUS GM 2559
Dvoirys, Semen I. 4100379 1958 RUS GM 2557
Ibragimov, Ildar 4102878 1967 USA GM 2557
Mozharov, Mikhail 4189825 1990 RUS GM 2552
Shaposhnikov, Evgeny 4122232 1981 RUS GM 2550
Lintchevski, Daniil 4171055 1990 RUS GM 2546
Yudin, Sergei 4159659 1986 RUS GM 2546
Rychagov, Andrey 4119932 1979 RUS GM 2535
Rozum, Ivan 24104272 1991 RUS IM 2535
Prizant, Jaroslav 4140664 1983 RUS IM 2516
Demidov, Mikhail 4197143 1992 RUS IM 2512
Pogonina, Natalija 4147855 1985 RUS WGM 2501
Gavrilov, Alexei 4104358 1960 RUS GM 2491
Matinian, Nikita 24129100 1992 RUS IM 2478
Kharlov, Andrei 4102185 1968 RUS GM 2477
Galliamova, Alisa 4129725 1972 RUS IM 2466
Kuderinov, Kirill 13701568 1987 KAZ IM 2442
Tunik, Gennady 4101219 1953 RUS GM 2430
Ulko, Jaroslav 4116658 1973 RUS IM 2422
Isajevsky, Anton 4142500 1985 RUS FM 2416
Yagupov, Igor 4113632 1965 RUS GM 2414
Pasiev, Rakhim 24122475 1994 RUS IM 2410
Smirnov, Alexey 4168437 1983 RUS   2407
Yandemirov, Valeri 4102622 1963 RUS GM 2403
Vastrukhin, Oleg 4192770 1991 RUS   2401

Both Natalia Pogonina and Peter Zhdanov will be playing in the tournament, so please don't be surprised if there will be somewhat fewer updates on the site during that period. Chess is a demanding game!

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David vs. Goliath: Upsets of the Week
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In this special weekly column we will be looking at the most unexpected upsets that happened last week. Players usually face opponents of a similar level. Considerably less frequent are situations when a significantly lower-rated player succeeds in beating a much stronger adversary.

The past week was relatively upset-free, so we had to lower the standards from the usual 300+ points gap to 250 in order to come up with a top-10. Here are the games:

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