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GM Nakamura - GM Gelfand annotated by GM Balogh
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Russian Superfinal, Awards Ceremony (Video)
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Saturday, 19 October 2013 |
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Friday, 18 October 2013 |
Pogonina.com offers you a selection of some of the most informative chess tweets from last week. A digest of the most important chess news in one short post:
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Chigorin Memorial 5-Second Tactics
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Friday, 18 October 2013 |
By GM Kevin Spraggett, Canada, FIDE 2544
Kevin's blog (parental advisory)
More results HERE
As can be seen above, 9-rounds was hardly enough to get a clear winner. Eleven GMs tied for first with 7 pts and 13 players-all GMs except for number 14, Bernadskiy (a mere IM) had half a point less. Eljanov won on tie-break. Congrats to everyone involved! This years higorin Memorial was a super strong tournament.
I continue with some tactical exercises and tidbits from this tournament:
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European Chess Club Cup-2013
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Thursday, 17 October 2013 |
Venue: Rhodes, Greece
Schedule: October 19-27
Format: 7 rounds, Swiss
Time control: official FIDE time control
Team composition: 6+2 (open section); 4+2 (women's section)
# of teams: 52 (open section), 11 (women's section)
Open section
Alexander Grischuk, FIDE 2786, #4 in the world, is the highest-rated player of ECCC-2013
About half of all the world's top players are participating, including Alexander Grischuk (2786), Hikaru Nakamura (2783), Fabiano Caruana (2779), Veselin Topalov (2771), Sergey Karjakin (2762), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2759), Dominguez Leinier Perez (2753), Anish Giri (2749), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2742), Peter Svidler (2740), Alexander Morozevich (2734), Wang Hao (2733), Peter Leko (2732), Nikita Vitiugov (2729), Gata Kamsky (2725), Teimour Radjabov (2723), Dmitry Jakovenko (2719), Anton Korobov (2716), Vladimir Malakhov (2711), Pentala Harikrishna (2709), David Navara (2703), et al.
The main favorite is SOCAR from Azerbaijan (average rating: 2753), although Malakhit, St. Petersburg and Ugra (all from Russia) are also incredibly strong. Each of the teams can boast an average rating of 2700+.
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GM Kramnik-GM Shomoev annotated by GM Naiditsch
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Thursday, 17 October 2013 |
By GM Arkadij Naiditsch, #1 German chess player, FIDE 2724
We are in the 1st round of the Russian Championship. Quite surprisingly, Kramnik is participating too. Usually Vladimir avoids playing non Top GMs, but as he showed just a month ago by winning the World Cup, he is very good at beating weaker players.
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Caruana won Kings Tournament
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Wednesday, 16 October 2013 |
The 7th edition of Kings Tournament took place in Bucharest, Romania from 6th to 16th October 2013.
The indefatigable Fabiano Caruana won the event two rounds in advance. His live rating is now 2792, #4 in the world.
Wang Hao once again became the Robin Hood of the tournament: he defeated the two top seeds and lost to the rating outsider.
Local player Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter held his own in this strong field and scored 50%.
Teimour Radjabov (who has squandered 70 rating points since April 2013) is still in poor form: not a single victory and one loss. Characteristically enough, he went for a draw with perpetual check on move 19 playing White against Caruana in the final round.
Ex-FIDE World Chess Champion Ruslan Ponomariov fared even worse: 2 losses, 6 draws.
Final standings:
1. Fabiano Caruana (2779), Italy - 5
2. Wang Hao (2733), China - 4.5
3. Nisipeaunu Liviu-Dieter (2674), Romania - 4
4. Teimour Radjabov (2723), Azerbaijan - 3.5
5. Ruslan Ponomariov (2751), Ukraine - 3
Official website of the tournament
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