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Chess Week on Twitter
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Thursday, 10 October 2013
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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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Play it again, Sam
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By GM Kevin Spraggett, Canada, FIDE 2544
Kevin's blog (parental advisory)

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 Chess politics, for all its noise and whoop-la, is a total bore. On October 7 in Tallinn (Estonia) the delegates of the FIDE Congress held in said city were treated to the official kick-off of Gary Kasparovs 2014 campaign for the FIDE presidency. While it had long been rumoured that Kasparov was going to make yet one more biddespite the bitter experience in 2010no one was really certain who would make up Kasparovs team. Now he has ended the speculation.

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Chess Tactics
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Hovhannisyan (2599) - Yudkevich (2121), 2013
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What is the best continuation for White?

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Russian Superfinal, Round 5
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Wednesday, 09 October 2013
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Vladimir Kramnik outplayed Alexander Motylev with Black and had to sign a lot of autographs (as usual)
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 Round 5 results in the men's section:

Andreikin (2706) - Shomoev (2579) 1-0
Goganov (2575) - Svidler (2740) 1/2-1/2
Motylev (2676) - Kramnik (2796) 0-1
Inarkiev (2695) - Nepomniatchi (2702) 0-1
Vitiugov (2729) - Karjakin (2762) 1/2-1/2

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October 10 is a rest day, so it's a good point to stop and take a look at the current tournament standings:

1. Svidler - 4/5
2-3. Kramnik, Vitiugov - 3.5
4-5. Andreikin, Nepomniatchi - 3
6. Inarkiev - 2.5
7. Karjakin - 2
8. Goganov - 1.5
9-10. Motylev, Shomoev - 1

Women's Superfinal:

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Laznicka - Topalov annotated by GM Balogh
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Wednesday, 09 October 2013
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By GM Csaba Balogh, Hungary, FIDE 2632

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We are in the 6th and last game of this friendly match. The score is 3-2 to Topalov. Laznicka has the White pieces and tries to level the match.

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Instructive Endgame
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Wednesday, 09 October 2013
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Volkov (2628) - Givon (2445), 2013
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How should Black proceed?

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Russian Superfinal, Round 4
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Tuesday, 08 October 2013

6-time Russian Chess Champion Peter Svidler, the tournament leader, defeated Dmitry Andreikin and had to sign a lot of autographs
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 Round 4 results in the men's section:

Shomoev (2579) - Vitiugov (2729) 1/2-1/2
Karjakin (2762) - Inarkiev (2695) 1/2-1/2
Nepomniatchi (2702) - Motylev (2676) 1/2-1/2
Kramnik (2796) - Goganov (2575) 1-0
Svidler (2740) -  Andreikin (2706) 1-0

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Women's Superfinal:

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David vs. Goliath: Upsets of the Week
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Tuesday, 08 October 2013

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.

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Missed Chess Tactics
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Monday, 07 October 2013
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Istratescu (2664) - Andersen (2476), 2013
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Black is a pawn down. How would you evaluate this position? Support your opinion with concrete lines.

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Russian Superfinal, Round 3
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Monday, 07 October 2013

After winning the World Cup Vladimir Kramnik somewhat patronizingly said that Andreikin has the potential of becoming an elite player if he improves his opening repertoire. Dmitry replied by beating Vladimir for the third time (+3 -1 =3)
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Round 3 results in the men's section:

Svidler (2740) - Shomoev (2579) 1-0
Inarkiev (2695) - Vitiugov (2729) 1/2-1/2
Motylev (2676)  - Karjakin (2762) 1/2-1/2
Goganov (2575) - Nepomniatchi (2702)1/2-1/2
Andreikin (2706) - Kramnik (2796) 1-0

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Women's Superfinal:

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