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Chess Tactics
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Edouard (2662) - Danielsen (2510), 2013
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Try to find the winning combination for White and compare it to the line that happened in the game.

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Kramnik and Adams extend their lead at Dortmund
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Vladimir Kramnik vs. Peter Leko: are you feeling nostalgic yet?
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Both Vladimir Kramnik and Michael Adams won their games to separate themselves even further from the rest of the field. Dmitry Andreikin has finally recovered from a downstreak and has scored too.

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Standings and odds for Round 6 (August 1, 15:00 local time):

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Ding Liren Overtakes Bacrot in Biel
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Ian Nepomniatch won his first game at the event

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Ding Liren is gaining momentum: after a R8 victory he is the leader of the tournament.

Etienne Bacrot - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ½ - ½  
Ian Nepomniachtchi - Alexander Moiseenko 1 - 0  
Richard Rapport - Ding Liren 0 - 1

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Standings & odds for Round 9 (July 31, 14:00 local time):

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David vs. Goliath: Upsets of the Week
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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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Gunina and Hoang Thanh Trang are leading EIWCC-2013
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It is by far not easy to deprive Valentina Gunina of her hard-earned European Champion title!
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The reigning European Women's Chess Champion Valentina Gunina (2507) is on fire: she has 6/7. Hoang Thanh Trang (2467) also has given away just one point.

Tomorrow (July 30) is a rest day, and on July 31 we will see Valentina Gunina (2507) - Hoang Thanh Trang (2467) on Board 1 and Anna Muzychuk (2594) - Natalia Pogonina (2478) on Board 2. Both Anna and Natalia have 5.5 points.

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Kramnik, Adams are leading Dortmund after R4
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Arkadij Naiditsch

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Vladimir Kramnik defeated Georg Meier as Black to catch up with Michael Adams. Fabiano Caruana suffered another loss (this time from Wang Hao). So did Dmitry Andreikin, who succumbed to Arkadij Naditsch.

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Standings and odds for Round 5 (July 30, 15:00 local time):

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Moiseenko & Vachier-Lagrave win in Biel R7
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Alexander Moiseenko
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Etienne Bacrot managed to survive the encounter with Ding Liren. Nevertheless, three GMs are on his heels, just one point behind.

Ding Liren - Etienne Bacrot ½ - ½  
Alexander Moiseenko - Richard Rapport 1 - 0  
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - Ian Nepomniachtchi 1 - 0

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Standings & odds for Round 8 (July 30, 14:00 local time):

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Chess Week on Twitter
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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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Mate in 4 Puzzle
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White to play and mate in 4

We have spent quite some time on this witty chess problem. Will you be able to solve it?

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Khurtsidze has 5.5/6 at Women's European Chess Championship
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Nino Khurtsidze (2443, Georgia) is leading the tournament with 5.5/6. Five more players have 5/6 and sixteen - 4.5/6.

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