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FIDE Grand Prix in Bejing, Round 3 Results
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Giri Anish defeated Boris Gelfand with the Black pieces
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 Round 3 results (again 3 wins for Black and 0 for White!):

GM Morozevich Alexander 2736 0 - 1 GM Karjakin Sergey 2776
GM Gelfand Boris 2773 0 - 1 GM Giri Anish 2734
GM Leko Peter 2737 ½​ - ½​ GM Wang Yue 2705
GM Kamsky Gata 2763 ½​ - ½​ GM Topalov Veselin 2767
GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2733 0 - 1 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2761
GM Wang Hao 2752 ½​ - ½​ GM Grischuk Alexander 2780

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Greatest Female Chess Players. Anna Muzychuk
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By International Master Alexander Gelman

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Pogonina.com & IM Alexander Gelman are producing a special series of videos dedicated to the highest-rated women in the history of chess. This week's featured player is GM Anna Muzychuk.

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6-time Portuguese Chess Champion Rui Damaso's Brilliancies
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By GM Kevin Spraggett
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Todays chess tactics will focus largely on games played by the very talented Portuguese IM Rui Damaso. Ruis games are a gold mine of tactical explosions, surprising attacks and subtle finesse. ENJOY!

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FIDE Grand Prix in Bejing, Round 2 Results
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Sergey Karjakin is in sole lead at the Grand Prix after 2 rounds
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 Round 2 results:

GM Karjakin Sergey 2776 1 - 0 GM Wang Hao 2752
GM Grischuk Alexander 2780 ½​ - ½​ GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2733
GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2761 ½​ - ½​ GM Kamsky Gata 2763
GM Topalov Veselin 2767 ½​ - ½​ GM Leko Peter 2737
GM Wang Yue 2705 ½​ - ½​ GM Gelfand Boris 2773
GM Giri Anish 2734 ½​ - ½​ GM Morozevich Alexander 2736

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FIDE Grand Prix in Bejing, Round 2 Odds
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Round 2 odds:




Based on Peter Zhdanov's ChessBet model

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Chess Tactics
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Javakhadze (2455) - Yilmaz (2556), 2013
Black to move

This puzzle is rather easy. Try to work it out within 10 seconds.

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FIDE Grand Prix in Bejing, Round 1 Results
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Veselin Topalov, the leader of the Grand Prix series, defeated Boris Gelfand with Black
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 Round 1 results (notably, Black won 3 games, White - 0!):

GM Giri Anish 2734 0 - 1 GM Karjakin Sergey 2776
GM Morozevich Alexander 2736 ½​ - ½​ GM Wang Yue 2705
GM Gelfand Boris 2773 0 - 1 GM Topalov Veselin 2767
GM Leko Peter 2737 ½​ - ½​ GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2761
GM Kamsky Gata 2763 0 - 1 GM Grischuk Alexander 2780
GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2733 ½​ - ½​ GM Wang Hao 2752

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Congratulations to Grischuk and Gunina on Honorary Master of Sports Title
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Alexander Grischuk and Valentina Gunina have earned the extremely prestigious Honorary Russian Master of Sports title. To qualify, one needs to score at least 150 points. To give you a sense of how hard it is, a victory in the World Chess Championship is worth 75 points, in the European Chess Championship - 35 points, Russian Chess Championship - 10 points. Team events are also taken into account, but they are worth less. Also, Chess Olympiads and European Club Cups are somehow not considered.

Congratulations!

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Some of the notable chess players who were awarded the title:
Botvinnik - 1945
Keres, Smyslov - 1948
Bronstein - 1951
Rubtsova - 1952
Bykova, Rudenko - 1953
Tal, Petrosian, Korchnoi - 1960
Averbakh, Spassky, Stein - 1965
Polugaevsky - 1969
Karpov - 1974
Chiburdanidze - 1978
Kasparov - 1985

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Does Anyone Have a Cure for Anger Problems?
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 I played a game a couple of days ago where I lost from a rook up.

At the end of the game I completely lost my rag and starting screaming, which was quite embarrassing in hindsight. Really I was angry at myself. Other players in the tournament (including my opponent) saw this meltdown and must have thought "what a nutter".

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FIDE Grand Prix in Bejing
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Bejing, capital of China. Image from the official website

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Event: 5th stage of FIDE Grand Prix 2012-2013 (6 legs total)
Format: round robin, 11 rounds
Dates: July 4-7, 9-12, 14-16. Games start at 3 p.m. local time, last round - at 1 p.m.
Prize fund: 170,000 + 70,000 added to the final prize fund (distributed after the end of the Grand Prix series)
Participants: Gelfand, Giri, Grischuk, Ivanchuk, Kamsky, Karjakin, Leko, Mamedyarov, Morozevich, Topalov, Wang Hao, Wang Yue (replaced Radjabov , who will be absent due to family affairs)

By taking a look at the current standings, one can see that Veselin Topalov is a favorite to win the series and become one of the two qualifiers for the next Candidates tournament. However, if he performs badly, a few competitors can surpass his result, so it will be a tough race.

Pogonina.com will be following this event and offering proprietary odds for each round, showing what the probability of each outcome in each match-up is. Stay tuned!

Round 1 Odds:

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