World Chess 2013 - Rapid & Blitz: All Players +2500 Eligible
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hi everyone, FIDE has announced that all players rated above 2500 may take part in the World Rapid and Blitz Championships to be held in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. Registrations will take place on May 1, 2013. The prize money for each of these World Championship is 200,000 US Dollars. This is happening for the first time that any player rated above 2500 can participate. Federations also have certain options to nominate players. Here are the relevant Fide links for more information on these events. Full... more »
Alekhine Memorial, Round 5 Odds
Natalia Pogonina\\\'s official website - 11 hours ago
Round 5 starts on April 25, 4 p.m. Moscow time: Based on Peter Zhdanov's ChessBet model (http://pogonina.com/index.php?option=com_content task=view id=1569 Itemid=1) Current standings: 1-4.... more »
Renova Chess Grand Prix 2013 Round 6: Ponomariov, Topalov, Morozevich in Joint Lead
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hi everyone, The Renova Chess Grand Prix has three leaders after six rounds: Ponomariov, Topalov and Morozevich. Both leaders Veselin Topalov and Alexander Morozevich finished their games in draws while Ruslan Ponomariov outplayed Gata Kamsky to join two other leaders on top of the table. Hikaru Nakamura won the first game in the tournament against Rustam Kasimdzhanov The craziest game of the sixth round between Fabiano Caruana and Sergey Karjakin ended in a draw, but not before either player had ha... more »
One Move, One Line - Part II
Natalia Pogonina\\\'s official website - 12 hours ago
by GM Danny Gormally Part one of the story (http://pogonina.com/index.php?option=com_content task=view id=1621 Itemid=1) GM Daniel Gormally shares annotations to two more games... more »
Rare Chess Board on Display in London at Fortnum & Mason
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hi everyone, *Game on: The Standard’s Miranda Bryant, Harley the rabbit, centre, and pianist Jason Kouchak try out the chessboard.* A rare chessboard inspired by Alice in Wonderland is to go on display for the first time. The white gold gilded board — which features pictures by Sir John Tenniel who illustrated Lewis Caroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass — lay undiscovered for 100 years before being spotted at a house clearance two years ago, according to a Standard r... more »
World Rapid & Blitz Championships
[image: official logo] FIDE reminds all interested players who wish to participate in the forthcoming World Rapid & Blitz Championships to be held in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia that the registration for the events should be made by the 1st of May 2013 following which the registration charge will double. The prize money for each World Championship is 200,000 US Dollars. For the first time in the history of the events, they are open to all players nominated by their Federations or else with ratings over 2500. *Tournament Schedule* *Date* *Number of Rounds* *Time of start of games*... more »
Renova Group Grand Prix in Zug: Round 6
*[image: IMG 6644] ROUND 6: Ponomariov, Topalov and Morozevich share the lead* Both leaders Veselin Topalov and Alexander Morozevich finished their games in draws while Ruslan Ponomariov outplayed Gata Kamsky to join two other leaders on the top. Hikaru Nakamura won the first game in the tournament against Rustam Kasimdzhanov The craziest game of the sixth round between Fabiano Caruana and Sergey Karjakin ended in a draw, but not before either player had had a winning position. *Teimour Radjabov - Veselin Topalov ½ - ½* Following yesterday’s game, Radjabov wanted to come back t... more »
Missed Chess Tactics
Natalia Pogonina\\\'s official website - 1 day ago
Fressinet (2706) - Adams (2727), 2013 White to play White missed a chance to deliver a devastating blow in this position and... more »
Brain's Chess Mess Cartoon: Have Fun with Chess!
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hi everyone, UK NEW EPISODE: Brain's Chess MessBrain starts a chess club at school to improve his game and beat Los Dedos, the local chess master. Who knew the best player in the club would be Rattles? Join Arthur, an eight year old aardvark, his sister DW and their friends Buster, Francine, The Brain and Muffy in their adventures. Based on the popular children's books by Marc Brown. *First broadcast: *CBBC, 3:00PM Tue, 16 Apr 2013 Have fun with chess! From Alexandra Kosteniuk's www.chessblog.com Al... more »
Renova Chess Grand Prix Round 5: Topalov, Morozevich in Joint Lead
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hi everyone, During the free day players charged their batteries to show the tough fights on all boards. Five decisive results at the fifth round as Topalov, Caruana, Karjakin, Morozevich and Kamsky defeated their opponents. The only draw happened in the game Leko-Ponomariov. After five rounds Topalov and Morozevich are leading with 3,5 points. Caruana, Ponomariov and Karjakin share third place half a point behind. *Sergey Karjakin - Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 1-0 *The Russian GM showed why he is amongst... more »
Asian Chess: Continental Manny Pacquiao Event in Manila from May 17
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hi everyone, The National Chess Federation of the Philippines, on behalf of the Asian Chess Federation and FIDE is organising the Manny Pacquiao Cup Asian Continental Chess Championships (Open, Women’s and Blitz) with the Eugene Torre Chess Foundation, Inc. from May 17-27th 2013 at the Midas Hotel in Pasay City, Metro Manila. Each Federation from FIDE Zones 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7 can enter one official player in the Open and one official player in the Women’s Division. The official playe... more »
Alekhine Chess Memorial Round 3: Adams, Vachier-Lagrave, Gelfand in Joint Lead
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hi everyone, Round 3 games of the Alekhine Chess Memorial were played in Paris on April, 23. Four games out of five ended in a draw. The key game of the round was played between Boris Gelfand and Michael Adams. Adams was playing black. He started the tournament with two victories over Anand and Svidler. As for Gelfand – it was his first game in the tournament played with white pieces. The most significant duel of the round lasted longer than others and continued for approximately seven hours. After th... more »
Muscat Chess: Markaz Al Bhaja Local Tournament Organised
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hi everyone, *Navid Chaichi the winner of the Open category flanked by Jose Zarzudieta and Larry Pagtama/Times of Oman* Muscat: Navid Chaichi with a 4-0 score-line emerged champion for the second time at the Markaz Al Bhaja Chess tournament pushing Jose Luis Zarzudieta and Larry Pagtama to second and third place respectively. The Under-14 category chess event was held in a round robin format which was convincingly won by Sawad Samsuddin followed by Adithya V., and Thejas Sasikumar who took second and ... more »
Alekhine Memorial, Round 4 Odds
Natalia Pogonina\\\'s official website - 1 day ago
Round 4 starts on April 24, 4 p.m. Moscow time: Based on Peter Zhdanov's ChessBet model (http://pogonina.com/index.php?option=com_content task=view id=1569 Itemid=1) Current standings: 1-3.... more »
Alekhine Memorial Covered by Channel One
Natalia Pogonina\\\'s official website - 1 day ago
One of those rare cases when the most popular Russian channel dedicates a few minutes of a news program to... more »
Renova Group Grand Prix in Zug: Round 5
[image: top] During the free day players charged their batteries to show the tough fights on all boards. Five decisive results at the fifth round as Topalov, Caruana, Karjakin, Morozevich and Kamsky defeated their opponents. The only draw happened in the game Leko-Ponomariov. After five rounds Topalov and Morozevich are leading with 3,5 points. Caruana, Ponomariov and Karjakin share third place half a point behind. *Sergey Karjakin - Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 1-0* The Russian GM showed why he is amongst the world’s top 10 as he cruised to a strong victory over the creative player fr... more »
Tactics from Robert Byrne's Games - Part I
Natalia Pogonina\\\'s official website - 1 day ago
by GM Kevin Spraggett Warning: his blog is amazing, but some of the content is parental advisory Today I... more »
