Month: October 2006

Group A after 5 rounds: 1-2. Sergey Karjakin (2672) and Harikrishna Pentala (2674) : 3.53-5. Laurent Fressinet (2640), Teïmour Radjabov (2729) and Antoaneta Stefanova (2489) : 3.06. Parimarjan Negi (2538) : 2.07. Alexandra Kosteniuk (2534) : 1.58. Marie Sebag...

Girls chess league set THE Bahrain Mind Sports Association (BMSA) is organising its first girls chess league starting on Saturday from 5pm onwards at its premises in Muharraq. BMSA director Shaker Al Afoo said seven girls have so far...

Kramnik, Anand, Svidler and Morozevich already qualified for the 2007 Mexico World Championship. Here are the other 16 who try to get the last 4 spots: 1. Levon Aronian – Magnus Carlsen2. Peter Leko – Mikhail Gurevich3. Ruslan Ponomariov...

White to move. What should White do?   Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar

A few days after Topalov was interviewed by Gert Ligterink, Kramnik’s manager Carsten Hensel issues his own press release. The war of words and insults both both sides just does not end. No one will allow the other side...

Please feel free to share new chess websites with all the bloggers. Here are some that I received:http://www.thechessoracle.com http://www.chesscorner.comhttp://www.schachbundesliga.de http://www.4ncl.co.uk http://www.bcmchess.co.uk http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/chess.html Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar

Here is a picture from a chess tournament i Hammerfest , Norway, recently. This is the official website. This traditional tourney which has been arranged 33 times. The clock is working and is used for the blitz-part of the...

Top under 18: IM Braun Arik 2525 GERTop American under 18: Banawa Joel Cholo 2272 USA (23rd place) Top under 16: FM Tomczak Jacek 2420 POL IM and Onischuk Vladimir 2427 UKRNo American Top under 14: Durarbeyli Vasif 2243...

Final Standings:Top under 18: WGM Harika Dronavalli 2353 INDTop American Girl under 18: WFM Tatev Abrahamyan (19th place) Top under 16: WFM Guramishvili Sopiko 2181 GEOTop American Girl under 16: WFM Alisa Melekhina (4th place – Best American finish)...

Big Essent event just finished. Other big events are underway. What is in your mind? The forum is yours!  Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar