Sarah Chiang won again today to maintain a tie for 1st with Anna Styazhkina from Russia going into the final round at the World Girl’s Under 10 Championship, a full point ahead of the next group. Even though she...
Tuesday afternoon tactic
8/3bk2p/2pNppnP/1pP5/1P6/6P1/2Q3BK/4q3 w – – 0 1 White to move. What is the best continuation for White? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Karpov was stopped from visiting Kasparov in jail
Karpov tried to visit Kasparov in jail but he was stopped by the police. Here is the story that was sent to me by Dr. Mikhail Korenman. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
World Cup Round 2 Highlights
The biggest upsets of the day are: – Macieja (2606) defeated Radjabov (2742)– Wang (2643) defeated Ponomariov (2705) – Galkin (2608) held Ivanchuk (2787) to a draw– Shulman (2616) held Shirov (2739) to a draw– M. Gurevich (2627) held...
Russia “acted” very correctly
Picture from AFPRussia defends protestor arrests on eve of election2 hours ago MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia on Tuesday strongly defended the mass detention of anti-Kremlin demonstrators in the latest salvo of a war of words with the West before...
The biggest upset of the day at KM
GM Macieja (2606) – GM Radjabov (2742) [C63]27.11.2007 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 f5 4.d3 fxe4 5.dxe4 Nf6 6.0–0 Bc5 7.Bxc6 bxc6 8.Nxe5 0–0 9.Bg5 Qe8 10.Bxf6 Rxf6 11.Nd3 Bd4 12.c3 Bb6 13.Nd2 d6 14.c4 Qg6 15.Kh1 Bg4 16.f3...
WC – Shulman 1/2 Shirov
Final position GM Shulman (2616) – GM Shirov (2739) [D85]27.11.2007 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Nf3 c5 8.Rb1 0–0 9.Be2 cxd4 10.cxd4 Qa5+ 11.Bd2 Qxa2 12.0–0 Bg4 13.Bg5 h6 14.Be3 Nc6 15.d5...
WC – Onischuk 1-0 Nikolic
Position after 24.Bb6 GM Onischuk (2674) – GM Nikolic (2657) [D20]27.11.2007 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3 e5 4.Bxc4 exd4 5.exd4 Nf6 6.Nf3 Bb4+ 7.Nc3 0–0 8.0–0 Nc6 9.h3 h6 10.Re1 Na5 11.Bd3 Be6 12.Bf4 Nd5 13.Bd2 Nc6 14.a3 Be7...
WC – Avrukh 0-1 Kamsky
Position after 34.Rxd4, Black to move How do you assess this position? White is GM Avrukh and Black is Kamsky. White just played 34.Rxd4. This is game 1 of round 2 in the World Cup. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6...
Round 2 Prediction
Which could be the biggest upset of round 2? 1 Ivanchuk,V UKR 2787 – Galkin,A RUS 26082 Zhao Jun CHN 2552 – Nisipeanu,LD ROU 26683 Bacrot,E FRA 2695 – Roiz,M ISR 26444 Karjakin,S UKR 2694 – Zhang Pengxiang CHN...