Foster City boy wins world chess championship in TurkeyJill Tucker, ChronicleStaff WriterWednesday, November 28, 2007 (11-28) 13:43 PST ANTALYA, TURKEY — A Bay Area sixth grader captured the world championship in chess for the under-12 division after a final...
Big WC playoff tomorrow
Matches that will head into rapid playoffs tomorrow: Galkin, Alexander (RUS) 2608 – Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR) 2787Carlsen, Magnus (NOR) 2714 – Naiditsch, Arkadij (GER) 2639Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) 2705 – Wang, Hao (CHN) 2643Tiviakov, Sergei (NED) 2643 – Wang, Yue...
Improving defensive skill
Black to move. It is a very complicated position. What is the best way for Black to proceed here? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
“I would vote for him (Putin) and I support him…”
From Times OnlineNovember 28, 2007 Gorbachev endorses Putin in election and says Russia is serious partner of West Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, called for Russians to vote for President Putin’s United Russia party in parliamentary elections on...
Sandrine Bonnaire to star in The Chess Player
Bonnaire, Ganz make ‘Chess’ movesPic is directorial debut for BottaroBy CHRISTIAN KOEHL COLOGNE — Sandrine Bonnaire (“Intimate Strangers”) will star alongside Swiss-German actor Bruno Ganz (“Downfall”) in scribe Caroline Bottaro’s helming debut. In the French-German co-production “Joueuse” (The Chess...
World Cup round 2 results and games
1 1-1 Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR) ½-½ Galkin, Alexander (RUS) View / Alt2 0,5-1,5 Kozul, Zdenko (CRO) ½-½ Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (AZE) View / Alt3 0-2 Radjabov, Teimour (AZE) 0-1 Macieja, Bartlomiej (POL) View / Alt4 0,5-1,5 Gustafsson, Jan (GER) ½-½...
Radjabov eliminated by Macieja 2-0
GM Radjabov (2742) – GM Macieja (2606) [E10]28.11.2007Game 2 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Bb4+ 5.Nc3 0–0 6.Bg2 dxc4 7.0–0 Nbd7 8.Qa4 a5 9.a3 Nb6 10.Qc2 Be7 11.e4 Bd7 12.Be3 h6 13.Ne5 Qe8 14.f4 Ba4 15.Qe2 Bb3...
Naroditsky gold, Chiang silver at World Youth
Both Daniel Naroditsky and Illya Nyzhnyk won their final game to tie for 1st at the World Youth boy’s under 12 section in Turkey. However, Daniel has better tiebreaks and captured the Gold medal. Sarah Chiang lost her final...
Painful game for Shulman
This is the position after 26.Rd1?? which made a bad position hopeless. All Black had to do was to play 26…Nd4+ and the game is basically over. Unfortunately, Shulman played 26…e2??, followed by 28…Qh3+??, which gave the game to...
Kamsky, Onischuk advance to 3rd round
GM Kamsky (2714) – GM Avrukh (2641) [A46]28.11.2007 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.d5 b5 4.c4 Bb7 5.a4 bxc4 6.Nc3 d6 7.e4 Ba6 8.e5 dxe5 9.Nxe5 g6 10.Bxc4 Bxc4 11.Nxc4 Bg7 12.0–0 0–0 13.Bf4 Na6 14.Qf3 Nb4 15.Rad1 Nc2 16.Be5...