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...
Ivanchuk, Carlsen extended to playoff tomorrow
Final position GM Ivanchuk (2787) – GM Galkin (2608) [C42]28.11.2007 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.0–0 Be7 8.c4 Nb4 9.cxd5 Nxd3 10.Qxd3 Qxd5 11.Re1 Bf5 12.Ne5 0–0–0 13.Qf3 g6 14.g4 Bh4 15.Nc3...
Kasparov’s hunger strike?
Kasparov’s forced hunger strike by Robert AmsterdamWere it not such a serious situation, the jailing of opposition leader and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov by the Putin regime would be richly ironic. For in what other nation are dissidents forced...
Ponomariov 0-1 Wang
[White “Ponomariov, Ruslan”][Black “Wang, Hao”][Result “0-1”][WhiteElo “2705”][WhiteCountry “UKR”][BlackElo “2643”][BlackCountry “CHN”] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 a6 5. a4 e6 6. Bg5 a5 7. e3 Na6 8.Bd3 Nb4 9. e4 dxe4 10. Nxe4 Be7...
Russia’s PM called the rally a provocation
Were March of Dissent participants paid?28.11.07 02:53 Russia’s Interior Ministry claims to have evidence showing some members of the March of Dissent were paid for protesting on the weekend. There were clashes between riot police and the demonstrators, although...
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