GM Shirov (2740) – GM Ivanchuk (2740) [B96]Advanced Chess Leon – Game 2, 31.05.2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Nbd7 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.0–0–0 b5 10.Bd3 Bb7 11.Rhe1 Qb6 12.Nb3 Be7 13.Qh3...
Tricky Saturday Endgame
Hildebrand 1955, presented by Andreas White to move. How should White proceed? Kb6/4p3/2k1B3/P7/8/8/8/8 w – – 0 3 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Leko 1/2 Carlsen game 5
GM Leko (2741) – GM Carlsen (2765) [B76]31.05.2008 – Miskolc game 5 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2 0–0 9.0–0–0 d5 10.Qe1 e5 11.Nxc6 bxc6 12.exd5 cxd5 13.Bg5 Be6 14.Bc4...
Ivanchuk wins game 1
GM Ivanchuk (2740) – GM Shirov (2740) [B30]Advanced Chess Leon – Game 1, 31.05.2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Bc4 Be7 5.d3 d6 6.0–0 Nf6 7.a3 Be6 8.Ng5 Bxc4 9.dxc4 0–0 10.b3 Nd4 11.Bb2 a6 12.a4 Qd7 13.Qd3...
Morozevich maintains big lead in Sarajavo
Round 8 results: Movsesian 1/2 MorozevichPredojeviv 1/2 TimofeevDominguez 1/2 Sokolov Standings after 8 rounds: 1. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2774 6½ 2. Dominguez Perez, Lenier g CUB 2695 5 3. Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2695 4 4-5. Sokolov, Ivan...
Saturday Open Forum
It’s Saturday Open Forum. A lot of things took place in the past 7 days. Irina has an Open Letter to protest the US Women’s Championship results 9 days after the tournament ended. Here is her letter. Anna has...
Short leads Bazna
Round 7 (May 30, 2008)Short, Nigel – Sokolov, Andrei 1-0Timman, Jan – Vaganian, Rafael 1-0Andersson, Ulf – Portisch, Lajos 1-0Mecking, Henrique – Khalifman, Alexander ½-½Suba, Mihai – Beliavsky, Alexander 1-0 Standings after 7 rounds: 1. Short, Nigel g ENG...
Crazy and delirious obsession
ON CHESSReporter tracked elusive Fischer, then let him goSaturday, May 31, 2008 2:56 AMBy SHELBY LYMANBobby Fischer’s aversion to the media was legendary. He once famously asked a friend — while knocking on his hotel door at 3 a.m....
Old foes face each other again on the board
The 4th Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup is taking place from May 30th to June 2nd, 2008 in Odessa . The participants are GMs Boris Gelfand (2723, ISR), Ruslan Ponomariov (2719, UKR), Anatoly Karpov (2655, RUS), Pavel Tregubov (2629, RUS),...
750,000 reasons to Lvov
The following was posted on TWIC, one the best sites for tournament information and games: The latest is that in a new phone interview with FIDE President Kirsan Iljumzhinov with Yury Vasilyev (who reliably reports the FIDE line) reported...