Photo by chessdom Round 1 Results: (red = forfeit, bold = tie matches, blue = upsets)CHN Xu, Yuhua 2483 1.5RSA Solomons, Anzel 1895 0.5 EGY Alaa El Din, Yorsa 1959 0IND Koneru, Humpy 2622 2 CHN Hou, Yifan 2557...
Real game exercise
Moiseenko-M. Gurevich 2007 White to move. Can you find the most accurate continuation (in 10 seconds or less)?2r2k2/5Pp1/7p/p2Q4/2nB4/P6P/q4PPK/8 w – – 0 40 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Double victory for Ivanchuk
After winning the super Tal Memorial by a full point, Ivanchuk made a surge today to win the super Tal Memorial Blitz by a full point over Kramnik! Ivanchuk is also the reigning World Blitz Champion. He won it...
Wang Yue wins NH with 2900+ performance
Final Round Results: Wang Yue – Evgeny Bareev ½ – ½Erwin l’Ami – Viktor Kortchnoi 1 – 0Daniel Stellwagen – Artur Jussupow ½ – ½Fabiano Caruana – Simen Agdestein 1 – 0Ivan Cheparinov – Ljubomir Ljubojevic ½ – ½...
Happy Birthday to WGM Sabina Foisor
Picture and report by chessdom The chess player from Romania Sabina-Francesca Foisor celebrated her birthday on the second day of the Championship as well. The Organizing Committee of the Championship congratulated her on her 19 birthday with champagne and...
Cool new features
I just added some new cool internal features for this blog. One of them is the hybrid tracking chart of bloggers worldwide. Here is an example of the activities on this blog in the last 3 minutes. It shows...
WWC Round 1 Upsets
The first upset of round 1 came in the hand of Zhongyi Tan of China who defeated Tania Sachdev of India. They drew the first game and Tania lost the second game. The second upset belongs to Bathuyag Mongontuul....
Hungarian Olympiad teams set
J. Polgar and Leko will lead the Olympic team of Hungary for Dresden 2008Men and women’s teams of Hungary for the Chess Olympiad 2008Report by chessdom.com Official Olympiad Website: http://www.dresden2008.com/ In the past week the Chessdom team with the...
Anna Rudolf wins Hungarian Women’s Championship
Anna Rudolf wins the Hungarian Women’s Chess ChampionshipAnna Rudolf to be part of the Hungarian Olympic team for Dresden 2008Report by Chessdom.com Official Olympiad Website: http://www.dresden2008.com/ After showing all year long that her form is improving with good performances...
WCC photos
8th seed Tatiana Kosintseva, whom Kasparov called the most talented Russian female player 2nd highest rated player in the WCC GM-elect Yifan Hou The potential big upset. Rohonyan won the first game against IM Zhukova (who has 3 GM...