White to move. Is this a win or draw? How should White proceed?7k/6q1/8/8/3QB3/7K/3p4/8 w – – 0 3 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
2009 Acropolis update
24th INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT ACROPOLIS 200910th to 18th August 2009Chalkida – Hellas BULLETIN 2 PRESS RELEASE – ROUND 2 The 24th ICT Acropolis 2009 was continued with its second round games, after the un-expected free day due to the...
Berkes leads Hungarian Championship
Round 4 results: Balogh, Csaba – Gyimesi, Zoltan ½-½ Erdos, Viktor – Berkes, Ferenc ½-½ Groszpeter, Attila – Berczes, David 1-0 Medvegy, Zoltan – Almasi, Zoltan ½-½ Ruck, Robert – Prohaszka, Peter ½-½ Standings after 4 rounds: 1. Berkes,...
Vachier-Lagrave, Tkachiev lead French Championship
Round 3 results: Hamdouchi, Hicham – Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime ½-½ Fressinet, Laurent – Cossin, Sebastien 1-0 Degraeve, Jean-Marc – Sokolov, Andrei 1-0 Feller, Sebastien – Tkachiev, Vladislav 0-1 Maze, Sebastien – Cornette, Matthieu ½-½ Le Roux, Jean-Pierre – Edouard, Romain...
Howard Staunton Memorial
Round 5 results: WHITE BLACK RESULTSGM Adams (2.5) – GM L’Ami (3) 0.5 – 0.5GM Short (4) – GM Van Wely (3) 0.5 – 0.5GM Howell (2.5) – GM Werle (0.5) 1 – 0GM McShane (3) – GM Smeets...
Critical endgame pattern
White to move. Is this a win, draw, or loss for White? No computer lines please!8/5p2/8/3k4/5P1P/1p6/pK6/8 w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Kamsky loses again, Aronian, Leko lead
Round 4 results: Aronian, Levon – Kamsky, Gata 1-0 Leko, Peter – Karjakin, Sergey 1-0 Ivanchuk, Vassily – Alekseev, Evgeny 1-0 Inarkiev, Ernesto – Cheparinov, Ivan ½-½ Bacrot, Etienne – Eljanov, Pavel ½-½ Jakovenko, Dmitry – Gelfand, Boris ½-½...
5 tie for the lead in Zurich
Leaders after 5 rounds: Rg. SNr Name Elo FED Typ Pkt. 1 10 GM Areshchenko Alexander 2651 UKR 4½ 2 6 GM Dreev Alexey 2660 RUS 4½ 17 GM Golod Vitali 2599 ISR 4½ 4 22 GM Geetha Narayanan...
Wednesday chess tactic
White to move. How should White proceed? Source: ChessToday.net Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
All tie up for UK and the Netherlands
Scheveningen group.Round 4 results (August 11) L’Ami – Short ½-½Smeets – Jones 1-0Van Wely – Howell 1-0I.Sokolov – Adams ½-½Werle – McShane 0-1 Current score: UK 10 – NED 10 All-play-all groupStandings after 4 rounds: 1. Timman 3½2-4. Cherniaev,...