Final round results: Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime – Fressinet, Laurent 1-0 Cornette, Matthieu – Le Roux, Jean-Pierre ½ Hamdouchi, Hicham – Tkachiev, Vladislav ½ Edouard, Romain – Cossin, Sebastien 1-0 Sokolov, Andrei – Feller, Sebastien 1-0 Maze, Sebastien – Degraeve, Jean-Marc...
Super GM chess tactic
White to move. How should White proceed? Source: ChessToday.net Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Experience outduel Rising Stars again
Hou Yifan (2584) – Ljubojevic (2553) [B45]Rising Stars vs Experience (2), 21.08.2009 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Be2 Be7 8.f4 e5 9.Nb3 exf4 10.Bxf4 Be6 11.Qd2 d5 12.0–0–0 dxe4 13.Qe3 Qc8 14.g4...
Leko, Ivanchuk, Kasimdzhanov maintain GP lead
The two biggest stories of this Grand Prix is the performance of Kasimdzhanov and Jakovenko. One of the top seeds Jakovenko is near the bottom of the standings while one of the lowest seeds Kasimdzhanov is tied for first...
Nakamura 1/2 Van Wely at NH
Nakamura, Hikaru (2735) – Van Wely, Loek (2655) [B90]Rising Stars vs Experience, Amsterdam (2), 21.08.2009 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.h3 e6 7.g4 d5 8.exd5 Nxd5 9.Bd2 b5 10.Bg2 Bb7 11.0–0 Nxc3 12.Bxc3 Bxg2...
TGIF chess tactic
White to move. How can White get out of this mess? How should White proceed? 8/8/7p/4p2P/k7/1q6/4N2K/rB1Q4 w – – 0 1 Bayer, 1855 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Rising stars vs Experience round 2
Friday August 21 Round II 13:30 Stellwagen – Svidler 1/2 Smeets – Nielsen 1/2 Caruana – Beliavsky 1/2 Nakamura – van Wely – Hou Yifan – Ljubojevic Score after Round 1 Team Experience 3Rising stars 2 Experience individual score...
Jermuk Grand Prix round 11
Round 11 on 2009/08/21 at 15:00 SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo. 6 GM Kasimdzhanov Rustam 2672 1/2 GM Leko Peter 2756 14 7 GM Gelfand Boris 2755 1/2 GM Kamsky Gata 2717 5 8 GM Eljanov Pavel...
Aronian 1-0 Jakovenko
Aronian,Levon (2768) – Jakovenko,Dmitry (2760) [A34]Jermuk Grand Prix (10), 20.08.2009 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c5 3.g3 e6 4.Nf3 b6 5.e4 Bb7 6.Qe2 Nc6 7.Bg2 d6 8.0–0 Be7 9.Rd1 a6 10.d4 cxd4 11.Nxd4 Nxd4 12.Rxd4 Qc7 13.b3 0–0 14.Ba3 Rfd8 15.Rad1...
Tkachiev dominates French Championship
GM Tkachiev has won 4 straight games to lead the 2009 French Championship by a full point with just one game to go. Here are the results of round 10: Tkachiev, Vladislav – Edouard, Romain 1-0 Fressinet, Laurent –...