Past winners: Grandmaster Tournaments 1977 Anthony Miles (ENG)1979 Viktor Kortchnoi (SUI)1980 Yehuda Grünfeld (ISR)1981 Eric Lobron (GER); Vlastimil Hort (TCH)1982 John Nunn (ENG); Florin Gheorghiu (ROM)1983 Anthony Miles (ENG); John Nunn (ENG)1984 Vlastimil Hort (TCH); Robert Hübner (GER)1986 Lev Polugajevski (URS); Eric Lobron (GER)1987 Boris Gulko (USA)1988 Ivan Sokolov (YUG); Boris Gulko (USA)1989 Vassily Ivantschuk […]
3-way tie for the lead at Leiden
Leaders after 8 (of 9) rounds: Rank Name Score M/F Rating TPR W-We 1 GM Tiviakov, Sergei 6.5 M 2623 2654 +0.45 2 GM Nikolic, Predrag 6.5 M 2592 2653 +0.72 3 GM Van Den Doel, Erik 6.5 M 2591 2626 +0.48 4 GM Van Der Wiel, John T.H. 6.0 M 2467 2405 -0.43 5 […]
3-way tie for the lead at 2010 Canadian Open
Leaders after 7 rounds: # Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Tot 1 GM Luke McShane 2624 W42 W34 W50 W17 D4 W8 D5 6.0 2 GM Vladimir Malaniuk 2551 W24 L13 W123 W50 W62 W66 W19 6.0 3 IM Nikolay Noritsyn 2536 W70 D39 […]
Mamedyarov, Ponomariov lead Dortmund
Round 3 results: Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar – Le Quang Liem 1-0 Kramnik, Vladimir – Leko, Peter ½-½ Naiditsch, Arkadij – Ponomariov, Ruslan ½-½ Standings after 3 rounds: 1-2. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2734 2½ 1-2. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2761 2½ 3-6. Leko, Peter g HUN 2734 1 3-6. Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2684 1 3-6. […]
Greet wins Scottish Championship
IM Greet wins the 2010 Scottish Championship but GM Shaw claims the title as the highest finishing player from Scotland. Final leaders: 1 IM Greet, Andrew N 7.5 ENG M 2451 2540 +0.95 2 GM Shaw, John 7.0 SCO M 2445 2446 +0.20 3 FM Berry, Neil 6.5 SCO M 2343 2337 +0.24 4 GM […]
Saturday Open Forum
Ponomariov and Mamedyarov are leading Dortmund. Robson and Zhao are leading the U.S. Junior Championship while Zatonskih is leading the U.S. Women’s Championship. Pelletier won the 2010 Swiss Championship. FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov announced that he has the support of 75 nations so far while Karpov and the USCF are suing FIDE to try to […]
Dortmund LIVE with computer analysis
Live chess broadcast powered by ChessBomb and Chessdom You can view multiple LIVE games at once. There is a tab at the top which says Dortmund. There is also a list of all games. Click on any game you would like to see with full computer analysis. Then if you want to see another game, […]
A difficult chess puzzle
White to move. What is the best continuation for White? Hint: This is a hard puzzle 8/k1p4p/p1Pr1P2/8/5p1p/7K/5P2/4R3 w – – 0 1 Bron, 1971 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Biel 2010
The Biel Chess Festival will take place on July 17-30, 2010. Here are the players: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave France 2710 Evgeny Tomashevsky Russia 2708 Fabiano Caruana Italy 2675 Wesley So Philippines 2665 Dmitry Andreikin Russia 2643 Anish Giri Netherlands 2642 Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son Vietnam 2642 Parimarjan Negi India 2636 Maxim Rodhstein Israel 2626 David Howell […]