Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2011Monday 24 January – Thursday 3 February 2011PRESS RELEASE 1 FEBRUARY 2011 THE GOVERNOR OF GIBRALTAR VISITS TRADEWISE CHESSS FESTIVAL The Governor of Gibraltar Sir Adrian Johns visited the Tradewise Chess Festival at the start of play in the eighth round of the Gibraltar Masters Open. Received by festival organiser Brian […]
Targeting 2650
Negi hopes to kickstart target ELO 2650 with Bundesliga stintSmriti SinhaPosted: Tue Feb 01 2011, 04:05 hrs New Delhi Just a couple of months away from his class XII board examinations and after winning back-to-back titles, Parimarjan Negi is off to play some club chess in Germany, representing the Katermburg club. Although he had decided […]
Safarli shares 3rd in Moscow Open
Eltaj Safarli shares 3rd-4th places in Moscow OpenTue 01 February 2011 13:13 GMT 7:13 Local Time The Moscow Open chess festival continues in Moscow. Azerbaijan’s Eltaj Safarli, who takes part in the main tournament of the festival, played a draw with Russian Eugeniy Alexeyev in the fifth round. Azerbaijani grandmaster gained three points and he […]
Armenian chess election
Chess Federation holds a sitting chaired by President Serzh Sargsyan01.02.2011 18:40http://www.armradio.am The Chess Federation of Armenia held a sitting today chaired by President of the Republic of Armenia, President of the Chess Federation Serzh Sargsyan. The results of the federation’s activity in 2009-2010 were presented, the main direction of activity in 2011-2012 were determined. Serzh […]
Pictures and report from Tata by Fabrice
Dear All, You can now find in http://www.echecs-photos.be/WijkaanZee2011-2/index.html (the first report in the 2nd day was: http://www.echecs-photos.be/WijkaanZee2011/index.html) A report of the 12th round of the last Tata Steel Chess 2011. The are a lot of pictures in 2 galleries. All the pictures are available in high quality. If you want some of them, just ask. […]
ChessCube Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ChessCube’s Online Tournament Breaks Records Cape Town, South Africa – 01 February 2011 ChessCube, the world leader in online chess tournaments, with over 20,000 tournaments per month, ran a successful $3,000 online series, which ended 30 January 2011. The ‘WarZone Chess’ (TM) series ran with 486 separate events; 22,414 entries; over 550,000 […]
Written off as just a loser?
Dominic Lawson: A true champion won’t accept defeatThere was something in Murray’s demeanour. He moved like a loser. He winced with an impression of painTuesday, 1 February 2011 Like many other news junkies, I turned on the television on Sunday morning for my regular fix, only to find that The Andrew Marr Show had been […]
Gibraltar LIVE games
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Brain teaser: Checkmate in 11
White to move and checkmate in 11. No computer lines please. r1bk4/3nr1p1/3QB3/1p3P2/2p5/2q2N1p/pb5P/3RR2K w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar