Ranking after round 1 Name ELO Points 1. Magnus Carlsen NOR 2815 3 2. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA 2722 1 Alexei Shirov ESP 2714 1 Fabiano Caruana ITA 2711 1 Alexander Morozevich RUS 2694 1 6. Yannick Pelletier SUI 2590...
World Chess Team Championship 2011 – Round 1
By Chess Coach William Stewart Original article on the World Chess Team Championship available on William’s site. The World Chess Team Championship kicked off with an interesting Round 1. Here is my brief summary of the most interesting games....
Ju Wenjun maintains lead at 1st Hangzhou Women’s Tournament
Round 5 on 2011/07/18 at 15:00 Bo. No. Name Result Name No. 1 3 IM Harika Dronavalli 1/2 GM Dzagnidze Nana 10 2 4 GM Zhu Chen 1-0 GM Sebag Marie 2 3 5 GM Kosintseva Tatiana 1-0 GM...
Perfection so far for So!
Unstoppable Published : Tuesday, July 19, 2011 00:00 Written by : Ed Andaya Standings after four rounds: 4 points — W. So3 — D. Laylo2.5 — R. Nolte, O. Barbosa, R. Bitoon2 — J. Garcia, R. Antonio, E. Torre,...
1st GM norm for Daniel Naroditsky
I mentioned yesterday that Daniel Naroditsky earned his first GM norm at 31st Villa de Benasque Open. He just barely missed the GM norm at the 2011 SPICE Spring Invitational. Here is how he did it this time, round...
The Must Read Books For All Chess Players!
By Chess Coach William Stewart Studying and playing chess has led me to believe that a universal approach to the game consistently yields the best results. Teaching chess has reinforced that line of thought, as time and again I...
Tiviakov wins Leiden
Final round top board results Table White Score Fed. Rating Black Score Fed. Rating Result 1 GM Tiviakov, Sergei 6.5 NED 2623 GM Nikolic, Predrag 7.0 BIH 2629 1-0 2 GM Howell, David W L 6.0 ENG 2625 GM...
Russia takes over WTC lead
Standings after 2 rounds Rk. SNo Team Games + = – TB1 TB2 TB3 1 10 Russia 2 2 0 0 4 6.0 0 2 2 Armenia 2 1 1 0 3 5.5 0 3 7 Azerbaijan 2 1...
Biel LIVE with Carlsen, Vachier-Lagrave, Shirov, Morozevich, Caruana
Live chess broadcast powered by ChessBomb and Chessdom Biel chess 2011 LIVE!Live games with computer analysis The 44th Biel Chess Festival will take place from 18th to 29th July in Biel, Switzerland. The main event is the Accentus Grandmaster...