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Matlakov and Bodnaruk win St. Petersburg Rapid Cup
Grandmasters Maxim Matlakov and Anastasia Bodnaruk are the winners of the St. Petersburg Rapid Cup final, which was held on 28-29th September at the Overtime Chess Club. After the preliminary qualification earlier this month, 32 men and 16 women gathered this weekend for the final knockout event. GM Maxim Matlakov beat GM Daniil Linchevski 1,5-0,5 […]
Koneru dominated Tashkent
Grandmaster Humpy Koneru drew Olga Girya in the last round of the FIDE Women Grand Prix in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, for the convincing overall victory with 8,0/11 points. Her closest rival Harika Dronavalli, also from India, was defeated by Zhao Xue. Kateryna Lagno and Bela Khotenashvili used the opportunity to move ahead to the shared second […]
Caruana scores key victory over leader Gelfand
Round 8 results 4 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2731 0-1 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2772 5 12 GM Ponomariov Ruslan 2756 0-1 GM Bacrot Etienne 2723 10 11 GM Wang Hao 2736 1/2 GM Dominguez Perez Leinier 2757 9 1 GM Fressinet Laurent 2708 1/2 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2703 8 2 GM Grischuk Alexander 2785 1-0 GM […]
Saying Good Bye To An Old Friend
This incredible photograph was taken by John Chaney as part of the 2012 National Geographic Traveler photo contest. Chaney wrote that the female elephant in the image, which was taken in 2007, stood guard over the body of her friend for hours to pay her respects, chasing off birds and predators. She then wrapped her […]
An unfortunate situation
So denies committing to play in SEAG By Joey Villar (philstar.com) | Updated September 30, 2013 – 7:40pm MANILA, Philippines – Chess Grandmaster Wesley So on Monday denied the National Chess Federation of the Philippines’ claim that he has given his word he’ll play in the 27th Southeast Asian Games from Dec. 12-22 in Naypyidaw, […]
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A look back at an article from nearly 30 years ago
TOP-RATED AT 15, GIRL CHALLENGES CHESS WORLDBy HAROLD C. SCHONBERG Published: March 30, 1985 At the age of 4 she came across a chess book and asked her father what it was. He explained, set up a chessboard and showed her the moves. A few months later she played in the Under-11 Championship in Budapest […]
Strange ending to the Tashkent Grand Prix final day
Final round results 6 WGM Muminova Nafisa 2293 0-1 (*) GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2495 12 7 GM Zhao Xue 2579 1-0 GM Dronavalli Harika 2475 5 8 IM Khotenashvili Bela 2514 1-0 GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2496 4 9 WGM Nakhbayeva Guliskhan 2307 0-1 GM Lagno Kateryna 2532 3 10 WGM Girya Olga 2439 1/2 GM […]