Ranking Crosstable after Round 7 Rank Team Gam. + = – MP Pts. 1 Ukraine 7 5 1 1 11 17½ 2 China 7 4 3 0 11 17 3 Israel 7 3 1 3 7 15 4 Cuba...
Anand 2nd in Shamkir, breaks 2800, now ranks #2 in the world
Vishwanathan Anand finishes second in Shamkir Monday, 27 April 2015 – 12:16am IST Updated: Monday, 27 April 2015 – 12:17am IST Place: Shamkir (Azerbaijan) | Agency: PTI Former world champion Viswanathan Anand played out an effortless draw withFabiano Caruana...
World Team Round 7 Results
Round 7 on 2015/04/26 at 15.00 (http://tsaghkadzor2015.fide.com) 7.1 4 Cuba 1½ – 2½ 10 India 1 GM Dominguez Perez Leinier 2729 ½ : ½ GM Harikrishna P. 2731 2 GM Bruzon Batista Lazaro 2691 ½ : ½ GM Sethuraman S.P. 2634...
Corina Peptan and Constantin Lupulescu are 2015 Romanian Chess Champions
The 2015 Romanian Chess Championships for men and women were held from 18-26th April in Calimanesti. The men’s tournament had 32 participants, while the women’s section had 24 players. Both events were completed over nine rounds of Swiss system....
Kasparov humiliated his opponent with 8.5 – 1.5 score
Day 1 Results Game 1 Rapid: GM Kasparov, G. (0) 2812 ½-½ GM Short, N. D. (0) 2678 Game 2 Blitz: GM Short, N. D. (½) 2678 0-1 GM Kasparov, G. (½) 2812 Game 3 Blitz: GM Kasparov, G....
Georgia maintains lead at Women’s World Team Championship after 7 rounds
Crosstable after 7 rounds Rank Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 MP Pts. Res. SB 1 GEORGIA * 2 2½ 2½ 3 2½ 3 4 13 19½ 0 80,00 2 RUSSIA 2 *...
The Boy who would be the King of Chess
Shelby Lyman on Chess: A Fateful Meeting Sunday, April 26, 2015 (Published in print: Sunday, April 26, 2015) In 1954, an American chess team suffered its second of three brutal postwar defeats at the hands of a group of...
Chess Improvement: The Game Is Not Over Until It is Over
FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) Trainers’ Surveys The FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) continues with regular publishing of high quality chess training materials (in pdf format in English language) in the form of Trainers’ Surveys, targeted at improving chess understanding. My...
Magnus wins Gashimov Memorial by a full point, Anand 2nd
Final standings (https://www.shamkirchess.az/en) 1 Kramnik Vladimir 2783 RUS * ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 1 ½ 1 3.5 2 So Wesley 2788 USA ½ * 1 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 5 3 Mamedov Rauf 2651...
Rakic Marija wins Serbian Women’s Championship
WIM Marija Rakic justified her ranking as the top seed to win the 2015 Serbian Women’s Championship, claiming her second national title after 2012. Rakic scored 6,5/9 points, leaving the three-times champion WGM Andjelija Stojanovic half a point behind....