Standings after 1 round Rank Name Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Score 1 IM Liang, Awonder 2430 x 1 1.0 2 IM Ostrovskiy, Aleksandr A 2372 x 1 1.0 3 GM Xiong, Jeffery...
Harika regains Women’s GP lead after 7 rounds
http://chengdu2016.fide.com Standings after 7 rounds Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pts Res. Vict SB Koya 1 8 GM Harika Dronavalli 2526 IND * 1 ½ ½ ½...
Harika scored lone with in round 7 against Humpy in Chengdu
http://chengdu2016.fide.com Round 7 results WGM Tan, Zhongyi vs GM Zhao, Xue [1/2-1/2] WGM Girya, Olga vs GM Muzychuk, Mariya [1/2-1/2] IM Javakhishvili, Lela vs GM Khotenashvili, Bela [1/2-1/2] GM Ju, Wenjun vs GM Stefanova, Antoaneta [1/2-1/2] GM Harika, Dronavalli...
Volokitin wins Vidmar Memorial
Official website: http://www.vidmarjevmemorial.si Final standings 1 Volokitin, A 2624 2825 V ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 7.0/9 2 Naiditsch, A 2657 2769 ½ I 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 6.5/9 3 Nisipeanu, LD...
SPICE dominates World Open – 4 team members tied for 1st
4 SPICE players, GMs Illia Nyzhnyk, Alex Shimanov, Vasif Durarbayli (all current members of Webster University Chess Team) and Gabor Papp (SPICE grown GM back in 2009-2010) tied for 1st at 2016 World Open. Papp won the playoff. Webster...
Ivanchuk & Gelfand to miss Chess Olympiad
Ukraine will compete in the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku without Vassily Ivanchuk, the long time national team leader. Ivanchuk debuted for the USSR in 1988 in Thessaloniki where he was the 2nd reserve. Already in 1990 in Novi...
Chess-Go match Morozevich vs Hillarp Persson
During the European Go Congress a special match between famous Grandmasters Alexander Morozevich (Russia) and Tiger Hillarp Persson(Sweden) will take place. Both of them can play Go game close to dan level. 10-00, 1st game: Go (commentary by Go...
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