Three major July chess events starting
Live games and daily news from Biel, WTCC, and Dortmund
Biel, WTCC, and Dortmund are three of the major summer closed and invitational events. They start in just a few days and will have large coverage with live games, interviews, video analysis, news, and much more on Chessdom.com.
WTCC 2010
(Round 1 July 17th) World Team Chess Championship 2011 (aka WTCC 2011) starts July 17th in Ngibo, China. From the July rating list top players confirmed are the Candidates matches finalist Grischuk, the top Russian player Karjakin, India’s young stars from AAI Sasikiran and Negi, Azerbaijan’s permanent 2700 club players Radjabov, Mamedyarov, and Gashimov, Ukraine’s super star Ivanchuk, China’s Wang Yue and Wang Hao, Armenia’s 2800 player Levon Aronian, and Hungary’s Peter Leko and Zoltan Almasi.
Live games / WTCC 2011 information / Participants / Commentary
Biel Chess 2011
(Round 1 July 18th) The 44th Biel Chess Festival will take place from 18th to 29th July in Biel, Switzerland. The main event is the Accentus Grandmaster Tournament which will be a six-player double round robin. Magnus Carlsen (NOR), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA), Alexei Shirov (ESP), Fabiano Caruana (ITA), Alexander Morozevich (RUS) and Yannick Pelletier (SUI) will participate.
Live games / Biel participants and information / Commentary
Dortmund Chess 2011
(Round 1 July 21st) Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2011 starts July 21st in Germany. It is a double round robin with GM Vladimir Kramnik, GM Hikaru Nakamura, GM Anish Giri, GM Ruslan Ponomariov, GM Le Quang Liem, and GM Georg Meier.
Le Quang Liem and Georg Meier will also participate in the 2011 SPICE Cup A group.
Live games / Dortmund participants and information / Commentary
Why Naka isn’t playing for the US at the World Team Championship?
Hikaru Nakamura prefers to play in the Dortmunder Sparkassen tournament, taking place at the same time as WTCC. Vladimir Kramnik, also playing at the Dortmund event, had the same preference. Some folks just aren’t team players at heart.
Lucymarie 🙂
OK. July is an even busier month for fans of women’s chess tournaments. And OK, 2524 average rating may not be in the same category as Ningbo, Biel and Dortmund, BUT we have 10 of the strongest women players in the world playing in Hangzhou right now. They have just completed the 2nd round, where Hou Yifan, the 17 year old Women’s World Champion, just demolished Marie Sebag in an exciting Sicilian Defence. A former world champion, Zhu Chen, is playing. Anna Zatonskih, current and 4 time United States Women’s Champion, is playing. Both Kosinteva sisters from Russia are also playing. The full roster is:
Participants include:
1. GM Hou Yifan CHN 2575
2. GM Nadezhda Kosintseva RUS 2560
3. GM Tatiana Kosintseva RUS 2557
4. GM Nana Dzagnidze GEO 2537
5. IM Anna Zatonskih USA 2522
6. WGM Ju Wenjun CHN 2515
7. IM Dronavalli Harika IND 2513
8. GM Marie Sebag FRA 2510
9. GM Zhu Chen QAT 2485
10. GM Zhao Xue CHN 2470
Live games at: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html
Round by round, and cumulative PGN files at:
http://2seeitlive.com/twic/
Updated reports about the tournament:
http://chess.sport.org.cn/
{I use Google Chrome as my browser, and it translates the Chinese (Simplified Han) into a very hilarious English. If you haven’t tried this, and you haven’t had a laugh yet today, having a gander at this last website is a surefire cure.}
Speaking as an older woman, it is so exciting to see all these young women playing chess around the world.
Lucymarie
Thanks for the link, Susan and Lucymarie.
🙂
Best regards
Stef