There are two major events happening right now beside the Women’s World Knockout Championship. One of them is the 15th annual Amber Blindfold and Rapid Super Tournament. The other is the 6th Karpov Tournament in Siberia. Below are the standings and links to these events:
15th Amber Tournament, Monaco (March 18-31)
http://amber.quinsy.net
Blind Rapid Total
Topalov 1.0/1 1.0/0 – 2.0/2
Anand 0.0/1 0.0/0 – 0.0/1
Svidler 0.0/1 0.0/0 – 0.0/1
Aronian 0.0/1 1.0/1 – 1.0/2
Leko 1.0/1 0.5/1 – 1.5/2
Ivanchuk 0.0/1 0.0/1 0.0/2
Gelfand 0.5/1 0.0/0 – 0.5/1
Morozevich 1.0/1 0.0/0 – 1.0/1
Grischuk 0.5/1 0.0/0 – 0.5/1
Vallejo 1.0/1 0.0/0 – 1.0/1
van Wely 1.0/1 0.0/0 – 1.0/1
Nielsen 0.0/1 0.5/1 – 0.5/2
6th Karpov Tournament – Poikovsky, Russia
http://www.aeroflotchess.com/pojkovsky
GM Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine 2723) 1.0
GM Sergei Rublevsky (Russia 2665) 1.0
GM Evgeny Bareev (Russia 2698) 0.5
GM Alexei Shirov (Spain 2709) 0.5
GM Ivan Sokolov (Netherlands 2689) 0.5
GM Evgeniy Najer (Russia 2652) 0.5
GM Alexey Dreev (Russia 2697) 0.5
GM Vadim Zvjaginsev (Russia 2664) 0.5
GM Alexander Onischuk (USA 2650) 0.0
GM Viorel Bologan (Moldova 2661) 0.0 
Another women’s chess celebration:
8th March traditional WGM tournament in Serbia & Montenegro!
Kindly visit:
http://www.lazarevac.co.yu/modules/myalbum/viewcat.php?num=0&cid=20
for online photos!
38th International Grandmaster Tournament for Women 2006!
Belgrade/Lazarevac, 06-15.03.2006.
Official site:
http://www.beochess.org.yu/2006/8mart06/8mart06eng.htm
Stairy, stairy height…
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer’s day
With eyes that see the darkness in pro chess.
Shadows on the boards
Sketch the games and scorecards
Torn into little tiny shards
Behind a smile hiding all of your duress.
Now I understand…
That you tried to set them free
How you suffered for your charity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they did not know how
Perhaps they’ll listen now
Stairy stairy height
Flaming words that brightly blaze
Vows to raise long forgotten days
Reflect in Susan’s brilliant eyes of blue
Patterns deftly true
More new solvers posed at last
Your purpose now, your future past
All poised to show chess a better day.
For they could not love you
But still your love is true
And if no hope is left inside
On that stairy, stairy height
You’ll lose your oath as lovers often do
But I could have told you Susan
That chess was never meant for one as…
beautiful as you
Stairy stairy height
Grandeur lost on empty halls
Wasted moves on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can’t forget
Like the players that you’ve met
The struggling pros in ragged clothes
The last game lost, the forgotten moves
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know…
What . . . .you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your charity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen. . . .they’re not listening still
…
Perhaps they never will