Final Round Results: Wang Yue – Evgeny Bareev ½ – ½Erwin l’Ami – Viktor Kortchnoi 1 – 0Daniel Stellwagen – Artur Jussupow ½ – ½Fabiano Caruana – Simen Agdestein 1 – 0Ivan Cheparinov – Ljubomir Ljubojevic ½ – ½...
Finally, a victory for the Experience!
The Experience team finally won a match. GM Ljubojevic scored the only win while all others drew. After 9 matches, the Experience team scored 1 team win and 1 team draw while losing 7. Round 9 results: Korchnoi, Viktor...
A major upset is brewing
A big upset is brewing. Wang Yue has not lost a game in a long time. He has an unbeaten streak of nearly 50 games. But he has his hands full against the ever youthful Korchnoi, one of the...
The forgotten star in Amsterdam
Even though super GM Cheparinov has had a very good performance (around 2850) at the NH tournament in Amsterdam, the buzz so far has surrounded Chinese GM Wang Yue who scored 7.5 in 8 games. Cheparinov, best known for...
Wang did it again!
Incredible! Impressive! Awesome! These are some of the many appropriate words to describe the performance of Chinese super GM Wang Yue. After being held to the first draw in 7 games by Norwegian GM Agdestein, Wang Yue is back...
The experience sinks further
The “Experience” team loses again. In spite of a win by Bareev over Stellwagen and a draw by Agdestein against Wang Yue, the “Experience” team lost their 6th match out of 7. Agdestein, Simen – Wang Yue ½-½Jussupow, Artur...
The man who stops Wang
After 6 straight wins, super Chinese GM Wang Yue’s winning streak has been halted by GM Simen Agdestein of Norway, the former professional soccer player, and coach of Magnus Carlsen. GM Agdestein (2583) – GM Wang (2704) [A11]NH Chess...
The “Experience” earned another draw
GM Jussupow (2587) – GM Cheparinov (2687) [A61]NH Chess Tournament, 27.08.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.Bf4 a6 8.e4 b5 9.Qe2 Be7 10.Qc2 0–0 11.a4 b4 12.Nd1 b3 13.Qxb3 Nxe4 14.Bd3 f5...
21.5 – 8.5 lead for the Young Stars
Standings after 6 rounds: Already Stars Team (21½) Wang Yue 6/6Cheparinov 5Caruana 4Stellwagen 3½L’Ami 3 Experience Team (8½) Agdestein 2½/6Korchnoi 2Ljubojevic and Bareev 1½Jussupow 1 Official website: http://nhchess.com/ Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Korchnoi did it again!
In round 5, the evergreen Korchnoi was the first “Experience” player to score a victory against the “Already Stars” team by beating GM L’Ami. In round 6, he did again against GM Stellwagen to give the “Experience” team the...