Turkish Grandmaster Suat Atalik lifted the winner’s trophy in the main section of the Silver Lake Chess Festival after edging GM Dusan Popovic on tie-break. The two players finished on 7,0/9 points each, leaving Grandmasters Aleksandar Kovacevic and Branko...
Cheparinov leads Black Sea Countries
Current standings No. Name Rtg FED 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pts. Rk. TB1 TB2 1 GM Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter 2648 ROU *** ½ 1 0 ½ 2.0 4 1 2.75 2 GM Jobava Baadur 2734 GEO ½ ***...
Husband vs Wife
Match Suat Atalik – Ekaterina Atalik Chalkida Chess Academy “Palamedes of Evia” hosted a friendly chess match between Turkish Grandmaster Suat Atalik and his wife IM/WGM Ekaterina Atalik in Halkida, Greece between 7th and 9th August. This unique event...
Conversation with GM Suat Atalik in Paracin
Conversation with GM Suat Atalik in Paracin Meeting GM Suat Atalik at the International Open tournament in Paracin was a good occasion to make an attempt in clarifying the complicated situation that arose after the banishment by the TCF...
Paracin Open – Round 7
The 5th International Chess Festival “Sport Summer 2012″ is taking place on 6-13th July in Hotel Petrus in Paraćin, Serbia. The main event is Open A – International Championship of Central Serbia, a 9-round Swiss tournament with FIDE time...
Andriasian, Atalik share lead at Kalamaria Open
GM Zaven Andriasian tops champs in GreeceTuesday, August 31 Armenia’s Grand Master Zaven Andriasian has scored 5,5 points in seven rounds of the Kalamaria Chess Open, taking place in Thessaloniki, Greece, and shares with Turkey’s Ekaterina Atalik the top...
Hess’ success at Negroponte Open
Fantastic Atalik Wins Negroponte Open9th to 17th August, in the city of Chalkis, GreeceReport by Chessdom The 1st international chess tournament “Negroponte 2010” was played from 9th to 17th August, 2010, at the beautiful city of Chalkis, Greece. The...
Shocking results in Turkey
Former Women’s World Champion Zhu Chen is the top seed at the Ataturk Women’s Tournament. But after 3 rounds, she has 0 point! So is IM Anna Ushenina, who recently broke the 2500 rating mark. 2nd seed Yifan Hou...
Bu and Miton lead the Canadian Open
[White “Xiangzhi, Bu”][Black “Atalik, Suat”][Result “1-0”][WhiteELO “2685”][WhiteTitle “GM”][BlackELO “2564”][Source “MonRoi”] 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.Ne5 e6 7.f3 c5 8.e4 cxd4 9.exf5 Bb4 10.Be3 dxc3 11.Qxd8 Kxd8 12.O-O-O Ke7 13.bxc3 Ba3 14.Kc2 Nbd7 15.Nxd7...
Roiz & Atalik shares first ahead of Karpov
Round 9 pairings: Michael Roiz 2616 – Suat Atalik 2584 drawDusko Pavasovic 2567 – Anatoly Karpov 2668 drawMihajlo Stojanovic 2588 – Ivan Ivanisevic 2614 drawBranko Damljanovic 2585 – Kiril Georgiev 2653 0-1Viorel Iordachescu 2587 – Predrag Nikolic 2631 0-1...