Vishy Anand / Anatoly Karpov (day 2) The World Champion, the lndian Vishy Anand, will face a Chess legend, the Russian, Anatoly Karpov, several times World Champion. At Bastia October 31th, and then at Ajaccio November 2nd, the players...
Karpov gets busy again, takes on Anand
Vishy Anand / Anatoly Karpov The World Champion, the lndian Vishy Anand, will face a Chess legend, the Russian, Anatoly Karpov, several times World Champion. At Bastia October 31th, and then at Ajaccio November 2nd, the players will play...
Nakamura vs Kasimdzhanov
The final match in Corsica Rapid – Photo from the organizer Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Breaking News: Hikaru wins the big one!
At the 2007 Corsica Masters super rapid event, Hikaru defeated Bareev 3-1 in the semifinal and Kasimdzhanov 2-0 in the final! He is the new Mr. October! Final : Kasimdzhanov – Nakamura 0 – 2 Semi-final : Bareev –...
Hikaru strikes again
2007 Corsica Masters This super rapid event is taking place in Bastia from October 28 to 30. The first stage was a 10 round Swiss tournament with the participation of 95 players. Nakamura won clear first with 8 out...
Mr. Blitz
European Blitz Championship 2007: Vladislav Tkachiev wins In France, he’s called « Mr Blitz ». In Corsica he made honor with his nickname : Vladislav Tkachiev won the European Blitz Championship. Born in Moscow, raised in Kazakhstan, living now...
Corsica Masters
Euroblitz in Ajaccio and Corsica Masters in Bastia The XIth Corsica Masters will take place in Bastia, (oct 28th/30th) with 100.000 € of prizes. Before the 25th and 26th)in Ajaccio (Napoleon’City) is organized the european and french blitz championship...
The conference begins
This is Leo Battesti, organizer of the prestigious annual Corsica Chess event. Chess players in his area went from under 200 to over 4,000 in a short time after he implemented out of the box ideas instead of the...
Radjabov defeated Carlsen in Armageddon game
The “Match of the Hopes” took place on Friday, May 18, 2007 in Porto-Vecchio (south of Corsica) between two young superstars Teimour Radjabov and Magnus Carlsen. After Radjabov won the first rapid game (10 3), Carlsen pulled even with...