CZECH COAL CARLSBAD CHESS TOURNAMENT 2007Hundred years of chess tournaments It has been exactly one hundred years since the first international chess tournament was held in the Czech countries. In 1907, the world chess top players gathered in Karlovy Vary and chess magazines in the whole world were singing their praises for months afterwards. For […]
Shirov, Pono, Navara at Carlsbad
Czech Coal Carlsbad Chess Tournament The Czech Coal Carlsbad Chess Tournament is taking place from September 7 to 15, 2007. The players who will be competing in this tournament are: Alexei Shirov, Ruslan Ponomariov, David Navara, Vladimir Akopian, Sergej Movsesian, Viktor Korchnoi, Jan Timman and Viktor Láznicka. Official website: http://www.praguechess.cz/kvenglish.htm Chess Daily News from Susan […]
Navara overpowers Short in duel
The CEZ Chess Trophy 2007 took place from August 30 to September 2nd in Prague (Czech Republic). It was organized by civic association Prague Chess Society. It took place in the Best Western Kampa Hotel. The format is 6 game match in rapid and 4 in Fischer Random. David Navara crushed Nigel Short by the […]