Game 1 of this 3rd tiebreaker had resulted in a draw, so this game was winner-take-all (a draw would have resulted in the 4th set of tiebreakers). Dominguez opened with e4 and Polgar relied on her trusted prepared weapon...
Chess Tutor William Stewart | More Updates From Round 4
This is an excerpt of the full article on FIDE World Chess Cup – Round 4, which is available on William’s site. Grischuk defeats Potkin and moves on… After losing game 1 of round 4 of against fellow Russian...
Judit advances to the quarterfinal!
I have to give a lot of credit to both Judit and Leinier. They fought and fought and fought all the way until the very end. The match was back and forth and there was only one draw (game...
Chess Coach Update with William Stewart | Round 4 Analysis of World Cup
The pressure of reaching the 4th round of the most prestigious Knockout chess tournament around took it’s toll yesterday, enticing 6 out of 8 games to reach a decisive result. While there were 2 draws (Bu Vs Ivanchuk; Bruzon...
Chess Coach William Stewart Updates – 2011 – World Cup
Ivanchuk finishes 4-2 against Sutovsky It was a wild third round tiebreaker yesterday, as quite a few matches went into double, triple, or even quadruple overtime. Vassily Ivanchuk cruised through rounds 1 and 2 of the world cup with...
Inexplicable!
Kramnik drew early. Magnus has a very difficult position against Caruana. And Shirov has a COMPLETELY winning position against Dominguez. But….they agreed to a draw. Shirov (2723) – Dominguez (2712) [B94]Corus A (13), 31.01.2010 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4...
Dominguez, Bruzon, Corrales in the WC for Cuba
Cuban chess players attend World Cupwww.chinaview.cn 2009-08-25 08:31:50 HAVANA, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) — Cuban chess players Leinier Dominguez, Lazaro Bruzon and Fidel Corrales will represent Cuba at the World Cup of Khanty-Mainsysk, Russia from Nov.20 to Dec.15, authorities said...
A case of sportsmanship
-Dan Dalthorp just sent me the following: Key paragraph translated in Mig’s blog entry on Linares rd. 6:El gesto deportivo de la jornada fue el empate que el ucranio Vasily Ivanchuk concedió al cubano Lenier Domínguez. Los dos jugadores...
Dominguez 1/2 Anand in Linares
[Event “Linares”][Date “2009.02.21”][Round “3”][White “GM Dominguez”] [Black “GM Anand”][Result “1/2-1/2”][ECO “B90”][White Elo “2717”][Black Elo “2791”] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nb3 Be6 8. Qd2 Nbd7...
Best Cuban player
Dominguez elected best Cuban chess player of 2008www.chinaview.cn 2008-12-31 08:19:50 HAVANA, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) — The Great Cuban Master Leinier Dominguez, world champion of quick games, was chosen without surprises as the best Cuban chess player in 2008, authorities...