He was born in Elista 19 years ago and has been World Champion under 10 and 14, Russian Junior Champion, World Junior Vice – Champion and also European Rapid Vice – Champion, amongst others. Now Sanan Sjugirov has added...
FIDE Avenue
FIDE Avenue in Elista The Russian National Gymnasium named after Sergiy Radonezhsky in Elista is proud to announce that it has a FIDE Avenue, the trees planted by Presidential Board members during FIDE PB meeting in Elista, 6 April...
A trio share first at Elista Rapid
Elista RapidSource: ChessToday.net On 3-5 April there was a rapid tournament in Elista, in honour of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov’s 50th birthday. This tournament was also a part of the Rapid Cup of Russia series. Mainly the Russian players competed. Final...
IA Namruev to be a new Special Representative in City Chess
IA Namruev to be a new Special Representative in City Chess Today by the decree of Alexey Orlov, the Head of the Republic of Kalmykia, Vyacheslav Namruev was appointed to the position of the Special Representative of Republic of...
Match of Giants
Ties that bindBy ANDY SOLTISLast Updated: 4:04 AM, January 24, 2010Posted: 11:55 PM, January 23, 2010 IN a game dominated by masters in their teens and early 20s, the September years of 78-year-old Viktor Korchnoi are a shock. But...
The legends tie
Name NAT Rtng 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Total Korchnoi, Victor SUI 2567 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ 4 Spassky, Boris V FRA 2548 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ 4...
Spassky evens up the match again
Korchnoi, V (2567) – Spassky, B (2548) [E11]Match in Elista (7), 25.12.2009 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Nbd2 d5 5.a3 Be7 6.Qc2 b6 7.e4 dxe4 8.Nxe4 Bb7 9.Bd3 Nbd7 10.b4 a5 11.b5 c5 12.bxc6 Bxc6 13.Ned2 Rc8 14.Qb1...
Korchnoi wins game 6 to lead by 1
After losing game 5 with the White pieces, Korchnoi won game 6 with Black to lead 3.5 – 2.5. Spassky played this game well. He had a better position until a dubious move 31 and a fatal blunder on...
Spassky on fire
Boris Spassky won game 5 to even up the match at 2.5 – 2.5. Korchnoi, V (2567) – Spassky, B (2548) [A28]Match in Elista (5), 24.12.2009 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.a3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Qc2 Be7 7.e3...
Spassky 1/2 Korchnoi (game 4)
Spassky, B (2548) – Korchnoi, V (2567) [C14]Match in Elista, Kalmykia (4), 23.12.2009 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.Bxe7 Qxe7 7.f4 Nb6 8.Nf3 Bd7 9.Qd2 a6 10.a4 a5 11.Qe3 Qb4 12.b3 Nc8 13.h3 Ne7...