Sunday August 30 Round IX 13:30 Svidler – Caruana – Nielsen – Nakamura – Beliavsky – Hou Yifan – van Wely – Stellwagen – Ljubojevic – Smeets ½ – ½ Official website: http://nhchess.com/index.html Scores after 8 rounds Team Experience...
Experience team maintains a 4 point lead
Score after Round 8 Team Experience 22Rising stars 18 Experience individual score Nielsen 5Svidler 5Ljubojevic 4½Van Wely 4Beliavsky 3½ Rising Stars individual score Smeets 5Caruana 3½Hou Yifan 3½Nakamura 3Stellwagen 3 Official website: http://nhchess.com/ Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Beliavsky’s revenge
Hikaru Nakamura (2710) – Alexander Beliavsky (2662) [C50]Rising Stars vs Experience (8), 29.08.2009 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d3 d6 5.c3 Nf6 6.h3 a6 7.Bb3 Ba7 8.Nbd2 Be6 9.Bc2 0–0 10.0–0 Nd7 11.Nc4 Nb6 12.Ne3 d5 13.Qe2 Re8...
The Rising Stars’ attempt to close the gap
Saturday August 29 Round VIII 13:30 Smeets – Svidler ½ – ½ Caruana – Nielsen ½ – ½ Nakamura – Beliavsky 0 – 1 Hou Yifan – van Wely ½ – ½ Stellwagen – Ljubojevic 1 – 0 Official...
Turning back time
The play of the Experience team members has been very youthful and energetic. They have extended their point lead to 4 points at 19.5 vs 15.5 against the Rising Stars. Below are all the scores after 7 rounds: Team...
Beliavsky first to score for Experience
Beliavsky (2662) – Caruana (2670) [E12]Rising Stars vs. Experience (7), 28.08.2009 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.a3 Ba6 5.Qc2 Bb7 6.Nc3 c5 7.e4 cxd4 8.Nxd4 Bc5 9.Nb3 Be7 10.Bf4 d6 11.Rd1 0–0 12.e5 Nh5 13.Be3 Bg5 14.Qc1 Bxe3...
Experience taking on Rising Stars
Friday August 28 Round VII 13:30 Svidler – Stellwagen ½ – ½ Nielsen – Smeets 1 – 0 Beliavsky – Caruana 1 – 0 van Wely – Nakamura ½ – ½ Ljubojevic – Hou Yifan -½ – ½ Official...
Experience vs Rising Stars round 7
Today is another day off. Round 7 will resume on Friday. Here are the matchups tomorrow: Friday August 28 Round VII 13:30 Svidler – Stellwagen – Nielsen – Smeets – Beliavsky – Caruana – van Wely – Nakamura –...
Experience and Rising Stars 2.5-2.5 in round 6
Wednesday August 26 Round VI 13:30 Hou Yifan – Svidler ½ – ½ Stellwagen – Nielsen ½ – ½ Smeets – Beliavsky 1 – 0 Caruana – van Wely ½ – ½ Nakamura – Ljubojevic 0 – 1 Official...
Ljubojevic saves the Experience again!
[Date “2009.08.26”][Round “6”][White “Nakamura”][Black “Ljubojevic”][Result “0-1”][ECO “B35”][WhiteElo “2730”][BlackElo “2553”] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Bg7 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Bc4 Qa5 8. Nb3 Qb4 9. Bd3 Nxe4 10. Bxe4 Bxc3+...