Final top 100 Rk. SNo Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 Rp 1 5 GM Grischuk Alexander RUS 2814 15,5 2699 241,0 0,0 2876 2 2 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime FRA 2854 15,0 2727 264,0 0,0 2877 3 15...
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...
Chess Coach William | World Team Chess Championship – Round 5
By Chess Tutor William Stewart. Original article with PGN available here. Armenia had a crucial win against China today (2.5-1.5), Russia beat Egypt as expected (3-1), Hungary crushed Israel (3.5-.5) to continue chasing the lead, and the USA bounced...
World Chess Championship 2012: Gelfand Reflects
Commentary by Chess Coach William Stewar (Excerpts cited from ChessBase.com) Original article on the 2012 World Chess Championship available on William’s website Chessbase News recently released Part 3 of an interview with 2012 World Championship Challenger Boris Gelfand, reflecting...
Boris Gelfand vs. Alexander Grischuk – Video Coverage – Final Game, Final Round – 2011 Candidates Match
In response to our recently posted article from the Hebrew press that says Gelfand isn’t getting enough coverage, I decided to go ahead and create a video of the fantastic last game. This is the final game from the...
Wild stuff in Linares
Position after 18.Nd4 Topalov, V (2805) – Grischuk, A (2736) [B90]Linares (5), 18.02.2010 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 Ng4 7.Bc1 Nf6 8.h3 Nc6 9.g4 Qb6 10.Nde2 e6 11.Bg2 Be7 12.b3 h6 13.Qd2 g5...
Linares round 1 pairings
Confirmed pairings round 1 Linares 2010Vallejo – Topalov live on Chessdom.com Chessdom.com journalist from Linares has confirmed the following pairings for round 1 Levon Aronian – Alexander GrischukFrancisco Vallejo Pons – Veselin Topalov (live)Boris Gelfand – Vugar Gashimov Chess...
Top seed Topalov in Linares
Veselin Topalov top rated at Linares 2010A lineup of winners awaits him at Torneo de LinaresReport by Chessdom.com Veselin Topalov, who avoided meeting Anand during Corus, will be the top rated player of Linares 2010. For the first half...
Grischuk leads Grand Slam
Grischuk, A – Aronian, L [D43]Bilbao Grand Slam Final (1), 06.09.2009 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Ne5 Bb7 10.h4 g4 11.Be2 Nbd7 12.Bxg4 Rg8 13.Nxd7 Qxd7 14.Bf3 0–0–0...
Leko’s Analysis
The LÉKÓ, Péter GM 2741 versus CARLSEN, Magnus GM 2765 8-game rapid chess match starts today. Here is the official website: http://www.lekocarlsen.hu/eng/ Here is one of Leko’s best games from the website: Leko, Peter (2751) – Grischuk, Alexandr (2726)Ruy...