7TH LONDON CHESS CLASSIC (4-13 DECEMBER 2015) CLASSIC ROUND 8: 12 DECEMBER 2015 John Saunders reports: Round eight and we were back to the standard 1:4 ratio of decisive games to draws. But very good quality draws, let it...
London Classic Round 5 Report
7TH LONDON CHESS CLASSIC (4-13 DECEMBER 2015) CLASSIC ROUND 5: 8 DECEMBER 2015 John Saunders reports: As usual we started with some children making moves for the grandmasters. This time the children in question had travelled all the way...
London Classic Semi Finals Report
News release Sunday 15th December 2013 LONDON CHESS CLASSIC 2013: SEMI-FINALS John Saunders reports: SUPER SIXTEEN RAPID Hikaru Nakamura of the USA and Boris Gelfand of Israel have qualified as finalists of the Super Sixteen Rapid at the London...
London Classic Quarter Finals Report
News release Saturday 14th December 2013 LONDON CHESS CLASSIC 2013: QUARTER-FINALS John Saunders reports: SUPER SIXTEEN RAPID: HUNG, DRAWN AND QUARTER-FINALLED The Super Sixteen has now become the Super Eight and Saturday’s exercise saw the eight whittled down to...
London Classic Report
News release Friday 13th December 2013 LONDON CHESS CLASSIC 2013: ROUNDS 5 AND 6 John Saunders reports: SUPER SIXTEEN RAPID: THE END OF THE BEGINNING… So the preliminary stage is over, with the result that all eight starting favourites...
London Chess Classic round 3 & 4 report
News release Thursday 12th December 2013 LONDON CHESS CLASSIC 2013: ROUNDS 3 AND 4 John Saunders reports: SUPER SIXTEEN RAPID, ROUNDS 3 AND 4 ROUND 3 14:00 Group C Gawain Jones 0-1 Judit Polgar Hikaru Nakamura ½-½ Boris Gelfand...
Gibraltar round 1 game correction
One of the readers of this blog pointed out to me that Shirov lost in the first round but he was paired against the 1 point group in the 2nd round. I wrote to John Saunders and he explained...
Gibraltar round 1 and 2 report
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2013 Monday 21 January – Thursday 31 January 2013 MASTERS ROUNDS 1/2: 24 JANUARY 2013 FORMER WINNERS STUMBLE IN GIBRALTAR John Saunders reports: Early rounds of big opens rarely produce major surprises, as the top...
Chess is a Cruel Game
News releaseSaturday 10th December 2011 LONDON CHESS CLASSIC 2011: ROUND 7 John Saunders reports: Chess is a Cruel Game “For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even...
London Chess Classic Update
News releaseSunday 4th December 2011 LONDON CHESS CLASSIC 2011: ROUND 2 John Saunders reports: Fewer Interesting Games, Please – I Can’t Cope With two rounds played, it is time to talk about the scores. Here are the unofficial scores,...