By Chess Coach William Stewart (FIDE 2234, USCF 2256) Original article on Bazna 2011 – 5th Kings Chess Tournament – Round 9 Round 9 of the 5th Kings Chess Tournament was quite exciting with many interesting wins. Round 8...
Banza 2011 – 5th Kings Chess – Round 7 Updates

By Chess Coach William Stewart Original article on Banza 2011 – 5th Kings Chess Tournament, Round 7 available here Magnus Carlsen achieved a very solid positional victory against Vassily Ivanchuk, grinding down his experienced opponent in an endgame that...
5th King’s Tournament – Round 6

By Chess Coach William Stewart (FIDE 2234, USCF, 2256) Original article on the 5th Kings Chess Tournament, Round 6, available here Sergey Karjakin – 2776 – Russia Sergey Karjakin caught up to Magnus Carlsen today by winning against Nisipeanu...
5th King’s Tournament: Round 5

By Chess Tutor William Stewart of OnlineChessLessons.net Original article on the 5th Kings Tournament 2011 – 5th Round available on Will’s website. Round 5 of the 5th Kings Bonza Tournament was full or more excitement with Carlsen continuing his...
Bazna 2011: 5th Kings Tournament – Round 3 Updates

By Chess Teacher NM William Stewart Ivanchuk showed immense respect to Carlsen on Board 1 by playing a very safe line in the Ruy Lopez which led to a fairly lifeless draw on move 33. They currently share the...
5th Kings Chess Tournament – Round 2 complete

By Chess Tutor William Stewart (FIDE 2234) Ivanchuk showed immense respect to Carlsen on Board 1 by playing a very safe line in the Ruy Lopez which led to a fairly lifeless draw on move 33. They currently share...
Bazna Kings

Magnus Carlsen, Vassily Ivanchuk, Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura, Teimour Radjabov, and local hero Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Armageddon video: Nepom vs Karjakin

Armgeddon chess game between Karjakin and Nepomniachtchi. White got a minute extra on the clock but Black has draw odd. The game actually started about 1 minute into the video. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Karjakin falters, Nepom wins Russian Championship

Karjakin picked the wrong time to lose his first game. He needed a draw to clinch his first Russian Championship title. With the loss, he ended in a tie for first with Nepomniachtchi. They went into a playoff with...
Karjakin near 1st Russian Championship title

Round 10 results Karjakin, Sergey – Tomashevsky, Evgeny 1-0 Jakovenko, Dmitry – Svidler, Peter ½ Vitiugov, Nikita – Zvjaginsev, Vadim 1-0 Grischuk, Alexander – Nepomniachtchi, Ian ½ Kurnosov, Igor – Malakhov, Vladimir ½ Khismatullin, Denis – Potkin, Vladimir ½...