Avetik Grigoryan scored 6,5 points out of 8 Saturday, December 08 GM Avetik Grigoryan has scored 6,5 points out of 8 and is leading together with GM Semen Dvoirys and IM Vladislav Artemiev (Russia) before the last round of...
Pavlodar Open 2012
Pavlodar Open 2012, devoted to the Republic of Kazakhstan Independence Day, will take place from 29th November to 9th December at the Kazakhstan Chess Palace in Pavlodar. The tournament is organized by the Kazakhstan Chess Federation, Management of tourism,...
Pavlodar Open 2012
Pavlodar Open 2012, devoted to the Republic of Kazakhstan Independence Day, will take place from 29th November to 9th December at the Kazakhstan Chess Palace in Pavlodar. The tournament is organized by the Kazakhstan Chess Federation, Management of tourism,...
The new champions
2012 NEWEST WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONS NEW NAME CHANGE FOR ORGANIZATION – NOW, IT IS CALLED I.C.C.D.! A record number of 162 chess players and 80 Congress delegates and officials from 27 different countries attended the just-ended 15th World Individual...
Grischuk wins World Blitz Championship 2012
Final standings No. Title Name Fed. FIDE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total 1 GM Grischuk, A RUS 2763 X 1 1 2 1 1.5 1 0 2...
Grischuk leads World Blitz Championship at midway
Standings after 15 rounds Place S.No. Title Name Fed. FIDE Total 1 2 GM Grischuk, Alexander RUS 2763 10.5 2 7 GM Andreikin, Dmitry RUS 2700 9.5 3 11 GM Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR 2769 9.5 4 5 GM Karjakin,...
World Blitz Championship Field
Here are the 16 players participating in the 2012 World Blitz Championship. Can Magnus recuperate after the disastrous ending in the World Rapid Championship? 1 Carlsen, Magnus GM NOR 2837 2 Radjabov, Teimour GM AZE 2788 3 Karjakin, Sergey...
Memorandum of cooperation between FIDE and Karaganda government
Memorandum of cooperation between FIDE and Karaganda government On 6 July FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov had a working meeting in Karaganda, Republic of Kazakhstan. He met there with Abelgazi Kusainov, Akim of Karaganda region to sign the Memorandum of...
The forgotten phenom wins World Rapid Championship
In the last few years, Carlsen has made great stride to become one of the greatest players in history. He dominated the chess media worldwide. In the mean time, the less flamboyant Karjakin (both born in 1990) continued to...
Carlsen collapsed on final day while Karjakin surged
After 11 rounds, Carlsen was leading Karjakin by 1.5 point. Then he suddenly collapsed by losing back to back games to Ivanchuk and Grischuk. This opened the door for Karjakin and he never looked back to win by a...