Leinier Dominguez continued the winning row in Thessaloniki Grand Prix as he defeated the former World Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov with black pieces in the 5th round. After the third consecutive victory Dominguez is leading the race with 3,5 points. For some time it looked like Caruana and Morozevich will join in the shared lead, but […]
Cuban GM Dominguez Confirms His Lead in GP in Thessaloniki
Athens, May 27.- Cuban Grand Master Leinier Dominguez strengthened his leadership today in the FIDE Grand Prix Chess, based in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, beating Uzbek Rustam Kasimdzhanov in the fifth round. Dominguez, the best Latin American chess player for several years, defeated Kasimdzhanov with blacks in 39 moves of a Bogo-Indian defense, to […]
Dominguez in clear lead after 5 rounds
Official website: http://thessaloniki2013.fide.com Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Dominguez defeated Ivanchuk for the lone win in GP round 3
Round 3 results 2 GM Kamsky Gata 2741 1/2 GM Grischuk Alexander 2779 12 3 GM Ponomariov Ruslan 2742 1/2 GM Topalov Veselin 2793 1 4 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2755 0-1 GM Dominguez Perez Leinier 2723 11 5 GM Svidler Peter 2769 1/2 GM Caruana Fabiano 2774 10 6 GM Kasimdzhanov Rustam 2699 1/2 GM Morozevich Alexander 2760 9 7 […]
Lineups for Capablanca Memorial set
The 48th edition of the Tournament Capablanca in Memoriam 2013 will take place from April 20th to May 1st at Habana Riviera Hotel in La Havana, Cuba. Full information here Chief Arbiter Jose Luis Ramirez informed that two of the main Cuban representatives will not participate in the event. GM Lazaro Bruzon and the new Cuban champion […]
Cubans top chess in Latin America
Cubans are at Prominent Places in World Chess Ranking Saturday, 02 February 2013 08:32 Havana, Cuba , Feb 2.- Another record of the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen is the most relevant news of the world chess rankings updated today, in which Cubans Leinier Dominguez and Lazaro Bruzón are still over the 2700 Elo points. The Nordic genius […]
Dominguez and Bruzon in Cuban National Championship
The Cuban chess stars Leinier Dominguez and Lazaro Bruzon, both members of the 2700 Elo club and part of the top 50 in the world, will be the main attraction during the 2013 Cuban National Chess Championship. The preliminary tournament will take place on January 16-27 in Santa Clara, in the center of the island. […]
Arribas and Domínguez to compete in Europe
Moscow, Nov 6 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Great Master (GM) Maritza Arribas will compete at the World Women Chess Championship of Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from November 11 to December 2, organizers confirmed today. Arribas will take part for the sixth time in a world tournament and will debut before the International Master Bela Khotenashvili, from Georgia. […]
Super finish for Dominguez in St. Petersburg
The superfinal of the St. Petersburg Rapid Cup 2012 was played on 5-7th October at the Hotel Oktyabrskaya. Twelve players, winners of the qualifiers, top St. Petersburg players and invited guests, competed in the round robin event with the time control of 15′+10”. The total prize fund was 24,400 EUR (985,000 RUB), with 4500 EUR […]
Dominguez wins St Petersburg Rapid Cup on tiebreaks
Official website: http://www.totalchess.spb.ru Final standings 1 Dominguez, Leinier GM 2734 x ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 7.5 2 Svidler, Peter GM 2733 ½ x ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 7.5 3 Vitiugov, Nikita GM 2740 ½ ½ x 1 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ […]