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...
Chess Coach William Stewart | World Team Chess Championship – Round 4
By Chess Coach William Stewart Original article along with with interactive PGN’s on Round 4 of the World Team Chess Championship available on William’s site. Azerbaijan Beats Russia Convincingly Grischuk’s opening preparation was clearly insufficient as he emerged from...
Dortmund round 2
2010 Sparkassen Chess-Meeting DortmundJuly 15-25, 2010 Round 2 Ponomariov, Ruslan 1-0 Kramnik, VladimirLeko, Peter 1/2 Mamedyarov, ShakhriyarLe Quang Liem 1/2 Naiditsch, Arkadij Official website: http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/2010/fotos.html LIVE games with 15 minute delay: http://v46023.dokomserver.de/toma/live.htm Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Hard fought draw
Final position Leko (2739) – Carlsen (2810) [B90]Corus A (12), 30.01.2010 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 Ng4 7.Bg5 h6 8.Bh4 g5 9.Bg3 Bg7 10.h3 Nf6 11.Qf3 Qb6 12.0–0–0 0–0 13.Bc4 Nc6 14.Nxc6 Qxc6...
Double Dutch Treat
Photo by Fred Lucas for the official Corus website Smeets, J (2657) – Caruana, F (2675) [B41]Corus A (9), 26.01.2010 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Bb4 7.Qd3 0–0 8.e5 Ne8 9.a3 Ba5 10.Be2...
Leko 0-1 Carlsen LIVE
Leko will start with 1.e4 and most likely Carlsen will response with the Sicilian. Will it be the Najdorf or Dragon? I expect this to be an exciting game. Leko – Carlsen 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3....
Leko 1/2 Svidler
Leko, P (2752) – Svidler, P (2754) [B42]Tal Memorial (6), 11.11.2009 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Bc5 6.Nb3 Be7 7.Qg4 Bf6 8.Qg3 Nc6 9.N1d2 d5 10.0–0 Nge7 11.Re1 Ne5 12.Bf1 0–0 13.c3 N7c6 14.Nd4 Bh4...
Wild stuff between Anand – Leko LIVE
Anand,V (2788) – Leko,P (2752) [D43]Tal Memorial (5), 10.11.2009 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.Be2 Bb7 10.0–0 Nbd7 11.Ne5 Bg7 12.Nxd7 Nxd7 13.Bd6 a6 14.a4 e5 15.Bg4 exd4...
Leko 1/2 Ivanchuk
Leko, P (2752) – Ivanchuk, V (2739) [B90]Tal Memorial (4), 08.11.2009 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.f3 Be6 9.Qd2 0–0 10.0–0–0 Qc7 11.g4 Rc8 12.Qf2 Nbd7 13.Kb1 b5 14.g5 Nh5...
Aronian 1-0 Leko
Aronian, L (2786) – Leko, P (2752) [D43]Tal Memorial (3), 07.11.2009 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.Nxg4 Nxg4 12.Qxg4 Qxd4 13.Rd1 Qf6 14.a4 h5...