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 back with a solid win against a strong Indian team (3-1). Armenia currently leads the tournament […]
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 the opening down a pawn and in a clearly worse position on the black side of […]
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 15.Bb3 Be6 16.e5 Qxf3 17.gxf3 dxe5 18.Bxe6 fxe6 19.Bxe5 Nd5 20.Bxg7 Kxg7 21.Nxd5 exd5 22.Rxd5 Rxf3 […]
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 Bc7 11.Bf4 d6 12.exd6 Bxd6 13.Bxd6 Qxd6 14.Qe3 Qc7 15.0–0 b6 16.Rfd1 Bb7 17.Qg3 Qe7 18.Na4 […]
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. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 Ng4 (This is one of Kasparov’s […]
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 15.Nxc6 Nxc6 16.Qf3 d4 17.e5 dxc3 18.Qxc3 Qd4 19.Qxd4 Nxd4 20.Re4 Nc2 21.Rb1 Be7 22.Nc4 b5 […]
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 16.e5 c5 17.Re1 Nxe5 18.Bxe5 0–0 19.Bxg7 Kxg7 20.Ne2 f5 21.Bh5 f4 22.Nxd4 cxd4 23.Re6 Bc8 […]
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 15.Nd5 Bxd5 16.Rxd5 Rcb8 17.f4 Nxf4 18.Bxf4 exf4 19.Qxf4 Nb6 20.Rd3 Rc8 21.Rc3 Qd8 22.Rf3 Bxg5 […]
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 15.Qg5 Qxg5 16.hxg5 a6 17.Be5 Rg8 18.Rxh5 Nd7 19.Bf4 b4 20.Nb1 c5 21.f3 Bg7 22.Rh7 Bd4 […]