The Mexican Sports Ministry : CONADE, cancelled all national scholastic championships including the Mexican Scholastic Chess Olympics, which decides the team that will represent Mexico in the Pan American Youth Championship. The cause for the suspension is the SWINE FLU. Here is the link to my blog, the press release from the Mexican government is […]
Carlos Torre
Cuban Reaches Quarterfinals in Carlos Torre Chess ChampionshipsPosted: 2008/12/22 HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 19 (acn) Quesada (2 580 ELO), winner of this tournament in the 2003 edition, beat yesterday Mexican Carlos González (2 568) 1.5-0.5 and thus passed to the following round along other seven Grand Masters. Cubans Neuris Delgado (2 549), Holden Hernández (2 580) […]
Claudia’s wonderful success
Posted on Claudia’s chess blog SAN LUIS, MEXICO (8:40 pm) DAY/DIA 4 What others would call a miracle, Claudia (Munoz) calls it “walking on water”. Today, in the mixed tournament she won the first two rounds against boys only to face a girl in the 3rd round – Davila from Zacatecas who is the Mexican […]
Planet Earth by A. Munoz
PLANET EARTHby A. Munoz I believe freedom of expression is a human basic right for every citizen of the world; however, abusing that right is the most ignorant act a person can do against that basic right. In the last few months, I have been reading Susan Polgar’s blog and it has been amazing the […]
Happy Cinco de Mayo
The holiday commemorates an initial victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín over French forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. The date is observed in the United States and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride. A common misconception in the United […]
Anand wins Morelia / Linares
Final round 14 results: Vishy Anand (8) 1/2 Veselin Topalov (7)Magnus Carlsen (7.5) 1/2 Teimour Radjabov (6.5)Peter Leko (5) 1/2 Levon Aronian (7)Alexei Shirov (5) 1/2 Vassily Ivanchuk (6) Final Standings 1. Anand 8.52. Carlsen 8.03-4. Aronian, Topalov 7.55.Radjabov 7.06. Ivanchuk 6.57-8. Shirov, Leko 5.5 Congratulations to Anand for winning the tournament and Carlsen for […]
Standings at the midway point
Round 7 results: Vishy Anand ½-½ Vassily IvanchukPeter Leko 0-1 Veselin TopalovAlexei Shirov 1-0 Teimour RadjabovMagnus Carlsen 1-0 Levon Aronian Standings after Morelia: 1. Anand 4.5 (+2)2-3 Topalov, Shirov 4.0 (+1)4-5 Aronian, Carlsen 3.5 (E)6-7 Ivanchuk, Radjabov 3.0 (-1)8. Leko 2.5 (-2) Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Topalov wins his 3rd game
GM Leko (2753) – GM Topalov (2780) [B90]23.02.2008 / Morelia – Round 7 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.f3 b5 8.Qd2 b4 9.Na4 Nbd7 10.c4 bxc3 11.Nxc3 Bb7 12.Be2 Be7 13.0–0 0–0 14.Rac1 Qb8 15.Rfd1 Rd8 16.Kh1 d5 17.exd5 Nxd5 18.Nxd5 Bxd5 19.Bc4 Nf6 20.Qe2 Qb7 21.b3 h6 […]
Shirov took down Radjabov in a wild game
After recording his first win of the tournament against Carlsen yesterday, Radjabov went down to Shirov today in a wild game. GM Shirov (2755) – GM Radjabov (2735) [E98]23.02.2008 / Morelia – Round 7 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0–0 6.Nf3 e5 7.0–0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Ne1 Nd7 10.Be3 f5 11.f3 […]
Anand extends lead at the half
GM_Anand (2799) – GM Ivanchuk (2751) [B47]23.02.2008 / Morelia – Round 7 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 a6 7.0–0 Nf6 8.Be3 Be7 9.f4 d6 10.a4 0–0 11.Kh1 Re8 12.Bf3 Rb8 13.Qd2 Bd7 14.Nb3 b6 15.g4 Bc8 16.g5 Nd7 17.Qf2 Bb7 18.Bg2 Na5 19.Rad1 Nxb3 20.cxb3 Bc6 21.b4 b5 22.a5 […]