Round 8 Aronian, Levon – Anand, Viswanathan ½-½ Carlsen, Magnus – Karjakin, Sergey 1-0 Giri, Anish – Caruana, Fabiano ½-½ Nakamura, Hikaru – So, Wesley ½-½ Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime – Kramnik, Vladimir 1-0 Standings after 8 rounds # Name Pts SB 1 Aronian, Levon 5.5 20.5 2 Nakamura, Hikaru 5 19.75 3 Giri, Anish 4.5 16.75 […]
Aronian beat Kramnik to join Nakamura at the top, Carlsen still winless

Round 6 results Aronian, Levon – Kramnik, Vladimir 1-0 Carlsen, Magnus – Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime ½-½ Caruana, Fabiano – Anand, Viswanathan 0-1 Giri, Anish – So, Wesley ½-½ Nakamura, Hikaru – Karjakin, Sergey ½-½ Standings after 6 rounds Rk Name Title FED Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pts 1 Nakamura, […]
GM Andriy Vovk leads Fagernes after 8

Standings after 8 http://turneringsservice.sjakklubb.no/standings.aspx?TID=TV2FagernesInternational2017-AkademiskSjakklubb&group=GM-group Pl Name GP n-Rtg i-Rtg Club Fed 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Score i-Perf. i-Performance 1 GM Andriy Vovk 2636 WO 21 19 18 11 04 05 02 03 6.0 2688 2688 (+4.90) 2 FM Sarin Nihal 2424 28 25 10 03 05 11 04 01 07 5.5 […]
4 share Fagernes lead after 6

Intermediate standings after round 6: http://turneringsservice.sjakklubb.no/standings.aspx?TID=TV2FagernesInternational2017-AkademiskSjakklubb&group=GM-group Pl Name GP n-Rtg i-Rtg Club Fed 1 2 3 4 5 6 Score i-Perf. i-Performance 1 GM Andriy Vovk 2636 WO 20 10 08 05 04 4,5 2688 2688 (+3,80) 2 GM Erik Blomqvist 2548 Nordstrand 30 10 06 05 03 08 4,5 2646 2646 (+7,60) 3 FM Sarin Nihal […]
3 share Fagernes lead after 5 rounds

Standings after 5 rounds Pl Name GP n-Rtg i-Rtg Club Fed 1 2 3 4 5 6 Score i-Perf. i-Performance 1 GM Andriy Vovk 2636 WO 24 09 05 02 03 4,0 2759 2759 (+5,00) 2 GM Evgeny Postny 2606 23 12 15 04 01 06 4,0 2705 2705 (+6,20) 3 GM Boris Chatalbashev 2546 28 16 […]
Stavanger stages world’s strongest tournament!

An all time high chess-elite will be gathered to play in Altibox Norway Chess Altibox Norway Chess, the chess super tournament, has managed to gather the world’s top 10 best players for the 2017 edition. The tournament aims to be amongst the top 3 strongest chess tournaments in the world. The 2017 tournament takes place from […]
NY Post: “Model against Putin’s puppet” – Seriously?

World Chess Championship pits model against Putin’s puppet By Michael Kaplan November 12, 2016 | 11:17pm It’s the battle of the fashion model versus Putin’s puppet. A ferocious takedown between two prodigies will take place downtown over the next few weeks — and the fight is over chess. In one corner, it’s the dashing Norwegian […]
Kovalenko completely dominates Oslo Open

Final standings (top 15) http://tournamentservice.com/standings.aspx?TID=OsloChessFestival-Masters2016-NordstrandSjakklubb_2 Pl Name Cl GP n-Rtg i-Rtg Fed 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Score Med.Buc Buch Berger i-Performance 1 GM Igor Kovalenko 2651 045 018 009 011 002 004 007 008 014 8,5 45,5 57,5 54,00 2881 (+18,00) 2 GM Boris Chatalbashev 2542 113 052 146 003 001 […]
Kovalenko is 7.5 / 8 at Oslo Open!

Leaders after 8 rounds Pl Name Cl GP n-Rtg i-Rtg Fed 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Score Med.B Buch Berger i-Perf 1 GM Igor Kovalenko 2651 037 029 005 015 006 002 012 013 003 7.5 40.0 51.5 41.75 2902 (+17.10) 2 GM Aryan Tari 2571 2570 077 063 045 021 044 […]