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North American Open 2005 2006-01-05 21:03:00 This strong open tournament was held on December 26th-29th 2005 in Las Vegas. There were 713 participants (20 GMs) and prize fund was around 140.000$. US Champion GM Hikaru Nakamura took the clear first place half point ahead of competition.
Final standings (Ratings are USCF):
1. GM Hikaru...
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The Berkeley Masters Tournament 2006-01-04 23:19:00 Somehow I missed this important tournament, but it's never to late to post the results. The event was held on December 17th-23rd 2005 at East Bay Chess Club. I said important tournament as one of the US hot prospects IM Josh Friedel has earned his (first?) GM norm! In addition, FM David Pruess...
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New Year's Tournament in Jagodina 2006-01-04 17:50:00 This traditional rapid tournament is being held on Jan 2nd since 1985. Jagodina is only 12km north of Cuprija and our best players joined the celebration. There were 70 participants who played 9 rounds of swiss system with time control of 15 mins.
Final standings:
1. Goran Pavlovic (2363...
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Conquering ChessBase 2006-01-02 16:40:00 Well, sort of. Thanks to WCN Marketing Director Michel Gagne, ChessBase has posted the interview I made earlier with Bessel Kok. (By mistake, they signed Michel as author, but he is not).
I am grateful to Mr.Geoffrey Borg who arranged the interview.
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Questions 2006-01-02 03:09:00 I've just read somewhere that entry fee for HB Global Chess Challenge was 400$. There were around 1500 players who paid the ticket and guaranteed prize fund was 500.000$. Are those numbers correct?
I knew that fees are high in the US but this is beyond my understanding. Do organizers expect...
Italian Shame 2006-01-02 02:12:00 About one week ago I was reading TWIC site and saw the lineup for Reggio Emilia tournament. GM Igor Miladinovic (SCG 2607 ) and Ivan Ivanisevic (SCG 2588) were announced as top seeds. You can imagine my surprise when I saw GM Landa and GM Kotronias replaced them. Not a single word about the switch...
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14th International Donau-Open 2006-01-01 20:00:00 IM Sasha Belezky drove my attention to this tournament. I was complaining how hard is to find information about chess events in Germany (they have at least one tourney every week) and then while googling "Aschach an der Donau" (name he gave me) I found nice list of tournaments on Zeitschrift Schach...
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FIDE Rating List 1.1.2006. 2006-01-01 16:53:00 Serbia and Montenegro is ranked 17th at the Country Top players list (was 19th in the October list) according to average rating of top 10 players. SCG has 50 GM's and 105 IM's with total titled players of 516. Here are the national top 10 (The form is rank, name, title, federation, rating, number...
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Sergey Rublevsky is new Russian Champion 2005-12-31 03:44:00 After grabbing a lead in round 5, GM Sergey
Rublevsky continued with good play to finish the tourney with clear point ahead of Alexander Morozevich and Dmitry Yakovenko. 4 wins and 7 draws with no game lost were enough to deserve a trophy. Pale "World Champion" Vladimir Kramnik finished with...
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Zoltan Varga wins in Zurich 2005-12-30 22:03:00 Hungarian GM Zoltan Varga (2525) is the winner of the White Nights Open tournament. He scored 6 points out of 7 games. Four players tied for the second place with 5,5 points each: GM Vitali Golod (ISR 2578), IM Leonid Milov (GER 2472), GM Dejan PIkula (2500 SCG) and Aloyzas Kveinys (LTU 2525)....
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Pamplona Tournament 2005-12-29 23:23:00 Right after he performed extremly good at the World Chess Cup, GM Ruslan Ponomariov went to Pamplona
to win this strong tournament.
Final standings:
1. Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR 2704) 5 points out of 7 rounds
2-3. Pentala Harikrishna (IND 2673) and Ivan Cheparinov (BUL 2618) 4,5
4. Sergei Tiviakov...
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The Boss 2005-12-29 11:27:00 GM Dragoljub Velimirovic is special character in the chess world. Also known as "Drasko" and "The Boss", there are many funny stories connected with his name. He wanted to sue Russian publishers when they have renamed his "Velimirovic attack" into some river - eventually, it brought him big money....
1st Bosnia & Herzegovina Chess Championship 2005-12-28 11:59:00 10 years after the war has ended, Bosnia
and Herzegovina had its first Chess Championship. Until this year, entities had separated championships.
BIH Chess Federation has many problems. Leading Grandmasters Borki Predojevic (2558), Bojan Kurajica (2532) and Emir Dizdarevic (2509) declined to...
"Bone" Tournament 2005-12-27 12:54:00 On 18th December we had an blitz tournament in honor of the Serbian chess legend and long time SK "Radnicki" member Miroslav Milenkovic Bone. Bone was playing for Yugoslav team champion "Red Star" in period 1955-1957. He was champion of Paris while studying French language and he also earned title...
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Blitz Scalp 2005-12-25 16:51:00 These are 5 0 blitz games so don't search for some beauty or perfection. There are some nice maneuvers and many small mistakes as well.
Goran Urosevic 2478 - IM Miodrag Perunovic 2869
Site WorldChessNetwork.com
Date 2005.11.21
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nf3 Bb4 7. cxd5...
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White Nights in Zürich 2005-12-25 01:44:00 My friends FM Martin Taylor, GM Vitali Golod and GM Michael Roiz will participate in this open tournament to be held on 26th-30th December. Total prize fund is CHF 18.000.
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Carlos Torre Memorial 2005-12-24 18:51:00 This knockout tournament was held in Mérida, Yucatán, México 15th-23rd December 2005. Cuban GM Lazaro Bruzon wins the competition after beating GM Michal Krasenkov in the final match.
Michal Krasenkov 2655 - Jesus Nogueiras 2547
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 dxc4 4. Qa4+ Nd7 5. e4 c5 6. Be3 b5 7. Qxb5...
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You have asked too much already... 2005-12-24 18:27:00 Typical Nigel Short reply :-) Nigel was giving an interview for the Chess Chronicle magazine. Here are few important questions.
Q: I noticed that in your match with Kasparov when playing with White you were on several occasions within the reach of an easy win, but each time you were unable to...
New Chess Blog 2005-12-23 15:31:00 Stefan and Carsten have started their Schachblatter weblog back in November. They are posting quite frequently in German language. I had German in school (unlike English which I had to learn on my own), but most of the knowledge has vanish from my head. This doesn't stop me from enjoying Carsten's...
89th Annual Marshall Chess Club Championship 2005-12-22 14:53:00 Winner of this traditional event is GM Leonid Yudasin (ISL 2554), who scored 7,5 points out of 9 games.
Final standings:
1. GM Leonid Yudasin (2554) 7,5
2. GM Nick De Firmian (2552) 7
3-5. GM Ildar Ibragimov (2617), GM Joel Benjamin (2576) and IM Alfonso Almeida (2362) 6
6-11. GM Michael Rohde...
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Na3!! 2005-12-21 14:27:00 Vadim Zvjaginsev is famous for his creativity. Yesterday he shocked chess world by playing 1.e4 c5 2.Na3!? novelty against none else but Alexander Khalifman. Surprised opponent probably missed better plans and the game went into Benoni waters. Vadim did better in the complicated middlegame and...
Local Team Event 2005-12-20 17:45:00 Few months ago, my club has participated in a team event that was held in village Miloshevo, near Jagodina. Each team had 4 players and time control was 20 minutes with no increment (we still use wooden clocks).
Second category youngster Aleksandar Dimitrijevic (11 years old) played on the 2nd...
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13th International grandmaster tournament Salona 2005 2005-12-20 00:34:00 This round robin tournament was held on 9th-18th December in Solin, Croatia. Organizer was chess club "Mravince – Dalmacijacement" and average rating is 2481.
Final standings:
1. GM Bojan Kurajica (BIH 2533) 7,5 points
2. IM Blazimir Kovacevic (CRO 2493) 7
3-5. IM Alojzije Jankovic (CRO 2446), GM...
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10th Open Villa de Campillos 2007-03-05 04:51:00 10th Open Internacional de Ajedrez "Villa
de Campillos" took place on Feb 24th - Mar 3rd in Campillos, Malaga. This was good tournament for Serbian grandmasters as Aleksa Strikovic and Stefan Djuric finished tied on first place.
The standings (84 participants, 9 rounds):
1-3. GM Aleksa Strikovic...
Titled Players About Elista Events 2006-10-03 03:16:00 Julie Trottier, WCN Events Director, has collected feedback from site pro team about the happenings around Topalov-Kramnik match:
Apparently, they are human, too, in spite of being such giants on the board. What a pitty that they did not realize that the whole World was watching them while the...
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WCN Newsletter Sept 22nd 2006-09-23 02:52:00 I made another mailout tonight. Again, there are excerpts and links to the various posts from the chess blogosphere. There are also links on the WCN Forum thread. Feel free to register and link to the posts you find interesting. I hope this will bring some new readers and maybe encourage some of...
WCN Newsletter 2006-09-16 09:40:00 I started to prepare Friday mailouts. It has article excerpts, some news, analysed games and even links to interesting posts in blogosphere :) You can subscribe on WCN website - fill in the form on right sidebar. Here is the banter game (25/5 time control) Psakhis-Fierro.
GM Lev Psakhis - IM...
8th Open Internacional de Sants 2006-08-26 20:15:00 8th International Chess Open de Sants, Hostafrancs & La Bordeta is being held on August 25th-September 3rd in Barcelona, Spain. Group "A" features 274 participants. Top players: GM Giorgi Georgadze (GEO 2607), GM Rafael Leitao (BRA 2598), GM Ruben Felgaer (ARG 2581), GM Mihail Marin (ROM 2544), GM...
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British Chess Championship 2006 2006-08-20 20:52:00 Scottish GM Jonathan Rowson won the British
Chess Championship for the third consecutive time. Rowson had slow start but other contenders were making quick draws in the last three rounds and he used his opportunity.
Final standings:
1. Rowson Jonathan W SCO g 2579 8.5
2. Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan...
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