Owner: Chess News and Events URL:http://chesslodge.blogspot.com/ Join Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:25:44 -0500 Rating:1 Site Description: The purpose of this blog is to provide chess news and atricles. You`ll be able to find reports of the most important chess events and tournaments. Feel free to browse the archive and post your comments. Site statistics:Click here
Canadian Olympiad Team 2006-05-06 01:53:00 Back in March, Olympiad manager IM Brian Hartman has announced team lineups.
Men:
1. GM Pascal Charbonneau 2510
2. GM Mark Bluvshtein 2531
3. IM Yan Teplitsky 2446
4. IM Igor Zugic 2466
5. GM Dima Tyomkin 2490
6. IM Tomas Krnan 2409
Women:
1. WIM Natalia Khoudgarian 2123
2. WIM Nava Starr 2169
3....
Read more:Canadian
Grand Prix Galati 2006 2006-05-04 16:44:00 This 9 round tournament was held on April 26th-May 3rd in Galati, Romania. There were 100 participants.
Final standings:
1-3. GM Viorel Iordachescu (MDA 2601), GM Vasile Sanduleac (MDA 2492) and GM Mihail Marin (ROM 2538) with 7 points
4-11. GM Vladislav Nevednichy (ROM 2582), IM Andrei Murariu...
Read more:Grand
, Grand Prix
Happy Birthday Gliga! 2006-02-02 16:01:00 Legendary Grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric is celebrating his 83rd birthday today. City of Novi Sad decided to organize few events in his honor.
Ex-World Champions Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov will play a simul against 50 top juniors of region Vojvodina. Boris Spassky will also give a public...
Read more:Happy
, Birthday
, Happy Birthday
Where is Jorge? 2006-02-01 05:48:00 I was at the Boylston Chess Club today and Jorge was mentioned. They were all talking about how brilliant of a player he used to be, and that its a shame that he left the US. I agree whole-heartedly. At one point, he was thought to be the next prodigal son of chess.
A member of Boylston Chess Club...
Teach them a lesson 2006-02-01 02:23:00 Jon Speelman's rating doesn't look so great (2539) but he is playing like in the best days. Seven rounds of the Gibtelecom chess festival have been played, with Jon currently sharing 6th place with 5 points. He slipped down after losing to Hungarian GM Zoltan Gyimesi.
The reason I'm making the...
Read more:lesson
Young Masters Encounter 2006-02-01 00:38:00 Continuing the tradition of hosting strong tournaments with some of the world's best young chess players, a new exciting event is about to start on 2nd February in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Ukranians Ruslan Ponomariov (2723), Andrei Volokitin (2665) and Sergey Karjakin (2660) will be highest rated...
Read more:Masters
, Encounter
Winter Cup Bucharest 2006-01-30 21:48:00 The tournament was held on 14-26th January in Bucharest
, Romania. IM Constantin Lupulescu has earned GM norm.
Final standings:
1. IM Constantin Lupulescu (ROM 2528) 10 points out of 12 rounds
2. IM Vasile Sanduleac (MDA 2479) 9
3. IM Andrei Murariu (ROM 2441) 8,5
4. GM Mikhail Golubev (UKR 2517)...
St.Sava Day - More Events 2006-01-30 13:48:00 Chess club "Petar Smederevac" and Mr.Nikola Pervan from Chicago have organized strong rapid tournament in Zemun, near Belgrade. Average rating of 58 participants was impressive - 2151!
Final standings:
1. GM Ivanisevic Ivan (2588) with 8 points out of 9 rounds
2. GM Miladinovic Igor (2607) 7
3-5....
Vishy Anand wins Corus on tiebreak 2006-01-29 22:05:00 Boris Gelfand made an early mistake with 15...Rb8 and Anand
then sacrificed exchange for the long-term initiative. Veselin Topalov drew Peter Leko and waited for the outcome. Anand beat Gelfand in deep endgame and took the trophy thanks to Gata Kamsky and better tiebreak.
Magnus Carlsen is invited...
Read more:Corus
St. Sava Tournament 2006-01-29 18:51:00 Saint Sava has established first Serbian school and hospital back in 13th century. In order to celebrate his day, SK "Kablovi" from Jagodina has organized tournament for kids born 1990 and later. There were 28 participants from 5 cities. Winners of the 4th Christmas Tournament
"Nole 2006" have made...
Slow Motion 2006-01-28 17:57:00 I wanted to avoid "boring" classical French defence and then run into even worse Slav line. The game was played during the Regional League.
[Event "Regional League"]
[White "Goran, Urosevic"]
[Black "Nikola, Sosic"]
[WhiteTeam "Radnicki Cuprija"]
[BlackTeam "Morava Supska"]
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6...
Read more:Motion
, Slow Motion
Tense Game 2006-01-27 23:26:00 At precisely this moment an official brought him coffee. Alekhine thanked him, while all the time staring at the board. Then, instead of sugar, he absent-mindedly put a white pawn into the cup! It was not clear to me why he was so ruffled.
Following the post about Gligoric and his concentration,...
Read more:Tense
Faroese Beauty Game 2006-01-27 09:43:00 One of my most loyal readers, Jaspur Gaard from Faroe Islands, who is with me since the very first post, has sent me a game that was played on the last year Faroese Championship. How can I not publish it? :-) I would also like to encourage other regular readers to send me their games and stuff....
Read more:Beauty
Magistral Ruy Lopez 2007-03-06 07:06:00 Magistral Ruy Lopez
, organized by Agrupación Ruy López de Zafra, will take place on 16-23rd March in Extremadura, Spain. Players: Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR 2723), Krishnan Sasikiran (IND 2700), Gabriel Sargissian (ARM 2658), Ivan Sokolov (NED 2652), Julio Granda Zuniga (PER 2612), Manuel Perez...
Kramnik-Aronian 2007-03-06 07:02:00 Rapid match between Vladimir Kramnik
and Levon Aronian will be held on 4-6th May in Yerevan, Armenia. Six games are planned with 25/10 time control.
Mixed Lineups 2007-03-08 15:47:00 This article is calling for a change. You know that feeling of great excitement when the next top tournament is about to start? And then the numerous authors, websites and fans are analysing players and predicting results. What do we get from it? I'm brave to speculate that many game lovers are...
Read more:Mixed
La Roche sur Yon 2007 2007-03-08 09:03:00 2nd Trophée Universitaire La Roche Sur Yon took place on Feb 26-Mar 6 in La Roche-sur-Yon, France. Winner is Romanian Grandmaster Andrei Istratescu.
The standings:
1. GM Andrei Istratescu (ROM 2619) 6.5
2-5. IM Romain Edouard (FRA 2446), GM Alberto David (LUX 2528), GM Hichem Hamdouchi (MOR 2602)...
2nd Villa Cañada de Calatrava 2007-03-12 14:14:00 2nd Chess Festival Villa
Cañada de Calatrava
will be held on 6-8 April in Cañada de Calatrava in Ciudad Real region, Spain. Rapid, Fischer Random and Blitz tournaments will carry 90.000 euros prize fund. Participation fee (valid for all tournaments) is 5 euros - anyone from US reading?
Amongst 170...
And Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2007-03-12 13:48:00 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov will defend his last year's title in the 90.000 euros worth 2nd Villa Cañada de Calatrava chess festival. The event takes place on 6-8 April.
There is also unconfirmed information that Mamedyarov will be invited to play in Sofia and Dortmund super-tournaments.
More About Teimour Radjabov 2007-03-12 13:32:00 Teimour Radjabov
will participate in Corsica international festival which is scheduled for May. French sponsors will also organize rapid match between Teimour and Norwegian GM Magnus Carlsen in order to promote chess in Corsica.
Meanwhile, Radjabov and GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov had a joint seance...
Read more:Teimour Radjabov
Happy Birthday Teimour Radjabov! 2007-03-12 08:20:00 Press release from Azerbaijan Chess Federation
On March 12, grandmaster Teimour Radjabov
from Azerbaijan, one of the world's strongest players, turns 20.
Teimour Radjabov
was born on March 12, 1987, in Baku. He is a seven-time medal winner of the World and European junior championships,...
Read more:Happy
, Birthday
, Happy Birthday
GM Norm for Fabiano Caruana 2007-03-14 13:55:00 15-years old Italian Fabiano
Caruana has performed GM norm with 7 points from 9 games in the main tournament of the First Saturday festival in Budapest, Hungary.
Ciudad de La Laguna 2007-03-15 23:19:00 Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Ciudad de La Laguna
took place on 5-11 March in San Cristobal de La Laguna, Tenerife. Prize fund was 17300 euros.
The standings (9 rounds, 122 players):
1-4. GM Atanas Kolev (BUL 2538), GM Bojan Kurajica (CRO 2549), GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili (GEO 2583) and IM Gawain...
Blackpool Chess Conference 2007-03-15 23:16:00 31st Blackpool
Chess Conference will take place on 16-18 March in Blackpool. The Conference is sponsored with £8000 from Blackpool Borough Council and entry fees range in £17-37. Nice encouragement for other sponsor and local councils to support chess events.
Games will be broadcasted live on ECF...
Serbian Chess Championship 2007-03-17 17:00:00 First Serbian
Chess Championship was held on 4-17 March in Vrsac. City Council has provided appearance fees and 5000 euros for prize fund. Exciting race has ended with GM Branko Damljanovic (2590), IM Mihajlo Stojanovic (2576) and GM Milos Perunovic (2547) sharing first place with 9.0 points each....
Victor Ciocaltea Memorial 2007-03-21 21:53:00 International Chess Tournament "Victor
Ciocaltea Memorial
" took place on 6-19 March in Bucharest, Romania. Four players ended tied on first place, point and half ahead of rest of the field.
The standings:
1-4. GM Alin Berescu (ROM 2510), IM Vadim Shishkin (UKR 2474), GM George-Gabriel Grigore...
Sofia Mtel 2007 2007-03-23 16:44:00 Via VeselinTopalov.net we found the complete list for Sofia
Mtel Masters 2007 tournament, which will take place on 9-20 May. There is unofficial information that new website, to be launched soon, will provide extensive coverage of Mtel Masters.
Players:
Veselin Topalov, Bulgaria 2783
Shakhriyar...
Anna Zatonskih Blog 2007-03-26 14:25:00 Current US female champion WGM Anna Zatonskih didn't resist blogging madness. Her first post is about Melody Amber.
Visit Queen's Gambit
Sozina 2007 2007-03-25 10:57:00 7th International Chess Championship of Montenegro "Sozina 2007" will take place on 31 March - 7 April in Bar. Organizers have provided 8.500 € for prize fund. 110 players have signed up and top rated are GM Igor Miladinovic (SRB 2607), GM Milos Perunovic (SRB 2547), GM Sergey Kasparov (BLR 2546),...
Child of Destiny 2007-03-25 10:54:00 Though Anand has been one of the finest players of his time, and one of the best of all-time, he was also caught in the time period, which saw two of the game’s greatest stars in Karpov, who even while being on the downside was a force to reckon with, and Kasparov, who reached his peak in this...
Read more:Destiny
Recommend Site To A Friend
