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7th Bangkok Chess Club Open 2007-03-27 22:30:00 The 7th Bangkok
Chess Club Open will take place on 27 March - 1 April at Phuket Graceland Resort and Spa. 150 players are registered in two rating groups, top rated are GM Rogelio Antonio (PHI 2551), GM Dimitri Komarov (UKR 2540), GM Gerhard Schebler (GER 2534), GM Ian Rogers (AUS 2529), GM R.B...
Let me win this war 2007-03-28 07:20:00 ...first. Then, we can talk Afghanistan. Italian senator Giannicola Sinisi during the voting on refinancing military missions.
News and photo - Corriere della Sera
Tip - Petar Rokic and Goran Tomic
Leon 2007 2007-04-01 05:49:00 XX Torneo Magistral de ajedrez Ciudad de León is scheduled to take place on 4-9th July in Leon, Spain. Tournament is knockout with semi-finals and final and players are Veselin Topalov, Vishy Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.
Last year Anand won final match against Topalov. Lazaro...
Biel Chess Festival 2007-04-03 07:18:00 40th Biel International Chess Festival
will take place on 21st July-3rd August 2007. The events list includes Grandmaster, Master (2000+ rating), Main (U2050 rating), Rapid, Simultan, Chess-Tennis, Blitz and Youth (born 1987 and later) tournaments.
Alexander Morozevich, Judit Polgar and Magnus...
Open Casino di Lugano 2007-04-04 08:32:00 GM-elect Mihajlo Stojanovic won't be playing 2007 Sydney Open after all. He sent us this note and details about forthcoming events in Lugano, Switzerland.
The Festival is starting on 27th April with simuls by IM Elena Sedina and Mihajlo Stojanovic. Next day is event with GM Michele Godena, youth...
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Performance Art or Bloody Sport 2007-04-07 22:48:00 "A murky, senseless and totalitarian future. A strange story in a world out of phase. A world championship of chess boxing, a violent biathlon where a boxing match and a game of chess follow one another. A ring which looks like a chessboard. In front of a wide screen, a dumbfounded audience who...
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Ajedrez Villa de Benidorm 2007-04-07 03:41:00 The XX Open Internacional de Ajedrez Villa
de Benidorm 2007 will be held on April 22-May 1st in Benidorm, Spain. 29.000 Euros are for grabs, first prize is 3.000. 10 rounds will be played with time control 90 min + 30 sec/move for the entire game.
Entry fees range between 20-50...
La Roda International 2007-04-09 14:19:00 34th La Roda International
took place on 4-8th April in Albacete, Spain. 164 people took participation, 14 Grandmasters among them. Prize fund was 10.500 Euros. Games don't seem to be available.
The Standings:
1-2. GM Ibragim Khamrakulov (ESP 2545) and GM Dragan Paunovic (SRB 2524) with 7.5 after...
Chess Festival 'Villa Cañada de Calatrava' 2006-04-05 23:17:00 This rapid tournament with nice prize fund of 74.000 euros will be held on April 14th-16th. The host will be city of Cañada de Calatrava
in Ciudad Real region, Spain. 9 or 10 rounds will be played, depending on the number of participants. Time control is 25 minutes for each player without...
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Neckar-Open 2007 2007-04-10 08:32:00 11th International Neckar-Open with 9 rounds was held on 5-9th April in Deizisau, Germany. The winner (on tiebreak) is Chinese GM Xiangzhi Bu after beating the leading GM Yuri Solodovnichenko in the last round. Xiangzhi Bu also won the last year's Neckar-Open.
Prize fund was 10.500 Euros, first...
Kramnik - Topalov, Mtel Masters 2005 2006-09-20 06:12:00 Kramnik,Vladimir (2753) – Topalov
,Veselin (2778)
Sofia MTel Masters
Sofia (10), 22.05.2005
Commentary by IM Miodrag Perunovic
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.f3 b5 8.Qd2 b4
b4 move became really fashionable lately. The idea of the black side is not just to move the...
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2nd GM Norm for Fabiano Caruana 2007-04-17 16:06:00 15-years old Italian star Fabiano
Caruana has achieved his 2nd GM norm with 7 points from 9 games in the main tournament of the First Saturday festival in Budapest, Hungary.
He won seven games and lost only to top rated GM Levente Vajda from Romania and fellow Italian FM Denis Rombaldoni. Rating...
Illegal move whilst in check 2007-04-17 15:55:00 "White attacked Black's knight at b6 with his bishop at e3 but, in so doing, made a catastrophic error. When Black ignored White's threat and allowed his knight to be captured, the way was open for a swift counterattack by Black's Queen (e7>e2) protected by his own bishop at a6.
Before anyone...
Steal from Grandmaster 2007-04-18 19:52:00 "During the European Chess Championships in Dresden I stayed at the IBIS hotel. The European Chess Union had made the participants an offer: Full board in a single room in the IBIS hotel during 14 nights for 98 euros a night. Payment could not be done directly to the hotel; the national federations...
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Sofia Mtel Media Partner 2007-04-21 03:20:00 Taking the coverage of chess events to the higher level, organizers of Mtel Masters have appointed ChessDom as official media partner. This new website should provide extensive reports, including videos and photos, and further promotion of chess grand slam association. There are around 20 other...
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Bazna Kings 2007-04-23 07:52:00 Romanian city of Bazna will host the Kings Tournament on 15-27th June. The idea is to gather some of the world's best players during the 70's and 80's. Different sources are giving different names, pick 12 at your convenience: Ulf Andersson (SWE 2527), Alexander Beliavsky (SLO 2648), Maia...
Alisa in the wonderland of chess 2007-04-27 07:48:00 IM Alisa Maric, the best American born female player ever, has launched her own personal website. Constantly top female player in period 1989-2000 and winner of Olympiad and European team championship medals, Alisa is nowadays focused on her carrier as university professor in Marketing. Still, a...
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Interview: GM Ivan Cheparinov 2007-04-26 01:35:00 Just a few hours after Ivan Cheparinov won the 2007 edition of Sigeman & Co he gave a telephone interview for chessdom.com
Q: Hello Mr. Cheparinov! Congratulations on your victory! How do you feel?
A: Thank you very much. I feel ok, I just need some rest and I will try to win my last game...
Corus Coincidence 2006-03-14 16:30:00 From the keyboard of Phil Harris, "Sportsman" himself
I have a story, about an evening in a hotel in Holland which, depending on what you like to believe, is either mildly curious, or the work of the Devil. I will let you decide which.
I am lucky enough to be able to visit the Corus
tournament...
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Chess Tables at Kalemegdan 2007-05-04 00:14:00 Birthday celebration of Belgrade city was a good occasion for Administrative office of Belgrade's fortress to give six chess tables as a present to citizens of Belgrade. Tables
are set at the beginning of park Kalemegdan.
Formal opening of this event was attended by Andrija Mladenovic member of...
Romanian Chess Grand Prix 2007-05-03 04:00:00 Pius Brinzeu Memorial is currently ongoing in Timisoara, Romania. Timis County Chess Association and A.E.M. Timisoara are hosting tournament with wonderful conditions for titled players, Grand
masters are provided with free accommodation and full board, while International masters are getting free...
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Dresden Impressions 2007-05-05 06:20:00 GM Borki Predojevic: The organization was not on the highest level, players are wondering how the next year's Olympiad will look like. Awful internet website and bad communication between organizers and hotels were most obvious problems. On the other hand, playing venue provided excellent...
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ChessBase boycotting Mtel Masters 2007-05-11 16:05:00 Mtel Masters
round 2 has already started and ChessBase is conspicuously silent. Only stories about Topalov-Brunetti blindfold game and a brief photo report on the German website. Their correspondent IM Dejan Bojkov is following the games and writing reports as usual, but he's not sure if they will...
Capablanca Memorial 2007-05-16 13:28:00 42nd Capablanca Memorial
is scheduled to take place in Habana on 19-29 May. Players invited: Vasilly Ivanchuk (UKR 2729), Leinier Domínguez (CUB 2678), Kamil Miton (POL 2653), Peter H. Nielsen (DEN 2649), Vugar Gashimov (AZE 2644), Lázaro Bruzón (CUB 2620), Walter Arencibia (CUB 2555), Jesús...
Video with Silvio Danailov 2007-05-15 15:58:00 In the short interview made yesterday, Danailov is talking about the Grand Slam Chess Association. Mexico City is the 5th tournament, total prize fund is around two million euros, decisions inside the GSCA are made by voting (there is veto right) etc.
Schedule for the year 2008:
Corus Wijk aan...
Chess on Mobile Phone 2007-05-25 14:24:00 In a way, chess is a natural for telephone play because its board moves are often expressed in simple text — such as "Qe3," to move the queen piece to the e3 square — that can be sent over mobile phones by SMS text message. But the wireless chess games available today have not exactly taken...
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Empty Promises 2007-05-24 08:20:00 Right at the end of Topalov-Kramnik match, a 2007 World Championship website has been announced. What has attracted my attention is awful design.
I don't know about the latest surveys, but we can estimate that some 25 percent of internet users are still cruising on dial-up. Right on the homepage...
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Susan Polgar on WCL 2007-05-29 00:43:00 Few hours ago WorldChessNetwork (WCN) and US Chess Live (USCL) were shut down. New home for their members, World Chess Live (WCL), will be open today around noon eastern time. New registrations are possible starting from next Monday. Management is confident that WCL will have the same wonderful...
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Topalov to open chess cafe in Sofia 2007-05-28 14:14:00 Official opening of the first chess
cafe in Sofia
will take place tomorrow May 29th at 11 am local time. The cafe is located in downtown Sofia, street Car Osvoboditel 8A, near Russian Church.
Special guest Veselin Topalov
will have the honor of ordering first drink.
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