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WCN Team Championships 2006-11-12 08:07:00 After one month of preparation, WCN Team Championship has started yesterday. The response was massive and manager Lena Brusilovski has full hands to organize matches for 26 teams and 190 players. Games are being played every other week, Saturday at 15 est or Sunday 11 est.
Some lineups are very...
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Serbia is European Champion 2006-11-13 13:48:00 Serbian team GM Bojan Vuckovic, Marjan Kovacevic, Miodrag Mladenovic and FM Vladimir Podinic has won the 2nd European
Championship in solving chess compositions that was held in Warsaw, Poland. Serbian biggest quality was uniformity, all members have scored good individual results.
Final team...
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Web Archive: Chess Slavers 2006-11-13 18:44:00 I was browsing Michael Goeller's list of Chess Blogs and got attracted with this description: "The Yermo Diary by GM Alex Yermolinski - This is really a brave and challenging GM blog that sticks a few fingers in the eye of the chess establishment and tells it like it is. I am glad that the chess...
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, Web Archive
Capablanca Memorial 2006 2006-11-16 21:14:00 The 41st edition of Capablanca Memorial
will be held on November 19th-30th in Habana, Cuba. Main group will be strong double round robin with 6 players: Last year's winner Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR 2741), GM Evgeny Bareev (RUS 2683), GM Kamil Miton (POL 2638), GM Ruben Felgaer (ARG 2591) and top Cuban...
Vladimir Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz 2006-11-17 14:52:00 World Champion VladimirKramnik
is back for another clash against chess computer. This time he will face Deep Fritz
in a 6 games match. The match will be played on November 25th-December 5th in Bonne, Germany.
In order to "warm up" its membership for the live broadcast, WorldChessNetwork organizes...
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, Deep Fritz
How the Knight Learned to 2006-11-18 04:18:00 Rooty Hill Chess Club continues with fine tradition of publishing Christmas chess stories. Die Götterdämmerung, this year's story, was written by our good friend David Evans.
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, Learned
How the Knight Learned to Jump 2006-11-18 04:18:00 Rooty Hill Chess Club continues with fine tradition of publishing Christmas chess stories. Die Götterdämmerung, this year's story, was written by our good friend David Evans.
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, Learned
Valerian Adam 2006-11-18 20:19:00 All of you adult players having problem to raise your level, stop reading "Chess For Zebras" as a Bible and search for advice from a player who actually succeeded in the quest. Dr Valerian Adam
, solid player for many years (as IM Tom O'Donnell told me), managed to raise his rating by 180 points in...
Sao Paulo Tournament 2006-11-22 01:58:00 Torneio Internacional Prefeitura da Cidade de São Paulo
was held on November 11th-19th in Sao Paulo
, Brasil. IM Alexandr Fier scored his final GM norm and he should appear 2500+ on the next rating list. Brasilian chess organizers are very active lately, see their chess federation website. Prize...
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Croatian Chess Championship 2006-11-22 14:10:00 Croatian Chess Championship was held on November 11-21 in Kutina. Prize fund was 10.000 euros. GM Zoran Jovanovic and GM Zdenko Kozul, that were tied on 1st place, will meet again in 4 games playoff match to determinate title holder.
Final standings:
1-2. GM Zoran Jovanovic (2539) and GM Zdenko...
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New Migration 2006-11-23 16:27:00 Earlier this year GMs Kurajica and Dizdarevic have left BIH rating list to join Croatian. Serbia Montenegro (SCG) rating list will be split on two after January 1st. 28 players from current SCG list have expressed their wish to move (back, as they mostly live in Bosnia) to BIH rating list. GM...
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GM Liburnija Rijeka 2006-11-24 22:03:00 This round robin tournament was held on November 14th-22nd in Rijeka, Croatia. Even if "rijeka" is Croatian word for "river", this beautiful city is placed on Adriatic coast. Winner IM Ante Saric has earned himself GM norm. FMs Marin Bosiocic and Darko Doric have earned IM norms.
IM Ante Saric,...
Karpov about Kramnik vs Deep Fritz 2006-11-26 01:52:00 Vladimir Kozin from "Komsomolskaja Pravda" conducted an interview with Anatoly Karpov. Most of the questions were about incoming Kramnik
vs Deep Fritz
match. Here are some excerpts:
Q: The chess player is doomed?
A: To give the human any chance, it is necessary to provide even conditions. The...
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Salona 2006 2006-11-30 01:52:00 14th international tournament "Salona 2006" will take place on 24th November-2nd December at the Zvonimir Hall in Solin, Croatia. Curious fact is that the only two represents of Croatia are GMs Kurajica and Dizdarevic, both switched from BIH rating list this summer. Bojan Kurajica was also last...
More Danailov Rubbish 2006-11-30 03:45:00 Another interview with Silvio Danailov...*yawn*
Q: You and two other Bulgarians along with Panagiotis Nikolopoulos, deputy referee of the match, and Valery Bovaev, Chairman of the Organization Committee, signed the protocol in which the presence of an Internet connection cable in Kramnik's...
Good Start in Play-Off 2006-11-30 08:03:00 There is local saying that once a chess team drops from Central Serbia League, it is almost impossible to come back. This is exactly what happened to Radnicki Cuprija. The club was relegated to Regional Pomoravska League back in 2003. As there is always some local boss popping up with couple...
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Brazilian Chess Championship 2006-12-04 05:13:00 73rd Brazilian
Chess Championship was held on November 24th-December 3rd in Guarulhos. After winning Torneio Internacional Prefeitura da Cidade de São Paulo just two weeks ago, GM Giovanni Vescovi repeated strong performance to grab the title. GM Rafael Leitão was again half point behind.
Final...
Teimour Radjabov - Deep Junior 2006-12-05 19:01:00 At least Radjabov
was brave to enter the sharp Anti-Meran opening. For the moment it looked like he has initiative. The game was played on 3rd December in Florence, Italy.
Teimour Radjabov
- Deep Junior
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 c6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 dxc4 7. e4 g5 8. Bg3 b5 9. Be2 Bb7 10....
Another Wireless Cheater 2006-12-05 22:19:00 Umakant Sharma was caught with a blue tooth device hidden in his cap when random checking was conducted during the seventh round of the Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee Memorial All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament.
Sharma, top seeded with ELO 2384, was playing with black pieces against...
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, Cheater
Italian Chess Championship 2006-12-06 04:22:00 The 66th Italian
Championship was held on November 21st-December 4th in Cremona. GM Michele Godena and IM Fabiano Caruana were tied on the first place but Godena won the rapid/blitz playoff.
Final standings:
1-2. GM Michele Godena 2522 and IM Fabiano Caruana 2474 with 8.0/11; 3. IM Federico Manca...
Kramnik Getting Married 2006-12-07 13:57:00 Alexander Roshal, the editor-in-chief of magazine "64", shared "the secret" that Vladimir Kramnik
and his girlfriend Maria will get married in Paris on December 30th or 31st. The two have met when Kramnik played world chess championship against Peter Leko and Maria came to interview him. We wish...
Topalov Ready for Rematch 2006-12-10 16:22:00 From Topalov
fan website:
Topalov, Danailov, and Ginchev helped the rumors spread even more by saying that they will present the documents for a return match with Kramnik in a week. Danailov says that the FIDE central expects the official documents and that the match is supposed to take place in...
J'adoubie Nominations 2006-12-10 16:27:00 Jim from The J'adoubie Awards Committee has posted categories and nominations for the annual J'adoubies awards.
Michael Goeller has nominated GM Danny Gormally for as many as four categories: J'ahad, J'aDOH, J'adore and J'ahaha.
Temposchlucker has nominated Susan Polgar in J'adEGO category - for...
Kramnik and Topalov to play in the same team 2006-12-12 11:13:00 If this really happens, who will be on board one? Chess club "Sveti Nikolaj" from Valjevo in central Serbia is negotiating with Vladimir Kramnik
to join the club in its chase after 2007 European Club Cup. Team captain Milan Bozic confirmed that Veselin Topalov
and Anatoly Karpov are already their...
Challenged 2006-12-15 12:50:00 Silvio Danailov has sent official proposal for the Topalov-Kramnik rematch. The match should take place on March or April 2007 in Sofia with the net prize fund of 1.5 million (million for Kramnik). Patron of the match would be Bulgarian president Georgi Purvanov.
Bulgaria is joining EU on 1st...
2nd GM norm for Boskovic 2006-12-15 17:28:00 Serbian IM Drasko Boskovic (2444) and GM Yuri Shulman (2614) have tied 1st place at the recently played UT Dallas Grandmaster Invitational. With this fantastic result Drasko has securred his 2nd GM norm.
"The results of the fifth-annual event were somewhat of an upset, since Boskovic, who holds...
2nd Bone Tournament 2006-12-16 20:59:00 Chess club "Radnicki" from Cuprija is organizing 2nd blitz tournament in honor of the Serbian chess legend Miroslav Milenkovic Bone to be held on 17th December in hotel "Ravno". Last year's closed event had 22 participants. This time club members have gathered $450 USD for prize fund and made it...
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WCN Masters Tournament! 2006-12-17 23:06:00 The tradition of the best internet blitz tournament continues after one year of break. Chess players around the world are invited to play or watch. Friday is "Gold for a Day" on WorldChessNetwork, when all players have access to all features.
We are pleased to invite all players over 2300 to join...
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, Masters
Weekend Events in Serbia 2006-12-20 18:12:00 5th Rapid Chess Championship of Serbia
was held on 15th-16th December in Cacak. 9 rounds have been played with time control of 30 minutes and prize fund of $3700 USD.
Final standings:
1-7. GM Miodrag R.Savic 2527, GM Dejan Pikula 2542, GM Bosko Abramovic 2524, GM Milos Perunovic 2532, IM Branko...
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