The 2010 World Juniors and Girls U-20 Chess Championships will be held from August 2 (arrival day) to 17 (departure day) at Chotowa, Municipality Czarna, close to the city of Tarnow in Poland. Full information, schedule, and history of the championship.
He may not be a familiar name to even the most ardent chess fans, but 42 year-old Konstantin Chernyshov rated 2556 Elo (pictured below, left) won the 2010 Moscow Open ahead of a strong field, including joint top seeds Alexander Motylev and Sergey …
The Knight in chess represents an armoured cavalry unit and is usually a horse’s head, causing many people to casually refer to it as the “horse.” Each player has two Knights positioned at the beginning of the game between your rooks and bishops.
Difficult task for the Bulgarian GM, as he will have to face established tournament fighters as FIDE Grand Prix winner Levon Aronian (Armenia), 2009 World Cup winner Boris Gelfand (Israel), Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan), Russian Champion and 2009 Linares winner Alexander Grischuk (Russia), and the local hero Francisco Vallejo. This lineup makes Linares a category 21 tournament.
The 2010 World Juniors and Girls U-20 Chess Championships will be held from August 2 (arrival day) to 17 (departure day) at Chotowa, Municipality Czarna, close to the city of Tarnow in Poland.
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The men’s section finished with a three-way tie on the top, after GM Constantin Lupulescu, GM Vladislav Nevednichy and, surprisingly, FM Robin-Alexandru Dragomirescu won their last round games. Lupulescu was declared the Champion thanks to his superb tiebreak score.
This will be the 9th edition of the Aeroflot Open and for the fifth year the competition will take place in the major tourist complex “Izmailovo” - hotel “Gamma – Delta”. The Festival consists of four Open Tournaments (A1, A2, B and C), which will be filled according to the participants’ ratings. Additional to these events, the qualification for the World Blitz Chess Championship 2010 will be held within the festival.
In the last round, FIDE Grand Prix participant Ernesto Inarkiev wins a beautiful positional game against Sergey Volkov to leap forward and reach the shared first place. The experienced GM Evgeny Bareev, who held the Indian hope Krishnan Sasikiran to a draw, and GM Konstantin Chernyshov and GM Le Quang Liem, who split points on the first board, are also tied on the top, with 7.0 points each.
The 32nd Bulgarian Open Championship, also dedicated to the memory of the late Grandmaster Georgi Tringov, was held from 31s January to 6th February in Plovdiv. 288 players from nine federations took participation, and among them a huge delegation of 42 men from Greece. Eighteen Grandmasters formed a strong field and initiated a fierce battle for the first place.
