Chess tourney set for this weekend
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Archive for March, 2009
Veselin Topalov leads the FIDE April rating list - Interesting details about the new rating list
Veselin Topalov retains the top spot after his strong performance in the Nanjing tournament and the Chess Challenger match against Gata Kamsky. The World Champion Vishy Anand is second with 2783, while Carlsen is third with 2770. As predicted in the April list preview, general rating drops among the other players over 2750 and the rise of players above 2700 make the race for the rest of the positions in the top 10 very tight.
White pieces had better win-rate in last year’s shogi events
Second mover’s winning percentage has exceeded that of First mover for the professional Japanese chess games of the fiscal year 2008(April 2008 through March 2009). It’s the first time since Japan Shogi Association started stats since 1967. Here i…
April 2009 FIDE Rating List
The Elista FIDE Office is pleased to publish the 1st April 2009 FIDE Rating List. Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria tops the list with the rating of 2812. New Rating list includes Topalov - Kamsky Match, FIDE Women Grand Prix, Linares Tournament, Pearl Spring tournament, European Individual Championships. Please check Top players list or search the ratings at http://ratings.fide.com.
FIDE at SportAccord
This year’s SportAccord was held in Denver, USA. The FIDE delegation was led by the Deputy President, Georgios Makropoulos, and included the President’s Assistant, Berik Balgabaev, the Commercial Director, Geoffrey Borg, and the Executive Director, David Jarrett.
SportAccord brings together all the sporting family and includes several Annual Meetings of Sports’ Organizations. FIDE representatives attended the ARISF meeting for non-Olympic recognised sports where David Jarrett was again appointed as Auditor.
The International Mind Sports Association elected Jose Damiani (Bridge) as President, Georgios Makropoulos (Chess) as Deputy President, Thomas Hsiang (Go) as Secretary General and David Jarrett (Chess) as Treasurer. It was decided to hold a second edition of the World Mind Sports Games in either 2011 or 2013, to avoid clashes with the Chess Olympiad.
At the GAISF Annual meeting it was announced that in future the organisation would be known as SportAccord. A presentation was made to members by the President of IMSA of the 1st World Mind Sports Games and GAISF indicated that it would offer its support to future Games.
FIDE, led by the Deputy President, had a constructive meeting with representatives of the IOC. There was a review of matters since the previous meeting in Athens and new topics included a discussion of the relevance of chess as a discipline in the Youth Olympics.
FIDE again had a stand in the exhibition area and this was ‘manned’ by Polina Tsedenova from the Secretariat, with support from Allan Herbert, Chairman of the Development/CACDEC Commission and Beatriz Marinello of the USCF. Over 30 representatives from different organisations visited the stand and many new useful contacts were made.
Here are the photos:
Serbia Chess Championship 2009 - 2-15th April in Kragujevac
Serbian Chess Championship will take place on 2-15th April in Hotel “Šumarice” in the city of Kragujevac. The top seeded player is GM Ivan Ivanisevic (2628), who is defending the last year’s title.
New President of Chinese Chess Association
Mr. Chu Bo is the new President of the Chinese Chess Association. His previous appointments have included Deputy Dean of Sports Department and Vice Director of Management Institute in Beijing Sports University. He was the Vice Director of Human Resources Department in the Chinese Olympic Committee and the Vice Director of Human Resources Department in General Sport Administration of China. He is also the Vice President of China Baseball Association, Chinese Extreme Sports Association and Federation of Automobile Sports of the People’s Republic of China. In addition, he is the Secretary of the Communist Party of China Chess and Bridge Centre of General Sport Administration, responsible for the five sports of Chess, GO, Draughts, Bridge and Xiangqi (Chinese chess). Our great friend, Tian Hongwei (Abigail), is appointed the vice General Secretary and Director of Press & Publicity Department of the Chinese Chess Association.
Varuzhan Akobian - Yury Shulman match - Heavyweight chess match in Lake County, California
A fantastic event is coming up next month with California’s #1 GM Varuzhan Akobian meeting the U.S. Champion GM Yury Shulman in a four day rapid match with a blitz finale. The two great tacticians of the chess board, both members of the 2008 Olympic bronze medalist team, will meet in the California’s First GrandMaster Invitational World Class Chess Event which will be held April 22nd-25th 2009 in Lake County, California.
Chess moves used to teach ‘game of life’
Thurgood Marshall High School freshman Ashley Thornton made some decent moves on the chessboard, but in the end she was no match for Orrin “Checkmate” Hudson, 45.
Interview with GM Alisa Maric
In this interview with Alisa Maric, she talks about managing sports as well as academics career, chess in schools, Judith Polgar, role of glamour in chess etc. In the end she has a special message for Indians!
Alisa Maric was introduced to chess …
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