Time to brush up on chess rules
Shropshire Chess Association general secretary Colin Roberts has urged Shropshire chess players to study closely in advance a series of complex rule changes which are going before tomorrow’s association AGM.
Archive for June, 2009
FIDE Rating List July 2009
Veselin Topalov (pictured) is still ranked the world’s number 1 player on the latest quarterly official FIDE ratings list, gaining a single point to stand at 2813 Elo. World Champion Viswanathan Anand is second on 2788 Elo and Magnus Carlsen is …
Anton Kovalyov Wins Quebec Invitational Chess Championship - June 19th to 27th in Auberge Universel, Montreal
Grandmaster Anton Kovalyov, formerly of Russia, but now resident of Canada with Argentinian passport, won the tournament and was declared a new Quebec Chess Champion. In the last round Kovalyov beat IM Renier Castellanos, who also recently moved to Quebec, to finish the race with 7.5 points. Kovalyov’s main competitor GM Mark Bluvshtein, who enjoyed a half point lead before the final day, was stunned by GM Vinay Bhat and ended up second with 7 points.
Veselin Topalov gains a point and leads the July rating list - 33 players over 2700 ELO
FIDE has oficially announced the July rating list. Leader one more time is Veselin Topalov.
Four for chess national
MANGALORE: Four young chess talents of Karnataka, three of them from Mangalore, will figure in 61-member contingent taking part in the Asian Youth Chess Championship 2009 to be held in New Delhi from August 2 to 9. M.S. Gururaj, president of the the city-based South Kanara District Chess Association said Manasa K. of Canara College, Mangalore, is …
Italian Youth Chess Championship - Report by Adolivio Capece and Gustavo Kuzel
The U16 Italian Youth Chess Championship for girls and boys started on Monday June 29th, in Courmayeur, a beautiful mountain town in Aosta Valley. There are almost 900 participants, from 5 to 15-years old, divided in five age groups. The playing room is inside the Forum Sport Center, a grand construction suitable for all kinds of sports.
International Chess Festival Eforie Nord 2009 - held on 19-28th June in Bucharest, Romania
GM Maxim Turov and 13th-seeded Romanian GM Marius Manolache shared the first place with 9.0 points each after 11 rounds of exhausting race. Alexei Fedorov of Belorusia finished sole third and then follows a group of players with 8.0 points each.
Wang Yue confirmed as a participant for Nanjing 2009 - he joins Topalov, Anand, Carlsen, Jakovenko, and Radjabov
Wang Yue has been confirmed as the sixth and final participant for the Nanjing Perl Spring chess tournament, that will take place in September.
Ronan Bennett and Daniel King on Chess: Short-berg, Malmo 2009
Black is tied down to defence, but how can White, to play, make progress? RB We’ve been looking at zugzwang over the last few weeks so here I’m going to imagine it’s Black to move.
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