From : Katia Peltekian Date : Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:13:30 +0500 WOMEN’S FIDE GRAND PRIX: DANIELIAN BEATEN, MKRTCHIAN DRAWS Aysor April 29 2010 Armenia After more than five-hour fighting, the set between Armenia’s Elina Danielian and Russia’s Tatiana Kosintseva brought victory to Russian chess player: in the third round of a third stage of the Grand …
“Father of the euro”, Professor Robert Mundell makes the first move of the fifth game of the World Chess Title Match in Sofia between Bulgaria’s Topalov and India’s Anand .
From : Mihran Keheyian Date : Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:21:21 +0500 LILIT MKRTCHYAN CELEBRATING FIRST VICTORY Tert.am 30.04.10 Armenian chess player Lilit Mkrtchyan celebrated her first victory in Women’s FIDE Grand Prix competition in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, by defeating Chinese player Hu Zao with black figures.
The rest day is over, Topalov and Anand will renew their fight for the World Champion title today. Game 5 starts at 14:00 CET and it will be live on Chessdom.com with the commentary of GM Christian Bauer (author of the new book about Scandinavian) and IM Alexander Ipatov (winner of Sofia blitz tournament).
From : Mihran Keheyian Date : Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:44:46 +0500 CHESS: ARONIAN NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE WORLD CHAMPION QUALIFIERS’ MATCHES IN BAKU Panorama.am 13:51 29/04/2010 Sport Commenting on the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov’s interview to “Sport-Express” newspaper , GM Levon Aronian has announced that he has never agreed and will never …
Professor Mundell will watch live two games of the match for the world chess championship between world champion Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov-Game No5 (Friday, 04/30/2010) and Game No6 (Saturday, 05/01/2010) and will be VIP guest of the Bulgarian Chess Federation.
Alexander Ipatov, the young talented International Master who is commenting the match Anand Topalov live at Chessdom.com, convincingly won the Sofia Blitz open tournament. After gaining first position in the Swiss system qualifications on Wednesday, today he managed to finish a full 1,5 points ahead of the competition in the 17 rounds final.
The 2010 Asia Continental Chess Championships were held on April 21-30th in Subic, under the management of the Philippines Chess Federation. 32 Grandmasters, 23 International masters, and a total of 63 titled participants started in the men section of the Asia Continental Chess Championship.
FIDE publishes May 2010 Rating list. Magnus Carlsen of Norway tops the list for the 3rd time in a row with rating of 2813. Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria is the second in the top list with the rating of 2812. Please view top lists at http://ratings.fide.com/toplist.phtml. All ratings are available at http://ratings.fide.com/.
