Philadelphia 4^th July 2008. The majority of the games on the  top Boards ended in draws. GM Surya Sekhar  Ganguly  played  a tactical game and agreed for a draw when offered by his opponent. Parimarjan Negi , however lost after a bitter fight. IM Arun Prasad an GM GN Gopal also drew their games

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270 Boards with 540 chess players including some 50 GMS/WGMs are taking part in World Open 2008 which began in Philadelphia.

Players from all over the world are vying for the first prize of some 40,000 US $ and a place in the 395,000$ total prize money.  Gramdmasters   Surya Sekhar Ganguly Abhijeet Kunte, Parimarjan Negi GN Gopal,Women grandmasters  Nisha Mohota Swati Ghate Aarthie Rama Swamy  and Esha Karwade are part of a strong 14  members Indian Contingent.

World Open has 9 rounds and is played on a 7 days, 5 days and 3 days basis where all the players have to complete all the 9 rounds on the last day. 

Most of the Indians are playing in the 5 days batch registered their first win in the championship

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Philadelphia; Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi drew his 9th Round game to win the Philadelphia International Title . Playing with white against compatriot WGM Eesha Karwade Parimarjan reied hard to win but somehow failed to break his opponents Strong defense and in the end agreed for a draw.

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World No 2 in the women’s section India’s Grandmaster Koneru Humpy will represent Monaco  Chess Club in the forthcoming European Chess Club Cup 2008 to be held in Kallithea in Greece from November 17 to 24 ,

GM Parimarjan Negi played  a tactically good game against compatriot G N Gopal   and  won the game.  A tough game with GM Gopal that went down to first control time pressure ended with Gopal's flag dropping.  GM Julio Becerra, after two 1/2 point byes, is starting to make his presence felt on Board 2. Rajaraman Laxman , Arun Prasad and Esha Karwade  were the other Indian  Players who defeated their  opponents in Round 4. Rajaraman Laxman with three wins and a draw will    meet the Tournament leader Parimarjan Negi in Round 5.

The French chess magazine Europe Echecs is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its foundation with a youth rapid tournament in Lyon, France, the town known as the gastronomy capital of the World. The guest of honour is the 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov. The young stars are playing their games in the premises of the club Olympique Lyon Chess, on the very special table which was used by Kasparov and Karpov during their World Championship match in Lyon 1990!

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The Philadelphia International started this evening with 43 players from 5 countries joining the mix. A large contingent of 14 players from India are competing this year.

After 3rd Round , only GM Parimarjan Negi has a perfect score with 3-0. The 15 year old Indian Grandmaster is impressing peers and spectators with his serious and calm demeanor

As per the organisers of the the 1st GRAND SLAM FINAL CHESS MASTERS BILBAO 2008. The tournament will take place from 2-13 September 2008. The opening ceremony will be held on Ist September.

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The games will be played inside a glass cube at the city centre of Bilbao.

Levon Aronian is invited as a winner of Wijk aan Zee, Viswanathan

Anand as a winner of Morelia/Linares and Vassily Ivanchuk as a winner of

Sofia. Other invited players are Magnus Carlsen, Veselin Topalov

and Teimour Radjabov.