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Gibtelecom Masters Playoff - Adams Wins The FinalEnglish Grandmaster Michael Adams has won the 8th Gibtelecom Masters after a four-player play-off. He did it the hard way, losing the first game of his semi-final against German GM Jan Gustafsson and having much the worst of the second game before Gustafsson blundered a piece. There followed an Armageddon game, with Adams obliged to win, which he did in some style. In the other semi-final Paco Vallejo Pons of Spain won his first game quite comfortably against Chanda Sandipan of India. He was comfortable in the second game but Sandipan fought back to the point where he should have won, only to make a terrible blunder which cost him the win.
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The final saw Adams in his best form, soon securing a strong advantage which he carried through to victory. In the return, Vallejo Pons got a bad position but his attempt to mix the game up cost him a piece and he could only draw. The two-game mini-matches were played at a time control of 10 minutes with 10 second increments and the Armageddon game at 5 minutes to 4.
Sasikiran emerged sole Leader in Moscow Open Festival after 7th Round
Just two rounds before final, a sole leader in the major tournament of the festival emerged in - Sasikiran Krishnan, who beat Andreikin Dmitry of Russia. The Indian grandmaster scored 6 points, and he is 0,5 points ahead of his competitors. A group of 6 participants scored 6 points each. Among them Bareev Evgeny and Le Quang Liem (Vietnam) tied the score ; and also victorious Bologan Viktor (Moldova), bronze medalist of Moscow Open-2009 Inarkiev Ernesto, Moscow Open-2005 winner Amonatov Farrukh and Chernyshov Konstantin (all from Russia). In the wome's tournament of Moscow Open the leading trio of , Zhao Xue (team China) won Grabuzova Tatiana (Russia); Paehtz Elisabeth (Germany) bet Pourkashiyan Atousa (Iran); Romanko Marina (Russia) defeated Galojan Lilit (Armenia).The leaders scored 6 points each. . |
TUROV Wins Chennai Open
Maxim had a formal seventeen move draw against Ziaur and Lalith Babu could not make any headway in his game against the fellow IM Richard Bitoon of Philippines and settled for a draw. Read More |
Carlsen is NEW CORUS CHAMPIONMagnus Carlsen won the 10,000-euro first prize in the 72nd
Corus Chess Tournament which concluded on Sunday. India’s Viswanathan Anand
finished with 7.5 points for the 4th place
FOR ANAND's INTERVIEW CLICK ON LATEST VIDEO.............................
for CORUS CLOSING CEREMONY and INTERVIEWS WITH PLAYERS Click on this video link : http://blip.tv/file/3156727 : Read More |
Anand Crushes Kramnik, One point behind Sole LeaderWorld Champion
Viswanathan Anand Crushed Vladimir Kramnik in the 12th round game of
the Corus Chess . His chances of winning the Sixth Corus Chess Title are only
theoretical. With only Sunday’s last round to go, ‘Vishy’ lags a full point
behind A-Group leader Magnus Carlsen  ”Standings after 12 rounds, AGroup: 1. Carlsen - 8, 2-3. Kramnik and Shirov - 7½, 4. Anand - 7, 5-7. Nakamura, Karjakin and Ivanchuk - 6½, 8-9. Leko and Dominguez - 6, 10. Caruana - 5, click on the latest video for corus report........................................................................> CLICK ON THIS VIDEO LINK FOR ANAND'S ANALYSIS OF THE GAME http://blip.tv/file/3153410 Read More |
ANAND SCORED HIS FIRST WIN AT CORUS
After drawing 9 games in as many rounds, India’s Super Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand scored his first win against Spanish Grandmaster Alexie Shirov. Playing with White Anand opened with e4 and Shirov replied with e5 and the game was fought on Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence lines. Both the players blundered in the middle game but Anand was quick to recover , He finally beat Shirov but only from a lost position. Shirov left himself with too little time on the run up to the first time. For Anand's Analysis of the Game CLICK ON LATEST VIDEO......................................................................................................... FOR ANAND's INTERVIEW Click on http://blip.tv/file/3140438 Read More |
Kramnik beats Carlsen, Anand draws at CORUSHolland’s Sergei Tiviakov held Viswanathan Anand to a tie with white in 63 moves from an Alapin. It was the world champion’s ninth draw in as many rounds.Vladimir Kramnik of Russia defeated Norway’s Magnus Carlsen in ninth-round play at the Corus Chess Tournament to join Alexei Shirov of Spain on top of the standings in the event’s highest section Tuesday. Kramnik’s win came after 38 moves with black from a Catalan, one of his favourite openings CLICK ON THE LATEST VIDEO FOR KRAMNIK's analysis of the game against Carlsen...................... Read More |
Anand Draws again, Abhijeet Gupta beat A plukkal at CorusAlexei Shirov’s lead in the Corus top-division standings dwindled to a mere half point after he incurred his first defeat of the tournament in round-seven action against Hikaru Nakamura of the U.S.
Playing against Italian Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana Vishy Anand exchanged some hard blows in a game that “was tame at the start but fun at the end,” as Van Wely put it watching the encounter in the press room. Click on the LATEST VIDEO for CORUS Report....................................... Read More |
Anand-draws with Carlsen at Corus 2010
India’s Super Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand and Norwegian Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen had a quick draw .Playing with white Anand opened with e4 and Carlsen replied with c5. However later in the opening moves Carlsen Surprised Anand when he took the game towards Sicilienne dragon. Anand played safe and ended the game to a quick draw. Click on the Latest Video for CORUS 2010 Report ........................ FOR Kramnik Van Wely Game and Interviews of Nigel Short and Abhijeet Gupta Read More |
Parimarjan gets his first win, Anand draws again at Corus ChessWorld Champion Vishy Anand drew
again in the fifth round of the Corus Chess 2010. Leading the Championship
Alexi Shirov again won his fifth round game to remain on perfect 100% score.
Vladimir Kramnik also won with black pieces against Jan Smeets.  Click on the LATEST VIDEO for Corus Report Read More |
Shirov Scores100 % at Corus World Champion Vishy Anand however drew again. This was his fourth draw and he is now on 2 points from 4 games. Click on the Latest Video for Report Read More |
Anand draws all 3 round games, Shirov leadsCORUS – a short Brief
 Viswanathan
Anand holds the record for victories in Wijk aan Zee with 5 titles!. It is followed by Max Euwe, Viktor Korchnoi and
Lajos Portisch, all with 4 titles..
With 3 titles found, Johannes Donner, Efim Geller, Garry Kasparov and John DM
Nunn. CORUS VIDEO Links Courtesy Europe-echecs SHIROV LEADING Interviews
with Anand, Shirov and Van Wely Corus
Opening Ceremony |
INDIA TAKES BRONZE AT WORLD TEAM CHESS |
CORUS 2010 from 15th January
The 72nd Corus Chess 2010
tournament will be held from 15 January - 31 January 2010 in Wijk aan
Zee, Netherlands. The winner of the event will qualify for the Grand
Slam Final 2010 at Bilbao.
Here are the participants lists.
GM Viswanathan Anand, India |
SRIRAM JHA is India's New Grand MasterDelhi's Sriram Jha has become the latest Indian chess player to get a Grand Master title from the International Chess Federation (FIDE) while three players have been awarded the International Master title.Jha's current rating is 2511.Swapnil Dhopade of Amravati, Debashis Das of Cuttack and Delhi's Sahaj Grover have been awarded the International Master title. With these new inclusions, India now has 21 Grand Masters and 65 International Masters. World Champion Viswanathan Anand had become India's first Grand Master in 1987 and Manuel Aaron became India's first International Mast Read More |
Philippines to organize major chess tournaments in 2010The National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) will host the Asian Continental Individual men's and women's championships from 20-30th April, for the third time in four years. The allocated prize fund is $55,000, of which $40,000 are for the men's event and $15,000 for the women's. In addition, top four finishers will qualify to play at the 2011 World Chess Cup scheduled in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Read More |
DEEKAY is remembered The Doyen of Film Journalism in India DEVENDRA KUMAR, who left us on this day in 2007 for his heavenly abode Read More |
INDIA A and VIETNAM Captures Men and Womens Asian Team Championship Titles In the women’s section, overnight leaders, Vietnam crushed tail-enders Nepal 4-0 to total 11 points and get the gold. The India A women, who had got a bye in the final round ended on 10 points to take the silver in this section. India B women,went down to Iran 3-1 to spoil their chances of getting the silver. They ended on 9 match points along with Iran and were placed 4th on tie break losing the bronze to Iran in this section. Read More |
India B surprises India A in Women's Section of Asian Team Championship In the mens section, India A continued to win and beat Vietnam 2.5-1.5 to lead the fray with 8 match points to their credit. They are closely followed by Iran on 7 points. Iran led by GM Eshan Ghaem Maghami beat Indonesia 3-1 to set up a 5th round clash with India A. On the top board, GM P Harikrishna was surprised by GM Le Quang Liem, who had won the Kolkata open earlier this year.The Indian captain GM K Sasikiran against Nguyen Ngoe Troung Son, while Surya Sekhar Ganguly won a quick game against GM Dao Thien Hai with the black pieces in a Grunfeld defence.GM Parimarjan Negi drew his game against GM Nguyen Anh Dung Read More |
