Bilbao Grand Slam Final with a different Scoring

The Chess Grand Slam Final

Abhijit Gupta and Harika lift World JR Titles

World Junior Championship 2008 ended dramatically as it started. Abhijeet Gupta won against David Howell to take the World Junior Championship title.  Parimarjan Negi won the silver medal by 9.5 points. GM Gupta started the World Junior Championship with a logical win against Ivan Serenac. However, in round 2 he drew with the Romanian FM Baratosi and in round 4 he lost to the untitled Lin Chen. With 2,5/4 he was way behind the other competitors and had to play on board 18. After two convincing wins against IM Ashwin and IM Swiercz, Gupta could not stop the attack of the provisional leader GM Sfarli and lost in round 7. Round 8 draw with FM Nechepurenko. At this moment Gupta had 5,0/8, while 14 players had more than him and no one was counting the Indian GM as a possible title winner\

Dronavalli after her draw against Katerina Nemcova. She already had a full point gap before the round and that was enough for the title.

ARONIAN WINS 2nd FIDE Grand Prix

World JR: HARIKA Close to TITLE

In World Junior Girls Championship Harika Dronavalli won against Narmin Kazimova and has 10 points out of 12. Her closest rival Mariya Muzychuk drew with Anastasia Bodnaruk and has 9 points now. Swaminathan Soumya and Miranda Mikadze drew their games and Mikadze is at the third place with 8.5 points. 5 players led by Kübra Öztürk from the home side are at a striking distance

Parimarjan Negi, Abhijit Gupta and David Howell in Joint Lead

In the penultimate round of the World Junior Championship, Abhijeet Gupta grounded Arik Braun to share the lead with David Howell and Parimarjan Negi. David Howell   won against Maxim Rodshtein, and Parimarjan Negi defeated  Ngoc Truong Son Nguyen. All the three players are on   9 points out of 12. Eltaj Safarli and Arik Braun are still at striking distance with 8.5 points.

HAPPY INDEPENDANCE DAY 2008

India's Independence Day (Hindi: स्वतंत्रता दिवस) is celebrated on August 15 to commemorate its independence from the British rule and its birth as a sovereign nation on that day in 1947. The day is a national holiday in India. It is celebrated all over the country through flag-hoisting ceremony and distribution of sweets. The main celebration takes place in New Delhi, where the Prime Minister hoists the National Flag at the Red Fort and delivers a nationally televised speech from its ramparts. In his speech, he highlights the achievements of his government during the past year, raises important issues and gives a call for further development. The Prime Minister also pays his tribute to leaders of the freedom struggle.

GM Rodshtein takes the lead at World Junior

Once again  it was  a dramatic turn at the World Junior Chess Championship in Turkey After leading for several rounds in a row, IM Arik Braun lost to GM Rodshtein and the young GM from Israel became the new leader of the competition. Braun's loss was cleverly used by the other contenders. GM Wesley So took down GM David Howell to get only 1/2 point away from Roshtein, while GM Brkic and GM Negi got close as well.

In the girls section a second consecutive draw by IM Harika let WGM Muzychuk catch up with her. Nakhbayeva also got closer after a nice win.

River Rafting in the city of PAU

Anand is WORLD RAPID CHAMPION

World Number One Player Super Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand broke his own record to Create a NEW RECORD of 11th Title of the World Rapid Champion

A Jublient Aruna and Vishy Anand with Vijay Kumar after Winning the World Rapid Championship

In an exciting Match he trashed young Grandmaster Magnus Calrsen by winning the first two games and than drew the remaining two to beat him 3-1

Vishy Anand being Congratuled by Saravjit Singh Sidhu at Mainz

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Anand and Carlsen to play World Rapid Final

Carlsen and Anand will play in the final of the 13. GrenkeLeasing Rapid Chess World Championship – the very encounter many chess fans were waiting for. Qualifying, however, was not that easy. In the second half of the preliminary it took Anand three exciting tactical games to qualify while Carlsen was lucky to survive against Morozevich.

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Anand - Carlsen share lead at World Rapid

Alexander Morozevich Lost to Anand in the 3rd game

Anand and Carlsen lead after the first day of the 13. GRENKELEASING Rapid Chess World Championship The keenly awaited encounter between Magnus Carlsen and World Champion Vishy Anand came early. The drawing of lots decided they had to play in the first round of four player double round robin. And this duel between the current World Champion and the 17-year old Norwegian, who many consider to be a future World Champion, attracted quite a lot of attention and the Rheingoldhalle was packed with spectators

Standing : Day 1

1. Anand 2

2. Carlsen 2

3. Morozevich 1.5

4. Polgar 0.5

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KOSTENIUK is Chess960 Women Champion

It was an exciting end of an entertaining and interesting event. In the final of the 2. FiNet Chess 960 Rapid World Championship Alexandra Kosteniuk and Kateryna Lahno played four hard fought, entertaining games. Sometimes Lahno Kosteniuk proved to be lucky, sometimes Lahno. But in all four games of the match, Kosteniuk set the pace in the end she deservedly became World Champion.

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FiNet Open Chess960 started

FIDE Grand Prix begins in SOCHI

The FIDE Grand Prix is a series of six tournaments that take place over two years (2008-2009) in major cities worldwide.  Each player is committed to participating in 4 tournaments. Each tournament has a duration of 17 days and is composed of 14 players.  The winner of the series of FIDE Grand Prix will play against the winner of the 2009 World Cup in a match to 8 parts, to become the challenger of World Champion, for a scheduled match in the third quarter of 2010. 
Kramnik, Anand, Topalov and Morozevich have decided not to participate in the Grand Prix.

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KOSTENIUK and LAHNO to Meet In Chess960 Final

The second half of the 2. FiNet Chess 960 Rapid World Championship turned out to be a rather one-sided affair. Alexandra Kosteniuk and Kateryna Lahno, who were leading after the first half, had a simple recipe to qualify for the final: They both won in rounds four and five to safely qualify. While Natalia Zhukova still had trouble with the clock she also seemed to be a bit shaken after her disastrous start into the tournament. Viktorija Cmylite tried hard but without success.

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KOSTENIUK LEADS CHESS960 at Chess Classic

The first half of the 2. FiNet Chess960 Rapid World Championship produced entertaining though not perfect chess. It also showed that Alexandra Kosteniuk was able to handle the challenge of the limited time and the uncommon opening position best.

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First Victory For Koneru Humpy in North Urals

The third round started peacefully. The game of Anna Ushenina (playing white) and the tournament leader Antoaneta Stefanova ended in a  draw  on the 14th  move. Xu Yuhua and Anna Muzychuk signed the peace  on the 18 move.
At the end of both games there were equal positions without any chance to win.

The Indian player with the highest rating Humpy Koneru gained her first victory. She managed to collect herself after two defeats and to beat Pia Cramling.

Humpy gave an interview immediately after her victory over Pia

Second Big Loss to Humpy at North Urals

Anand to defend his title at GrenkeLeasing Rapid

The Chess Classic Mainz began in style. World Champion Vishy Anand and 10-times winner of the Rapid World Chess Championship in Mainz opened the event with a simul on 40 boards. This time, maybe a bit more than just the usual chess entertainment simuls tend to be. Of course, Anand has his mind on the World Championship match against Vladimir Kramnik, which will be played in October. Doing badly in a simul might not be good for his confidence. But possibly Anand does not even think about defeat and just wants to break another record in Mainz where he already holds so many records. Four draws in 40 games is the best result ever achieved in these simultaneous events, which traditionally start the Chess Classic. And this record was set back in 1994, at the first Chess Classic ever – and by no other but Vishy Anand himself.

Anand is the most favourite to win the Title for a record 11th Time. However it will be a tough battle.

´´Magnus Carlsen has a winning streak this year winning big tournaments like Wijk aan Zee and Baku, and he is leading the tournament in Biel currently. That is very impressive. All players in the Grenke Leasing Rapid World Championship have an attractive style. Alexander Morozevich and Magnus seem to be in great form, and my games with Judit Polgar are always hard-fought. I even had a 14-game sequence with Polgar without a single draw.” Anand said

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Humpy lost against Stefanova in North Urals

“North Urals Cup” is famous for uncompromising battles beginning with the very first move. But the only result oriented game in the championship was played between two rating favorites of the tournament Humpy Koneru and Antoaneta Stefanova on the first day.

Women Strongest chess event starts July 26th