3rd KL International Open Chess Tournament Off to a Grand Start

The 3rd K L  International Open Chess Tournament, which has only set a small foot print on the sands of Chess, has made a giant impact as it has started attracting the powerhouse of world’s chess talents!

Organized by Kuala Lumpur Chess Association in support of the Malaysian Intellect Development Foundation & Masterskill University College of Health Sciences,

 the star attraction of this event is the Chinese wonder girl, and world champion finalist, GM Hou Yifan. The other prominent Grandmasters in the fray are,the top-seed for this event  the Georgian GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil,  Luther Thomas, Rahman Ziaur, Cao Sang, Megaranto Susanto, Dzhumaev Marat, Iuldashev Saidali, Khamrakulov Dzhurabek, Bui Vinh, Nguyen Anh Dung, Murshed Niaz, Wong Meng Kong.India has sent a strong Team of International Masters. 

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Record Entries with 16 GMs & 24 IMs at KL Open Chess 2010

The 3rd KL Open Championship for the Raja Nazrin Shah Challenge Trophy has to date attracted a record 121 entries from 21 countries including 64 internationally titled players from amongst 105 international rated players.

Grandmaster Mikheil Mchedlishvili from Georgia, 16 year old vice women’s chess champion Hou Yifan from  China, and many times German chess champion Thomas Luther headline a top class field that boasts an unprecedented entry of 16 Grandmasters, 24 International Masters, and 20 FIDE Masters..

The 3rd KL Open 2010 is part of the Masterskill KL International Chess Festival which also includes the KL Rapid Chess Championship being held at the Royal Selangor Club from 3-4 April 2010, a special simultaneous chess exhibition over 20 boards to be conducted by former World Chess Championship finalist and English chess champion Nigel Short at 4 p.m. on 10 April 2010, the first Visiting Grandmaster Series workshop for the Kuala Lumpur Schools Sports Council (MSSKL) on 18 April 2010 at the Cochrane Centre for Sports Excellence (PKSC), and the 1st KL Masters Challenge from 13-19 April 2010.

Doordarshan  will telecast 4 Video Highlights of the Championship on its DD SPORTS CHANNEL

Anand-Topalov WCC match Website

The Anand - Topalov World Chess Championship 2010 official website is already functional. A little more than a month is left to the opening ceremony of the WCC and the page of the match is functioning at address Anand-Topalov.com.

Anand and Topalov occupy the header of the website, with the logo of the competition, the Statue of Sofia, in the center. Below, similar to the WCCC09 structure we find live games, news, and interviews.

The sponsors and partners list on the right seems far from complete, but the good news there is that the National TV will be covering the match in details.

Official website: http://www.anand-topalov.com/    

CHENNAI OPEN on DD SPORTS

DOORDARSHAN  will telecast the CHENNAI OPEN GM Chess Championship  on DD Sports Channel as under

Ist Episode  :  15^th March 2010 at 10.30 p.m.  [ 1800 hrs European Time ]

2nd Episode  : 16^th March 2010 at 10.30 p.m.

3rd Episode  :  17^th March 2010 at 10.30 p.m.

4th Episode  :  18^th March 2010 at 10.30 p.m.

The telecast will be available in 48 countries of  Europe , Middle East and South East Asia on Free To Air Broadcast on PAS 10 Satellite

Australia are world Hockey champions

Hockey World Cup : Semifinals places decided

SOKOLOV, Abhijeet Gupta Kuzubov and Stefansson share First Prize at Reykjavik Open

GM Baklan, GM Ehlvest and IM Jorge Cori surged ahead and finished half a point behind the winning-four. IM Cori also earned a huge 20 rating points.

Abhijeet Gupta thrashes Ivan Sokolov in the 8th Round

In the Indian Squad  Dronavalli Harika  also won her 8^th round game and is just half a point away from achieving her GM norm.  Karwade , Tania Sachdev and Vishal Sareen  drew their games while Sahej Grover lost again.

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Abhijeet to meet Sokolov in the penultimate Round of Reykjavik Open

Abhijeet Gupta played a technically perfect game to beat WGM Eesha Karvwade in the 7^th Round Game of the Reykjavik Open 2010. With 5.5 points he is just half a point Behind Ivan Sokolov who finished his 7^th Round with a victory over  Grandmaster Yuriy Kuzubov. French Grandmaster Igor Nataf, Whi is playing his first tournament. After a break of almost 8 months defeated  Nils Grandelius and has joined  Abhijeet Gupta and Hannes Stefansson on 5.5 points. He will now play Stefansson  while Abhijeet is pitted against Sokolov in the 8^th Round.

Tania Sachdev could on bear the onslaught  of Irina Krush’s tactically better moves and lost  the match. IM Dronnavalli Harika  and Sahej Grover also lost their games

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India beat Pakistan 4-1 in World Cup Hockey

"It was just one match," said winning coach Jose Brasa - but it wasn't.
It was India versus Pakistan on the first day of the World Cup. If anyone was feeling the pressure however it was the Pakistan team. The visitors looked out of sorts from the start.
Bayed on by a frantic home crowd India took the lead in the 27th minute with Shivendra Singh following up on a Sandeep Singh drag-flick penalty corner. Sandeep then made it two with another drag-flick corner as the clock ran down in the first half. That was not before Sohail Abbas had rattled the bar from a Pakistan corner in the 30th minute.

Prabhjot Singh scored India's third in the 37th minute (open play). The fourth, another Sandeep corner (56mins), brought the house down and even Sohail's penalty corner goal in the 59th minute couldn't turn down the volume.
The crowd beat out a rhythm on the seats, chanted, danced and waved their flags under a smoky Delhi night sky - yes Jose, just another match.

Sokolov ,Kuzubov and Miezis in joint Lead, at Reykjavik Open

SOKOLOV SHOCKED, HARIKA SLIPPED TO 2nd spot at Reykjavik Open

In the fourth round  GM Bromann played an excellent game to beat GM Ivan Sokolov in the fourth Round. However Sokolov defeated Irina Krush in the 5^th Round and with 4 points  joined 9 other players on the 2^nd place.

GM Abhijeet Gupta  and FM Sahej Grover are on 3.5points each while  IM Tania Sachdev  and IM Vishal Sareen are trailing behind with 3 and 2.5 points respectively

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D Harika leads in Reykjavik Open 2010

With Three Points from 3 games Dronnavalli Harika is jointly leading with 4 others.

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19TH AMBER BLINDFOLD AND RAPID TOURNAMENT from March 13-25,2010

The 19th Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament, organized by the Association Max Euwe in Monaco, takes place from March 13 (first round) to March 25 (last round) at the Palais de la Mediterranée, splendidly located on the famous Promenade des Anglais in Nice. The total prize-fund is € 216,000.

The twelve participants are (in alphabetical order): Levon Aronian (Armenia), Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Leinier Dominguez (Cuba), Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan), Boris Gelfand (Israel), Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Sergey Karjakin (Russia), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Alexander Morozevich (Russia), Ruslan Ponomariov, Jan Smeets (The Netherlands) and Peter Svidler. 

Gibtelecom Masters Playoff - Adams Wins The Final

English 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.

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.

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Shahinyan David solely leads the amateur tournament. . Being once again victorious in the seventh round, he leads with hundred-per-cent result.  He is chased by 13 players on 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.

Carlsen is NEW CORUS CHAMPION

Magnus 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

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Anand Crushes Kramnik, One point behind Sole Leader

World Champion Viswanathan Anand Crushed Vladimir Kramnik in the 12^th 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

Viswanathan  Anand opened with e4 but  Kramnik, opted for his favourite Petroff with black,  and after some twenty moves a white exchange sacrifice not long after proved it was far from solid enough. By then it was clear to everyone else that Kramnik was in deep trouble. Anand handled the remainder so well that some experts said he played like a computer and wondered “whether this meant the world champion is super-human.
”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,

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