2017
World Junior & Girls U20 37 games Update View
5th European Small Nations 36 games New
3rd Sunday`s Open ChessSquare 15 games
16th 4NCL Congress 5 games
First Saturday GM November 9...
World Junior & Girls U20 37 games Update View
5th European Small Nations 36 games New
3rd Sunday`s Open ChessSquare 15 games
16th 4NCL Congress 5 games
First Saturday GM November 9...
Round 8 had a lot of surprises in both tournaments. Aryan Tari continued his run of success by winning against Grigoriy Oparin, the second seed. Kirill Alekseenko took out Valentin Dragnev of Austria.
Round 8: Radjabov and MVL keep chances to qualify for the Candidates
The sole leader of the Palma de Mallorca Grand Prix Levon Aronian made a quick draw with Evgeny Tomashevsky, inviting the group of rivals to join him on the top.
World Junior & Girls U20 33 games Update View
5th European Small Nations 36 games New
3rd Sunday`s Open ChessSquare 15 games
16th 4NCL Congress 5 games
First Saturday GM November 9...
The seventh round did not change much in the Grand Prix situation.
After 7 rounds Aronian is in the lead with 4,5 points. A group of 8 players is half a point behind, including Vachier-Lagrave.
It's still early in the superfinal of season 10 of the TCEC, but so far it's looking pretty one-sided. After 14 games (of 100), Houdini has won four and lost none, drawing 10. (Okay, technically it's +3 =10...
Improved Security for our Websites
To improve the security of our websites, we got ssl-certificates for all our websites. This implies a small change in the URLs:
correct (new): https://merseysidechess.org.uk/administrator/index.php
wrong (old)...
Round 6: Levon Aronian misses chances but keeps leading in the Palma de Mallorka Grand Prix.
Levon Aronian made a draw with Peter Svidler and remains the sole leader of the tournament after six rounds.
I may not cover the event any further than to offer this mention en passant, but it is worth a mention. So: the World Junior Championship is well underway, and after eight rounds of 11 A. Tari of Norway leads with 7 points...
On Friday 24th November the viewing for the 73rd chess - auction will take place in Braunschweig, Theaterwall 17. After the official viewing in the auction room all chessfriends are invited to have some snacks and refreshments in order to get fit again for the presentation of Mr.
Retired chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, whose men's world championship victory at the age of 22 made him the pride of the Soviet Union, claimed anyone looking to write a metaphor about President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ought to avoid the game of chess altogether.
World Junior & Girls U20 29 games Update View
5th European Small Nations 36 games New
3rd Sunday`s Open ChessSquare 15 games
16th 4NCL Congress 5 games
First Saturday GM November 8...
This book is some sort of travel guide for chess lovers. It describes more than hundred places where cultural chess motives can be found. Mostly in museums, churches and castles in The Netherlands, Germany and France.
With apologies to those who haven't yet seen the result of the Carlsen-So match, this post is kind of a spoiler. Unfortunately, since the semi-final match between Magnus Carlsen and Alexander Grischuk starts today at 1 p.m. ET...