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With the end of the season 207/2018 I took the chance to merge both our websites. The reason we had two websites was that the old Chess League Manager...
2018 BATUMI CHESS OLYMPIAD PRINCIPALS
CHIEF ARBITER: | IA A’ Nikolopoulos, Takis (GRE) | |
DEPUTY CHIEF ARBITER: | IA B’ Salama... |
I was hoping for the five-way tie followed by a blitz tournament tomorrow (Friday), but if someone had to spoil it I'm glad it was Fabiano Caruana. Aside from his poor performance at Wijk aan Zee, it has been one success after another for him...
29th NATO Championship 15 games Update
Cyprus Closed Championship 52 games Update
Greek Cup Team (Quarter Final) 4 games
23rd Sharjah Rapid 8 games
23rd Sharjah Blitz 8 games
Attica Team...
It wasn't impossible a round or two ago that there could have been a nine-way tie for first, but it's still pretty impressive that four or even five of the tournament's nine players could win up sharing first.
Reminder: Essex Rapid 2018
Sunday, 17 June 2018
Scout HQ, Paradise Road, Writtle CM1 3HW
Three sections, Six round swiss at Fischer20+10
The date is fast approaching. For details...
It's undoubtedly true that President Trump's trade policy is foolish and destructive. It's also undoubtedly true that China is one of Trump's bête noires. But these two truths do not mean China is some sort of innocent.
29th NATO Championship 9 games Update
Cyprus Closed Championship 52 games Update
Greek Cup Team (Quarter Final) 4 games New
23rd Sharjah Rapid 8 games
23rd Sharjah Blitz 8 games
Attica...
Coming into the round Magnus Carlsen had more points than anyone else - 3.5 - but this was in part a function of his having played one more game than Wesley So. Carlsen had 3.5/6, So 3/5, and no one else had better than an even score.
Unfortunately, the last round of the 19th Karpov Poikovsky tournament turned out to be a dud as the games relevant to the fight for first both ended in short draws. Dmitry Jakovenko led Ian Nepomniachtchi and Boris Gelfand by half a point entering the round...
That about sums it up! Boris Gelfand beat the tournament punching bag, Victor Bologan (hopefully he will bounce back brilliantly before long; in this event he has gone .5/8 and lost 25 rating points)...
London-based World Chess, the official organizer of the World Chess Championship Cycle, in partnership with FIDE, the sport’s governing body, has today published the ‘Call of Interest’ to find a host for the 2020 World Chess Candidates Tournament.