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25.11.2006 Vladimir Kramnik vs Deep Fritz. Kramnik starts as White.
The world champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia plays a match against the 10th version of the computer program Deep Fritz. Yesterday in Bonn the press-conference was held in the German's Arts and Exhibition Hall. Today the first game is played. The games start at 17:00 Moscow time on 25, 27, 29 November and 1, 3 and 5 December. 56 moves should be made within 6 hours after which the game may be adjourned to be continued on the next day according to Kramnik’s wish or it can be played to the end. The world champion will be allowed to look at the opening base used by the computer until it begins to make its own moves. An ending with 5 or less pieces won’t be played. The machine would hint whether it should resign or a draw should be agreed or it’s high time for its opponent to quit. The game will be continued if the champion demonstrates that the theory is wrong. The rules have never been so indulgent towards humans! What is it – the excessive self-confidence of the creators or just a cruel reality? We’ll know it soon. In the first game Kramnik got the white pieces. The drawing of lots consisted in the extraction of the smallest matreshka from the hearts of bigger ones. It’s symbolic that it yielded our compatriot the white colour. So today in Bonn the white Kramnik plays the black Fritz. On our site all the games of the match will be annotated in two surveys (three games in each) by the GM Konstantin Sakaev the winner of the 2006 Russian Cup. We provide a link to the official site of the event.
more [source: www.rag.de]

25.11.2006 Blindfolded across Guggenheim Museum
A blindfold match between Judit Polgar and Veselin Topalov will take place from 7th to 9th of December in the Guggenheim Museum in the Spanish city of Bilbao.
more [source: chessbase.com]

25.11.2006 T.A.Sakaeva’s 60th birthday anniversary
On November 24 the outstanding teacher, Honoured trainer of Russia Tatyana Anatolievna Sakaeva would have celebrated her 60th birthday. On Monday, November 27 at 17:30 the memorial meeting will be held in the department of Artistic education of the City Palace of youth creativity (Anichkov Palace – the former Pioneer Palace).
more [source: www.e3e5.com]

23.11.2006 Female chess players go to Gorodets
The Superfinal of the Women’s Russian Championship starts in Gorodets of the Nizhnij Novgorod region on the 1st of December. It is organized as a part of the election campaign of Alexander Hinshtein, the Duma deputy and a tireless fighter against corruption. The deputy stated that “he wants boys of Nizhnij Novgorod to watch the world class GM’s play”. In case of a successful conducting of the Russian Championship, Hinshtein has big ideas of holding the European Championship claiming that he already has an arrangement with FIDE. The participants of the Russian Superfinal are A.Galliamova, A.Kosteniuk, T.Kosintseva, N.Kosintseva, E.Kovalevskaya, S.Matveeva, E.Korbut, M.Komiagina, A.Bodnaruk, E.Tairova, V.Gunina and T.Shadrina. The tournament finishes on December, 12.
more [source: www.polit-nn.ru]

22.11.2006 2007 Calendar of Events
The Russian Chess Federation site publishes the Calendar of events for the year 2007 (follow the link).
more [source: russiachess.org]

20.11.2006 Women’s Russian Cup
Zoya Severiukhina of Izhevsk became the winner of the Cup scoring 8.5 points out of 11. Other players’ results are 2. I.Vasilevich (Moscow) – 7.5, 3. M.Fominyh (Moscow), 4. N.Zdebskaya (Ukraine) – 7, 5. Sukhareva (Volgodonsk), 6. Komiagina (Arkhangelsk) – 6, 7. V.Soloviova (Saint Petersburg) – 5, 8-10. M.Lupik (Saint Petersburg), A.Shlakich (Saint Petersburg) and E.Prudnikova (Moscow) – 4, 11-12. A.Dushenok (Saint Petersburg) and V.Kirillova (Saint Petersburg) – 3.5.
more [source: www.chessmoscow.ru]

20.11.2006 The best games of October
The columnist IM Maxim Notkin presents 15 best creative achievements of October to the experts and readers’ estimate.
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20.11.2006 Museum of Chess in Samara
In Samara the Museum of Chess is inaugurated where one of expositions is dedicated to Lev Polugaevsky (1934-1995) whose birthday is celebrated today. We provide a link to an article published by RIA Samara
more [source: www.riasamara.ru]

20.11.2006 Tal Memorial. Blitz
The Indian GM Vishy Anand won the tournament scoring 23 points in 34 games. Levon Aronian took the second place with 21 points, Peter Svidler and Teimour Radjabov shared the third place with 20.5 points.
more [source: russiachess.org]

18.11.2006 Tal Memorial. Blitz
The first lap of the blitz tournament has finished. Vishy Anand of India is a sole leader with 13 points out of 17. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) and Levon Aronian (Armenia) are one point behind. The best of the Russian players Peter Svidler is sharing 6-7 places with 9.5 points.
more [source: www.64.ru]

18.11.2006 FIDE candidate matches
The FIDE President K.Iljumzhinov announced that two rounds of candidate matches in which 4 of 16 grandmasters are to qualify for the next stage will take place in Elista, 26th May – 14th June 2007. The players are L.Aronian, P.Leko, R.Ponomariov, B.Gelfand, E.Bacrot, A.Grischuk, J.Polgar, A.Shirov, M.Adams, E.Bareev, V.Malakhov, G.Kamsky, R.Kasimdzhanov, S.Rublevsky, M.Gurevich and M.Carlsen. Four winners will join the World Champion V.Kramnik, V.Anand, P.Svidler and A.Morozevich to play for the title in a round robin tournament in Mexico, 11th September – 1st October 2007.
more [source: www.fide.com]

17.11.2006 Tal Memorial. The blitz tournament
6 players qualified for the main tournament from the preliminary competition are Baadur Jobava (Georgia) and Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine) – 12 points, Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan), Dmitry Jakovenko (Russia), Viorel Bologan (Moldova) and Artyom Timofeev (Russia) – 11.5.
more [source: russiachess.org]

17.11.2006 Men’s Russian Cup
Beating in the final match Igor Kurnosov with the score 1.5-0.5 GM Konstantin Sakaev of Saint Petersburg became the winner of the event. Our congratulations to Konstantin! The information was sent by the Arbiter’s Board.
more [source: russiachess.org]

17.11.2006 TAL MEMORIAL. SUMMARY
We bid summary of Tal Memorial by GM Vassily Yemelin for your attention
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17.11.2006 Women’s Russian Cup
After 8 rounds Z.Severiukhina is leading with 6.5 points followed by I.Vasilevich – 5.5, M.Fominyh and N.Zdebskaya – 5. The Saint Petersburg players keep on performing poorly: V.Soloviova – 4, A.Dushenok and V.Kirillova – 3, A.Shlakich – 2.5, M.Lupik – 2 points.
more [source: www.chessmoscow.ru]

17.11.2006 Men’s Russian Cup
Konstantin Sakaev won the first game of the final match against Igor Kurnosov. The winner of the trophy will be defined today. The information was sent by the Arbiter’s Board.
more [source: www.e3e5.com]

17.11.2006 TAL MEMORIAL. GAMES OF ROUND 9 COMMENTED
We bid comments to the games of round 9 of Tal Memorial by GM Vassily Yemelin for your attention
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16.11.2006 Tal Memorial. The blitz preliminary tournament
Today 40 players who are fighting for 6 qualifying places to the main event played four double Swiss rounds. After the first day Dreev is leading with 6.5 points, Malakhov and Jobava are half a point behind. Lautier and Smirin scored 5.5 points. Tomorrow five finishing double rounds will be played.
more [source: russiachess.org]

16.11.2006 Tal Memorial
In the final round all five games - Mamedyarov – Svidler, Morozevich – Shirov, Gelfand – Aronian, Grischuk – Carlsen and Ponomariov – Leko ended in draws. Final standings: 1-3. L.Aronian, P.Leko and R.Ponomariov – 5, 4. B.Gelfand – 4.5, 5-7. P.Svidler, S.Mamedyarov and A.Grischuk – 4, 8-9. A.Shirov and M.Carlsen – 3, 10. A.Morozevich – 2.5. Tomorrow read GM Vassily Yemelin’s comments on the final round games.
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16.11.2006 TAL MEMORIAL. GAMES OF ROUND 8 COMMENTED
We bid comments to the games of round 8 of Tal Memorial by GM Vassily Yemelin for your attention.
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