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08.11.2006 Good Morning in the “Good” Educational Centre
The participants of Women’s Russian Cup are coming to the Educational Centre of the Russian State Social University named “Dobroe” (“Good”) and situated near Moscow. It will be a 12 player round robin. Among the players there are 2 WGM (N.Zdebskaya and I.Vasilevich) and 5 representatives of Saint Petersburg (A.Dushenok, V.Kirillova, M.Lupik, V.Solovjeva and A.Shlakich). The tournament finishes November, 19.
more [source: russiachess.org]

08.11.2006 Tal Memorial
In the second round all five encounters Svidler – Shirov, Mamedyarov – Aronian, Morozevich – Carlsen, Gelfand – Ponomariov and Leko – Grischuk ended in draws. After 2 rounds Aronian, Gelfand and Ponomariov are sharing the lead with 1.5 points. Tomorrow the third round is played. The pairings are: Aronian – Svidler, Shirov – Leko, Carlsen – Mamedyarov, Ponomariov – Morozevich, Grischuk – Gelfand. Tomorrow we will publish GM Vassily Yemelin’s comments on the games of the second round.
more [source: www.russiachess.org]

07.11.2006 TAL MEMORIAL. GAMES OF ROUND 1 COMMENTED
We bid comments to the games of round 1 of Tal Memorial by GM Vassily Yemelin for your attention.
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06.11.2006 Tal Memorial
In the first round Levon Aronian beat Alexander Morozevich, Boris Gelfand beat Magnus Carlsen and Ruslan Ponomariov beat Alexander Grischuk. The games Peter Svidler – Peter Leko and Alexey Shirov – Shakhriyar Mamedyarov were drawn. The pairings of the second round are Svidler – Shirov, Mamedyarov – Aronian, Morozevich – Carlsen, Gelfand – Ponomariov, Leko – Grischuk. We give the link to the on-line translation on the official site. EVERY DAY WE WILL PUBLISH GM VASSILY YEMELIN’S COMMENTS ON THE MOST INTERESTING FRAGMENTS OF THE PREVIOUS DAY.
more [source: www.russiachess.org]

06.11.2006 Men’s Russian Cup
The final competition of the Russian Cup starts today in the “Udelnaja” sanatorium in Ramenskoe region near Moscow. The total prize fund is $ 50,000. The first knockout stage sees the participation of 32 players. 16 winners will join 16 players seeded by the ELO rating. After that, the regular knockout is played and as a result two best players meet in the final match which takes place November 16th and 17th. At each stage the rivals play two games with time control 1 h 30 min per game with 30 sec increment for each move. In case the score is leveled two rapid games are played with time control 15 min + 10 sec/move. If the match is still drawn the decisive blitz game is played where White has 5 min against 4 but the draw favours Black. 4 players of Saint Petersburg are taking part in the Cup – K.Sakaev, E.Alekseev, N.Vitiugov, V.Popov.
more [source: www.russiachess.ru]

06.11.2006 Tal Memorial. Drawing of lots
Yesterday the drawing of lots for the category 20 closed tournament took place. 1. Svidler, 2. Shirov, 3. Aronian, 4. Carlsen, 5. Ponomariov, 6. Grischuk, 7. Gelfand, 8. Morozevich, 9. Mamedyarov, 10. Leko. Thus the pairings of the first round are Svidler – Leko, Shirov – Mamedyarov, Aronian – Morozevich, Carlsen – Gelfand and Ponomariov – Grischuk. The games begin at 15:00 msk. Time control is 1h 40 min for 40 moves then 20 min for 20 moves and then 15 min for the rest of the game with 30 sec increment for each move. The event is being held in Central House of Chess Player in Moscow. Days of play are 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 & 16 November. The blitz tournament will follow the classical event.
more [source: www.64.ru]

05.11.2006 The beauty of Tal’s thinking
The well-known bard Dmitry Sukharev which is the pen-name of the academician Sakharov (neurobiology) opines that Tal has contributed to the fundamental knowledge of the human brain by dividing all chessplayers into “calculators” and “estimators”. His classification turned out to be applicable to any field of creative work. “Jerusalem Journal” publishes the interview with Dmitry Sukharev’s titled “A different one has a right to be different” and conducted by the poetess Tatiana Beck.
more [source: sukharev.lib.ru]

05.11.2006 Spanish Team Championship
The final stage of the Spanish team championship has gathered many well-known grandmasters. In the match for the title Linex-Magic (Ponomariov, Shirov, Karjakin, Rublevsky and others) defeated Cuna de Dragones-Ajoblanco (Svidler, Jakovenko, Harikrishna, Timofeev and others) with the score 4.5-1.5. In the match for the third place Intel VPI (Ivanchuk, Vallejo, Bruzon) clobbered Reverte Albox-Unicaja (Dreev, Krasenkow, Movsesian) 5-1.
more [source: www.feda.org]

04.11.2006 The school which Tal attended
Last year the secondary school No. 22 of Riga celebrated 60th anniversary of its foundation. It is the school which Mikhail Tal attended (true he completed his education in another school because of a conflict with a mathematics teacher). Among the pupils of the school No. 22 were: the journalists and writers Alexander Kaverznev, Peter Vail and George Tselms, the last chief of KGB Boris Pugo and also Mikhail Baryshnikov who left for the choreography school at an early age. A legend based on a tale by one of Tal’s classmates tells that the Eight World Champion’s chess career started at a football match that took place during a break. Misha was a goalkeeper and that classmate when scoring the goal accidentally kicked Tal on the head by an iron-shod army boot. “From then on Tal began to play chess as a genius” this is the way he concluded his historic recollection.
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04.11.2006 Tal Memorial. Press-conference
Yesterday the press-conference dedicated to the event was held in the Central House of Chess Player in Moscow. The information is published on the “64” site.
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03.11.2006 The film “Mikhail Tal. The queen sacrifice” on the Russian TV
The newspaper “Culture” No.41 published an article by A.Mashkova “But the song is not about him” concerning the film recently broadcast on the First Channel
more [source: www.kultura-portal.ru]

03.11.2006 Teimour Radjabov is the winner in Cap d’Agde, France
Defeating in the final match the Ukrainian Sergey Karjakin with the score 1.5-0.5 (the draw with Black and the victory with White) GM Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan won this great rapid tournament.
more [source: www.agdechecs-ccas.com]

03.11.2006 IVAN SMYKOVSKIJ. EUROPEAN CLUB CUP, ROUNDS 5-7
International master Ivan Smykovskij presents his review of the last three rounds of the European Club Cup. Added to the “Competitions” section.
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02.11.2006 Rapid chess in Cap d'Agde
Today Sergey Karjakin and Teimour Radjabov will play the match for the title. The winner receives 16,000 euro, the loser gets 8,000. In the semifinals Karjakin defeated Magnus Carlsen 1.5-0.5 while Radjabov beat Andrei Volokitin twice.
more [source: www.agdechecs-ccas.com]

02.11.2006 An exhibition in Bonn
An exhibition "Move by move. Chess - society - politics" has opened in the House of History, Bonn, Germany. We offer our readers an article in Russian published by Deutsche welle
more [source: www.dw-world.de]

01.11.2006 Rapid chess in Cap d'Agde
This year the traditional rapid event saw the participation of 16 players. The field was mixed - the well-known female GMs competed along with the men. First the players were divided into two groups of approximately the same average ELO. Russia was represented by A.Karpov and A.Kosteniuk. They failed to qualify from the all play all group tournaments. In the quarterfinal matches S.Karjakin beat Zhao Xue 2.5-1.5, T.Radjabov beat E.Bacrot 2-0, M.Carlsen beat L.Fressinet 2-0 and A.Volokitin beat P.Harikrishna 4-3 (here the sudden death blitz game was required to define the winner). Today in the semifinals Karjakin plays Carlsen and Radjabov plays Volokitin. Tomorrow the final match will be played.
more [source: www.agdechecs-ccas.com]

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