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06.12.2006
IN MEMORY OF DAVID BRONSTEIN (1924-2006)
The prominent, bright and original chessplayer and thinker David Ionovich Bronstein died yesterday. He played the World Championship match against Botvinnik in 1951 (12-12). He was the USSR Champion in 1948 and 1949, the winner of four Chess Olympiads (1952-1958) and many tournaments. Bronstein is also famous as a brilliant chess writer. His “International Grandmaster Tournament” about the Candidate Tournament in Zurich 1953 is one of the best books ever written. Memory of David Ionovich will live on as long as people play chess.
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05.12.2006
KRAMNIK IS RUN OVER BY THE MACHINE
Kramnik lost the final game 6 of his match against Deep Fritz. The total score is 4-2 in favour of the Machine.
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05.12.2006
MEN’S RUSSIAN CHAMPIONSHIP SUPERFINAL
In the third round P.Svidler beat D.Khismatullin, S.Rublevsky beat E.Alekseev, D.Jakovenko beat E. Inarkiev and I.Nepomniachtchi beat E.Najer. The games I.Khairullin – S.Grigoriants and N.Vitiugov – E.Tomashevsky ended in draws. Standings after 3 rounds: 1-4. Rublevsky, Svidler, Jakovenko, Khairullin – 2, 5-10. Alekseev, Grigoriants, Inarkiev, Nepomniachtchi, Tomashevsky, Khismatullin – 1.5, 11-12. Najer, Vitiugov – 0,5.
The fourth round is played tomorrow.
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05.12.2006
RUSSIAN WOMEN’S SUPERFINAL
In the 5th round Korbut beat Galliamova, T.Kosintseva beat Shadrina, Bodnaruk beat Zaiatz,
Kovalevskaya beat Komiagina, Gunina beat Matveeva, the game Tairova – N.Kosintseva was drawn.
Standings after 5 rounds: 1. T.Kosintseva – 4, 2-4. Galliamova, Korbut, Tairova – 3.5, 5-6. Kovalevskaya, N.Kosintseva – 3, 7. Shadrina – 2.5, 8. Bodnaruk – 2, 9-10. Komiagina, Matveeva – 1.5, 11-12. Zaiatz, Gunina – 1. The sixth round is played tomorrow.
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05.12.2006
In memory of I.N.Aizenstadt (1919-2006)
Today Isaac Naumovich Aizenstadt passed away. He was the Technological University professor, Doctor of Chemistry, chess master, the participant of six city championships. We present our condolences to his family and friends.
05.12.2006
RAPID ASIAN CHAMPIONS
The Asian Games take place in Doha. The rapid chess tournaments were dominated by Humpy Koneru of India and Murtas Kazhgaleyev of Kazakhstan who scored 8 points out of 9 and 7.5 points out of 9 respectively. There were 17 players in the men’s event and 6 players in the women’s. The team competitions start today
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05.12.2006
Alexander Kentler. CROSSROADS. WE ARE THREE YEARS OLD!
This week on December 8 there will be exactly three years since our site open its chess pages.
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05.12.2006
S.Sarkisian reelected President of the Armenian Chess Federation
Armenian Minister of Defence and the Security Council Secretary Serge Sarkisian has been reelected President of the Armenian Chess Federation until the end of 2008. We can congratulate the Armenian chessplayers as they owe many of their recent great results to the overall support from the President.
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05.12.2006
JOEL LAUTIER’S CAREERS
The well-known grandmaster Joel Lautier announced the end of his professional chess career. He has removed to Moscow. Being excellent Russian speaker Lautier will lead the French representative office of the Russian consulting company “Strategica”. Lautier is also known as the first President of the Association of Chess Professionals. He was at the head of this organization until the beginning of this year.
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05.12.2006
MEN’S RUSSIAN CHAMPIONSHIP SUPERFINAL
In the second round E.Alekseev beat E.Najer, E. Inarkiev beat N.Vitiugov and I.Khairullin beat I.Nepomniachtchi. The games S.Grigoriants – P.Svidler, D.Khismatullin – D.Jakovenko and E.Tomashevsky – S.Rublevsky were drawn. Standings after 2 rounds: 1-4. Alekseev, Inarkiev, Khairullin, Khismatullin – 1.5, 5-9. Grigoriants, Rublevsky, Svidler, Jakovenko, Tomashevsky – 1, 10-11. Najer, Nepomniachtchi – 0.5, 12. Vitiugov – 0. The pairings of the third round are Najer – Nepomniachtchi, Khairullin – Grigoriants, Rublevsky – Alekseev, Vitiugov – Tomashevsky, Jakovenko – Inarkiev, Svidler – Khismatullin.
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05.12.2006
RUSSIAN WOMEN’S SUPERFINAL
In the fourth round Galliamova beat Kovalevskaya, Matveeva beat Bodnaruk, T.Kosintseva beat Zaiatz, N.Kosintseva beat Gunina. The games Shadrina – Korbut and Tairova – Komiagina were drawn.
Standings after 4 rounds: 1. Galliamova – 3.5, 2-3. T.Kosintseva, Tairova – 3, 4-6. Korbut, N.Kosintseva, Shadrina – 2.5, 8. Kovalevskaya – 2, 9-10. Komiagina, Matveeva – 1.5, 10-11. Bodnaruk, Zaiatz – 1, 12. Gunina – 0. The fifth round is played on Tuesday.
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04.12.2006
Mark Dvoretsky. Critical approach to the combination
"The strongest one achieves the victory" is the second part of Mark Dvoretsky’s article. Added to the section "Creativity".
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04.12.2006
KRAMNIK - DEEP FRITZ ANNOTATED BY K.SAKAEV
GM Konstanin Sakaev has commented on Games 1-3 of the match V.Kramnik vs Deep Fritz. His annotations to the Games 4-6 will be published on December 6.
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03.12.2006
FRITZ WILL NOT LOSE TO KRAMNIK!
The fifth game of the match which was Kramnik’s last game with White ended in a draw on move 35. The score is 3-2. The final game is played on December 5.
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03.12.2006
RUSSIAN WOMEN’S SUPERFINAL
In Gorodets of the Nizhnij Novgorod region the third round of the Women’s Superfinal was played. The results are: Bodnaruk (2255) – N.Kosintseva (2493) 0–1, T.Kosintseva (2458) – Matveeva (2415) 1–0, Galliamova (2470) – Komiagina (2326) 1–0, Korbut (2435) – Zaiatz (2395) 0–1, Kovalevskaya (2434) – Shadrina (2396) draw, Gunina (2392) – Tairova (2415) 0–1. Standings after 3 rounds: 1-2. Galliamova, Tairova – 2.5, 3-6. Kovalevskaya, Korbut, T.Kosintseva, Shadrina – 2, 7. N.Kosintseva – 1.5, 8-10. Bodnaruk, Zaiatz, Komiagina – 1, 11. Matveeva – 0.5, 12. Gunina – 0.
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03.12.2006
MEN’S RUSSIAN CHAMPIONSHIP SUPERFINAL
The results of the 1st round: the games Jakovenko (2671) – Svidler (2750), Rublevsky (2688) – Inarkiev (2628), Najer (2648) – Tomashevsky (2595), Khairullin (2543) – Alekseev (2639) and Nepomniachtchi (2545) – Grigoriants (2582) ended in draws, Vitiugov (2596) lost to Khismatullin (2583). Tomorrow the second round is played. The pairings are: Alekseev – Najer, Tomashevsky – Rublevsky, Inarkiev – Vitiugov, Khismatullin – Jakovenko, Grigoriants – Svidler and Nepomniachtchi – Khairullin.
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02.12.2006
MEN’S RUSSIAN CHAMPIONSHIP SUPERFINAL. DRAWING OF LOTS
The drawing of lots gave the players the following numbers in the crosstable. 1. Nepomniachtchi, 2. Khairullin, 3. Najer, 4. Rublevsky, 5. Vitiugov, 6. Jakovenko, 7. Svidler, 8. Khismatullin, 9. Inarkiev, 10. Tomashevsky, 11. Alekseev, 12. Grigoriants. The first round starts tomorrow at 15:00. The pairings are: Nepomniachtchi – Grigoriants, Khairullin – Alekseev, Najer – Tomashevsky, Rublevsky – Inarkiev, Vitiugov – Khismatullin, Jakovenko – Svidler.
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02.12.2006
RUSSIAN WOMEN’S SUPERFINAL
In the second round E.Korbut beat S.Matveeva, E.Kovalevskaya beat E.Zaiatz, E.Tairova beat A.Bodnaruk, M.Komiagina beat V.Gunina, the games T.Shadrina – A.Galliamova and N.Kosintseva – T.Kosintseva ended in draws. Standings after 2 rounds: 1. Korbut – 2 points, 2-5. Galliamova, Kovalevskaya, Tairova, Shadrina – 1.5, 6-8. Bodnaruk, Komiagina, T.Kosintseva – 1, 9-10. Matveeva, N.Kosintseva – 0.5, 11-12. Zaiatz, Gunina – 0. Tomorrow the third round will be played.
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02.12.2006
MEN’S RUSSIAN CHAMPIONSHIP SUPERFINAL
Today in the Central House of Chessplayer in Moscow the opening ceremony and the drawing of lots of the 2006 Men’s Russian Championship was held. After Alexander Morozevich’s withdrawal the field is as follows: 1. Peter Svidler (b. 17.06.1976, Elo 2750), 2. Sergey Rublevsky (15.10.1974, 2688), 3. Dmitry Jakovenko (28.06.1983, 2671), 4. Evegeny Najer (22.06.1977, 2648), 5. Evgeny Alekseev (28.11.1985, 2639), 6. Ernesto Inarkiev (9.12.1985, 2628), 7. Nikita Vitiugov (4.02.1987, 2596), 8. Evgeny Tomashevsky (1.07.1987, 2595), 9. Denis Khismatullin (28.12.1984, 2583), 10. Sergey Grigoriants (2.11.1983, 2582), 11. Jan Nepomniachtchi (14.07.1990, 2545), 12. Ildar Khairullin (28.08.1990, 2543). The first round is played tomorrow at 15:00. Our site will published the surveys of the tournament by the 2006 Russian Cup winner grandmaster Konstantin Sakaev. The first survey (rounds 1-3) will be issued on Thursday, December 7.
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02.12.2006
The Machine is out of reach as yet
The fourth game of V.Kramnik’s match against Deep Fritz where the world champion played the Petroff Defence with Black ended in a draw. The score is 2.5-1.5 in favour of the machine. The fifth game is played on Monday. Kramnik will be White for the last time in the match.
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