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16.03.2006 Rejkjavik open
A traditional open finished yesterday in the capital of Iceland. There were 103 participants, and five grandmasters tied for the first. According to the tiebreak they were arranged in the following order: 1.Gabriel Sargissian (Armenian), 2.Ahmed Adly (Egypt), 3.S.Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan), 4.Igor-Alexander Nataf (France) and Pentala Harikrishna (India). Russian Pavel Tregubov took the 16th place with 5,5/9.
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16.03.2006 WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
There are five Russian representatives in the 3rd Round of the Women's World Championship! This is a 100% success, bearing in mind that there were 6 Russians in the 2nd Round, and two of them had to play each other. Kosteniuk won against Danielian, Matveeva passed Zapata, Kosintseva defeated Krush, Galliamova won against Lujan and Kovalevskaya knocked out Kursova. The favorites keep dropping out: defending champion Stefanova as well as top rated Koneru and former European champions Cramling and Zhukova were defeated already in the 2nd Round!
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14.03.2006 WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Russians did quite well in the first games of the second round. Alexandra Kosteniuk won against Danielian as Black, Svetlana Matveeva defeated Peruvian Zapata, Tatiana Kosintseva won against Krush. In the Russian match Ekaterina Kovalevskaya defeated Maria Kursova. Only Alisa Galliamova lost to Lujan from Argentina. 16 winners of the 2nd round will be determined today after the second game at a normal pace and, if necessary, rapid and blitz tiebreaks.
more [source: www.womenchess.com]

14.03.2006 OUR ANNOUNCEMENTS: PORTRAIT OF MOROZEVICH AND OTHER ARTICLES
Soon we are going to publish Nikita Vitiugov's "Portrait of a Chessplayer" featuring Alexander Morozevich. Maxim Notkin will observe the best games of February. Mark Dvoretsky, Evgeny Sveshnikov and Sergey Ivanchuk will present their new works. Follow our publications!
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14.03.2006 UKRAINIAN CHESS EXPANSION IN THE UNITED STATES
Alexander Onischuk became the USA champion-2006, defeating Yury Shulman in the final 1.5-0.5. Anna Zatonskih won the women's title, beating Rusudan Goletiani with the game score. Both champions had played for Ukraine recently.
more [source: www.uschesschampionship.com]

13.03.2006 Grandmaster Sakaev sums up the Linares results
St.Petersburg grandmaster Konstantin Sakaev shares his personal impressions about individual results of the supertournament Morelia – Linares participants.
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13.03.2006 Women’s World Championship
Russian chessplayers played with varying success in the first round of the women’s world championship which takes place in Ekaterinburg – only six Russian players out of twelve will continue playing. The following players advanced to the second round: A.Kosteniuk (She defeated N.Khoudgarian (Canada)), T.Kosintseva (2:0 against S.Meenaksi (India)), S.Matveeva (had the same score against her compatriot I.Vasilevich, A.Galliamova (1,5:0,5 against M.Purtseladze (Georgia)), E.Kovalevskaya (1,5:0,5 against S.Pina (Cuba)) and M.Kursova ( 1,5:0,5 against Zhao Xue (China)). N.Kosintseva (lost 0,5:1,5 to HouYifan (China)), I.Turova previously known as Slavina (lost with the same score to L.Javakhishvili (Georgia)), E.Zaiatz (0,5:1,5 against M.Sebag (France)) will leave Ekaterinburg together with Vasilevich. After drawing the main match representatives of Russia E.Korbut, who lost the tie-break to Ushenina (Ukraine) (1:3) and E.Ovod, who lost blitz to N.Dzagnidze (Georgia) (2:4) will join other ladies leaving Ekaterinburg. Our players got the following pairings in the second round: A.Kosteniuk vs E.Danielian (Armenia), T.Kosintseva vs I.Krush (the USA), E.Kovalevskaya vs M.Kursova, A.Galliamova vs K.Lujan (Argentina) and S.Matveeva vs K.Zapata (Peru). The line-up of the third round will be known tomorrow.
more [source: www.womenchess.com]

10.03.2006 A KEY GAME COMMENT BY SAKAEV
The penultimate round in Linares starts at 17.30 Moscow time. Grandmaster Sakaev will be commenting live a key game of the tournament, Topalov-Leko.
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10.03.2006 Russian Junior Championships
Having defeated Pavel Maletin, Nikita Vitiugov advanced to the joint first place (together with Evgeny Tomashevsky, Ian Nepomniaschy and Boris Savchenko) with 5/8 and three rounds to go. Elena Tairova leads in girls tournament with 6/8. Polina Malysheva has 3,5.
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09.03.2006 US Championship
The US chess championship is underway in San Diego, California. The formula of it is quite exotic - 64 players including 14 women are divided into two equally strong groups (according to the rating) and play a 9-round Swiss. The group winners determine the champion in the match of two rapid games (and, if necessary, blitz tiebreak), and two best female players play for the women's title. After two third of the Swiss distance the best result in the first group is shown by Alexander Onischuk - 5 points, Dmitry Gurevich and Dmitry Shneider both have 4,5/6. Rusudan Goletiani has the best score among women - 3/6. In the second group Yury Shulman is in the lead with 5/6, Igor Novikov has 4,5, Gata Kamsky and Larry Christiansen both have 4. Batchimeg Tuvshintugs leads among women with 3,5 points. Irina Krush could not participate in the championship because it coincided with FIDE Women championship, which starts tomorrow in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
more [source: www.uschesschampionship.com]

09.03.2006 Peaceful mood before a holiday
All games of the 12th round ended in draws - Leko-Bacrot, Svidler-Aronian, Topalov-Ivanchuk and Vallejo-Radjabov. The standings: Leko - 7,5, Aronian - 7, Radjabov and Topalov - both 6,5, Svidler - 6, Bacrot and Ivanchuk - both 5, Vallejo - 4,5. Tomorrow in the 13th round meet Topalov-Leko, Ivanchuk-Vallejo, Radjabov-Svidler and Aronian-Bacrot.
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07.03.2006 KONSTANTIN SAKAEV WILL COMMENT RADJABOV-TOPALOV TODAY
The 11th round in Linares begins at 17.30 Moscow time (15.30 CET). Grandmaster Sakaev will comment the game Radjabov-Topalov online.
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07.03.2006 Maxim Notkin. Spicy dessert
International Master Maxim Notkin reviews the best games played in January.
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06.03.2006 Leko increases his lead with draws
In the 10th round of the Linares supertournament Topalov defeated Aronian, Radjabov defeated Ivanchuk, Bacrot won against Vallejo, and only two Peters, Leko and Svidler, shared the point. Making a third draw in a row helped Leko to increase the lead to a full point. The Hungarian has 6,5, he is followed by Aronian, Radjabov, and Topalov - all 5,5, Svidler - 5, Bacrot, Vallejo and Ivanchuk - all 4. Monday is a day off. The Tuesday's pairing is: Ivanchuk-Leko, Radjabov-Topalov, Aronian-Vallejo and Bacrot-Svidler.
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05.03.2006 SAKAEV WILL COMMENT TOPALOV-ARONIAN
Konstantin Sakaev will be commenting Topalov-Aronian today. The game begins at 17.30 msk, 15.30 CET. We apologize for a delay with posting the 41st-80th moves in yesterday's game Radjabov-Leko.
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05.03.2006 Topalov is getting closer to the leaders
In the 9th round Topalov, playing Black, defeated Bacrot, and other three games, Svidler-Vallejo, Aronian-Ivanchuk, and Radjabov-Leko, ended peacefully. Current standings: Leko 6, Aronian 5,5, Radjabov, Svidler and Topalov - both 4,5, Vallejo and Ivanchuk - both 4, Bacrot 3. In the 10th round meet Leko-Svidler, Vallejo-Bacrot, Topalov-Aronian and Ivanchuk-Radjabov.
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04.03.2006 LEKO-RADJABOV IS COMMENTED BY SAKAEV
In the 9th round of the Linares Konstantin Sakaev comments the leader's game Radjabov-Leko.
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03.03.2006 KONSTANTIN SAKAEV COMMENTS TOPALOV-SVIDLER TODAY
The 8th round starts today at 17.30 msk. A key game of the round, Topalov-Svidler, will be commented online by Konstantin Sakaev.
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02.03.2006 KRAMNIK WILL COMPETE WITH THE MACHINE FOR A MILLION DOLLARS
A new Human vs. Computer match is announced, the ChessBase website informs. Classical world champion Vladimir Kramnik will play a six-game match with Deep Fritz in a former capital of Germany, Bonn. The match takes place from November, 25th to December, 5th. A finance minister of Germany Peer Steinbruck is Patron of the event. Vladimir Kramnik will get half a million dollars as starting fee. This amount will be doubled in case Kramnik wins the match.
more [source: chessbase.com]

02.03.2006 Russian Junior championships
Russian Junior championships under 20 start today in Cheboksary. There are 12 participants in each tournament, among them two Petersburgers: Polina Malysheva and Nikita Vitiugov. We wish our city representatives an excellent performace! The organizers promised to set up the online broadcast. The tournaments end on March, 13th.
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