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20.07.2006
Our congratulations!
We are glad to felicitate our readers, their friends and relatives with the International Day of Chess! This holiday is urged to commemorate the formation of Fide that was created in Paris in 1924. Today we celebrate its 41st anniversary.
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20.07.2006
Vitiugov leads in the tournament in Armenia
The student of FINEC Nikita Vitiugov is the leader of the tournament Goluboi Sevan 2006", having scored 5 points out of 7 rounds. This tournament has a grandmaster norm. There are two rounds to play left.
more [source: www.armchess.am]
18.07.2006
ALEXANDER KENTLER. CROSSROADS: GIRLISH MESS
The editorial column is devoted to the sensational results of the Russian women's Higher league tournament in Orel. Elena Tairova and Anastasia Bodnaruk who are 14 years old advanced to the Russian Superfinal that will take place in Moscow in December.
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14.07.2006
VIKTOR KORCHNOI: "SOMETIMES IT IS HELPFUL TO SUFFER!"
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi answered the questions of our correspondent Vladimir Barsky about the results of Russian team at the World Chess Olympiad in Turin.
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13.07.2006
Izmailov Memorial
After two rounds Bologan, Karjakin, Kasimdzhanov and Rublevsky scored 1.5 points. Morozevich and Ponomariov lost both their games and have none.
more [source: www.tomsk-chess.ru]
12.07.2006
CROSSROADS OF OPINIONS: BORIS POSTOVSKY’S MONOLOGUE
The honored trainer of Russia Boris Postovsky expresses his views on the results of Russian team at the World Chess Olympiad in Turin.
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12.07.2006
Karpov will appear at the summit
Today is the third day of the teenage summit of the G8 countries in St.Petersburg. The twelfth world chess champion Anatoly Karpov will give a master class and simultaneous display on 20 boards. Yesterday Olympic figure skating champion Evgeny Plushenko performed before children.
more [source: www.5-tv.ru]
12.07.2006
Izmailov Memorial
The tenth chess festival devoted to the memory of Petr Izmailov will start in Tomsk tomorrow. Six chessplayers: World ex-champions Ponomariov and Kasimdzhanov as well as Morozevich, Rublevsky, Bologan and Karjakin will take part in the rapid tournament that will take place in the context of the festival.
more [source: www.tomsk-chess.ru]
10.07.2006
Chess exhibition in the Peter and Paul's fortress
The exhibition Lost world. "Unique chess" has been opened in the Peter and Paul's fortress. 32 chess pieces made of the mammoth's tusk by the master of applied art Igor Baturin are set out on this exhibition.
more [source: www.annews.ru]
10.07.2006
Women’s Higher League
Russian women’s Higher league tournament in Orel has come to the end. Valentina Gunina (Murmansk), Maria Komiagina (Arkhangelsk), Elena Tairova (Moscow), Ekaterina Korbut (Saint Petersburg) and Anastasia Bodnaruk (Saint Petersburg) advanced to the Russian Superfinal. Our congratulations! Other Saint Petersburg chessplayers showed the following results: 8. Evgenija Ovod, 10. Polina Malysheva – both 5.5, 11. Irina Sudakova, 15. Valentina Soloviova – both 5, 26. Varvara Kirillova - 4.
more [source: sandugachess.kazan.ws]
10.07.2006
ALEXANDER KENTLER. CROSSROADS
July Fide Rating List was published on www.fide.com. Even the superficial analysis of Russian chessplayers’ positions causes alarm.
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07.07.2006
Women's Higher League
Today is the time of the last round in Russian women's Higher league tournament in Orel. Bodnaruk (Saint Petersburg), Komiagina (Arkhangelsk) and Gunina (Murmansk) are the leaders with 6 points, Ovod (Leningrad region) scored 5.5, Korbut (Saint Petersburg), Sudakova (Saint Petersburg), Zaiatz (Kazan), Shadrina (Kstovo) and Tairova (Moscow) have 5. These chessplayers claim to the advance to the Russian Superfinal.
Malysheva and Soloviova have 4.5 points, Kirillova has 3.
more [source: sandugachess.kazan.ws]
07.07.2006
34th Annual World Open in Philadelphia
More than one and a half thousand of chessplayers took part in the World Open tournament in Philadelphia that was divided into seven tournaments. 237 chessplayers played in the main tournament. There were fifty grandmasters among them. Nine players scored 7 out of 9. As a result, Kamsky took the first place, Ibragimov became silver medal winner, Ehlvest was the third. Milov, Yudasin, Ivanov, Kachieshvili, Wojtkiewicz and Benjamin took places from the fourth to the ninth accordingly.
more [source: www.worldopen.com]
05.07.2006
VICTORY OF NIKITA VITIUGOV
Student of FINEC Nikita VITIUGOV took the first place in the Cup of his university's rector, having scored 7.5 poitns in 9 games. His result exceeds the grandmaster norm by a full point. GM Brodsky and IM Khairullin shared the 2nd place with 6 points. Maxim Matlakov finished 4th, and his 5.5 is enough for an IM norm. Other players showed the following results: 5. Zagrebelny 4.5, 6-8 Yevseev, Lanin, and Mikhailovsky - all 4, 9. Biriukov 2, 10.Truschelev 1.5.
more [source: chigorin.ru]
05.07.2006
Women's Higher League
After 6 rounds bodnaruk has 4.5, Malysheva and Ovod - both 4, Korbut and Sudakova - both 3.5, Soloviova 2.5, and Kirillova has 2 points. Tairova and Komiagina lead with 5 out of 6. There are three rounds to play left.
more [source: sandugachess.kazan.ws]
04.07.2006
Rector's Cup - FINEC
Vitiugov made a GM norm with a round to spare by making a draw with Matlakov. He has 6.5 points now, Brodsky and Khairullin have 5.5. The latter still has a chance to make the norm as well.
more [source: chigorin.ru]
04.07.2006
Women's Higher League
Evgenia Ovod is among the leaders with 4 points after 5 rounds. Ekaterina Korbut and Anastasia Bodnaruk have 3.5 points and share 5th-6th places. Polina Malysheva has 3, Irina Sudakova 2.5, Valentina Soloviova and Varvara Kirillova have 2 points.
more [source: sandugachess.kazan.ws]
04.07.2006
Rector's Cup - FINEC
Nikita Vitiugov has to score only half a point in two games in order to make a grandmaster norm. He leads the tournament with 6/7. Brodsky and Khairullin are a point behind him. Matlakov collected 4.5 points and made an international master norm.
more [source: chigorin.ru]
04.07.2006
Sergey Shipov wins in Norway
Sergey SHIPOV won the Midnight Sun Chess festival in Norway, scoring 7.5/9. Magnus Carlsen took the second place, Leif Erlend Johanessen was third (both players have 7 points).
more [source: www.midnightsunchess.org]
02.07.2006
White Nights Festival
The rating tournament ended in a six-way tie with 7 points. The tiebreak brought the following result: 1.Dmitry Egorov, 2.Sergey Sivokho, 3.Alexey Ivanov, 4.Alexey Utkin, 5.Victor Turikov, 6.Vladimir Karasev. Sergey Andreev won the tournament for candidate masters and 1st category players with 7.5/9.
more [source: chigorin.ru]
