The 18th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess
tournament, organized by the Association Max Euwe in Monaco is taking
place from 14 - 26 March at the Palais de la Mediterranee, located on the
famous Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France. The total prize-fund is €
216,000. This year’s field is stronger than ever with all the
world’s best players taking part. Report with information and pictures
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Alexander Grischuk is still a point ahead of the
rest of the field after all the games in 11th round ended in a draw.
Tomorrow is the last rest day. Although Grischuk has taken a one-point
lead, he has a tough schedule: Carlsen with Black, Anand with White and in
the last round Aronian with Black.
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Chinese GM Wang Yue launched a beautiful kingside
attack, Carlsen could not handle it in time trouble. Aronian missed a
tactical combination and lost a pawn in the middle game, he showed hardly
any resistance, a very casual four-rook endgame, allowing Radjabov to
double rooks on the seventh. Grischuk-Ivanchuk and Anand-Dominguez games
were drawn. Grischuk is still leading
with full point.
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Magnus Carlsen beat
Leinier Dominguez in a Sicilian Dragon game. All the Chris Ward fans would be happy to see
Sicilian Dragon opening game being played at
the top levels. Carlsen created a fantastic position, having considerable
number of pieces on the board, Dominguez was into zugzwang on move 42.
Other three games ended in a draw. Grischuk is leading
with full point. Ivanchuk, Aronian and Carlsen are sharing the second
spot.
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Russian Chess Federation, European Chess
Union, St. Petersburg Chess Federation and the City of St. Petersburg are
organizing the 10th European Women Chess Championship. 11 rounds Swiss
tournament will be played on March 7 - March 21.
The first Women Grand Prix tournament is overlapping with the European
Individual Championship. It's little surprising to see the two big events
clashing with each other. Report with pictures of Saint Petersburg city.
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The second edition of women's super Chess tournament
Is Bank Ataturk Women Masters Tournament is going to be held as the first
event of the Women Grand Prix series 2009/2010 organized by FIDE and
Global Chess BV from 6 to 20 March 2009 in Is Bank Art Gallery, Istanbul.
Tournament details and pictures from Istanbul.
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The 8th Aeroflot Open 2009 International Chess
Festival was held in Moscow from 16 February to 27 February 2009.
French top GM Etienne Bacrot won the event on better tiebreak score. He
scored 6.5/9, while Alexander Moiseenko of Ukraine scoring the same stood
second.
As part of the Aeroflot Open Chess Festival, in Aeroflot Blitz Qualifier
for the World Blitz Championship 165 players took part. 18 year old
Ukrainian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin won the Blitz event by scoring
15/18. Report with games.
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Bulgarian star, Veselin Topalov
won the 8 match Candidates tournament with 2 points 4.5:2.5. This gives
him the right to challenge Vishwanathan Anand for the World Chess
Championship 2009 title. The match will take place this year in autumn.
ChessBase broadcasted the live games without permission from the Bulgarian
Chess Federation. The scandal was close to being referred to the German
court, on 20 February the legal defender sent a letter of warning to the
owners of ChessBase Mathias Wüllenweber and Reiner Woisin.
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Alexander Grischuk defeated Levon Aronian to take a
sole lead. Carlsen beat the World Champion Viswanathan Anand with
excellent end game technique, Anand missed few saving moves in the end
game. Vassily Ivanchuk agreed to a draw in a winning position against
Dominguez, he was a pawn up with advantage in the position.
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In crucial sixth game, Topalov replied with
Caro-Kann defense, he once again came with the novelty 11. .... g6.
Playing with white, Kamsky could not able to gain the opening advantage
and soon after the exchange of pieces, the the game became drawish. Kamsky
had no other option than repeating the moves.
Kamsky is trailing by one full point with only 2
games to play. Report with games and pictures.
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