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18th Nov
2007
Aronian and
Carlsen win
Corus
This fantastic
tournament was
held from 11th -
27th January
2008 in Wijk aan
Zee, Holland.
Five of the top
six in the world
went head to
head. Mickey
Adams is playing
in the A group
and Nigel Short
in the B group.
Latest:
(courtesy of
BCM) Round 12 -
Magnus Carlsen
beating Vladimir
Kramnik was the
game of the day.
He has rejoined
Aronian in the
lead. Scores:
1-2 Aronian,
Carlsen 7½/12,
2-3 Anand,
Radjabov 7.
View/download
games.
•
click here for
Steve Giddins'
round reports.
18th Nov
2007
British
Rapidplay
Championships
2007
This event took
place on
Saturday and
Sunday 17th -
18th November at
the
North Bridge
Leisure Centre,
Halifax
in association
with the English
Chess
Federation.
Further details
of the event
including
winners are on
the
official site.
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Saturday 17th
November
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Sunday 18th November
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Round 1 1200 - 1300
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Round 07 0930 - 1030
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Round 2 1330 - 1430
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Round 08 1100 - 1200
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Round 3 1500 - 1600
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Round 09 1230 - 1330
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Round 4 1630 - 1730
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Round 10 1415 - 1515
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Round 5 1800 - 1900
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Round 11 1545 - 1645
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Round 6 1930 - 2030 |
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1st Oct
2007
Monarch Assurance International 2007
The
Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International took
place at the Ocean Castle Hotel, Port Erin, from
22nd-30th September and featured a very strong
masters event, plus major and minor sections. Sadly,
this was to be the last Isle of Man International to
be sponsored by Monarch Assurance but it will
continue under different sponsors.
The
line-up was headed by GM Krasenkow and 2006 winner
Alexander Areshchenko. From the UK there was Jon
Speelman, Mark Hebden, Peter Wells, David Howell,
Danny Gormally, Stewart Haslinger amongst others.
The women's line-up included German IM Elisabeth
Paehtz Elo 2457.
The official
website had games, results, reports and photos
from the event with regular daily updates.
30th Sept
2007
Anand is
undisputed World
Champion
A straightforward 20-move draw
against Peter Leko was enough to
give Indian GM Viswanathan Anand the
title of undisputed World Champion
2007. The tournament was held in
Mexico City. Kramnik beat Aronian in
an excellent game to move into
second place.
The final column of the table shows
the tiebreak scores, according to
Sonneborn-Berger. A player's SB
score is calculated by adding the
sum of the conventional scores of
the players they have defeated to
half the sum of the conventional
scores of those they have drawn
against. According to this system
Vladimir Kramnik is second, beating
Boris Gelfand by 0.25 SB points.
The World Championship 2007 took
place from September 12th to 30th in
the Sheraton Centro Histórico Hotel
in Mexico City. Eight players
qualified – the tournament was a
double round robin. The prize fund
was US $1.3 million.
Download all games in PGN.
Excellent photo and round by round
reports on
Chessbase.
John Saunders,
BCM
Editor,
'In many ways
the tournament
turned out the
way widely
predicted.
Kramnik won his
last game to
make a score of
+2, which is
usually enough
to win Dortmund
- or indeed his
match against
Garry Kasparov
in 2000 - but it
was never likely
to be enough to
win a tournament
of this length.
Most pundits
expected Anand
to score better
than that and he
did so by
scoring +4.
However purists
will argue that
four games won
against four
non-champions in
the bottom half
of the table is
not what a
proper world
chess
championship is
all about. Let's
hope that the
prospective
match between
Anand and
Kramnik happens
in 2008 as
envisaged and
that the
traditional
matchplay
formula will
thus be resumed
and maintained'.
Hooray to
that!
24th Sept
2007
4NCL Season starts
Divisions 1, 2 & 3 started over the
weekend of 15th-16th Sept at the De Vere
Venues, Sunningdale. See some
photos (more added 18/9). Match
results, tables and PGN games available
on the
official site.
25th August
2007
IBCA
Euro
Championships,
St. Aidan’s
College,
Durham
The tournament takes place between 13th
- 24th August 2007 at
St Aidan’s College, Windmill Hill,
Durham (part of Durham University).
This event is played over nine rounds.
Games start daily at 13.45 BST.
There are 6 IM's, 4 FM's and 1 WM taking
part in a total list of 76 players.
3rd June
2007
Candidates Matches 2007
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The Candidates Matches for the 2007
World Chess Championship are being
held in
Elista, Russia, from May 26th to
June 14th. Sixteen candidates play
two rounds of six-game matches to
fill four places in the 2007 World
Championship in Mexico City. The
prize fund is US $40,000 per match,
most of the money ($320,000) coming
from a personal fund of FIDE
President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, FIDE
($160,000) and the general sponsor,
Rosenergomash. Britain's highest
rated GM Mickey Adams 2734 is
playing Alexei Shirov 2699. Having
White in the first round, Mickey
stands a reasonable chance of
winning but Shirov is an experienced
and gritty player. For more news and
photos visit the
Chessbase website.
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Match (8) |
FIDE |
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Alexei Shirov, ESP |
2699 |
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3 |
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1 |
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Michael Adams, ENG |
2734 |
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1 |
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0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
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3rd
June
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Mickey Adams lost his match with
Shirov after a brave
performance. The tie-break match
took place today but Mickey lost
it 2½-½ (best of 4). He was
within a whisker of going
through after game 5 of the main
match, he needed a draw in game
6 but defended with a Petroff
and lost. With the match even at
3-3 they prepared for the
tie-break. Mickey lost the first
2 games and had to win the third
to survive but could only draw.
Shirov now goes on to meet
Aronian who narrowly beat
Carlsen also after an exciting
tie-break match. See the
official website for more
details. All games so far in
PGN including the Rapidplay
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21st May
2007
Mtel
Masters 2007.
There
were 6 participants (including our own Mickey Adams
Elo 2734), in this double round robin tournament
that ran from May 10th to 20th. Time controls: 2
hours for 40 moves + 1 hour for 20 moves + 30
minutes to the end the game. The players were not
allowed to offer draws, they had to consult the
arbiter, who decided what would happen. Detailed
pairings and games were posted on the
official site, Playchess, ICC followed events
daily. Chessbase
(Steve Giddins)provided analysis with extensive
photo reports with links to game downloads. See all
games in
PGN.
11th March
2007
Morelia/Linares 2007
The Morelia/Linares
began on 17th February. The first half took place in Morelia, Mexico
from 17th - 25th February transferring then to Linares, Spain
where play continued until 10th March. The players involved were
some of the highest rated in the world: Topalov (2783), Anand
(2779), Ivanchuk (2750), Leko (2749), Aronian (2744), Morozevich
(2741), Svidler (2728), Carlsen (2690). Radjabov was due to play and
in the original group but following a burglary at his father's hotel
in Patzcuaro, Mexico on 10th February he withdrew. He was clearly
upset saying that the local police did not investigate the crime and
that neither he or his father received support from the organisers.
Rather fortuitously for the organisers, Ivanchuk who was in Morelia
at the time was prepared to step in and replace Radjabov. More news
including daily express reports and game downloads are available on
Chessbase and
BCM.
Final
Standings
Official Linares
website.
1st
February 2007
Gibtraltar
Masters 2007
The annual
Gibtelecom
tournament has
finished with
first place
going to GM
Vladimir Akopian
who beat Yuri
Kuzubov aged
just 16 in only
23 moves to
finish on 7½/9.
Sutovsky,
Nakamura and
Areshchenko
finished 2nd= on
7/9. English IM
Thomas Rendle's
last round draw
with Gurevich
secures him a GM
norm, his first.
Final
crosstable.
Throughout the
tournament
Stuart Conquest
provided
fabulous live
commentaries.
The
website
also has PGN
downloads from
each round plus
news reports and
photos.
28th
January 2007
Corus
2007
The
annual
Corus
GMA,
B
and
C
tournaments
in
Wijk
aan
Zee
Holland
have
ended.
The
GMA
event
finished
in a
three
way
tie
for
first
place
between
GM
Levon
Aronian
(ARM),
GM
Teimour
Radjabov
(AZE)
and
GM
Veselin
Topalov
(BUL).
Radjabov
and
Topalov
drew
their
game
in a
rather
unusual
and
cautious
way
and
Aronian
beat
Tiviakov.
Kramnik
the
current
World
Champion
finished
with
8
only
half
a
point
behind
the
leaders.
He
beat
Van
Wely
in
fine
style
in
the
last
round
whilst
Svidler
lost
to
Karjakin.
CORUS
A
Wijk
ann
Zee
NED
2007
Final
standings
CORUS
B
Wijk
ann
Zee
NED
2007
Final
standings
CORUS
C
Wijk
ann
Zee
NED
2007
Final
standings
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Official
website:
www.coruschess.com
Video
Reports:
www.chessvibes.com
Additional
info.
on
the
BCM
website,
Chessbase
and
TWIC.
