KAPPA-48 TOURNAMENT                           Final Ranking                           Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Club Pts Fide 1 3 Sienczewski Zbigniew 2139 GRE A.S.O.P DIAS 5½ 24 2 2 Kostouros Alexandros 2163 GRE PANELLHNIOS [...]

KAPPA-48 TOURNAMENT                         Round 7 on 2010/12/06 at 18:00                           Bo. SNo. Name Pts Res. Pts Name SNo. 1 4 Kesoglou Konstantinos 4½ ½  -  ½ 5 Kostouros Alexandros 2 2 1 [...]

Today's round starts two hours later than usual, which means approximately one hour from this writing (4 p.m. London Time = 11 a.m. ET = 5 p.m. CET). Tomorrow and through round 6, play will start at the "normal" time - the same as in round 1, 2 p.m./9 a.m. ET/3 p.m. CET, and then the last round starts two hours early: noon local time/7 a.m. ET/1 p.m. CET. This is also a useful place to mention...

Big chess in London! Upset! Nail-biting defense! Sacrificial attack! Checkmate! The English Opening in England! Best of all, a Berlin Defense getting blown off the board. Such is the day that was at the London Classic. The biggest blow was landed by underdog Luke McShane, or should that be English Bulldog? His bite was definitely bigger than his bark today as he took out world #2 Magnus Carlsen...

The results haven't been released yet (though from the description the most natural guess is that Carlsen came out ahead), but a bit more information about the 40-game blitz match between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, played in Moscow after the World Blitz Championship, can be found here. A video is included there, from the end of game 38, given below:

The first round was a great one. Three of the four games had a winner, and the only draw was the longest game of the round. The first game to finish was Michael Adams' win over David Howell, a fine attacking effort by the British #1. As mentioned in the preview post, Adams was one of the world's absolute best players for many years, not long ago, and should not be overlooked as a contender...

An entirely token post about a somewhat token event, but hey, it's still chess. The KO system is alive and well at the women's world championship, this year taking place in Turkey. Official site. Defending champion Kosteniuk is there, with Koneru, Hou Yifan, and the Kosintsevii as the top challengers. For the US, Zatonskih just moved into the third round. While the overall rating average of the...

Τον πρωταθλητή Ελλάδας και γκραντ μετρ Βασίλη Κοτρωνιά θα φιλοξενήσει ο Χρήστος Πιλάλης στις "Αναζητήσεις σε Άσπρα Μαύρα" το Σάββατο 11/12 στις 10.05 το πρωί. Μαζί θα μιλήσουν για το 60ο πρωτάθλημα Ελλάδας που έγινε πριν από...

Σήμερα ξεκίνησε το πολύ ισχυρό London Chess Classic 2010.  Ένα από τα πιο σημαντικά στοιχεία στο σκάκι είναι ο έλεγχος του κέντρου είτε με τα πιόνια μας ή με τα κομμάτια μας. Ένα κομμάτι (π.χ. το άλογο)  που είναι στο κέντρο της...

I'll get to the London tournament later (great first round!), but first, some quick highlights from the end of the non-tiebreak portion of round two of the Women's World Championship. The two main favorites, Humpy Koneru and Hou Yifan consolidated yesterday's wins with draws today, and so advanced to round 3. The third seed, Tatiana Kosintseva, failed to avenge her loss against Yelena Dembo, and...

As was noted in the comments to the post on the pairings, not everyone made out equally. The big loser in the pairings - at least on paper - is Nakamura. He gets Black against the top three, and as if to rub it in he gets them in the first four rounds: Black vs. Anand in round 1, Black vs. Kramnik in round 2, and after White against Howell he gets Black against Carlsen in round 4. Yikes. ("Thank...

There has been a fair amount of discussion in the comments wondering why Nadezhda Kosintseva isn't playing. As things stand, it may soon be a Kosintseva-free event, as Tatiana K. lost with White today against Yelena Dembo, and will be eliminated unless she wins back with the black pieces. That would be a significant upset; smaller upsets today include Viktorija Cmilyte losing with White to...

Η Ε.ΣΚ.Α. θα προσφέρει δωρεάν διαμονή για όλους τους αθλητές που θα συμμετάσχουν στο τουρνουά της Άμφισσας, σε δίκλινα - τρίκλινα – τετράκλινα δωμάτια.Θα τηρηθεί σειρά προτεραιότητας.Ελβετικό Σύστημα 7 γύρων με ΔΙΕΘΝΗ...

Ανοιχτή επιστολή της Σκακιστικής Παρέμβασης Τριανδρίας με την οποία ζητείται από την ΕΣΣΘΧ η διεξαγωγή του ΠΟΑ με δωδεκαμελή σύνθεση:Αγαπητοί φίλοι,Μετά την απόφαση του Δ.Σ. της ΕΣΟ, της 27/11/2010 για την ελεύθερη επιλογή...

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