The FIDE Presidential Board meeting which is in progress at Baku, Azerbaijan, today confirmed Chennai as the venue for the World Chess Championship match between defending champion Viswanathan Anand and World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen, from 06-26 November 2013. The agreement was signed today at Baku by B
05.6.2013| Uncategorized | vkpix
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Round 3 games of Alekhine Memorial were played in Paris on April, 23. Four games out of five ended in a draw. Anand – Aronian game showed that the World champion couldn’t use the advantage of his white pieces and had to pass to an equal endgame. This game ended first. Soon after that a draw was
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Russian Grandmaster Aleksandr Rakhmanov drew with Ukrainian Grandmaster Yuriy Kuzubov to win the title alone with 7½ points out of 9 rounds of the 15th Dubai Open Chess Championship at the Dubai Chess Club in Dubai, UAE. CLICK on the video LINJ to Watch Video Highlights
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Russian Grandmaster Aleksandr Rakhmanov beat Estonian GM Jaan Ehlvest to grab solo lead with a perfect 5-point slate after five rounds of the 15th Dubai Open Chess Championship at the Dubai Chess Club in Dubai, UAE. Rakhmanov smashed the Pirc Defense of Ehlvest winning a piece in the middle game
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Four Grandmasters share the lead with perfect scores after four rounds of the 15th Dubai Open Chess Championship. Russian GMs Sergey Volkov and Aleksandr Rakhmanov, Armenian Gabriel Sargissian and Jaan Ehlvest of the USA are tied at 4 points each in the 9-round Swiss System tournament. Sargissian e
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In the biggest upset of the round, FM Aravindh Chithambaram of India, 14, beat GM Viorel Iordachescu of Moldova who blundered away a Knight on the 26th move of his Pirc defense. Aravindh is the current National Junior Champion of India. He earned his FIDE Master title in the 2011 Asian Youth Under
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The Dubai Chess Open 2013, one of the traditional events in the chess calendar, has started at the Chess and Culture Club in Dubai. A total of 39 GMs and 100 titled players are participating. Among them top seeded are GM Vladimir Akopian, GM Viktor Laznicka, GM Romain Edouard, GM Yuriy Kryvoruchko
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International Master Narayanan Srinath retained his Asian Junior title while J Saranya, also of Chennai finished runner-up in the Asian Junior girls' championship that concluded at Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates on April 6, 2013. Srinath had won the Asian Junior at Tashkent in June 2012
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Magnus Carlsen has won the Candidates tournament 2013 and will be the official challenger of reigning World Champion Viswanathan Anand. The World Chess Championship 2013 is scheduled for November this year, more information soon onChessdom.com. Magnus Carlsen won the Candidates after a few
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In yet another truly dramatic 13th round of the FIDE World Chess Candidates' Tournament Magnus Carlsen (Norway) caughtVladimir Kramnik (Russia) in first place. Carlsen, who ground down Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan) in 89 moves, is now first on tie-break because of his higher number of wins.
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