Last updated: Sunday 20th May 2012 1:52 pm

Kasparov Simul at the World Chess Championship

World Chess Championship 2012 Kasparov Simul

Mark Crowther (Sun May 20 12:41:00 2012)

Garry Kasparov in simul action. Photo © Alexey Yushenkov. | http://moscow2012.fide.com

Garry Kasparov attended the World Chess Championship on May 18th 2012 during game 6. After the well reported press appearances he gave a simultaneous exhibition against some Russian and European Juniors. He drew two games. Three of the games and some photos below. Read more ....

World Chess Championship 2012 (Moscow RUS)
Fri 11th May 2012 - Wed 30th May 2012 - Official Site

World Championship (2 players 12 Rds Match Indiv TC:120m:60m:15m+30spm(61)) - Games in PGN: Games | Live

US Chess Championship Recaps for 2012

US Chess Championships 2012 Videos

Mark Crowther (Thu May 17 17:44:00 2012)

US Championships 2012 Recaps. Photo © | http://www.USChessChamps.com/video

The live coverage of the US Chess Championships fronted by Jennifer Shahade, Ben Finegold and Mike Klein and produced by Macauley Peterson has been a lot of fun as have the player interviews. Watch the daily recaps. Read more ....

US Championship 2012 (Saint Louis USA)
Tue 8th May 2012 - Sun 20th May 2012 - Official Site - Live

ch-USA 2012 (12 players 11 Rds SRR Indiv ) - Games in PGN: Games | Live

ch-USA w 2012 (10 players 9 Rds SRR Indiv ) - Games in PGN: Women Games | Women Live

20th Sigeman and Co Malmo 2012

20th Sigeman and Co Malmo 2012 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Wed May 16 21:40:00 2012)

Venue, the Savoy Hotel in Malmo. Photo © | http://www.sigeman-chess.com/

The 20th anniversary of the first Sigeman and Co tournament took place in Malmo 9th-16th May 2012. Top seed Fabiano Caruana added yet more rating points this year with 5,5.7 and a 2853 performance. Peter Leko took second place with 5/7. Anish Giri won in the final round to hold on to most of his rating points with 4/7. Giri has had exams this year and his play has gone slightly backwards but I think school is important and there isn't much to worry about. Nils Grandelius gained a lot finishing on the same score. Read more ....

20th Anniversary Sigeman & Co 2012 (Malmo SWE)
Wed 9th May 2012 - Wed 16th May 2012 - Official Site - Live

20th Sigeman & Co (8 players 7 Rds SRR Indiv TC:120m:60m:30m) - Games in PGN: Games | Live

Win a Playstation 3 and PURE Chess Game in Caption Competition

Caption Competition PS3 and Pure Chess

Mark Crowther (Fri May 11 11:03:00 2012)

Karpov at Disney. Just come up with a caption. | http://www.chess.co.uk/twic

CHESS Magazine in conjunction with PURE Chess has a fantastic caption competition where the prize is a PlayStation 3 with Pure Chess' new chess software on it. Full details as to how to enter below. Closing date for entries: 31st May 2012. Winner will be announced in early July 2012. Read more ....

Ivanchuk leads Capablanca Memorial at the half way stage

47th Capablanca Memorial 2012 5.2

Mark Crowther (Wed May 9 16:25:00 2012)

Vassily Ivanchuk leads the 47th Capablanca Memorial with 3.5/5 going into the rest day. Ivanchuk completely outplayed Viktor Laznicka in a complex Nimzo Indian. Vladimir Potkin beat Yuniesky Quesada Perez with a conversion to a winning King and Pawn ending that proved deceptive for his opponent. Ian Nepomniachtchi's disappointing play continues with a dull draw against Leinier Dominguez Perez. Read more ....

XLVII Capablanca Memorial 2012 (Havana CUB)
Thu 3rd May 2012 - Mon 14th May 2012 - Official Site - Live- Daily reports

Capablanca Mem Elite (6 players 10 Rds DRR Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games | Live

Capablanca Mem Prem (10 players 9 Rds SRR Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Premier Games

Capablanca Mem Ab1 (10 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1))

Capablanca Mem Ab2 (10 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1))

The Week in Chess Magazine

TWIC 914 14th May 2012 - 1763 games V2 15th May Copenhagen Challenge corrected

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Watch live games

Tournaments for Sunday 20th May 2012 combined with links to official website, live coverage and PGN file
Event	Site	FED	UK Time	Rd
Web	Live	PGN
NEW LIVE GAMES SERVER
World Championship	Moscow	RUS	12:00	7
Other events today
TCh-HUN 2011-12	Budapest	HUN		11
Serbia Cup Final	Kragujevac	SRB	09:00	7
ch-CZE 2012	Kouty nad Desnou	CZE	09:00	9
71st ch-GEO 2012	Tbilisi	GEO	12:00	7
10th Somov Mem	Kirishi	RUS	12:00	8

Tournament Dossiers

Games, results and stories gathered together on one page

US Chess Championships 2012

20th Sigeman and Co Malmo 2012

World Chess Championship 2012

4NCL 2011-12

47th Capablanca Memorial 2012

Topalov Vienna U18 Clock Simul

Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2012

Italian Team Championships 2012

Alexander the Great Open 2012

Icelandic Championship 2012

2nd Women Masters in Jiangsu Wuxi 2012

14th Dubai Open 2012

Malcolm Pein Articles

Anand-Gelfand World Championship Game 5 another draw

World Chess Championship 2012 5

IM Malcolm Pein (Sat May 19 15:20:00 2012)

Anand held with white easily by Gelfand. Photo © | http://moscow2012.fide.com

A dreadfully dull game left the world championship match between Vishy Anand and Boris Gelfand tied 2.5-2.5 at Moscow. Game 5 saw Anand play white and he switched to 1.e4 perhaps in an attempt to sharpen the play. For the second time in the match the challenger wrong-footed the champion by playing a defence not previously in his repertoire and Anand was left somewhat unprepared. Gelfand usually plays the Sicilian Najdorf or Petroff Defence but he uncorked the Sicilian Sveshnikov and equalised easily. Read more ....