European Individual Championships Rijeka 2010 (5)

Mark Crowther (Wed 10 Mar 2010 03:09:00 PM UTC)

The European Individual Championships for men and women take place 6th-18th March 2010 in Rijeka. Leading entries include: Etienne Bacrot, Zoltan Almasi, Sergei Movsesian, David Navara, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Evgeny Alekseev, Alexander Motylev, Michael Adams, Viktor Bologan, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Gabriel Sargissian, Vladimir Akopian, Alexander Moiseenko, Fabiano Caruana, Kiril Georgiev etc.

The first round was on Saturday. The Official site seems very well put together with live games, video and commentaries. However on day one they did have problems coping with the level of traffic, but there has been a steady improvement since then. It marks a trend this year which seems to indicate traffic to official sites has been increasing.

Play starts at 2:30pm UK time. All the live games and their results are now up along with previous rounds complete. chess-results.com has the full official results and standings and the round 5 pairings.

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Amber Blindfold and Rapid 2010 (Lineup)

Mark Crowther (Fri 05 Mar 2010 06:31:00 PM UTC)

The 19th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament takes place at the Palais de la Mediterranée, a legendary hotel on the world-famous Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, March 12th-25th 2010. The event is organized by the Association Max Euwe of chess maecenas Joop van Oosterom, which is based in Monaco. The new number one in the world rankings, Magnus Carlsen, is the top-seed in Nice. Also present are Levon Aronian, the winner of the past two Amber tournaments, and Vladimir Kramnik, who won the Amber tournament a record six times.

Alexander Morozevich withdrew a week before the start of the tournament and has been replaced by the higher rated Alexander Grischuk.

News: Association Max Euwe.

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Rating March 2010 (March 2010)

Mark Crowther (Mon 01 Mar 2010 01:08:00 PM UTC)

The FIDE Rating List for March 2010 has been released. Magnus Carlsen retains his number one spot from Veselin Topalov. Topalov's win in Linares isn't included but it wouldn't quite have been enough to recapture the number one spot anyhow. Kramnik overtook Anand for 3rd spot but again this is a very close call.

42nd Belgrade Women's Tournament 2010 (8)

Mark Crowther (Wed 10 Mar 2010 03:06:00 PM UTC)

The traditional Belgrade Women's Tournament has suffered a bit in strength in recent times from the clash with the European Individual Championships but it has reached its 42nd edition which deserves respect. Tatania Grabuzova is the top seed.

Cannes Festival of Games 2010 (9)

Mark Crowther (Sun 07 Mar 2010 09:00:00 PM UTC)

The Cannes Festival of Games took place 3rd-7th March 2010. The chess event actually started a bit earlier, on the 28th February but traditionally appears as part of the festival. Tigran Gharamian edged out Vadim Malakhatko and Deep Sengupta on tie-break after all finished on 7/9. Only two games from rounds 1-7 are currently available.

Festival da Uva 2010 (9)

Mark Crowther (Sun 07 Mar 2010 09:18:00 PM UTC)

The XI International Chess tournament Festival da Uva 2010 took place 6th-7th March 2010.

Leading players: GMs: Vassily Ivanchuk, Giovanni Vescovi, Rafael Leitao, Gilberto Milos,Andre Diamant, Ulf Andersson, Diego Flores and Andres Rodrigues. IMs: Francisco Trois, Krikor Mekhitarian, Dragan Stamenkovic, Herman Claudius, Everaldo Matsuura, Rodrigo Disconzi, Sandro Merenco and WIM Regina Ribeiro.

The event was a Swiss System event. The first two rounds were g/16, the next two g/30 and the final five g/60. In the final round result if the first game was drawn would be settlled with a g/6/5 (Armageddon playoff) for the full point.

Gilberto Milos' round 6 win against Vassily Ivanchuk is available.

In the final round: Vassily Ivanchuk (7) beat Diego Flores (7) and this was enough to take the title on tie-break. Sandro Mareco (7) beat Rafael Leitao (7) with black to take 2nd place. Both finished on 8 points.

There is a twitter page but I'm unclear where the games and results might appear. It is also worth checking out http://xadrezgaucho.wikispaces.com/2010-TorneioFestaUva-Caxias

81st German Championship 2010 (6)

Mark Crowther (Wed 10 Mar 2010 03:06:00 PM UTC)

The 81st German Championship takes place in Bad Liebenzell, 5th-13th March 2010. Igor Khenkin and Leonid Milov are the top seeds.

128th Varsity Chess Match 2010 (1)

Mark Crowther (Sat 06 Mar 2010 07:55:00 PM UTC)

The 128th Varsity Chess Match between Oxford University and Cambridge University took place at the RAC Club, Pall Mall, London on 6th March 2010. The match sponsor was Henry Mutkin. The match was drawn 4-4. News: John Saunders who has a special report at the BCM site..

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Linares 2010 (10)

Mark Crowther (Thu 25 Feb 2010 01:29:00 PM UTC)

The Linares tournament took place in Spain 12th-25th February 2010. Veselin Topalov emerged as the winner for the first time. He beat Boris Gelfand in the final round and edged out Alexander Grischuk by half a point.

Round 10 Results

Vallejo 1/2 Grischuk
Topalov 1-0 Gelfand
Aronian 1-0 Gashimov

Final Standings: Topalov 6.5, Grischuk 6, Aronian 5.5, Gelfand 4, Gashimov 4, Vallejo 4

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London Chess Centre relocates after 18 years (1992-2010)

Gotth' Art Cup 2010 (9)

Reykjavik Open 2010 (9)

Mark Crowther (Wed 03 Mar 2010 07:04:00 PM UTC)

The Reykjavík Open 2010 took place 24th February - 3rd March 2010. Ivan Sokolov edged out Yurij Kozubov, Abhijeet Gupta and Hannes Stefansson on tie-break after all scored 7/9.

Zagreb Open 2010 (9)

Mark Crowther (Thu 04 Mar 2010 08:56:00 PM UTC)

The Zagreb Open took place 25th February - 4th March 2010. Mikhail Ulibin took clear first place with 7/9.

London Chess Classic 2009 (Concluded)

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Polgar - Kaidanov Sicilian Theme Match 2010 (4)

Mark Crowther (Sat 27 Feb 2010 10:28:00 AM UTC)

Judit Polgar played Gregory Kaidanov in a 4 game match in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

They played the following Sicilian Variations: Gm1) Sveshnikov, Gm2) Dragon, Gm3) Najdorf and Gm4) Scheveningen.

The match was drawn 2-2 with white winning every game. Wins for white continued in the Blitz playoff. When that finished 1-1 Polgar won a final Armageddon game (white had 6 minute, black had 5 but white had to win) to win the match. These blitz games don't appear to be available.

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