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Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Thu Feb 2 18:06:00 2012)
Hou Yifan scored a fine tournament result but lost 1.5-0.5 in a rapid match to Nigel Short who went one better than the 2nd place of last year. Photo © Ray Morris-Hill. | http://www.rmhphoto.eu
The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival took place Tuesday 24th Jan - Thursday 2nd Feb 2012. Peter Svidler, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Michael Adams, Zoltan Almasi, Le Quang Liem, Alexei Shirov and Judit Polgar were amongst the stars. In the final round Hou Yifan drew against Shakhriyar Mamedyarow which allowed Nigel Short to catch her with a fine win against Krishnan Sasikiran. Short went on to beat Hou in a 2 game 10 mins + 5 seconds per move playoff match 1.5-0.5 but could have won the second game had he needed to do so. Read more ....
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012 (Caleta ENG)
Tue 24th Jan 2012 - Thu 2nd Feb 2012 -
Official Site
Gibraltar Open (10 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:100:50:15+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games | Live
Levon Aronian secures 74th Tata Steel victory
74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2012 13
Mark Crowther (Sun Jan 29 19:09:00 2012)
Levon Aronian had done the hard work and took a quick draw against Teimour Rajdabov in the final round. Photo © Frits Agterdenbos. | http://www.chessvista.com
Levon Aronian decided that discretion was the better part of valour and took a very quick draw with white against Teimour Radjabov which secured victory in the 74th Tata Steel tournament for the "best result so far" in his career. Magnus Carlsen finished level with Radjabov after drawing an interesting game with Loek van Wely. They were joined by Fabiano Caruana who beat Boris Gelfand in a very drawish queen ending. Gata Kamsky was the only other winner piling further misery on Veselin Topalov who again misplayed a decent position. Tournament director Jeroen van den Berg confirmed that the 75th event will go ahead at the same time of year in 2013. The field of experience and ambitious youngsters produced exciting chess but Aronian with 7 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses was the dominant figure and clearly a deserved winner. Top seed Magnus Carlsen admitted that his play after round 7 "was a total mess". This will be the only elite chess tournament in the first half of the year unless there are surprise new events. It will be interesting to see what the players do with the time. A-Group Leading Final standings: 1st Aronian 9pts, 2nd-4th Carlsen, Radjabov, Caruana 8pts 5th-6th Ivanchuk, Nakamura 7.5pts. Pentala Harikrishna won the B-Group and Maxim Turov the C-Group both qualify for a group higher next year. Read more ....
74th Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee 2012 (Wijk aan Zee NED)
Sat 14th Jan 2012 - Sun 29th Jan 2012 -
Official Site - Live
74th Tata Steel GpA (14 players 13 Rds SRR Indiv TC:100:50:15+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: GpA | LiveA
74th Tata Steel GpB (14 players 13 Rds SRR Indiv TC:100:50:15+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: GpB | LiveB
74th Tata Steel GpC (14 players 13 Rds SRR Indiv TC:100:50:15+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: GpC | LiveC
Queenstown Chess Classic 2012
Queenstown Chess Classic 2012 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Mon Jan 23 19:25:00 2012)
The Queenstown Chess Classic took place 15th-23rd January 2012. Darryl K Johansen took first place on tie-break after defeating Gawain Jones in the final round. He along with Li Chao B and Zhao Jun finished on 7.5/9. Read more ....
Queenstown Chess Classic 2012 (Queenstown NZL)
Sun 15th Jan 2012 - Mon 23rd Jan 2012 -
Official Site - Results - Live
Queenstown Classic (9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:100:50:15+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games
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TWIC 899 30th January 2012 - 2470 games
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Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012
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Hou shares lead with Adams after defeating Le
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012 8
IM Malcolm Pein (Fri Feb 3 20:07:00 2012)
Hou Yifan beat Le Quang Liem. Photo © | http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com
IM Malcolm Pein reports on Round 8 of the Tradewise Gibraltar Festival. Hou Yifan won yet again this time against Le Quang Liem. She is level with Michael Adams. Read more ....
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IM Malcolm Pein (Thu Feb 2 20:00:00 2012)
Aronian triumph at Wijk aan Zee
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IM Malcolm Pein (Wed Feb 1 19:52:00 2012)
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IM Malcolm Pein (Tue Jan 31 12:37:00 2012)
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