Mark Crowther (Fri 05 Feb 2010 12:03:00 PM UTC)

The London Chess Centre in Euston Road is to close after 18 years due to the termination of the lease.

The new main London Shop will now be in Baker Street.

The final day of shopping will be on Friday 12th February 2010.

Mail order will not be affected and the contact telephone numbers should not change.

Four World Chess Champions have taken part in events in the shop on Euston Road.

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Mark Crowther (Thu 04 Feb 2010 10:06:00 AM UTC)

After 7 rounds SV OSG Baden-Baden is the only team on 100%.

Rounds 8 and 9 and some remaining round 7 games are on the 5th-7th of February 2010.

Mark Crowther (Sun 31 Jan 2010 11:33:00 AM UTC)

The 72nd Corus tournament took place in Wijk aan Zee 15th-31st January 2010.

Final Round 13 Carlsen saved a tricky position against Fabiano Caruana and secured first place alone as his rivals Alexei Shirov and Vladimir Kramnik both drew.

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Mark Crowther (Thu 04 Feb 2010 12:07:00 PM UTC)

The 8th Gibtelecom Chess Festival 2010 took place Tuesday 26th January - 4th February 2010. 10 rounds.

Stars included: Etienne Bacrot, Sergei Movsesian, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Michael Adams, Gata Kamsky, Laurent Fressinet, Ivan Cheparinov, Daniel Fridman etc.

There was a tie for first place. The top four players on tie-break played off in a knockout. Michael Adams beat Jan Gustafsson 2-1 and Francisco Vallejo Pons beat Chanda Sandipan 1.5-0.5. Adams beat Vallejo 1.5-0.5 in the final of the playoff to take the title.

Mark Crowther (Thu 04 Feb 2010 10:15:00 AM UTC)

The Moscow Open took place 30th January - 7th February 2010 and was again pretty strong, as it immediately precedes the 9th Aeroflot Open, many players compete in both. Konstantin Chernyshov, Evgeny Bareev, Le Quang Liem and Ernesto Inarkiev finished on 7/9 with Chernyshov having the best tie-break (most wins).

Alexei Gubajdullin, the top seed in the B tournament was disqualified. The organisers believed he manipulated his ratiing prior to the event to lose enough points (57) to get under the 2300 limit for this event and the following Aeroflot Open (here the limit is 2400 and he made the draw for round 1).

Mark Crowther (Fri 29 Jan 2010 11:25:00 AM UTC)

The 70th Armenian Championships 2010 took place in Yerevan Thursday 21st Jan 2010 - Sunday 31st Jan 2010. Avetik Grigoryan took clear first place with 7.5/9.

Mark Crowther (Tue 15 Dec 2009 08:39:00 PM UTC)

Magnus Carlsen took clear first place from Vladimir Kramnik. In the end the decisive result was their round one meeting.