Aronian defeated by Navara in Tata Steel Rd11 Carlsen and Radjabov close gap

74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2012 11

Mark Crowther (Fri Jan 27 21:15:00 2012)

The 74th Tata Steel tournament saw many surprise results in the 11th of 13 rounds. Levon Aronian who had looked well in control in the event went down to David Navara when he mishandled the opening badly. Game annotations from the Navara press conference recorded by Michiel Abeln in PGN file. Magnus Carlsen also miscalculated and was lost against Veselin Topalov but the position was very difficult. Topalov had a lot of material some of which he returned to break Carlsen's attack but an initiative still remained and further errors meant that Carlsen even ended up winning. Vassily Ivanchuk subsided to a loss against Boris Gelfand in a way that it quite hard to understand. Teimour Radjabov is also half a point off the lead after beating Vugar Gashimov who again played terribly. Karjakin got back to 50% inflicting Van Wely's first defeat. Giri suffered his 4th consecutive defeat, this time to Caruana. Giri completely missed a key idea and he was immediately lost. Kamsky draw Nakamura. 1st Aronian 7.5pts: 2nd-3rd Carlsen, Radjabov 7pts: 4th-5th Caruana, Ivanchuk 6,5pts: 6th Nakamura 6pts. Tata Steel Facebook Page has photos and interviews and they also have a Twitter Account. Round 12 Sat 28th Jan 12:30 GMT Topalov-Giri, Navara-Caruana, Gelfand-Aronian, Radjabov-Ivanchuk, Karjakin-Gashimov, Nakamura-Van Wely, Carlsen-Kamsky. Read more ....

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Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012

Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012 Games and Results

Mark Crowther (Mon Jan 23 21:17:00 2012)

The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival takes place Tuesday 24th Jan - Thursday 2nd Feb 2012. Peter Svidler, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Michael Adams, Zoltan Almasi, Le Quang Liem, Alexei Shirov and Judit Polgar are amongst the stars. Read more ....

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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 ....