Last updated: Saturday 28th January 2012 1:54 am
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)
Levon Aronian lost to David Navara. Photo © Frits Agterdenbos. | http://www.chessvista.com
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 ....
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
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012 Games and Results
Mark Crowther (Mon Jan 23 21:17:00 2012)
Hou Yifan is back again on the rock. Photo © | http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com
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 ....
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
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
The Week in Chess Magazine
TWIC 898 23rd January 2012 - 1936 games
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| Event | Site | FED | UK Time | Rd | |||
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| Web | Live | PGN | |||||
| NEW LIVE GAMES SERVER | |||||||
| 74th Tata Steel GpA | Wijk aan Zee | NED | 12:30 | 12 | |||
| 74th Tata Steel GpB | Wijk aan Zee | NED | 12:30 | 12 | |||
| 74th Tata Steel GpC | Wijk aan Zee | NED | 12:30 | 12 | |||
| Gibraltar Open | Caleta | ENG | 14:00 | 5 | |||
| Other events today | |||||||
| 11th Marienbad IMB1 | Marianske Lazne | CZE | 08:00 | 9 | |||
| 11th Marienbad IMB2 | Marianske Lazne | CZE | 08:00 | 9 | |||
| 11th Marienbad GMA | Marianske Lazne | CZE | 08:00 | 9 | |||
| ch-Paracin 2012 | Paracin | SRB | 09:00 | 7 | |||
| TCh-AUT 2 West 11-12 | Vienna | AUT | 14:00 | 7 | |||
| ch-Paracin 2012 | Paracin | SRB | 14:30 | 8 | |||
| ch-Belgrade 2012 | Belgrade | SRB | 16:00 | 7 | |||
| ch-Belgrade w 2012 | Belgrade | SRB | 16:00 | 7 | |||
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74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2012
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IM Malcolm Pein (Thu Jan 26 17:57:00 2012)
Michael Adams against Natalia Zhukova in Round 1. Photo © | http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com
IM Malcolm Pein reports on the opening of the Gibraltar Chess Festival. Michael Adams was held to a draw by Natalia Zhukova in 2010 but he did not let the advantage slip this time. Read more ....
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74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2012 8
IM Malcolm Pein (Wed Jan 25 17:50:00 2012)
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74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2012 7
IM Malcolm Pein (Tue Jan 24 21:30:00 2012)
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IM Malcolm Pein (Mon Jan 23 14:27:00 2012)
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