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Video interview of Karpov in Oslo about Magnus Carlsen

August 9, 2013, 2:17 am
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Carlsen has his chance of a lifetime

Anatoly Karpov, the former world chess champion, talks about the upcoming showdown between Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand reigning world champion in India
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Aronian in Norway

August 9, 2013, 2:43 am
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British Championship LIVE!

August 9, 2013, 7:00 am
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Limerick chess prodigy wins gold

August 9, 2013, 10:00 am
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Limerick chess prodigy wins European gold
Lynda Foley | August 8, 2013

A RAHEEN teenager is the new champion of European chess.

Diana Mirza (13) won gold at the European Union Youth Chess Championships in Austria yesterday.

She is a member of the St Michael’s Chess Club and has been playing chess since she was four.

Diana, whose parents are from Romania, just finished sixth class in Limerick School Project and will begin Coláiste Chiaráin in September.

Source: http://www.limerickpost.ie
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Vila de Poble Nou Rapid

August 9, 2013, 11:00 am
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The 13th Obert Internacional Vila de Poble Nou is set to take place on Sunday 11th August at the Centre Cívic Can Felipa, in Sant Marti neighborhood in Barcelona.

The tournament is being organized by Club d’Escacs Ateneu Colón, established back in 1889.

The playing format is 10-round Swiss with the rapid time control 15′+5”. Already more than 100 players are signed to take participation.

Participants (top seeds):

1. GM Alonso Rosell Alvar ESP 2550
2. GM Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel ESP 2547
3. GM Barsov Alexei UZB 2530
4. GM Rizouk Aimen ALG 2527
5. GM Flores Rios Mauricio CHI 2519
6. IM Guerra Mendez Jose Angel CUB 2516
7. GM Perez Mitjans Orelvis ESP 2475
8. IM Asis Gargatagli Hipolito ESP 2474
9. GM Muñoz Pantoja Miguel ESP 2456
10. IM Panelo Marcelo ARG 2438
11. IM Prasca Sosa Rafael VEN 2426
12. IM Alonso Moyano Jonathan ESP 2420
13. IM Pulvett Daniel VEN 2415
14. IM Perpinya Rofes Lluis Maria ESP 2403
15. IM Sequera Paolini Jose VEN 2394
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Final Selection of Players: SportAccord Mind Games 2013

August 9, 2013, 12:00 pm
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FIDE publishes the list of players who have been selected to participate in the SportAccord Mind Games 2013.

Men

Karjakin, Sergey RUS
Grischuk, Alexander RUS
Aronian, Levon ARM
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE
Dominguez Perez, Leinier CUB
Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR
Radjabov, Teimour AZE
Le, Quang Liem VIE
Wang, Hao CHN
Wang, Yue CHN
Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA
Kamsky, Gata USA
Leko, Peter HUN
Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR
Giri, Anish NED

Women

Koneru, Humpy IND
Hou, Yifan CHN
Muzychuk, Anna SLO
Dzagnidze, Nana GEO
Lagno, Kateryna UKR
Kosteniuk, Alexandra RUS
Gunina, Valentina RUS
Stefanova, Antoaneta BUL
Ju, Wenjun CHN
Sebag, Marie FRA
Zhao, Xue CHN
Kosintseva, Tatiana RUS
Cramling, Pia SWE
Ushenina, Anna UKR
Paehtz, Elisabeth GER
Cmilyte, Viktorija LTU
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Tarlev winner of the 6th Arad Open

August 9, 2013, 2:13 pm
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The 6th Arad Open took place from 31st July to 9th August in the Great Concert Hall of the City Cultural Palace in Arad, Romania.

Ukrainian International Master Konstantin Tarlev edged Hungarian Grandmaster Attila Czebe on tie-break to claim the winner’s trophy in the main Open Tournament. Both players finished the event on 7,5 points from nine games. In the final round Tarlev defeated GM Balog Imre, winner of the previous two tournaments in Arad.

The Festival consisted of the Open Tournament, 9-round event which was held on 3-9th August, the U16 Tournament, 7-round FIDE rated event on 31st July – 3rd August, and U8-U10 Tournaments, 9-round events valid for Romanian ratings on 31st July – 3rd August.

The additional events included FIDE rated Blitz Tournament, Fischer Random Tournament, and bughouse exhibitions.

The Festival was organized by the Sah Club Vados and tournament director was IO Alin Campeanu. The total prize fund was 8000 EUR.

Official website

Final standings (top finishers):

1 IM Tarlev Konstantin UKR 2545 – 7.5
2 GM Czebe Attila HUN 2467 – 7.5

3 IM Georgescu Tiberiu-Marian ROU 2419 – 7
4 IM Enchev Ivajlo BUL 2450 – 7
5 IM Filip Lucian ROU 2453 – 7
6 NM Doros Radu-Marian ROU 2307 – 7
7 FM Dobre Claudiu-Cristian ROU 2331 – 7
8 GM Stojanovic Dalibor BIH 2514 – 7
9 IM Arngrimsson Dagur ISL 2385 – 7
10 IM Bogdan Dan ROU 2365 – 7

11 GM Shishkin Vadim UKR 2508 – 6.5
12 GM Sedlak Nikola SRB 2586 – 6.5
13 IM Cvetkovic Srdjan SRB 2352 – 6.5
14 IM Kozhuharov Spas BUL 2461 – 6.5
15 CM Deac Bogdan-Daniel ROU 2224 – 6.5
16 IM Anton Teodor ROU 2442 – 6.5
17 NM Bonte Andrei-Mihai ROU 2270 – 6.5
18 CM Dolana Andrei-Theodor ROU 2178 – 6.5
19 IM Petrisor Adrian-Marian ROU 2401 – 6.5
20 IM Szalai Kornel HUN 2419 – 6.5
21 WIM Foisor Mihaela-Veronica ROU 2212 – 6.5

22 GM Balog Imre HUN 2534 – 6
23 FM Posedaru Bogdan ROU 2272 – 6
24 GM Abramovic Bosko SRB 2429 – 6
25 IM Petenyi Tamas SVK 2480 – 6
26 FM Horvath Zsolt HUN 2397 – 6
27 GM Murariu Andrei ROU 2533 – 6
28 IM Dragomirescu Robin-Alexandru ROU 2368 – 6
29 CM Pop Alexandru ROU 2284 – 6
30 FM Rusan Paul-Cristian ROU 2289 – 6
31 FM Voiteanu Gabriel ROU 2250 – 6
32 IM Mozes Ervin ROU 2207 – 6
33 CM Vasile Claudiu-Daniel ROU 2171 – 6
34 NM Marinescu Mircea ROU 2169 – 6
35 FM Vrencian Lehel ROU 2190 – 6
36 IM Ardeleanu Alin ROU 2321 – 6
37 NM Gilea Lucian ROU 2296 – 6
38 Pulito Alberto ITA 2295 – 6
39 I Costachi Mihnea ROU 2150 – 6
40 GM Kasparov Sergey BLR 2484 – 6
41 CM Tomici Stefan ROU 2223 – 6
42 CM Secheres Adrian-Simion ROU 2140 – 6
43 Har-Even Abir ISR 2093 – 6
44 CM Dombi-Marias Rudolf ROU 1994 – 6

45 IM Baratosi Daniel ROU 2402 – 5.5
46 CM Horvat Dan-Sebastian ROU 2209 – 5.5
47 FM Balla Tamas-Kristof ROU 2376 – 5.5
48 I Chima Radu-Niculin ROU 2072 – 5.5
49 IM Florescu Codrut-Constantin ROU 2160 – 5.5
50 IM Vasiesiu Dan ROU 2426 – 5.5
51 CM Dicu Razvan-Stefan ROU 2228 – 5.5
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Gibraltar Junior International 2013

August 9, 2013, 2:16 pm
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The 3rd Gibraltar Junior International Chess Festival will run from 15th to 20th August at the Caleta Hotel and follows the successful pattern of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, offering some good and very competitive chess-playing opportunities with an equally strong social, fun and educational programme.

Age Groups:

Under 16 on 1/1/13 ( Born 1997 or later), (Maximum FIDE elo rating 2300 on May 1st 2013)
Under 12 on 1/1/13 (Born 2001 or later)

The prize fund total is £10,000. The winner in the U16 group will win £1,200, while the winner in U12 group will be awarded with £1,000.

Visiting Celebrity Chess Players: Viktorija Cmilyte (GM, Lithuania), Pia Cramling (GM, Sweden), Juan Manuel Bellon (GM, Spain), Jovanka Houska (IM, England), Stuart Conquest (GM, England).

More information on the official website
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Chess helps your brain think

August 9, 2013, 2:25 pm
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Chess cool for thinking kids
James Greenland
Last updated 13:00 09/08/2013

Chess. It's a thinking person's game, and you need only your brain to play, boasts grand master-in-the-making Roderick Morrison.

Nayland College hosted an interschool regional chess tournament yesterday, with a bumper turnout of 164 keen young competitors suggesting that the traditional board game might be making a comeback, among even the coolest kids.

Friends Fabian Strauch, 11, and Roderick Morrison, 12, both learned to play chess under the tutelage of their fathers, and both honestly admit they have never beaten them - yet.

Roderick, of Nelson College Preparatory School, said he had played chess "since he could lift a piece". He liked the strategic board game because it "doesn't run on batteries", and you "don't need wi-fi" to play, like many computer games require these days.

Fabian said, frankly, "it's just a really good board game".

Nayland maths teacher Andrea Adair was charged with keeping the peace in the frantic chess hall, which hosted 539 individual matches between competitors from primary, intermediate, and secondary schools from across Nelson and Tasman.

Adair also organised a sausage sizzle fundraiser, with proceeds appropriately going towards the purchase of a giant chess set for the college.

"It feels like this is the revival of chess," she said.

"There are more than double the number of competitors as last year. It just shows that young people are not just about video games. Some kids do still want that mental challenge."

She said chess, a game of logic and strategy traditionally popular among males, was clearly also appealing to girls, who made up at least half of the competition.

Adair said all players were fair and put fun ahead of serious competition.

"It's great the academic kids have an opportunity to compete, and not at sports.

"It's not all about sports, and these kids really embrace it."

The tournament was brought to Nelson by Auckland company Chess Power, and was arbitrated by Bruce Pollard, who said Nelson's regional tournament was by far the most well-attended in the country.

"Nelson are over-achievers at chess," he said.

He said the top 20 players from each region would be invited to compete at the national championships in Auckland next month.

Ten-year-old Rosie Brazendale, of Motupipi Primary School in Takaka, said she was having heaps of fun, and it had been worth waking up at 6am to drive to Nelson.

Hira School's Chi Kavanagh, 10, went out of his way to thank the people who had organised the chess tournament, the first he'd ever taken part in."[Chess] helps your brain think," he said.

Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz
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Polgar Chess University now back on ICC

August 9, 2013, 2:26 pm
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Welcome to the all-new Polgar Chess University, where chess students of all levels, no matter where they live, have an opportunity to learn chess from some of the best instructors in the game. GM Susan Polgar, former Women's World Chess Champion, created this online school with the dream of bringing expert advice and training to chess enthusiasts around the world at a very affordable cost.

Curriculum Structure

Susan herself developed the structured curriculum, personally teaching many of the courses along with other top chess players and professional instructors who will be joining the faculty as the school grows. Polgar Chess University is offered in this format:

- Courses identified by level — Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced
- Three general courses, one at each level, run concurrently
- Course lessons are prerecorded lectures that may be viewed at your convenience.
- Your purchased lessons are yours forever. Download the lessons to your computers and devices.
- Your purchased videos are always available in your "My Downloadable Products" section.
- Courses can be imported into iTunes an sync'd on all your iDevices.

Sample Lessons

See for yourself what Polgar Chess University has to offer. Here is a sample full lesson in each track for your FREE viewing.

Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced

Full Lessons

Please view individual lessons for each track below. We recommend watching each track in lesson order from the beginning of each level.

JUMP TO: BEGINNER | INTERMEDIATE | ADVANCED
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The Grand Prix Attack Bb5 System with GM Perelshteyn ... and more

August 9, 2013, 10:01 pm
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The Grand Prix Attack Bb5 System with GM Perelshteyn



Carlsen vs Vallejo - Closed Sicilian Domination
Posted on August 08,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos. Carlsen opens with 1. e4 and Vallejo-Pons responds with the Sicilian Defense with 1. ..c5, however from there the opening takes a strange twist in move order and ends up with a Closed Sicilian by Carlsen. It seemed that black got the worst of the opening because he essentially wasted an important tempo with an early ..a6 and also white managed to achieve an annoying way of stopping black from castling early in the game. Carlsen achieved a sizable[...]

The Grand Prix Attack Bb5 System with GM Perelshteyn
Posted on August 05,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos. The Grand Prix Attack is one of the most popular sidelines for white against the Sicilian Defense, sidestepping the main lines in favor of a more narrowly targeted battle in the opening. The Grand Prix Attack Bb5 systems are highly regarded by many leading Grandmasters as the positional ideas behind his early bishop maneuver are fundamentally very solid - white plays to exchange his light-squared bishop early in the game, and then strives to plac[...]

Carlsen vs Nakamura - Insane Tactics in the Queen's Gambit
Posted on July 31,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos. Carlsen opens with 1. d4 and Nakamura responds with the Slav Defense. Carlsen plays an early exchange on d5 and play steers towards the Charousek Variation of the Queen's Gambit. I was not extremely impressed with Nakamura's choice of opening with black as Carlsen was able to gain an extremely rapid lead in development followed by a very solid position and finally mobile pawns in the center. Carlsen skillfully exploited a superior position by emb[...]

Stonewall Defense with GM Perelshteyn
Posted on July 29,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos. The Stonewall Defense is an exceptionally solid choice for black against 1. d4, based on strong positional ideas that are very tough to crack! The Stonewall Defense involves placing your pawns on the light squares (..d5, e6, and f5) - granting black an iron grip on the center and making it extremely difficult for white to achieve thematic breaks involving an e4 push. While black does have problems with developing his light-squared bishop on c8, i[...]

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Howell in his own class at British Championship

August 9, 2013, 10:20 pm
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Radjabov & Aronian lead the World Cup Poll with 1 day to go

August 9, 2013, 10:30 pm
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Exclusive info and behind the scene fun stuff from the World Cup

August 9, 2013, 11:01 pm
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I will be in Tromsø for the whole month to help the organizer, do commentary, interview, and LIVE updates at the 2013 World Cup.

A lot of info will only be available on twitter. Therefore, be sure to follow @SusanPolgar and @Tromso2014 for all the exclusive tidbits, information, updates, behind the scene fun stuff, and photos right from the playing venue.

Don't miss out this spectacular event with the top Superstars such as Aronian, Kramnik, Caruana, Karjakin, Nakamura, Morozevich, Radjabov, Ivanchuk, Grischuk, Ponomariov, Gelfand, Dominguez, Mamedyarov, Kamsky, and many more...
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Practical tactic review

August 10, 2013, 12:00 am
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White to move. Can you find the most efficient continuation for White?
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Odessa Chess TV

August 10, 2013, 5:30 am
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Tromsø World Cup Players' Info

August 10, 2013, 6:00 am
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World Cup Opening Gala: It will be held at Tromsø town center on Saturday, August 10 from 12:00 to 14:00.

There will be simultaneous exhibition and blitz chess with Tromsø 2014 Ambassador Anatoly Karpov. Norwegian legendary GM Simen Agdestein will dazzle the fans with an exciting blindfold game. Susan Polgar will provide live commentary and co-host the show with Jan Sigmund Berglund.

See downtown Tromsø, visit local shops, and explore the historic city. It is optional for the World Cup participants and delegates. However, it is highly recommended if you have never been to Tromsø. Bus transportation will be provided from Scandic Hotel at 11:30. Return trip will be at 14:00 from the Town Hall.

Mandatory players’ meeting: The meeting will be held on Saturday, August 10th at 17:00 at Scandic Hall.

The Opening Reception: The reception will be held at the University of Tromsø on Saturday, August 10th at from 19:30 to 21:00. This is the official opening of the World Cup. Bus transportation from Scandic Hotel and Rica Ishavs Hotel will be provided at 19:00 to the University of Tromsø. Return trip will be at 21:30.

Breakfast is served daily from 06:30 to 09:30 on weekdays (Sat. 07:30 – 10:30 and Sun. 08:00 – 11:00). Breakfast is included with your hotel stay.

Lunch buffet is served daily from 11:00 to 14:00 on weekdays (Sat/Sun. 12:00 – 14:00). The price is 145 NOK per person.

Dinner is served every day at the same time from 17:00 to 22:00. The price is 185 NOK per person.

We also recommend the Live Lounge, located near the playing hall, where you can see the LIVE games on big screen in a relaxing environment.

Side Events: All side events will be held at Scandic Hall.

August 13: Arctic Chess Blitz; August 16-18 Arctic Chess; August 17 Jekta Storsenter Cup; August 19 Arctic Chess Blitz; August 22 Blåmannen Blitz; August 24 Scandic Rapid; August 25 Scandic Blitz; August 28 Tromsdalen Blitz

Leisure Activities: See information desk or see http://www.visittromso.no/en/

Social Programs: Fishing trip to Hella, Date and time: To be announced

Trip to the Cable Car for panoramic view of the city, including the midnight sun, Date and time: To be announced

Closing Ceremony: It will be at Sparebank 1 Nord-Norge, on Tuesday September 3 at 19:00. Further information: To be announced

Shopping: Jekta Shopping center is conveniently located right near the Scandic Hotel. The center is within two to three minute walk from the playing venue. The Jekta Shopping center has a large variety of shops, including pharmacy.

Check-out: Please inform the organizers when you decide to departure from the hotel.

Payment: For all matters concerning prize money, please contact FIDE Treasurer, Ms. Danara Shovunova.

We wish you a pleasant stay in Tromsø!

Best regards,
The Organizing Committee
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Fischer’s chess precocity

August 10, 2013, 6:30 am
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By Shelby Lyman

In retrospect, Bobby Fischer’s chess precocity was mind-boggling.

In 1958 at 15 he was the world’s youngest grandmaster.

If we look at his early recorded games we encounter evidence of a remarkably mature approach to playing chess.

How did this self-taught Brooklyn boy become so good so fast? In particular, whence the early maturity of style?

The clue may be found in his unusual beginnings. Chessboards have two sides to accommodate two players. But Bobby’s early experiences were solitary.

When his sister Joan defaulted as an opponent, later explaining that “we Fischers do not like to lose,” the younger brother - abandoned to his own resources - had to do it alone.

He would first make a move from one side of the board, then from the other.

We can imagine Bobby Fischer with the black pieces playing Bobby Fischer with the white pieces. Both of his avatars, Bobby One and Bobby Two, of course, unwilling to give an inch or cede a single square. As much as each passionately wanted to win, each hated even more to lose.

Willy-nilly, the games would have mimicked the wariness of modern grandmaster play.

Did this kind of play boost his early maturity.

Is this fanciful reconstruction realistic? There is no way to know.

But we do know that he had an enormous capacity to do it alone. Perhaps an interval of solitaire chess, Fischer-style, did play a role in his early development?

More here.
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Not afraid of Kramnik

August 10, 2013, 7:30 am
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By Prudence Phiri
Fri 09 Aug. 2013, 14:00 CAT

GILLIAN Bwalya say he will not be intimidated by his first round opponent Grand Master Vladimir Kramnik's record in the Chess World Cup Championship.

Kramnik is a former world champion and was the Classical World Chess champion from 2000 to 2006 before he won the World Chess champion from 2006 to 2007.

The Russian has also won three gold medals and three individual medals at the chess olympiads.

In an interview, Bwalya who was scheduled to leave for Norway last night ahead of Chess World Cup games, said he would ride on the underdog tag to go past the first round.

"I know he will underrate me and I will utilise that to beat him. I will not be intimidated by his record," Bwalya said.

He said he had trained hard and was ready for the challenge.

"I will not give up easily, I have worked hard for this tournament," Bwalya said.

His coach Aron Banda said Bwalya had read a lot of books written by Kramnik and was conversant with his style of play.

"We used most of the books written by him (Kramnik) and Bwalya knows how to tackle him, we know his type of play," Banda said.

Bwalya, scheduled to play his first game on Sunday, is among the 128 players participating in the tournament which has six Africans.

The other Africans are Amin Bassem, Ahmed Adly, Samy Shoker and Essam Gindy from Egypt and Ali Sebber of Morocco.

No African has ever gone passed the first round of the tournament.

Bwalya qualified to the World Championships after winning the Zone 4.3 in Botswana.

Source: http://www.postzambia.com
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Greatest tournament success of career

August 10, 2013, 8:30 am
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Truro star on the rise after German victory
West Briton

TRURO'S Michael Adams scored one of the best results of his career in winning the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting, taking his world ranking up to 12, writes Rhod Mitchell.

The 41-year-old Grandmaster was the only undefeated player in the ten-strong field of grandmasters (five wins and four draws) and on his way to overall victory beat former World Champion and current No 3 Vlad Kramnik and World No4, Fabiano Caruana.

The former Truro School pupil, described his victory as the greatest tournament success of his career.

He said: "I did not expect such a result. That everything went so well makes me very happy."

Adams' rating is now set to rise to 2,761 (gaining 21 points) which is his highest rating ever. His highest world ranking was No 4.

Adams, is now based at Taunton, but his parents still live in Truro.

Read more: http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk
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