August 26, 2013, 10:01 pm
The Grand Prix Attack Bb5 System with GM PerelshteynRuy Lopez, Chigorin Defense Gambits with GM KritzPosted on August 26,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos. The Chigorin Variation of the Ruy Lopez is a very common line because black obtains a solid position and good space in the center. White's strategy is often similar to a coiled spring, conceding space in the center while avoiding the creation of any weaknesses in his position, and focusing on the targeted development of minor pieces. However, things can quickly change in the Chigorin Variation of the Ruy Lopez as there are multiple ways that blac[...]
Rocking the Ruy Lopez with GM KritzPosted on August 19,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings. The Ruy Lopez is the most popular chess opening in the history of the game. The Ruy Lopez, also known as the Spanish Game, has been played by nearly every world chess champion in the last few hundred years and continues to enjoy immense popularities at all levels in the 21st century. So just why does everybody like to play the Ruy Lopez so much? Although the Ruy Lopez has been studied very deeply and the theory is extensive, chess players are sti[...]
Damian Lemos vs Magnus Carlsen - Analysis by Damian LemosPosted on August 15,2013 By GM Damien Lemos in Strategy & Game Review, All Articles w/ Videos. In this game GM Damien Lemos analyzes one of his games played against GM Magnus Carlsen. This game is from World Youth Chess Championship Under14 , played in Halkidiki, Greece. 2003.By the time this game was played both players were 13 years old. You'll find a tough Kings Indian defense worth analyzing. The game showcases the two 13 year old prodigies battling heads in an ultra aggressive style. If you want to learn more about the King's Indian D[...]
King's Indian Defense by GM KritzPosted on August 12,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings. The King's Indian Defense is the most double-edged response for black against 1. d4, by far maintaining the most decisive results of all the queen pawn opening systems. The reason for this is very simple - black immediately creates imbalances in the position by allowing white to create a large space advantage in the center (normally with pawns on c4, d4, and e4) while black calmly develops his kingside fianchetto and plans a targeted strike in th[...]
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August 26, 2013, 10:10 pm
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VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s international chess grandmaster Le Quang Liem has been awarded 10 points to his Elo ratings following his outstanding performance at recent international competitions.With his new Elo rating of 2,712, Liem returned to 35th position in the world chess rankings of 2700chess.com.
This has been Liem’s highest achievement since his Elo hit a record high of 2717 in September 2011
At the current Chess World Cup in Norway Liem defeated three strong rivals: Oliver Barbosa (the Philippines), Vallejo Pons (Spain) and Alexander Grischuk (Russia) to enter the fourth round.
However, he was narrowly beaten by the Chess World Cup defending champion Peter Svidler (Russia) in their tie-break games.
After the tournament, he flew straight to the US for study at the Webster University without attending the 27th SEA Games in Myanmar late this year.
During his study in the US, he will attend several tournaments to improve his performance capacity. Webster University houses the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) headed by world class grandmaster Susan Polgar, who provided him with valuable experience to help complete at the Chess World Cup.
The university will be a great place for Liem to study with several world class Grandmasters, including So Wesley (the Philippines) – Liem’s archrival in Southeast Asia.
Source: http://english.vietnamnet.vn
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August 26, 2013, 11:48 pm
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The Festival was organized by the historical chess club Scacchistica Milanese, the Italian Chess federation and ScacchiRandagi.
The Festival consisted of five playing sections:
- Master, for players with FIDE or Italian rating equal to or more than 2000
- Open A, for players with FIDE or Italian rating between 1750 and 2050
- Open B, for players with FIDE or Italian rating under 1800
- Open C, for players with FIDE or Italian rating under 1500
- Open U16, for all players born after 31th December 1996
The main Master section had 58 participants. Ukrainian Grandmaster Andrey Sumets took a clear first place with 7,0/9 points to win the top prize of 1000 EUR.
The total prize fund was 7000 EUR.
Torneo Magistrale final standings:
1. GM Sumets Andrey 2577 UKR – 7,0
2-4. GM Colovic Aleksandar 2502 MKD, GM Sulava Nenad 2480 CRO and GM Sveshnikov Evgeny 2524 LAT – 6,5
5-10. GM Abasov Nijat 2492 AZE, GM David Alberto 2589 ITA, IM Hunt Adam C 2430 ENG, IM Ducarmon Quinten 2438 NED, IM Qendro Llambi 2327 ALB and IM Castaldo Folco 2433 ITA – 6,0
11-13. GM Levin Felix 2478 GER, FM Aghayev Miragha 2319 ITA and FM Ranieri Fabrizio 2246 ITA – 5,5 etc
Full standings of all sections are available on the official website
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August 27, 2013, 12:00 am
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White to move and win.
Source: Kling, 1852
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The chess engine Onno is off to a good start at the TCEC Season 2, after a win with black in round 1. The 2800+ ELO rated Onno defeated the weakest opponent in the field Firefly 2.6 in a French Tarrasch (Open, Eliskases Variation), after sacrificing three pawns for a knight (replay the game here)
The next game Minkochess 1.3 – Nebula 2 is being played right now, it will be followed by Delphil 3 – Toga II and Junior 13.3 – Arminius . The derby’s of the round Houdini 3 – Sjeng WC2008 and Tornado 4.88 – Stockfish 4 will close the round. All games can be viewed at the official live page of TCEC with special analysis.
Full list of participants / Information / Play at Chessdom Arena
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These are the evaluation graphs, time usage and the depth search of the engines. Onno was always a step ahead
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This is how Onno and Firefly view the game’s development at move 27. Onno evaluates the position as -1.29 score, while Firefly just realizes it is in trouble
Pairings round 1
1 Houdini 3 – Sjeng WC2008
2 Tornado 4.88 – Stockfish 4
3 Rybka 4.1 – Scorpio 2.76
4 Jonny 6 – Komodo 1063
5 Critter 1.6a – Bugchess2 1.9
6 Crafty 23.6 – Bouquet 1.8
7 Gull 2.2 – Gaviota 0.87a8
8 Arasan 16 – Equinox 2b
9 Naum 4.2 – Exchess 7.15b
10 Octochess 5178 – Hiarcs 14
11 Hannibal 220813 – Alfil 13.1
12 Hamsters 0.71 – Shredder 12
13 Spike 1.4 – Redqueen 1.14
14 The Baron 3.35a – Spark 1
15 Junior 13.3 – Arminius 100813
16 Delphil 3 – Toga II 280513
17 Minkochess 1.3 – Nebula 2
18 Firefly 2.6 – Onno 1.27
Shedule and system of TCEC
General Information
As soon as a Stage starts, it will run 24/7 until all games have been played. One game is played at a time – the next one starts automatically. There will be a short break between the Stages, to make sure everything is ok with the computer etc.
Stage 1
Note: this is the current stage! Each season starts off with Stage 1, which is a 7 round Swiss event that consists of 36 engines. The seeding is done by ELO ratings: the highest rated engine meets engine 19, engine 2 meets engine 20 and so on. The top 18 move on to Stage 2, while the rest is out of nTCEC for the current Season. The openings in Stage 1 are chosen randomly per game. The games will be shown from board 18 first, up to board 1 for each round. 126 games are played in Stage 1.
Stage 2
Stage 2 consists of the 18 engines that qualified from Stage 1. It is a single round robin where the openings are chosen randomly. The top 10 move on to Stage 3 while the rest is out of nTCEC for the current Season. 153 games are played in Stage 2.
Stage 3
Stage 3 consists of the 10 engines that qualified from Stage 2. The format for Stage 3 is a double round robin and the openings are chosen randomly per pair so that each engine will play both sides of the same opening against each other. The top 6 will move on to Stage 4 while the rest is out of nTCEC for the current Season. 90 games are played in Stage 3.
Stage 4
Stage 4 consists of the 6 engines that qualified from Stage 3. It is a hexa round robin and will use the same book rules as in Stage 3, meaning that the openings are chosen randomly per pair so that each engine will play both sides of the same opening against each other. The top 2 will qualify to play the Superfinal, while the other 4 engines are out of nTCEC for the current Season. 90 games are played in Stage 4.
Superfinal
After Stage 4 has finished, the top 2 engines will meet in a Superfinal of 48 games. This match is played with 24 different openings so that each engine plays both black and white of the same position. The match will be presented with opening 1 used in games 1 and 2, then opening 2 used in games 3 and 4 etc. If the match is theoretically won for one side before game 48, the match will still continue until all 48 games have been played. In the case of a drawn match there will be a Rapid match of 12 games with a time control of 25′ + 10″. In case it is still tied there will be a Blitz match of 6 games with a time control of 3″ + 2′. When the Superfinal is over, the current Season ends.
The nTCEC Grand Champion
The winner of the Superfinal will be crowned the nTCEC Grand Champion and will keep this title until there is a winner in the next Superfinal. There is no automatic qualification for the reigning Grand Champion, it will have to go all the way through the next Season for it to be able to defend the title.
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August 27, 2013, 11:30 am
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The 28th International Chess Festival “M. Sadoveanu” took place on 18-24th August at the Sport Hall in Iasi, Romania.
Top-seeded GM Costica-Ciprian Nanu won the main Open A with 7,5 points from nine games. 108 players from Moldova, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania competed.
The total prize fund was 26.000 Lei (1 euro = 4,4 lei). There was also Open B event, reserved for U12 juniors.
Iasi is situated in the north-east of Romania (400 km of Bucharest). It is a university, cultural, religious and industrial centre and it is located in the area of the well-known churches and monasteries in the northern Bucovina (Putna, Voronet, Agapia).
Final standings (top finishers):
1 GM Nanu Costica-Ciprian ROU 2529 – 7.5
2 IM Georgescu Tiberiu-Marian ROU 2419 – 7
3 GM Sanduleac Vasile MDA 2417 – 6.5
4 IM Filip Lucian ROU 2453 – 6.5
5 IM Danilov Vladimir ROU 2405 – 6.5
6 GM Manolache Marius ROU 2503 – 6.5
7 IM Soltanici Ruslan MDA 2390 – 6.5
8 CM Martian Dragos-Daniel ROU 2182 – 6.5
9 I Arghirescu Andrei ROU 2045 – 6.5
10 CM Paval George ROU 2233 – 6.5
11 CM Vasile Claudiu-Daniel ROU 2171 – 6.5
12 IM Arnaudov G. Petar BUL 2494 – 6
13 Chircu Vadim MDA 2198 – 6
14 IM Itkis Boris ROU 2391 – 6
15 CM Pop Alexandru ROU 2284 – 6
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The event consisted of four playing groups:
Group A, Open to all / 9 rounds CH-system
Group B, rating Elo U2000 / 9 rounds CH-system
Group C, rating Elo U1600 / 9 rounds CH-system
Group D, rating Elo U1600 / 5 rounds CH-system
The Group A had 397 participants from 39 countries, including 22 Grandmasters and 31 International Masters.
At the end of the tournament, seven players were tied on the first place with 7,5/9 points each: GM Stanislav Novikov RUS 2545, IM Batuhan Dastan TUR 2417, IM Hagen Poetsch GER 2446, GM Alexey Kim KOR 2477, GM Ralf Akesson SWE 2467, IM Jonathan Hawkins ENG 2521 and IM Kacper Drozdowski POL 2437.
Stanislav Novikov is awarded the winner’s trophy thanks to the best tie-break.
Batuhan Dastan and Hagen Poetsch have earned GM norms. Dastan completed his norms and at the age of 16 becomes the youngest Turkish Grandmaster.
The Group B had 221 participants from 30 countries. Dominik Horvath (AUT 1784) took a clear first place with 8,0/9 points.
The Group C had 91 players from seven federations. Local players Nebojsa Ritopecki and Bertalan Molnar shared the first place with 7,5/9 points each.
The Group D had 28 participants. After five rounds of play, Iuliia Zaitceva (RUS) and Thomas Spitzer (AUT) shared the first place with 4,5 points each.
Tournament website
Open A final standings (top finishers):
1. GM Novikov Stanislav RUS 2545 – 7.5
2. IM Dastan M.Batuhan TUR 2417 – 7.5
3. IM Poetsch Hagen GER 2446 – 7.5
4. GM Kim Alexey KOR 2477 – 7.5
5. GM Akesson Ralf SWE 2467 – 7.5
6. IM Hawkins Jonathan ENG 2521 – 7.5
7. IM Drozdowski Kacper POL 2437 – 7.5
8. GM Buhmann Rainer GER 2583 – 7
9. FM Deglmann Ludwig GER 2332 – 7
10. GM Stanec Nikolaus AUT 2516 – 7
11. GM Fier Alexandr BRA 2595 – 7
12. GM Arkell Keith ENG 2444 – 7
13. GM Chatalbashev Boris BUL 2523 – 7
14. GM Cherniaev Alexander RUS 2451 – 7
15. GM Guliyev Namig AZE 2562 – 7
16. GM Krivoborodov Egor RUS 2502 – 6.5
17. IM Pirrot Dieter GER 2377 – 6.5
18. Vavulin Maxim RUS 2360 – 6.5
19. GM Sokolov Ivan NED 2656 – 6.5
20. FM Minko Vladimir RUS 2287 – 6.5
21. FM Lugovskoy Maxim RUS 2372 – 6.5
22. GM Shengelia David AUT 2565 – 6.5
23. IM Manea Alexandru ROU 2390 – 6.5
24. GM Shchekachev Andrei FRA 2527 – 6.5
25. IM Mahdy Khaled AUT 2397 – 6.5
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August 27, 2013, 10:01 pm
The Grand Prix Attack Bb5 System with GM PerelshteynRuy Lopez, Chigorin Defense Gambits with GM KritzPosted on August 26,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos. The Chigorin Variation of the Ruy Lopez is a very common line because black obtains a solid position and good space in the center. White's strategy is often similar to a coiled spring, conceding space in the center while avoiding the creation of any weaknesses in his position, and focusing on the targeted development of minor pieces. However, things can quickly change in the Chigorin Variation of the Ruy Lopez as there are multiple ways that blac[...]
Rocking the Ruy Lopez with GM KritzPosted on August 19,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings. The Ruy Lopez is the most popular chess opening in the history of the game. The Ruy Lopez, also known as the Spanish Game, has been played by nearly every world chess champion in the last few hundred years and continues to enjoy immense popularities at all levels in the 21st century. So just why does everybody like to play the Ruy Lopez so much? Although the Ruy Lopez has been studied very deeply and the theory is extensive, chess players are sti[...]
Damian Lemos vs Magnus Carlsen - Analysis by Damian LemosPosted on August 15,2013 By GM Damien Lemos in Strategy & Game Review, All Articles w/ Videos. In this game GM Damien Lemos analyzes one of his games played against GM Magnus Carlsen. This game is from World Youth Chess Championship Under14 , played in Halkidiki, Greece. 2003.By the time this game was played both players were 13 years old. You'll find a tough Kings Indian defense worth analyzing. The game showcases the two 13 year old prodigies battling heads in an ultra aggressive style. If you want to learn more about the King's Indian D[...]
King's Indian Defense by GM KritzPosted on August 12,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings. The King's Indian Defense is the most double-edged response for black against 1. d4, by far maintaining the most decisive results of all the queen pawn opening systems. The reason for this is very simple - black immediately creates imbalances in the position by allowing white to create a large space advantage in the center (normally with pawns on c4, d4, and e4) while black calmly develops his kingside fianchetto and plans a targeted strike in th[...]
OnlineChessLessons.net is a producer of thousands of free chess articles and free chess videos by FIDE chess masters. They recently released the renowned Empire Chess series that has been taking the chess world by storm. Please consider checking out their chess blog and chess shopwith tons of free updated previews.
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August 27, 2013, 10:02 pm
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In the 12-player round robin championship, Partyusha won the exchange of rook for bishop on move 42 against Bhakti Kulkarni of Goa, a bronze medallist in the recent Asian Indoor Games in Korea. Later, she exploited a pin on her opponent’s bishop to get the full point.
In the meeting between the two international masters of the tournament, Tania Sachdev of Air India missed some winning chances against former national champion, Kolkata based Nisha Mohota with the black pieces in a Catalan opening. After exchanging the queens, Tania grabbed a pawn on 51st move and had a better position, but she let Nisha off the hook on the opposite wing and was forced to agree to a draw in 62 moves.
Defending Champion Mary Ann Gomes of West Bengal drew her second game on the trot, as her opponent, former world junior champion Soumya Swaminathan failed to capitalise Mary’s slightly inferior position in the opening. Though Gomes had an active knight in the ending, against dormant bishop od Soumya, her attempts to squeeze out a win failed.
In the combat between two women from LIC, WGM Swathi Ghate built up an excellent attack against WGM Kiran Monisha Mohanty. She sacrificed her light-coloured bishop to obtain a good position but faltered at the crucial moment. The win slipped from her hands allowing Mohanty to draw the game.
14-year old National Junior Champion Ivana Furtado sacrificed her knight in a complicated position on the 20th move to break open Michelle Catherina’s kingside after which she had little difficulty in wrapping up the game in 30 moves.
WGM Padmini Rout of Odisha routed the debutant GK Monnisha of Tamil Nadu in a Ruy Lopez opening.
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