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NEWSLETTER 159 (June 05, 2014)
NEWSLETTER 159 (June 05, 2014) SILVIO DANAILOV, GARRY KASPAROV AND JORAN AULIN JANSSON – JJ TAKE PART IN THE OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONY OF NO LOGO NORWAY CHESS TOURNAMENT The ECU President Silvio Danailov, the chess legend Garry Kasparov and the President of the Norwegian Chess Federation Joran Aulin Jansson - JJ took part in the official opening ceremony of No Logo Norway Chess Tournament which started on 2nd June in Stavanger and will end on 13th June, 2014. No Logo Norway Chess is the strongest chess tournament this year worldwide. On 3rd June the ECU President Silvio Danailov gave an interview for the Norwegian TV channel NRK TV. On 4th June Mr. Danailov officially opened the second round of the competition by making the first symbolic move in the game between Veselin Topalov and Alexander Grischuk. © Ecuonline.net Page 1 ECU President also took part in the live commentary together with GM Nigel Short and Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam. This year participants in the second edition of the tournament are: Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk, Fabiano Caruana, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Sergey Karjakin, Peter Svidler, Anish Giri and Simen Agdestein. © Ecuonline.net Page 2 © Ecuonline.net Page 3 Standings after round 2 Rk. Name Pts. Berger Wins Black wins i-Ratingprest 1 GM Fabiano Caruana 2,0 1,50 2 1 3472 (+9,50) 2 GM Levon Aronian 1,5 1,00 1 0 2892 (+2,00) 3 GM Simen Agdestein 1,0 1,25 0 0 2783 (+4,10) 4 GM Magnus Carlsen 1,0 1,00 0 0 2767 (-3,00) 5 GM Anish Giri 1,0 1,00 0 0 2754 (-0,00) 6 GM Vladimir Kramnik 1,0 0,75 0 0 2817 (+0,90) 7 GM Alexander Grischuk 1,0 0,50 1 1 2781 (-0,30) 8 GM Peter Svidler 0,5 0,50 0 0 2594 (-4,10) 9 GM Sergey Karjakin 0,5 0,25 0 0 2600 (-4,40) 10 GM Veselin Topalov 0,5 0,25 0 0 2588 (-4,70) Official website: http://norwaychess.com CC ASHDOD ILIT WINS THE ISRAELI NATIONAL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP 2014 CC Ashdod Ilit won the Israeli National Team Championship 2014 with 45 game points. -
1999/6 Layout
Virginia Chess Newsletter 1999 - #6 1 The Chesapeake Challenge Cup is a rotating club team trophy that grew out of an informal rivalry between two Maryland clubs a couple years ago. Since Chesapeake then the competition has opened up and the Arlington Chess Club captured the cup from the Fort Meade Chess Armory on October 15, 1999, defeating the 1 1 Challenge Cup erstwhile cup holders 6 ⁄2-5 ⁄2. The format for the Chesapeake Cup is still evolving but in principle the idea is that a defense should occur about once every six months, and any team from the “Chesapeake Bay drainage basin” is eligible to issue a challenge. “Choosing the challenger is a rather informal process,” explained Kurt Eschbach, one of the Chesapeake Cup's founding fathers. “Whoever speaks up first with a credible bid gets to challenge, except that we will give preference to a club that has never played for the Cup over one that has already played.” To further encourage broad participation, the match format calls for each team to field players of varying strength. The basic formula stipulates a 12-board match between teams composed of two Masters (no limit), two Expert, and two each from classes A, B, C & D. The defending team hosts the match and plays White on odd-numbered boards. It is possible that a particular challenge could include additional type boards (juniors, seniors, women, etc) by mutual agreement between the clubs. Clubs interested in coming to Arlington around April, 2000 to try to wrest away the Chesapeake Cup should call Dan Fuson at (703) 532-0192 or write him at 2834 Rosemary Ln, Falls Church VA 22042. -
2009 U.S. Tournament.Our.Beginnings
Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis Presents the 2009 U.S. Championship Saint Louis, Missouri May 7-17, 2009 History of U.S. Championship “pride and soul of chess,” Paul It has also been a truly national Morphy, was only the fourth true championship. For many years No series of tournaments or chess tournament ever held in the the title tournament was identi- matches enjoys the same rich, world. fied with New York. But it has turbulent history as that of the also been held in towns as small United States Chess Championship. In its first century and a half plus, as South Fallsburg, New York, It is in many ways unique – and, up the United States Championship Mentor, Ohio, and Greenville, to recently, unappreciated. has provided all kinds of entertain- Pennsylvania. ment. It has introduced new In Europe and elsewhere, the idea heroes exactly one hundred years Fans have witnessed of choosing a national champion apart in Paul Morphy (1857) and championship play in Boston, and came slowly. The first Russian Bobby Fischer (1957) and honored Las Vegas, Baltimore and Los championship tournament, for remarkable veterans such as Angeles, Lexington, Kentucky, example, was held in 1889. The Sammy Reshevsky in his late 60s. and El Paso, Texas. The title has Germans did not get around to There have been stunning upsets been decided in sites as varied naming a champion until 1879. (Arnold Denker in 1944 and John as the Sazerac Coffee House in The first official Hungarian champi- Grefe in 1973) and marvelous 1845 to the Cincinnati Literary onship occurred in 1906, and the achievements (Fischer’s winning Club, the Automobile Club of first Dutch, three years later. -
Altogether Now in My Decades of Playing Sub-Optimal Chess, I Have
Altogether now In my decades of playing sub-optimal chess, I have been given several pieces of advice about how best to play simultaneous chess. I have faced several grandmasters over the board in simuls and tried to adopt these tips, but with very little success. In fact, no success. One suggestion was to tactically muddy the waters. The theory being if you play a closed positional game the GM (or whoever is giving the simul) will easily overcome you end in the end with their superior technique. On the other hand, although they are, of course, much better than you tactically if they have 20 odd other boards to focus on, effectively playing their moves at a rate akin to blitz, there is a chance they might slip up and give you some winning chances when faced with a messy position. This is fine in theory and may work well for those players stronger then myself who are adept at tactics but my record of my games shows a whopping nil points for me with this approach. In fact, I have found the opposite to be true. I am pleased to report that I have achieved a couple of draws from playing a completely blocked stagnant position. The key here has been to try to make the games last sufficiently long so that in the end then GM kindly offers you a draw in a desperate attempt to get his last bus home. Although loathsome this is when you want as many of those horrible creatures who play on when they are a rook and a bishop down with no compensation (or similar) to keep on playing against the GM. -
Super GM Lecture and Blitz Wednesday, Jan 16, 2019
Pacific Northwest Chess Center 12020 113th Ave NE #C-200, Kirkland, WA 98034 Super GM Lecture and Blitz Wednesday, Jan 16, 2019 Featured Super GM - GM Bu, Xiangzhi • World’s currently 27th ranked chess player with FIDE Elo 2725 (“Super GM”) • 2018 43rd Chess Olympia Champion (Team China, Batumi, Georgia) • 2017 Chess World Cup Round 4 (Eliminated World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen in Round 3. Watch video here) • 2015 World Team Chess Champion (Team China, Tsaghkadzor, Armenia) • 6th Youngest Chess Grand Master in human history (13 years, 10 months, 13 days) GM Bu, Xiangzhi Bio – Bu was born in Qingdao, a famous seaside city of China in 1985 and started chess training since age 6, inspired by his compatriot GM Xie Jun’s Women’s World Champion victory over GM Maya Chiburdanidze in 1991. A few years later Bu easily won in the Chinese junior championship and went on to achieve success in the international arena: he won 3rd place in the U12 World Youth Championship in 1997 and 1st place in the U14 World Youth Championship in 1998. In 1999 he achieved three GM norms within only two months, which made him the youngest grandmaster at the time, at the age of 13 years 10 months and 13 days, a record that was only broken two years later by GM Sergey Karjakin . In 2000, Bu defeated the Azerbaijani chess talent Teimour Radjabov by 6½-1½ in an eight-game Future World Champions Match organized by Garry Kasparov and was considered a super talent for future world champion contender. In 2004, Bu became the chess champion of China. -
FIDE CANDIDATES TOURNAMENT 2020 Chief Arbiter's Information
FIDE CANDIDATES TOURNAMENT 2020 Yekaterinburg, Russia, 16th March – 5th April 2020 Chief Arbiter’s information Date: The FIDE Candidates Tournament 2020 takes place in Yekaterinburg (Russia) fro m 16th March until 5 th April. Tournament Venue: The playing hall is located in the Hyatt Regency Hotel (second floor), Bo risa Yeltsina Street 8, Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, 620014. Format & System: The 8 players play a double round robin tournament (14 rounds). The winner qualifies fo r the 2020 FIDE World Chess Championship Match. Pairings and draw of colors: The draw for pairings and colors was made in the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation in Moscow, with the presence of the FIDE President, Mr. Arkady Dvorkovich. The participants have the following starting numbers: SNo. Name IRtg FED 1 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2767 FRA 2 GM Ding Liren 2805 CHN 3 GM Giri Anish 2763 NED 4 GM Grischuk Alexander 2777 RUS 5 GM Alekseenko Kirill 2698 RUS 6 GM Nepomniachtchi Ian 2774 RUS 7 GM Wang Hao 2762 CHN 8 GM Caruana Fabiano 2842 USA Note: Teimour Radjabov (SNo.1) is replaced by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Pairings: Round 1 SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo. 1 GM Vac hier-Lagrave Maxime 2767 - GM Caruana Fabiano 2842 8 2 GM Ding Liren 2805 - GM Wang Hao 2762 7 3 GM Giri Anish 2763 - GM Nepomniachtchi Ian 2774 6 4 GM Grischuk Alexander 2777 - GM Alekseenko Kirill 2698 5 Round 2 SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo. 8 GM Caruana Fabiano 2842 - GM Alekseenko Kirill 2698 5 6 GM Nepomniachtchi Ian 2774 - GM Grischuk Alexander 2777 4 7 GM Wang Hao 2762 - GM Giri Anish 2763 3 1 GM Vac hier-Lagrave Maxime 2767 - GM Ding Liren 2805 2 Round 3 SNo. -
Most Exciting Games of 2016
Arkadij Naiditsch Csaba Balogh Sebastien Maze Most exciting games of 2016 Chess Evolution Cover designer Piotr Pielach Typesetting Piotr Pielach ‹www.i-press.pl› First edition 2017 by Chess Evolution Most exciting games of 2016 Copyright © 2017 Chess Evolution All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, photo- copying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher. ISBN 978-83-945362-7-5 All sales or enquiries should be directed to Chess Evolution 2040 Budaors, Nyar utca 16, Magyarorszag e-mail: [email protected] website: www.chess-evolution.com Printed in Hungary TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents 3 Key to symbols 5 Introduction 7 Preface 9 GAME 1 ▷ M. Carlsen (2844) ▶ F. Caruana (2787) 11 GAME 2 ▷ A. Grischuk (2754) ▶ A. Volokitin (2647) 15 GAME 3 ▷ V. Kramnik (2808) ▶ B. Adhiban (2671) 20 GAME 4 ▷ V. Kramnik (2801) ▶ A. Giri (2798) 25 GAME 5 ▷ L. Aronian (2784) ▶ M. Carlsen (2851) 31 GAME 6 ▷ L. Aronian (2795) ▶ A. Giri (2755) 34 GAME 7 ▷ H. Nakamura (2789) ▶ B. Adhiban (2671) 38 GAME 8 ▷ F. Caruana (2794) ▶ V. Anand (2762) 43 GAME 9 ▷ D. Jakovenko (2712) ▶ E. Sutovsky (2622) 48 GAME 10 ▷ M. Carlsen (2844) ▶ E. Tomashevsky (2728) 53 GAME 11 ▷ Wen Yang (2614) ▶ E. Inarkiev (2729) 57 GAME 12 ▷ V. Artemiev (2658) ▶ S. Mamedyarov (2762) 61 GAME 13 ▷ J. Granda Zuniga (2672) ▶ M. Lagarde (2572) 65 GAME 14 ▷ H. Nakamura (2787) ▶ A. Guijarro (2639) 68 GAME 15 ▷ A. -
2014 Tromso Chess Olympiad Survey – Results
2014 Tromso Chess Olympiad Survey – Results The ACP would like to thank all 72 participants of the 2014 Tromso Chess Olympiad survey. We hope your evaluations and thoughts will help FIDE and the organizers of next Olympiads. We have received answers from representatives of 42 national chess federations: Andorra (1), Australia (2), Azerbaijan (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Brazil (1), Bulgaria (1), Croatia (1), Czech Republic (1), Denmark (4), England (6), Estonia (1), France (1), Georgia (1), Ghana (1), ICCD (1), Iceland (4), India (1), Iran (1), Israel (4), Italy (4), Kyrgyzstan (1), Latvia (1), Lithuania (3), Luxembourg (1), Macedonia (1), Mexico (1), Monaco (1), Netherlands (3), Norway (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Poland (1), Russia (1), Scotland (1), Serbia (1), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Sweden (2), Switzerland (1), Ukraine (4), USA (5), Vietnam (1). Among the 72 responders: 41 were Players, 11 were Arbiters, 7 Captains, 6 FIDE Congress Participants, 6 Journalists, 1 Chief of Delegation, 1 Volunteer, 1 Photographer, 1 Member of the Technical Administration Panel, 1 Coach, and 1 Commentator. Remark: The numbers don’t sum up to 72 as some of the participants had more than one function. PART I – Questions related to the organization How would you rate the overall organization of the 2014 Chess Olympiad (1 = very poor, 5 = excellent) 40% 30% 20% 38% 29% 10% 17% 7% 10% 0% 1 2 3 4 5 Average = 3,18 How would you rate the pre-tournament communication with the organizers? (1 = very poor, 5 = excellent) 40% 30% 20% 29% 10% -
ICCF Tournament Rules 2008 0. Overview 0.1. the Correspondence
ICCF Tournament Rules 2008 0. Overview The correspondence chess tournaments of the ICCF are divided into: a) Title Tournaments 0.1. b) Promotion Tournaments, c) Cup Tournaments, d) Special Tournaments. Normally the entry fee for each tournament will be decided by Congress. Entry to a tournament will be 0.2 accepted only if it is accompanied by payment of the entry fee to the collection agency designated by the ICCF. Unless explicitly stated otherwise each player plays one game simultaneously against each of the other 0.3 players in the tournament or section; the colour will be decided by lot. 1. Title Tournaments The ICCF Title Tournaments comprise: a) World Correspondence Chess Championships (Individual) b) Ladies World Correspondence Chess Championships (Individual) 1.0.1 c) Correspondence Chess Olympiads (World Championships for National Teams) d) Ladies Correspondence Chess Olympiads (World Championships for Ladies National Teams) All entries for the Title Tournaments must be processed via the Member Federations. Direct entries are allowed only in exceptional cases and the Title Tournaments Commissioner will individually consider these. The World Championships organised by the ICCF comprise Preliminaries, Semi-Finals, Candidates' 1.0.2 Tournament and Final. The Preliminaries, Semi-Finals and Candidates' Tournaments comprise separate sections played normally by 1.0.3 post, by Email and by webserver. The qualifications reached in postal tournaments can be used in Email and webserver tournaments and vice versa. The Preliminaries, Semi-Finals and Candidates' Tournaments are progressive tournaments. New sections of the World Championship Preliminaries, Semi-Finals and Candidates' Tournaments will be started throughout the year, as soon as there is a sufficient number of qualifiers wishing to begin play in the section, using their 1.0.4 preferred method of transmission of moves (i.e. -
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, . ,~"ll'lt\' t$H,~{' {)( tlil!' "j.rrirt!1f~ SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE ) REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) First Regular Session ) '13 JUL 23 P4 :43 SENATE Senate Res. ~o. 99 I ,:J Introduced by Senator Antonio "SONNY" F. TriIIanes IV RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING AND COMMENDING GRANDMASTER WESLEY SO FOR BRINGING HONOR AND DISTICTION TO, THE COUNTRY BY WINNING THE GOLD MEDAL IN THE MEN'S CHESS COMPETIONS OF THE RECENTLY CONCLUDED 27TH SUMMER UNIVERSIADE (WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES) AT THE KAZAN EQUESTRIAN COMPLEX IN KAZAN, RUSSIA THIS JULY 2013 I , WHEREAS, on 17 July 2013, the 27th Summer Universiade formally closed after twelve (12) days of competiti6n in Kazan, Russia; WHEREAS, tho Universiade, also known as the World University Games, is an intemational biennial SPOtts event organized for university athletes by the Federation Intemationale du Sport Universita,irc (FISU); WHEREAS, during the recently concluded 17th Summer Universiade, which shall be remembered as the edition with the highest number of participants since its start in 1959 in Turin, Italy, and the second biggest sports competition in the world next only to the Olympic Games, the Philippines made history by bringing home its first-ever gold medal when Chess Grandmaster Wesley So won the Chess title by a triple tie-break; WHEREAS, chess, which debuted ,in the 2011 Summer Universaide in Shenzhen as anoptional sport, was pa!ticipated this year by veterml chess players from 46 countries; I WHEREAS, GMSo outwitted fonner world junior champion Grandmaster Zaven Andriasian of Armenia; -
Regulations for the Chess Olympiad
D.II. Chess Olympiad D.II.01 Regulations for the Chess Olympiad 1. General 1.1 The Chess Olympiad is the principal team contest organized by FIDE. 1.1.1 The Olympiad is held regularly at two year intervals in the autumn of the even numbered years (2006, 2008, etc.) 1.1.2 The Olympiad for both the open section and the women section must be held, if possible, at a single venue. 1.1.3 However, in exceptional cases as determined by the FIDE General Assembly or (in between congresses) by the President - separate venues may be used for the men and women contests. 1.1.4 Organizing body: FIDE, represented by the FIDE President. 1.1.5 Administrator 1.1.5.1 The administrator is appointed through a special selection process (section 2 below). 1.1.5.2 The administrator is responsible to FIDE, and must abide by these regulations. 1.1.5.3 The administrator shall make available all necessary premises, staff and funds for the contest. The minimum requirements are laid down in individual sections of these regulations. 1.1.5.4 The administrator may utilize the services of outside bodies or private persons for the purpose of financing and running the contest. 1.1.5.5 Administrators may be proposed by the federations. 1.1.5.6 The President may also receive offers from sponsors outside the sphere of FIDE. 1.1.5.7 The tasks of the administrator are detailed in subsequent sections of these regulations. 1.1.6 FIDE Congress The administrator who undertakes the running of the Chess Olympiad must also undertake to hold the FIDE Congress for the same year. -
YEARBOOK the Information in This Yearbook Is Substantially Correct and Current As of December 31, 2020
OUR HERITAGE 2020 US CHESS YEARBOOK The information in this yearbook is substantially correct and current as of December 31, 2020. For further information check the US Chess website www.uschess.org. To notify US Chess of corrections or updates, please e-mail [email protected]. U.S. CHAMPIONS 2002 Larry Christiansen • 2003 Alexander Shabalov • 2005 Hakaru WESTERN OPEN BECAME THE U.S. OPEN Nakamura • 2006 Alexander Onischuk • 2007 Alexander Shabalov • 1845-57 Charles Stanley • 1857-71 Paul Morphy • 1871-90 George H. 1939 Reuben Fine • 1940 Reuben Fine • 1941 Reuben Fine • 1942 2008 Yury Shulman • 2009 Hikaru Nakamura • 2010 Gata Kamsky • Mackenzie • 1890-91 Jackson Showalter • 1891-94 Samuel Lipchutz • Herman Steiner, Dan Yanofsky • 1943 I.A. Horowitz • 1944 Samuel 2011 Gata Kamsky • 2012 Hikaru Nakamura • 2013 Gata Kamsky • 2014 1894 Jackson Showalter • 1894-95 Albert Hodges • 1895-97 Jackson Reshevsky • 1945 Anthony Santasiere • 1946 Herman Steiner • 1947 Gata Kamsky • 2015 Hikaru Nakamura • 2016 Fabiano Caruana • 2017 Showalter • 1897-06 Harry Nelson Pillsbury • 1906-09 Jackson Isaac Kashdan • 1948 Weaver W. Adams • 1949 Albert Sandrin Jr. • 1950 Wesley So • 2018 Samuel Shankland • 2019 Hikaru Nakamura Showalter • 1909-36 Frank J. Marshall • 1936 Samuel Reshevsky • Arthur Bisguier • 1951 Larry Evans • 1952 Larry Evans • 1953 Donald 1938 Samuel Reshevsky • 1940 Samuel Reshevsky • 1942 Samuel 2020 Wesley So Byrne • 1954 Larry Evans, Arturo Pomar • 1955 Nicolas Rossolimo • Reshevsky • 1944 Arnold Denker • 1946 Samuel Reshevsky • 1948 ONLINE: COVID-19 • OCTOBER 2020 1956 Arthur Bisguier, James Sherwin • 1957 • Robert Fischer, Arthur Herman Steiner • 1951 Larry Evans • 1952 Larry Evans • 1954 Arthur Bisguier • 1958 E.