Gollum Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 2015 CEZ Trophy won by Wesley So Every year, the Prague Chess Society and CEZ have organized a match for their top Czech player, David Navara, often against opponents that outrank even him. Last year he lost to Nakamura in a lopsided match but the American is also world Top 3-4, not exactly lightweight. This year it was Wesley So, also challenging the establishment, and was a remarkable victory for the American(3-1 in his favor). Before this year Navara's record against other challengers: http://en.chessbase.com/post/2015-cez-trophy-won-by-wesley-so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 GM Walter Browne dies in his sleep at 66 GM Walter Browne, born in Australia, was a six-time US Champion and eleven time winner of the National Open. He won the American Open seven times, the World Open three times, and the US Open Championship twice. On Wednesday night, after a tournament, a simul and a poker session in Las Vegas, Browne passed away suddenly. The chess world is shocked and saddened by this loss. Read more at: http://en.chessbase.com/post/walter-browne-dies-in-his-sleep-at-66 https://chess24.com/en/read/news/remembering-walter-browne http://www.chess.com/news/gm-walter-browne-1949-2015-3134 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 Harikrishna Strongest At Edmonton International The 29-year-old Indian GM finished a point ahead of GMs Wang Hao, Surya Ganguly and Vassily Ivanchuk. :isalute: The participants were Vassily Ivanchuk (2733), Pentala Harikrishna (2733), Wang Hao (2704), Sam Shankland (2656), Surya Ganguly (2625), Aman Hambleton (2446), Vladimir Pechenkin (2314), Agnieszka Matras-Clement (2269), Dale Haessel (2180) and Robert Gardner (2133). http://www.chess.com/news/harikrishna-strongest-at-edmonton-international-6763 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 Abhijeet Gupta wins Commonwealth Chess Championship hit by big controversy :hatsoff: On Tuesday GM Abhijeet Gupta won the Commonwealth Chess Championship in New Delhi. The 25-year-old Indian grandmaster “did a Caruana” as he won his first seven games. GM Humpy Koneru withdrew at the end of round four after “doing a Carlsen.” She lost on time as she was unaware of the time control. Her appeal against the arbiter’s decision was turned down. The 2015 Commonwealth Chess Championship was held 23-30 June, 2015 at Hotel Park Plaza in Shahdara, New Delhi, India. It was organized by the Delhi Chess Association under auspices of the All India Chess Federation (AICF) and on behalf of the Commonwealth Chess Association (CCA). Founded in 1980, the CCA unites the 54 commonwealth chess federations. Its main activity is the annual Commonwealth Championship. Held in its capital, this year's tournament saw a huge majority of players from India: 260 out of a total 298 in the main group. However, the top 7 wasn't there: Vishy Anand, Pentala Harikrishna, Parimarjan Negi, Santosh Gujrathi Vidit, Krishnan Sasikiran, Baskaran Adhiban and Surya Ganguly. The countries represented in the tournament were Australia (2 players), Bangladesh (6), England (1), India (260), Malaysia (1), Maldives (2), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (6), South Africa (13), Sri Lanka (4) and Zambia (1). It was GM Abhijeet Gupta who stole the show in New Delhi. Although his opponents were all lower rated, let's call it “a Caruana” anyway: Gupta won his first seven games! The top seed finished with two quick draws to end on 8.0/9 and a 2735 performance rating. He took home 150,000 rupees (a bit more than 2,000 Euros). Three players finished on 7.5/9: Arghyadip Das, Babu Lalith and M.R. Deepan Chakkravarthy J. “I guess I was doing well right from the start. I got off with some victories and it was nice to win seven games in a row,” said Gupta. “I could not remember the last time I did that in any international event.” A winner always has a bit of luck, and for Gupta it came in the fourth round. His opponent Ramnath Bhuvnesh forgot to press his clock in the final moments of the game, and was declared lost on time. Gupta was a pawn down but position was probably drawn. One could say that losing on time was the theme of the tournament. There were two incidents similar to what happened to Magnus Carlsen at Norway Chess recently. In round four GM Humpy Koneru, the world #3 in the women's rating list, let her time run out in a winning position against IM Himanshu Sharma. The arbiter declared her game lost. Remarkably, the very same thing had happened to WGM Tania Sachdev in the first round of the tournament, which Humpy was unaware of. Humpy appealed, and when the appeals committee turned down her appeal, she decided to withdraw from the event. In the women's section, Padmini Rout won the gold medal and the 20,000-rupee first prize (280 Euros). The championship has been sub-divided in to separate categories for under-8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 age groups for boys and girls. The under-18 and under-20 titles were merged in the open section. A total of 564 players registered for the event. http://www.chess.com/news/commonwealth-gupta-doing-a-caruana-koneru-sachdev-doing-a-carlsen-9745 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 2015 Commonwealth: Interview with Humpy She clarifies her stance w.r.t the time control saga in the Commonwealth Championship held in Delhi. http://en.chessbase.com/post/2015-commonwealth-interview-with-humpy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 Yu Yangyi Wins Capablanca Memorial With Round To Spare Very impressive by the Chinese man. :two_thumbs_up: Yu Yangyi won the Elite Group of the 50th Capablanca Memorial in Havana, Cuba. The 21-year-old Chinese grandmaster secured victory in the penultimate round and finished on 7.0/10. José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera passed away 8 March 1942. Since 1962, when Ernesto “Che” Guevara took the initiative to commemorate the great Cuban player, an annual memorial is held in Havana. The 50th edition just finished. In recent years the festival has consisted of an open tournament and two round-robin groups, with international top players featuring in the top group — a six-player double round-robin. The 2015 “Elite Group” had, in order of the final standings, GMs Yu Yangyi (2715, China), Dmitry Andreikin (2718, Russia), Pavel Eljanov (2718, Ukraine), Leinier Dominguez (2746, Cuba), Ian Nepomniachtchi (2720, Russia) and Lazaro Bruzon (2677, Cuba). Yu won the tournament convincingly, starting with 4.5/5 and finishing with 7.0/10. The Chinese player ended 1.5 points ahead of Andreikin and Eljanov. Top seed Dominguez finished on a disappointing fourth place with a minus one and 2675 performance. The “Premier Group,” a ten-player round-robin, was won by GM Vitaly Kunin of Germany. His 6.5/9 was also 1.5 points more than the number two. GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Yusnel Bacallao and Isan Reynaldo Ortiz scored 5.0./9. The 50th Capablanca Memorial took place 15-25 June, 2015 in Havana. The time control was 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes to finish the game, with 30 seconds increment from the start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 Nice Topalov interview(originally in Russian) http://chess-news.ru/en/node/19414 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 Muzychuk-Hou title match set in Lviv, Ukraine http://en.chessbase.com/post/muzychuk-hou-match-set-in-lviv-ukraine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 July 2015 ratings: Anand is just 37 points shy of Magnus Carlsen http://en.chessbase.com/post/july-2015-ratings-anand-topalov-nakamura Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 An interview with Hou Yifan http://en.chessbase.com/post/an-interview-with-hou-yifan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 Recent chess interviews Vladimir Kramnik: “I’m a bohemian” https://chess24.com/en/read/news/vladimir-kramnik-i-m-a-bohemian Leinier DomÃnguez: “I’m not Carlsen or Caruana” https://chess24.com/en/read/news/leinier-dominguez-i-m-not-carlsen-or-caruana Vallejo Paco: Players rated 2600-2720 are in limbo https://chess24.com/en/read/news/vallejo-players-between-2720-and-2600-are-in-a-kind-of-limbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 Giri(men) and Haast(women) win Dutch Championships http://www.chess.com/news/giri-haast-2015-dutch-champions-3036 http://en.chessbase.com/post/giri-and-haast-win-dutch-championships Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 Karpov defeats Sveshnikov in match Two chess legends met in a rapid chess match in Riga, Latvia from July 7 to July 9. Twelfth World Champion Anatoly Karpov faced the renowned chess theoretician Evgeny Sveshnikov in a six-game match that played over three days. Karpov won 4-2 http://en.chessbase.com/post/karpov-defeats-sveshnikov-in-match http://www.chess.com/news/karpov-beats-sveshnikov-4-2-in-rapid-match-1380 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 Damljanovic wins Open Serbian Championship http://en.chessbase.com/post/damljanovic-wins-open-serbian-championship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 Aryan Tari wins Norwegian Championship http://en.chessbase.com/post/aryan-tari-wins-norwegian-championship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 Danzhou: Wang Yue wins with 2887 performance People were predicting victory in this Chinese tournament by top seed Ding Liren, or by the recently successful Yu Yangyi. After a stunning game in round two many switched to 16-year-old Wei Yi. But as the tournament progressed it was the experienced 28-year-old GM Wang Yue who began to score one victory after another and win the tournament. Sasi had a subpar event. The younger generation of Chinese players are looking better than the Russians atm. http://en.chessbase.com/post/danzhou-wang-yue-wins-with-2887-performance http://www.chess.com/news/wang-yue-returns-to-former-greatness-shines-in-danzhou-3826 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 Artemiev earns showdown with Russia’s best 17-year-old Vladislav Artemiev has won the Russian Higher League in Kaliningrad, earning the chance to take on Svidler, Karjakin and co. in the Russian Championship next month. 2014 European Champion Alexander Motylev finished second, while otherwise it was a triumph for youth, with qualification spots also going to Russian Junior Champion Ivan Bukavshin (20), Ildar Khairullin (24) and Daniil Dubov (19). Watch out for this kid, he has it in him to shake up the elite. https://chess24.com/en/read/news/artemiev-earns-showdown-with-russia-s-best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 Lenderman 1st On Tiebreak(ahead of Rauf Mamedov) At World Open http://www.chess.com/news/lenderman-first-on-tiebreak-at-world-open-4392 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 Akshat Chandra Wins U.S. Juniors, Qualifies for 2016 U.S. Championship http://en.chessbase.com/post/akshat-chandra-wins-2015-us-junior-championship http://www.chess.com/news/akshat-chandra-wins-u-s-juniors-qualifies-for-2016-u-s-championship-2433 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 Chilean Government, FIDE Sign Social Chess Initiative Agreement Proving once again what a global sport chess is !!! http://www.chess.com/news/chilean-government-fide-sign-social-chess-initiative-agreement-1930 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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