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[video] Chess News #10: Magnus Magnificant Endgame
During the fourth round of the Aerosvit tournament in Foros Magnus Carlsen played a very interesting endgame against Pavel Eljanov. The two white knights should probably have held the blockade but in the end the wrong one jumped into a5 leaving the other one in too much danger. That gave Carlsen the opportunity to clinch [...]
Continue reading...[video] Chess News #9: Carlsen - Ivanchuk, Foros 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
During the first round of the Aerosvit Tournament in Foros, by the Ukrainian Black Sea coast, Magnus Carlsen played a very mature game against Vassily Ivanchuk. It was a King’s Indian game where Ivanchuk sacrificed the exchange and reached a more or less balanced position. However at a certain point Carlsen avoided a repetition of [...]
Continue reading...[video] Chess News #8: Morozevich - Sokolov, Sarajevo 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
During this year’s Bosna Chess Tournament Alexander Morozevich managed another one of his impressive tournament victories. But in the process he was also reaching very high ELO levels. There was a lot of speculation whether he would overtake Kramnik or even Anand in the FIDE rankings! But during the last three rounds he took it [...]
Continue reading...[video] Chess News #7: Ivanchuk beats Cheparinov and wins M-Tel Masters Chess Tournament
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Ivanchuk has won the M-Tel masters Chess Tournament in Sofia Bulgaria, 2008 with the fantastic score of 8 out of 10. Whilst winning all of his five games during the first leg of the tournament, Ivanchuk was on the defensive in the second leg but he never cracked and remained undefeated. In the tenth and final round [...]
Continue reading...[video] Chess News #6: Radjabov’s amazing kingmarch
Saturday, May 17, 2008
During the 7th round of the M-Tel Masters Chess Tournament Teimour Radjabov managed to win in a very nice and instructive way against Bu Xianghzhi. Check out the video!
Continue reading...[video] Chess News #2-5: The Amazing Mr. Ivanchuk!
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
As we speak it is the rest day of the M-tel Masters Chess Tournament in Sofia Bulgaria. What happened thus far in the first half of the tournament is quite amazing: Vassily Ivanchuk scored an incredible 5 out of 5! His TPR sofar is an unprecedented 3537!
Continue reading...[video] Chess News #1: My First Post!
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Hello and welcome to my first post! Let’s hope it will not be my “Last Post”, this is when they do the trumpet-thing in Ieper and Kortrijk, Belgium to commemorate the casualties of the First World War.
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
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