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Fine results for Europchess players in the Limburg Open tournament
The 4th ENCI Limburg Open took place in Maastricht from 21 to 24 May. Almost three hundred players took part, divided into three Sections according to rating. The top Section was a FIDE-rated seven-round swiss tournament with one hundred participants. Seven Grandmasters took part, including four (Miroshnichenko, Fedorchuk, Gharamian and Berg) who are rated over 2600. The two winners, each managing... »
Corus chess tournament 2010
The Corus Chess Tournament is a unique event in many respect. It has a long tradition, running since 1938 this year was the 72nd edition already! Also it's a very long tournament, it lasts for over 2 weeks (13 rounds) and every year the strongest grandmasters gather to play quality chess (this year the ELO average was 2720 in group... »
Kosteniuk & Skripchenko played in Brussels
World champion Alexandra Kosteniuk (2523) and Almira Skripchenko (2456) played against 25 Belgian players in a tandem simultan event. It's not easy to play when you make only every second move. Anyway, they had a good result 23-1-1, losing the only game against Dirk Demarcke (2205) in a sharp Sicilian position. The event was organised (and I have to say very... »
Wijk Aan Zee 2009
The Corus Chess tournament took place in Wijk Aan Zee the Netherlands in January 2009.... The young players won all three sections, Karjakin, Caruana and So are teenagers. In an interview Kasparov expressed his doubts that Anand can compete with this new generation of players... The Corus Chess tournament took place in Wijk Aan Zee the Netherlands in January 2009....... »
Grischuk triumphs in Linares
Alexander Grischuk has won the Linares super tournament in great style. Ivanchuk cannot really explain how he missed the first... »