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World Chess Cup: Ponomariov in quarterfinals
Former World Chess Champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine cruised past Grandmaster Loek Van Wely of the Netherlands for the second day in succession and moved to the quarterfinals of the World Chess Cup here. Apart from Ponomariov, Russian GMs Alexander Grischuk and Sergei Rublevsky also made it to the next stage after drawing their respective return games with Gata Kamsky of United States and Konstantin Sakaev of Russia respectively. ... |
World Chess Cup: Ponomariov, Grischuk score
On a day dominated by black pieces, only Russian Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk could capitalise on the advantage of playing with white, defeating American Gata Kamsky in the first game of the Round Four at the World Chess Cup in Khanty Mansyisk, Russia. ... With black, former World chess champion Ruslan Ponomariov from Ukraine beat his one-time assistant, Loek Van Wely from the Netherlands. ... |
Harikrishna loses in tie-break, out of World Cup Chess
Indian challenge in the ongoing World Cup Chess ended with Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna's defeat in the tie-break of Round three against mighty Russian Grandmaster Alexey Dreev in Khanty-Mansyisk on Monday. Harikrishna lost the first chess game of the tie-break and could only manage a draw in the second after a long fight, thereby losing 1.5-2.5 in aggregate. ... |
World Chess Cup -- Vassily Ivanchuk: Tie-breaks teach you to think about failures philosophically
Vassily is irreplaceably lost for the 2005 World Chess Cup. The highest rated participant is leaving Khanty-Mansiysk. We have to say thank you to this Ukrainian chess player for his willingness to answer journalistic questions right after losing to Ivan Cheparinov the Bulgarian chess player. ... |
Chess Players Getting Chucked Out of Mall
They're too loud. They hog the seats at the food court. Often they don't even buy anything. So now they're being kicked out of the mall. Teenagers? Try chess players. The new owners of the Medley Center have banned chess and card games, effectively removing a group that has been playing chess at the suburban Rochester mall for years. ... |
Mixed luck for Indians at World Chess Cup
It was a mixed luck for the Indian Grandmaster trio at the World Chess Cup as P Harikrishna won, Surya Sekhar Ganguly drew and K Sasikiran lost in their second game of the second round match in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. All of them will have to fight it out in the tie-breaker to advance to the next stage. In their first games of the round earlier, Sasikiran had won, while Harikrishna lost. For Ganguly, it was his second successive draw in the second round. ... |
World Chess Cup -- Magnus Karlsen: I shall be glad, if I become the World Chess Champion one day!
Magnus Kalsen’s name begun to sparkle when at the age of 12, he became GM and later has achieved some impressing results. The experienced trainers spoke about his brilliant prospects and bright talent, and the amateur players saw in him a genius and the future World Chess Champion. Also it is necessary to mention that the Norwegian who became 15 years old on the first day of the second Round, fully has lived up the hopes expected of him. ... |
World Chess Cup: Rating doesn't matter!
For so many years FIDE is holding knock-out chess championships, but the audience and even players themselves can’t get used to the fact that after every round a half of the participants are going home. Every time there is a tragedy, despair, defeat of hopes... It is very difficult to overcome your elimination after the first round when it seems that all the possibilities to move on in the chess tournament were created. The higher rating you have, the weaker opponent will be. However, difference in ELO rating doesn’t always correspond to the player’s level. It is what some favourites have experienced. ... |
Ernesto Inarkiev: I am ironical about the crisis in Russian chess.
Ernesto is one of the most talented young Russian Grandmasters. His name is connected with a sequel of victory traditions of the Russian chess school. We would like to remind that he was the European Chess Champion U-16, Russian Chess Champion U-20. ... |
Gata Kamsky: I have not opened any chess books for the past years.
American Grandmaster Gata Kamsky is one of the mysterious persons in the modern chess history. Having played the World Chess Championship in 1996 he decided to quit playing chess. It seemed that forever- Kamsky studied medicine and then got the diploma of a lawyer. But: the first love is unforgettable and nine years since he is back to professional chess. ... |
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