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December

Russian Championship Superfinals

The Russian Championship Superfinals took place 17th-30th (Round 1 18th) December 2007. Alexander Morozevich won the event with 8/11 a point clear of Alexander Grischuk.Tatiana Kosintseva won the women's event on tie-break after a four way tie on 7/11.

Games in PGN - Women's Games in PGN

Russian Chess Championship Round 11 (December 30, 2007)
Morozevich, Alexander	- Inarkiev, Ernesto	1-0	58	C78	Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence
Grischuk, Alexander	- Svidler, Peter	½-½	39	A16	English Opening
Tomashevsky, Evgeny	- Jakovenko, Dmitry	½-½	24	D47	Queens Gambit Meran
Vitiugov, Nikita	- Rychagov, Andrey	1-0	27	D35	QGD Exchange
Sakaev, Konstantin	- Amonatov, Farrukh	1-0	63	E91	King's Indian Classical
Timofeev, Artyom	- Dreev, Alexey	½-½	50	B65	Sicilian Rauzer
Russian Chess Championship Women Round 11 (December 30, 2007)
Korbut, Ekaterina	- Ovod, Evgenija	0-1	41	C65	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Pogonina, Natalija	- Kosintseva, Tatiana	0-1	36	B84	Sicilian Scheveningen
Shadrina, Tatiana	- Kosintseva, Nadezhda	½-½	50	C78	Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence
Stepovaia, Tatiana	- Tairova, Elena	1-0	47	C01	French Exchange
Girya, Olga	- Gunina, Valentina	1-0	30	C11	French Defence
Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina	- Matveeva, Svetlana	½-½	17	C01	French Exchange

60th ch-RUS Superfinal Moscow RUS (RUS), 18-30 xii 2007 cat. XVII (2656)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
1.	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2755	*	1	1	0	1	0	1	½	1	½	1	1	8	2821
2.	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2715	0	*	1	½	½	½	½	½	½	1	1	1	7	2752
3.	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2646	0	0	*	½	0	1	1	½	1	1	½	1	6½	2721
4.	Dreev, Alexey	g	RUS	2607	1	½	½	*	1	½	0	1	0	0	½	½	5½	2660
5.	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2674	0	½	1	0	*	1	½	½	½	½	½	½	5½	2654
6.	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2594	1	½	0	½	0	*	½	½	0	½	1	1	5½	2661
7.	Sakaev, Konstantin	g	RUS	2634	0	½	0	1	½	½	*	1	½	1	½	0	5½	2657
8.	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2710	½	½	½	0	½	½	0	*	½	1	½	1	5½	2650
9.	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2732	0	½	0	1	½	1	½	½	*	½	0	½	5	2612
10.	Amonatov, Farrukh	g	TJK	2637	½	0	0	1	½	½	0	0	½	*	½	1	4½	2592
11.	Rychagov, Andrey	g	RUS	2528	0	0	½	½	½	0	½	½	1	½	*	0	4	2565
12.	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	2637	0	0	0	½	½	0	1	0	½	0	1	*	3½	2524

57th ch-RUS w Moscow RUS (RUS), 18-30 xii 2007 cat. VII (2415)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
1.	Kosintseva, Tatiana	m	RUS	2492	*	1	½	½	1	½	½	1	0	1	1	0	7	2509
2.	Tairova, Elena	m	RUS	2391	0	*	1	½	1	1	½	1	0	1	0	1	7	2518
3.	Ovod, Evgenija	m	RUS	2386	½	0	*	1	½	½	½	1	½	1	½	1	7	2519
4.	Korbut, Ekaterina	m	RUS	2443	½	½	0	*	0	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	7	2514
5.	Pogonina, Natalija	wg	RUS	2462	0	0	½	1	*	½	1	½	½	1	1	0	6	2446
6.	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	m	RUS	2469	½	0	½	½	½	*	0	½	½	1	1	1	6	2445
7.	Matveeva, Svetlana	m	RUS	2433	½	½	½	½	0	1	*	0	1	0	½	1	5½	2412
8.	Shadrina, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2379	0	0	0	0	½	½	1	*	1	½	1	1	5½	2417
9.	Stepovaia, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2375	1	1	½	0	½	½	0	0	*	½	0	1	5	2382
10.	Girya, Olga	wf	RUS	2338	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	½	½	*	1	1	4	2319
11.	Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina	m	RUS	2448	0	1	½	0	0	0	½	0	1	0	*	½	3½	2278
12.	Gunina, Valentina	wf	RUS	2359	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	½	*	2½	2208

Official site: http://www.russiachess.org/

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Pamplona

The XVII Pampona International took place 21st-29th December 2007. Francisco Vallejo Pons won the event with 4.5/7.

Games in PGN

Official site: http://www.chesspamplona.com/

Magistral Pamplona (ESP), 22-29 xii 2007 cat. XVII (2652)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1.	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2660	*	½	1	½	½	½	½	1	4½	2752
2.	Wang Yue	g	CHN	2703	½	*	½	½	1	½	½	½	4	2694
3.	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2644	0	½	*	1	½	½	½	1	4	2703
4.	Beliavsky, Alexander G	g	SLO	2646	½	½	0	*	½	1	1	0	3½	2652
5.	Movsesian, Sergei	g	SVK	2670	½	0	½	½	*	½	½	1	3½	2649
6.	Rodshtein, Maxim	m	ISR	2615	½	½	½	0	½	*	1	0	3	2607
7.	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2673	½	½	½	0	½	0	*	1	3	2598
8.	Khamrakulov, Ibragim S	g	ESP	2604	0	½	0	1	0	1	0	*	2½	2556

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Groningen Chess Festival

The Groningen Chess Festival included the Harmonie Open A which took place 21st-30th December 2007. Dimitrios Mastrovasilis took first place from four other players on tie break after all finished on 6.5/9.

Games in PGN

Official site: http://www.so-on.org/kerst2007/2007eng.html

Harmonie Open A Groningen (NED), 21-30 xii 2007 Final Round 9 Standings:
Rank		Name	Fed.	Score	BH	SB	Rating	TPR
1	Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios	GM	GRE	6.5	48.5	33.5	2559	2654
2	Ernst, Sipke	GM	NED	6.5	48.0	33.75	2539	2642
3	Halkias, Stelios	GM	GRE	6.5	46.0	31.0	2589	2559
4	Adly, Ahmed	GM	EGY	6.5	45.0	30.25	2494	2578
5	Lobzhanidze, Davit	IM	GEO	6.5	43.0	30.5	2489	2490
6	Li, Shilong	GM	CHN	6.0	50.0	31.25	2509	2600
7	Banikas, Hristos	GM	GRE	6.0	47.5	30.0	2591	2598
8	Hoffmann, Michael	IM	GER	6.0	46.5	29.5	2471	2532
9	Nijboer, Friso	GM	NED	5.5	52.0	31.0	2559	2527
10	Swinkels, Robin	IM	NED	5.5	46.5	27.0	2433	2454
11	Pruijssers, Roeland	IM	NED	5.5	44.5	25.5	2408	2425
12	Rotstein, Arkadij	GM	GER	5.5	43.0	23.75	2534	2475
13	Burg, Twan	FM	NED	5.5	39.0	20.5	2275	2433
14	Hendriks, Willy	IM	NED	5.0	46.0	23.0	2402	2410
15	Van Den Berg, Harmen		NED	5.0	45.5	24.75	2167	2438
16	Simutowe, Amon	IM	ZAM	5.0	43.5	23.5	2446	2407
17	Spoelman, Wouter	IM	NED	5.0	43.5	21.5	2445	2438
18	Otte, Marijn		NED	5.0	43.0	22.75	2155	2422
19	Reinderman, Dimitri	GM	NED	5.0	42.5	21.75	2510	2367
20	Van Oosterom, Chiel	IM	NED	5.0	42.0	21.0	2401	2332
21	De Jong, Migchiel	FM	NED	5.0	40.5	19.25	2341	2396
22	Hovenga, Alje		NED	5.0	39.5	19.5	2186	2397
23	Clemens, Adrian	FM	NED	5.0	38.5	19.25	2316	2254
24	Michielsen, Joost		NED	4.5	46.0	20.25	2309	2347
25	Skatchkov, Pavel	GM	RUS	4.5	39.0	19.0	2509	2260
26	Kuipers, Stefan		NED	4.5	37.0	16.25	2283	2260
27	Van Ketel, Raoul	FM	NED	4.5	36.5	16.0	2336	2195
28	Pijpers, Arthur		NED	4.5	34.0	16.25	2000	2242
29	Brandenburg, Daan	IM	NED	4.0	44.0	15.0	2483	2276
30	Hoeksema, Hendrik Pieter	IM	NED	4.0	42.5	16.75	2373	2212
31	Vinke, Andreas		GER	4.0	41.0	15.75	2173	2329
32	Pel, Bonno	FM	NED	4.0	40.5	13.5	2280	2277
33	Geurink, Jasper		NED	4.0	39.0	11.0	2339	2229
34	Van Kampen, Robin		NED	4.0	38.5	16.5	2252	2242
50 players

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XX Carlos Torre Memorial

The XX Carlos Torre Memorial took place in Mérida, Yucatán, México 15th-23rd December 2007. Vassily Ivanchuk added to his wins in 2004 and 2006 to retain his title. He beat 3rd seed Pentala Harikrishna in the final 3-1 after two rapid playoffs. My thanks to Jesper Norgaard Welen for his help with the games.

Wimbledon KO games in PGN - Magistral Games in PGN

Website: http://www.carlostorre.org.mx/ or http://www.idey.gob.mx/ct2008.htm

XX Carlos Torre Wimbledon Merida (MEX), 19-22 xii 2007
1/8 Final
No	Ti	Name	FED	Rating	P1	P2	D1	D2	TB	MS
1	GM	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2787	1	½				1.5
16	GM	Bruzón, Lazaro	CUB	2607	0	½				0.5

8	GM	Almeida, Omar	CUB	2502	½	1				1.5
9	GM	Gonzalez, José	MEX	2541	½	0				0.5

4	IM	León Hoyos, Manuel	MEX	2495	0	0				0
13	GM	Quezada, Yuniesky	CUB	2546	1	1				2

5	GM	Hernandez, Holder	CUB	2566	0	0				0
12	GM	Graf, Alexander	GER	2576	1	1				2

2	GM	Dominguez Perez, Lenier	CUB	2683	½	½	1	0	0	2
15	GM	Nogueiras, Jesús	CUB	2549	½	½	0	1	1	3

7	IM	Cordova, Emilio	PER	2493	1	1				2
10	GM	Zapata, Alonso	COL	2495	0	0				0

3	GM	Harikrishna, Pentala	IND	2668	1	½				1.5
14	GM	Hernandez, Gilberto	MEX	2536	0	½				0.5

6	GM	Meier, Georg	GER	2558	0	1	0	1	1	3
11	GM	Tregubov, Pavel	RUS	2609	1	0	1	0	0	2
1/4 Final
No	Ti	Name	FED	Rating	P1	P2	D1	D2	TB	MS
1	GM	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2787	1	½				1.5
8	GM	Almeida, Omar	CUB	2502	0	½				0.5

13	GM	Quezada, Yuniesky	CUB	2546	½	0				0.5
12	GM	Graf, Alexander	GER	2576	½	1				1.5

15	GM	Nogueiras, Jesús	CUB	2549	1	1				2
7	IM	Cordova, Emilio	PER	2493	0	0				0

3	GM	Harikrishna, Pentala	IND	2668	1	½				1.5
6	GM	Meier, Georg	GER	2558	0	½				0.5
1/2 Final
No	Ti	Name	FED	Rating	P1	P2	D1	D2	TB	MS
1	GM	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2787	1	0	½	1		2.5
12	GM	Graf, Alexander	GER	2576	0	1	½	0		1.5

15	GM	Nogueiras, Jesús	CUB	2549	½	0				0.5
3	GM	Harikrishna, Pentala	IND	2668	½	1				1.5
Final
No	Ti	Name	FED	Rating	P1	P2	D1	D2	TB	MS
1	GM	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2787	1	0	1	1		3
3	GM	Harikrishna, Pentala	IND	2668	0	1	0	0		1

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World Chess Cup

The World Chess Cup took place in Khanty-Mansiysk. Arrival 22nd, Opening Ceremony 23rd and Round 1 24th November, departure after 7 knockout rounds on 18th December 2007.

Time control. Standard 90m+30s/move to move 40 then 30m+30s/move to the end of the game. Rapids 25m+10s/move, Blitz 5m+10s/move. Final sudden death game White 6 mins, Black 5 mins, without any addition. In case of a draw the player with the black pieces is declared as winner. [FIDE regulations]

Official site: http://www.ugra-chess.ru/eng/main_e.htm [and link to the handy pairings tree is at: http://www.fide.com/news.asp?id=1520] Further coverage: http://www.chessdom.com/world-chess-cup-2007/ and http://www.chessvibes.com/

Previous Results

World Cup Results 2007

Malcolm Pein Commentary and Annotated Games

Round 6 by Malcolm Pein
Round 5 by Malcolm Pein
Round 4 by Malcolm Pein
Round 3 by Malcolm Pein
Round 2 by Malcolm Pein
Round 1 by Malcolm Pein

Games in PGN

Games in PGN Final Rd7

Previous Rounds

Games in PGN Rd6 - Games in PGN Rd5 - Games in PGN Rd4 - Games in PGN Rd3 - Games in PGN Rd2 - Games in PGN Rd1

World Chess Cup Round 7 Final 13th-17th December 2007
Player	NAT	Elo	G1	G2	G3	G4	R1	R2	B1	B2	SD	Score
Shirov, Alexei	ESP	2739	½	0	½	½						1½
Kamsky, Gata	USA	2714	½	1	½	½						2½

World Chess Cup Round 6 9th-11th December 2007
Karjakin, Sergey	UKR	2694	1.5-2.5	Shirov, Alexei	ESP	2739
Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	2714	0.5-1.5	Kamsky, Gata	USA	2714

World Chess Cup Round 5 6th-8th December 2007
Top Half
Karjakin, Sergey	UKR	2694	2,5-1,5	Alekseev, Evgeny	RUS	2716
Shirov, Alexei	ESP	2739	2-0	Jakovenko, Dmitry	RUS	2710
Bottom Half
Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	2705	0.5-1.5	Kamsky, Gata	USA	2714
Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	2714	1.5-0.5	Cheparinov, Ivan	BUL	2670

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My 61 Memorable Games?

Before being pulled Ebay had a new edition of My 60 Memorable games which is said to be sourced from Bobby Fischer. It is reported it may contain 12 pages of new text from Fischer (which I'm sure will be just great if you like his radio broadcasts) and an additional annotation of game one from Fischer-Spassky II (bulking it up to 100 games with post-1967 games and especially the 1972 match might be worth buying). Its reported Fischer can't touch his fortune at the moment because his original swiss bank wanted to transfer the money to another bank to be rid of his custom. Fischer of course won't have it. Its impossible to feel sorry for a millionaire who would rather be short of money than do this. Also one additional game is hardly anything to write home about. Of course this could also be a scam or the subject of a dispute, its hard to know, or indeed care anymore. My advice don't touch this stuff with a long barge pole.

Further discussion: http://www.chessninja.com

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Gibraltar's Gibtelecom Chess Festival

The 6th edition of Gibraltar's Gibtelecom Chess Festival will be held from 22nd-31st January 2008 at the Caleta Hotel, one of Gibraltar's best hotels. Leading players include: Alexander Grischuk Wang Yue Bu Xiangxi Viktor Bologan Kiril Georgiev Hikaru Nakamura Alexander Beliavsky Bartosz Socko

Official site: http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/

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November

World Blitz Cup

Vassily Ivanchuk emerged as the winner from a strong field in the World Blitz Cup in Moscow. Photo © http://www.europe-echecs.com

The World Blitz Cup took place 21st-22nd November 2007 (with qualifiers on 19th-20th). Vassily Ivanchuk won the event a point clear of Viswanathan Anand who he beat in the final round. Defending champion Alexander Grischuk was 3rd.

Official site: http://www.russiachess.org/

Games in PGN

World Blitz Moscow RUS 21-22 xi 2007 cat. XIX (2710) Final Round 38 Standings
Place	SNo.	Name	Fed.	FIDE	Total	S.B.	Wins
1	16	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2787	25.5	480	19
2	4	Anand, Viswanathan	IND	2801	24.5	437	18
3	3	Grischuk, Alexander	RUS	2715	23.5	430.5	14
4	7	Kamsky, Gata	USA	2714	23.5	429	16
5	8	Kramnik, Vladimir	RUS	2785	21.5	393.75	13
6	1	Leko, Peter	HUN	2755	21.5	392.5	13
7	9	Rublevsky, Sergei	RUS	2676	21.5	385.75	16
8	18	Morozevich, Alexander	RUS	2755	21	378.5	16
9	17	Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	2714	20.5	352	15
10	13	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE	2752	18.5	344.75	13
11	20	Adams, Michael	ENG	2729	18.5	337.25	13
12	11	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	2705	18	339.5	15
13	5	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	UZB	2690	17.5	319.75	11
14	2	Dreev, Alexey	RUS	2607	17	313.5	12
15	14	Gelfand, Boris	ISR	2736	17	310.75	10
16	6	Savchenko, Boris	RUS	2583	17	291.5	13
17	19	Shirov, Alexei	ESP	2739	16	298.75	11
18	12	Karpov, Anatoly	RUS	2670	14	252	8
19	10	Bacrot, Etienne	FRA	2695	12	235	9
20	15	Korotylev, Alexey	RUS	2600	11.5	205.25	7

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Tal Memorial Moscow

Tal Mem Moscow RUS (RUS), 10-19 xi 2007 cat. XX (2741)
Round 9 (November 19, 2007)
Gelfand, Boris	- Lékó, Peter	½-½	27	E15	Queens Indian
Carlsen, Magnus	- Kamsky, Gata	½-½	37	C88	Ruy Lopez Closed
Jakovenko, Dmitry	- Shirov, Alexei	½-½	28	C42	Petroff's Defence
Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Kramnik, Vladimir	½-½	59	C42	Petroff's Defence
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	- Alekseev, Evgeny	½-½	16	A04	Dutch System

Tal Mem Moscow RUS (RUS), 10-19 xi 2007 cat. XX (2741)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2785	*	1	½	½	½	1	½	½	1	1	6½	2901
2.	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2739	0	*	½	1	½	0	½	1	½	1	5	2784
3.	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2736	½	½	*	½	½	½	½	½	½	½	4½	2741
4.	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2714	½	0	½	*	1	½	½	½	½	½	4½	2743
5.	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2710	½	½	½	0	*	½	½	1	½	½	4½	2744
6.	Lékó, Peter	g	HUN	2755	0	1	½	½	½	*	½	½	½	½	4½	2739
7.	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2787	½	½	½	½	½	½	*	½	0	½	4	2692
8.	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2714	½	0	½	½	0	½	½	*	1	½	4	2700
9.	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2752	0	½	½	½	½	½	1	0	*	½	4	2696
10.	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2716	0	0	½	½	½	½	½	½	½	*	3½	2663

European Team Chess Championships

Peter Svidler and Alexander Morozevich for Russia, not a bad top two boards for a team! Photo © http://www.chessdom.com/

The European Team Chess Championships (ETCC) took place 27th October - 7th November 2007 in the luxurious Creta Maris Conference Hotel in Crete, Greece. Russia took first place in both the men's and women's events.

Official site: http://www.euroteams2007.org there are now interviews including with Veselin Topalov at: http://videos.chessdom.com/. Also check out Etienne Bacrot's blog site (under "My Tournaments") commented games day by day in French then translated into English.

All Games in PGN Men - All Games in PGN Women [All corrected for Jones,RS 2327]

European Team Championships Round 9 Results 6th November 2007
Bo.	1	RUS RUSSIA (RUS)	Rtg	-	5	BUL BULGARIA (BUL)	Rtg	2.5 : 1.5
1.1	GM	Svidler Peter	2732	-	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	2670	1-0
1.2	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2715	-	GM	Georgiev Kiril	2649	0-1
1.3	GM	Alekseev Evgeny	2716	-	GM	Delchev Aleksander	2613	1-0
1.4	GM	Jakovenko Dmitry	2710	-	GM	Chatalbashev Boris	2581	1/2
Bo.	4	ARM ARMENIA (ARM)	Rtg	-	8	ISR ISRAEL (ISR)	Rtg	2.5 : 1.5
2.1	GM	Aronian Levon	2741	-	GM	Sutovsky Emil	2655	1-0
2.2	GM	Akopian Vladimir	2713	-	GM	Avrukh Boris	2641	1-0
2.3	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2673	-	GM	Roiz Michael	2644	1/2
2.4	GM	Asrian Karen	2623	-	GM	Rodshtein Maxim	2615	0-1
Bo.	6	FRA FRANCE (FRA)	Rtg	-	3	AZE AZERBAIJAN (AZE)	Rtg	1.5 : 2.5
3.1	GM	Bacrot Etienne	2695	-	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2752	1/2
3.2	GM	Fressinet Laurent	2654	-	GM	Radjabov Teimour	2742	0-1
3.3	GM	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	2634	-	GM	Gashimov Vugar	2663	1/2
3.4	GM	Bauer Christian	2634	-	GM	Guseinov Gadir	2614	1/2
Bo.	16	ENG ENGLAND (ENG)	Rtg	-	2	UKR UKRAINE (UKR)	Rtg	1.5 : 2.5
4.1	GM	Adams Michael	2729	-	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2787	1-0
4.2	GM	Jones Gawain C B	2567	-	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2694	0-1
4.3	GM	Hebden Mark L	2542	-	GM	Volokitin Andrei	2678	0-1
4.4	GM	Conquest Stuart C	2540	-	GM	Areshchenko Alexander	2638	1/2
Bo.	19	SLO SLOVENIA (SLO)	Rtg	-	7	ESP SPAIN (ESP)	Rtg	2.0 : 2.0
5.1	GM	Beliavsky Alexander G	2646	-	GM	Shirov Alexei	2739	0-1
Bo.	26	MKD FYROM (MKD)	Rtg	-	10	POL POLAND (POL)	Rtg	1.0 : 3.0
6.1	GM	Georgiev Vladimir	2576	-	GM	Socko Bartosz	2646	0-1
Bo.	9	NED NETHERLANDS (NED)	Rtg	-	12	HUN HUNGARY (HUN)	Rtg	1.5 : 2.5
7.1	GM	Tiviakov Sergei	2643	-	GM	Almasi Zoltan	2691	1/2
7.2	GM	Sokolov Ivan	2673	-	GM	Balogh Csaba	2561	0-1
Bo.	25	LTU LITHUANIA (LTU)	Rtg	-	20	DEN DENMARK (DEN)	Rtg	1.5 : 2.5
Bo.	11	GEO GEORGIA (GEO)	Rtg	-	29	ITA ITALY (ITA)	Rtg	3.0 : 1.0
Bo.	13	CZE CZECH REPUBLIC (CZE)	Rtg	-	21	SWE SWEDEN (SWE)	Rtg	3.0 : 1.0
10.1	GM	Navara David	2656	-	GM	Berg Emanuel	2593	1-0
Bo.	27	NOR NORWAY (NOR)	Rtg	-	14	SRB SERBIA (SRB)	Rtg	2.0 : 2.0
11.1	GM	Carlsen Magnus	2714	-	GM	Ivanisevic Ivan	2607	0-1
Bo.	30	MNE MONTENEGRO (MNE)	Rtg	-	17	GRE GREECE (GRE)	Rtg	1.5 : 2.5
Bo.	18	CRO CROATIA (CRO)	Rtg	-	28	SUI SWITZERLAND (SUI)	Rtg	2.0 : 2.0
Bo.	31	ISL ICELAND (ISL)	Rtg	-	34	FIN FINLAND (FIN)	Rtg	2.5 : 1.5
Bo.	15	GER GERMANY (GER)	Rtg	-	23	TUR TURKEY (TUR)	Rtg	3.5 : 0.5
15.1	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	2639	-	GM	Gurevich Mikhail	2627	1-0
Bo.	33	EST ESTONIA (EST)	Rtg	-	35	BEL BELGIUM (BEL)	Rtg	2.5 : 1.5
Bo.	32	AUT AUSTRIA (AUT)	Rtg	-	38	WLS WALES (WLS)	Rtg	3.5 : 0.5
Bo.	36	SCO SCOTLAND (SCO)	Rtg	-	40	CYP CYPRUS (CYP)	Rtg	3.5 : 0.5
Bo.	39	MNC MONACO (MNC)	Rtg	-	37	LUX LUXEMBOURG (LUX)	Rtg	1.0 : 3.0

European Team Championships Women's Round 9 Results 6th November 2007
Bo.	3	UKR UKRAINE (UKR)	Rtg	-	1	RUS RUSSIA (RUS)	Rtg	2.0 : 2.0
1.1	GM	Lahno Kateryna	2459	-	GM	Kosteniuk Alexandra	2515	1-0
1.2	WGM	Zhukova Natalia	2452	-	IM	Kosintseva Tatiana	2492	0-1
1.3	IM	Gaponenko Inna	2440	-	IM	Kosintseva Nadezhda	2469	1/2
1.4	IM	Vasilevich Tatjana	2368	-	IM	Korbut Ekaterina	2443	1/2
Bo.	10	ARM ARMENIA (ARM)	Rtg	-	2	GEO GEORGIA (GEO)	Rtg	2.0 : 2.0
2.1	IM	Danielian Elina	2458	-	GM	Chiburdanidze Maia	2500	1/2
2.2	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2402	-	IM	Javakhishvili Lela	2474	1/2
2.3	WGM	Aginian Nelly	2261	-	IM	Khurtsidze Nino	2450	1-0
2.4	WIM	Andriasian Siranush	2234	-	IM	Dzagnidze Nana	2416	0-1
Bo.	12	ROU ROMANIA (ROU)	Rtg	-	6	POL POLAND (POL)	Rtg	2.0 : 2.0
3.1	IM	Peptan Corina-Isabela	2405	-	IM	Socko Monika	2473	0-1
3.2	WGM	Voicu Carmen	2333	-	IM	Rajlich Iweta	2411	1/2
3.3	WGM	Motoc Alina	2300	-	WGM	Zawadzka Jolanta	2371	1-0
3.4	WIM	Paulet Iozefina	2276	-	WIM	Przezdziecka Marta	2259	1/2
Bo.	11	SLO SLOVENIA (SLO)	Rtg	-	7	GER GERMANY (GER)	Rtg	2.5 : 1.5
4.1	WGM	Muzychuk Anna	2469	-	IM	Paehtz Elisabeth	2452	1-0
4.2	WIM	Krivec Jana	2315	-	IM	Kachiani-G Ketino	2404	0-1
4.3	WGM	Srebrnic Ana	2278	-	WGM	Michna Marta	2375	1-0
4.4	WIM	Rozic Vesna	2277	-	WFM	Ohme Melanie	2274	1/2
Bo.	5	HUN HUNGARY (HUN)	Rtg	-	8	NED NETHERLANDS (NED)	Rtg	3.5 : 0.5
Bo.	14	BUL BULGARIA (BUL)	Rtg	-	4	FRA FRANCE (FRA)	Rtg	1.0 : 3.0
Bo.	18	AZE AZERBAIJAN (AZE)	Rtg	-	9	SRB SERBIA (SRB)	Rtg	3.0 : 1.0
Bo.	15	ESP SPAIN (ESP)	Rtg	-	16	ISR ISRAEL (ISR)	Rtg	2.0 : 2.0
Bo.	20	ENG ENGLAND (ENG)	Rtg	-	22	CRO CROATIA (CRO)	Rtg	1.5 : 2.5
Bo.	13	GRE GREECE 1 (GRE1)	Rtg	-	21	CZE CZECH REPUBLIC (CZE)	Rtg	2.0 : 2.0
Bo.	27	MNE MONTENEGRO (MNE)	Rtg	-	17	LTU LITHUANIA (LTU)	Rtg	1.0 : 3.0
Bo.	30	GRE GREECE 2 (GRE2)	Rtg	-	23	SUI SWITZERLAND (SUI)	Rtg	0.0 : 4.0
Bo.	24	AUT AUSTRIA (AUT)	Rtg	-	29	FIN FINLAND (FIN)	Rtg	1.5 : 2.5
Bo.	25	SWE SWEDEN (SWE)	Rtg	-	26	EST ESTONIA (EST)	Rtg	1.5 : 2.5

European Team Championships Leading Final Round 9 Standings
Rk.	SNo		Team	Team	Games	+	=	-	MP	GP	Buc
1	1	RUS	RUSSIA	RUS	9	8	1	0	17	25,0	180,5
2	4	ARM	ARMENIA	ARM	9	6	2	1	14	21,5	175,0
3	3	AZE	AZERBAIJAN	AZE	9	6	1	2	13	20,5	183,5
4	10	POL	POLAND	POL	9	5	2	2	12	21,5	165,0
5	2	UKR	UKRAINE	UKR	9	4	4	1	12	21,0	159,0
6	8	ISR	ISRAEL	ISR	9	5	2	2	12	20,5	181,5
7	5	BUL	BULGARIA	BUL	9	5	1	3	11	22,0	178,0
8	19	SLO	SLOVENIA	SLO	9	5	1	3	11	20,5	172,0
9	6	FRA	FRANCE	FRA	9	5	1	3	11	20,0	186,5
10	12	HUN	HUNGARY	HUN	9	5	1	3	11	20,0	181,5
11	7	ESP	SPAIN	ESP	9	3	5	1	11	19,0	184,0
12	20	DEN	DENMARK	DEN	9	5	1	3	11	19,0	167,0
13	11	GEO	GEORGIA	GEO	9	4	2	3	10	21,5	154,5
14	17	GRE	GREECE	GRE	9	5	0	4	10	21,0	147,0
15	13	CZE	CZECH REPUBLIC	CZE	9	4	2	3	10	20,0	179,0
16	16	ENG	ENGLAND	ENG	9	4	2	3	10	19,5	168,5
17	26	MKD	FYROM	MKD	9	4	2	3	10	18,0	174,5
18	25	LTU	LITHUANIA	LTU	9	4	1	4	9	20,5	147,0
19	9	NED	NETHERLANDS	NED	9	3	3	3	9	19,5	168,5
20	31	ISL	ICELAND	ISL	9	4	1	4	9	19,0	169,5
21	14	SRB	SERBIA	SRB	9	4	1	4	9	19,0	165,5
22	27	NOR	NORWAY	NOR	9	3	3	3	9	19,0	161,5
23	15	GER	GERMANY	GER	9	3	2	4	8	19,5	153,0
24	30	MNE	MONTENEGRO	MNE	9	3	2	4	8	18,0	164,0
25	28	SUI	SWITZERLAND	SUI	9	3	2	4	8	17,0	160,5
26	18	CRO	CROATIA	CRO	9	3	2	4	8	17,0	159,5
27	21	SWE	SWEDEN	SWE	9	2	4	3	8	16,5	184,5
28	33	EST	ESTONIA	EST	9	4	0	5	8	16,5	162,5
29	29	ITA	ITALY	ITA	9	2	4	3	8	16,0	163,5
30	32	AUT	AUSTRIA	AUT	9	3	1	5	7	18,5	146,5
31	34	FIN	FINLAND	FIN	9	2	3	4	7	16,5	159,0
32	36	SCO	SCOTLAND	SCO	9	3	1	5	7	13,0	147,5
33	24	ROU	ROMANIA	ROU	9	2	2	5	6	16,0	152,5
34	23	TUR	TURKEY	TUR	9	2	2	5	6	15,0	157,0
35	35	BEL	BELGIUM	BEL	9	2	2	5	6	14,0	154,0
36	37	LUX	LUXEMBOURG	LUX	9	2	2	5	6	14,0	127,5
37	38	WLS	WALES	WLS	9	1	3	5	5	10,0	140,5
38	40	CYP	CYPRUS	CYP	9	1	2	6	4	10,0	130,5
39	39	MNC	MONACO	MNC	9	0	1	8	1	9,0	143,0
40	22	BIH	BOSNIA & HERCEGOVINA	BIH	0	0	0	0	0	0,0	21,0

Best Performers by ELO
No.			Name	Rtg	Team	Rp	Pts.	Games	%	Bo.
1	RUS	GM	Svidler Peter	2732	RUSSIA	2989	6,0	7	85,7	1
2	RUS	GM	Morozevich Alexander	2755	RUSSIA	2855	6,0	8	75,0	1
3	ISR	GM	Roiz Michael	2644	ISRAEL	2855	5,5	7	78,6	2
4	ENG	GM	Adams Michael	2729	ENGLAND	2800	5,5	8	68,8	1
5	AZE	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2752	AZERBAIJAN	2798	5,0	8	62,5	1
6	BUL	GM	Topalov Veselin	2769	BULGARIA	2797	3,0	4	75,0	1
7	CZE	GM	Navara David	2656	CZECH REPUBLIC	2792	6,0	9	66,7	1
8	ESP	GM	Vallejo Pons Francisco	2660	SPAIN	2782	6,5	9	72,2	1
9	FRA	GM	Bacrot Etienne	2695	FRANCE	2781	5,0	8	62,5	1
10	RUS	GM	Alekseev Evgeny	2716	RUSSIA	2760	5,0	7	71,4	3
11	UKR	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2694	UKRAINE	2758	4,5	7	64,3	1
12	NOR	GM	Carlsen Magnus	2714	NORWAY	2757	6,5	9	72,2	1
13	ARM	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2673	ARMENIA	2742	6,5	9	72,2	2
14	POL	GM	Gajewski Grzegorz	2573	POLAND	2739	5,5	7	78,6	2
15	NED	GM	Sokolov Ivan	2673	NETHERLANDS	2738	3,5	5	70,0	2
16	CZE	GM	Hracek Zbynek	2598	CZECH REPUBLIC	2737	5,5	8	68,8	2
17	AZE	GM	Radjabov Teimour	2742	AZERBAIJAN	2735	5,5	9	61,1	1
18	BUL	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	2670	BULGARIA	2728	5,5	9	61,1	1
19	BUL	GM	Delchev Aleksander	2613	BULGARIA	2726	5,5	8	68,8	3
20	RUS	GM	Jakovenko Dmitry	2710	RUSSIA	2724	5,5	8	68,8	4

European Team Championships Women's Leading Final Round 9 Standings
Rk.	SNo		Team	Team	Games	+	=	-	MP	GP	Buc
1	1	RUS	RUSSIA	RUS	9	6	3	0	15	25,0	184,5
2	6	POL	POLAND	POL	9	5	3	1	13	23,5	179,5
3	10	ARM	ARMENIA	ARM	9	5	3	1	13	21,0	176,0
4	3	UKR	UKRAINE	UKR	9	5	2	2	12	22,5	172,5
5	2	GEO	GEORGIA	GEO	9	5	2	2	12	22,5	166,5
6	11	SLO	SLOVENIA	SLO	9	5	2	2	12	20,5	171,0
7	5	HUN	HUNGARY	HUN	9	5	1	3	11	22,5	172,5
8	12	ROU	ROMANIA	ROU	9	4	3	2	11	20,0	162,5
9	22	CRO	CROATIA	CRO	9	4	2	3	10	21,0	132,0
10	18	AZE	AZERBAIJAN	AZE	9	4	2	3	10	19,0	173,0
11	7	GER	GERMANY	GER	9	4	2	3	10	19,0	170,5
12	8	NED	NETHERLANDS	NED	9	4	2	3	10	17,5	188,5
13	4	FRA	FRANCE	FRA	9	4	2	3	10	17,5	181,5
14	15	ESP	SPAIN	ESP	9	3	3	3	9	19,5	141,0
15	16	ISR	ISRAEL	ISR	9	4	1	4	9	16,5	175,5
16	13	GRE	GREECE 1	GRE1	9	3	2	4	8	19,0	152,0
17	21	CZE	CZECH REPUBLIC	CZE	9	3	2	4	8	18,5	150,5
18	14	BUL	BULGARIA	BUL	9	4	0	5	8	18,0	172,0
19	9	SRB	SERBIA	SRB	9	3	2	4	8	18,0	162,5
20	23	SUI	SWITZERLAND	SUI	9	2	4	3	8	18,0	134,0
21	17	LTU	LITHUANIA	LTU	9	2	4	3	8	16,5	173,0
22	20	ENG	ENGLAND	ENG	9	4	0	5	8	14,5	170,5
23	19	TUR	TURKEY	TUR	9	3	1	5	7	16,0	156,0
24	26	EST	ESTONIA	EST	9	2	3	4	7	14,5	156,0
25	27	MNE	MONTENEGRO	MNE	9	2	3	4	7	13,5	170,5
26	29	FIN	FINLAND	FIN	9	3	1	5	7	12,0	152,0
27	24	AUT	AUSTRIA	AUT	9	1	3	5	5	16,0	137,0
28	25	SWE	SWEDEN	SWE	9	1	3	5	5	15,5	139,0
29	30	GRE	GREECE 2	GRE2	9	0	1	8	1	6,5	157,0
30	28	BIH	BOSNIA & HERCEGOVINA	BIH	0	0	0	0	0	0,0	19,0

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Cultural Village Tournament

Leader Dimitri Reinderman - Cultural Village Tournament. Photo © Fred Lucas. http://www.fredlucas.eu

The Cultural Village Tournament took place in the Cafe De Zon in Wijk aan Zee 19th-28th November 2007.

Official site: http://www.ssij.nl/ and details: http://www.coruschess.com/article.php?s=n140

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Chess Champions League

The "Chess Champions League" (Jesus de Lafuente memorial) took place 1st-15th November 2007 in Vitoria Gasteiz. Veselin Topalov was the convincing winner with 7/10 a point and a half clear of Ruslan Ponomariov.

Games in PGN

Chess Champions League Results
Round 10 (November 14, 2007)
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	0-1	32	E66	King's Indian Fianchetto
Polgar, Judit	- Topalov, Veselin	0-1	58	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Karpov, Anatoly	- Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	½-½	22	E02	Catalan
Round 9 (November 13, 2007)
Topalov, Veselin	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	1-0	58	E55	Nimzo Indian
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	- Polgar, Judit	½-½	32	E17	Queens Indian
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	- Karpov, Anatoly	1-0	33	E37	Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Round 8 (November 11, 2007)
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Karpov, Anatoly	½-½	29	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Topalov, Veselin	- Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	1-0	51	D20	QGA
Polgar, Judit	- Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	½-½	69	C78	Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence
Round 7 (November 10, 2007)
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	½-½	32	B33	Sicilian Sveshnikov
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	- Topalov, Veselin	½-½	46	D58	Queens Gambit Tartakover
Karpov, Anatoly	- Polgar, Judit	0-1	43	E17	Queens Indian
Round 6 (November 9, 2007)
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Polgar, Judit	1-0	36	E21	Nimzo Indian 4.Nf3
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	- Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	1-0	75	C92	Ruy Lopez Chigorin
Topalov, Veselin	- Karpov, Anatoly	½-½	53	E13	Queens Indian 5.Bg5
Round 1 Delayed Game (November 8, 2007)
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	- Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	½-½	27	A56	Old Indian Defence
Round 5 (November 7, 2007)
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Topalov, Veselin	½-½	37	E97	King's Indian Classical
Polgar, Judit	- Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	½-½	27	C67	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Karpov, Anatoly	- Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	½-½	23	E90	King's Indian Classical
Round 4 (November 6, 2007)
Topalov, Veselin	- Polgar, Judit	0-1	34	C42	Petroff's Defence
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	- Karpov, Anatoly	½-½	27	C42	Petroff's Defence
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	½-½	36	D55	Queens Gambit Old Lasker Variation
Round 3 (November 4, 2007)
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	- Topalov, Veselin	½-½	32	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Karpov, Anatoly	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	0-1	37	D12	Slav Defence
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	- Polgar, Judit	0-1	36	C92	Ruy Lopez Chigorin
Round 2 (November 3, 2007)
Topalov, Veselin	- Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	1-0	42	E15	Queens Indian
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	½-½	40	A33	English Symmetrical
Polgar, Judit	- Karpov, Anatoly	½-½	48	C83	Ruy Lopez Open
Round 1 (November 2, 2007)
Karpov, Anatoly	- Topalov, Veselin	0-1	48	E36	Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Polgar, Judit	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	0-1	45	C78	Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence

Chess Champions League Vitoria Gasteiz ESP (ESP), 2-14 xi 2007 cat. XIX (2702)
					1		2		3		4		5		6
1.	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2769	*	*	½	1	½	1	0	1	1	½	1	½	7	2837
2.	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2705	½	0	*	*	½	½	1	1	½	0	1	½	5½	2737
3.	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2668	½	0	½	½	*	*	½	½	½	1	½	½	5	2708
4.	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2708	1	0	0	0	½	½	*	*	1	½	½	1	5	2700
5.	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2690	0	½	½	1	½	0	0	½	*	*	½	1	4½	2668
6.	Karpov, Anatoly	g	RUS	2670	0	½	0	½	½	½	½	0	½	0	*	*	3	2559

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USSR vs Yugoslavia Match

No its not a misprint, neither country exists anymore but the XXII Friendly Chess Match between USSR and Yugoslavia teams took place 8th-9th November 2007 at the Central Chess Club of Moscow, Russia. The USSR won 11-9 by virtue of a 6-4 win on day one, day two was tied.

Games in PGN

USSR vs Yugoslavia Rd 1 8th Nov 2007
Player	NAT	vs	Player	NAT	Res	Mo	ECO	Opening
Gligoric, Svetozar	YUG	-	Korchnoi, Viktor	USSR	0-1	54	E41	Nimzo Indian Rubinstein
Vasiukov, Evgeni	USSR	-	Ivkov, Borislav	YUG	1/2	13	D14	Slav Exchange
Matanovic, Aleksandar	YUG	-	Taimanov, Mark E	USSR	1/2	29	B46	Sicilian Paulsen
Balashov, Yuri S	USSR	-	Velimirovic, Dragoljub	YUG	0-1	65	B20	Sicilian Wing Gambit
Karaklajic, Nikola	YUG	-	Zaitsev, Igor A	USSR	1/2	16	C68	Ruy Lopez Exchange
Averbakh, Yuri L	USSR	-	Vlahovic, Svetozar	YUG	1/2	8	A13	Reti Opening
Spasojevic, Zoran	YUG	-	Vorotnikov, Vladislav V	USSR	1/2	22	C41	Philidor's Defence
Machulsky, Anatoly D	USSR	-	Savic, Andreja	YUG	1/2	10	A46	Queen's Pawn Opening
Lazarevic, Milunka	YUG	-	Fatalibekova, Elena	USSR	0-1	16	B23	Sicilian Closed
Zaitseva, Ludmila G	USSR	-	Blagojevic, Katarina	YUG	1-0	46	D00	Queen's Pawn Game
Rd1 USSR 6 - Yugoslavia 4
USSR vs Yugoslavia Rd 2 9th Nov 2007
Player	NAT	vs	Player	NAT	Res	Mo	ECO	Opening
Korchnoi, Viktor	USSR	-	Gligoric, Svetozar	YUG	1/2	32	E12	Queens Indian Petrosian
Ivkov, Borislav	YUG	-	Vasiukov, Evgeni	USSR	1/2	14	D26	QGA
Taimanov, Mark E	USSR	-	Matanovic, Aleksandar	YUG	1/2	19	E59	Nimzo Indian
Velimirovic, Dragoljub	YUG	-	Balashov, Yuri S	USSR	1/2	35	C44	Scotch Gambit
Zaitsev, Igor A	USSR	-	Karaklajic, Nikola	YUG	1/2	42	B01	Centre Counter
Vlahovic, Svetozar	YUG	-	Averbakh, Yuri L	USSR	1-0	35	C34	Kings Knight Gambit
Vorotnikov, Vladislav V	USSR	-	Spasojevic, Zoran	YUG	1-0	37	B30	Sicilian Rossolimo
Savic, Andreja	YUG	-	Machulsky, Anatoly D	USSR	1/2	9	A92	Dutch Stonewall
Fatalibekova, Elena	USSR	-	Lazarevic, Milunka	YUG	1/2	9	A84	Dutch
Blagojevic, Katarina	YUG	-	Zaitseva, Ludmila G	USSR	1/2	7	B40	Sicilian Classical
Rd2 USSR 5 - Yugoslavia 5
Final Score USSR 11 - Yugoslavia 9

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October

October 2007 FIDE Rating List

The October FIDE rating list see's Anand confirmed as world number 1 and his rating rises to 2801 after his performances in Dortmund and Mexico City.

FIDE October 2007 Rating List: Top 100

October 2007 FIDE Rating List. Top 10
No	Ju	Name	t	NAT	YroB	ju07	oc07	Gms
1	1	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	1969	2792	2801	21
2	4	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	1969	2762	2787	20
3	3	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	1975	2769	2785	21
4	2	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	1975	2769	2769	0
5	7	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	1979	2751	2755	21
6	5	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	1977	2758	2755	19
7	6	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyaz	g	AZE	1985	2757	2752	11
8	9	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	1987	2746	2742	9
9	8	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	1982	2750	2741	14
10	11	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	1972	2735	2739	11

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11th Essent Chess Tournament

Eseent Crown Group. Photo © Fred Lucas. http://www.fredlucas.eu

The 11th edition of the Essent Chess Tournament took place 12th-20th October 2007. The location is the city of Hoogeveen. Just like last year there are several competitions: a Crown Group, a strong Essent Open, an Amateur Tournament and an event for youth. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the event with 4.5/6 half a point clear of Loek van Wely who beat 3rd placed Ruslan Ponomariov all three gained rating points because unfortunately bottom rated Zaven Andriasian was completely overfaced by the field and didn't score. Eltaj Safarli won the Open tournament.

Official site: http://www.essentchess.nl/ tournament info: http://www.essentchess.nl/info_eng.htm

Crown Group in PGN - Open Games in PGN

Round 6 (October 20, 2007)
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Van Wely, Loek	0-1	42	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Andriasian, Zaven	- Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	0-1	40	B07	Pirc Defence
Round 5 (October 19, 2007)
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	½-½	41	D55	Queens Gambit Old Lasker Variation
Van Wely, Loek	- Andriasian, Zaven	1-0	53	D47	Queens Gambit Meran
Round 4 (October 18, 2007)
Van Wely, Loek	- Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	½-½	25	D86	Gruenfeld Simagin
Andriasian, Zaven	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	0-1	43	B83	Sicilian Scheveningen
Round 3 (October 16, 2007)
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	½-½	37	C79	Ruy Lopez Russian Defence
Andriasian, Zaven	- Van Wely, Loek	0-1	44	B80	Sicilian Scheveningen
Round 2 (October 15, 2007)
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	- Andriasian, Zaven	1-0	34	A53	Old Indian Defence
Van Wely, Loek	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	½-½	25	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Round 1 (October 14, 2007)
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	- Van Wely, Loek	1-0	41	D43	Anti-Meran Gambit
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Andriasian, Zaven	1-0	36	D30	Queen's Gambit (without Nc3)

11th Essent Crown Group 14th-20th October 2007
					1		2		3		4
1	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2752	*	*	1	½	½	½	1	1	4½	2836
2	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2680	0	½	*	*	½	1	1	1	4	2792
3	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2705	½	½	½	0	*	*	1	1	3½	2716
4	Andriasian, Zaven	g	ARM	2546	0	0	0	0	0	0	*	*	0

Essent Open Hoogeveen NED 12-20 x 2007 Final Round 9 Standings:
1	IM	Safarli, Eltaj	IM	AZE	2488	7
2	GM	Postny, Evgeny	GM	ISR	2599	6.5
3	GM	Werle, Jan	GM	NED	2568	6.5
4	GM	Nijboer, Friso	GM	NED	2559	6.5
5	GM	Smeets, Jan	GM	NED	2558	6.5
6	GM	L'Ami, Erwin	GM	NED	2577	6
7	GM	Gofshtein, Leonid	GM	ISR	2542	6
8	GM	Reinderman, Dimitri	GM	NED	2510	6
9	GM	Winants, Luc	GM	BEL	2504	6
10	GM	Hort, Vlastimil	GM	GER	2483	6
11	IM	Simutowe, Amon	IM	ZAM	2421	6
12	GM	Peng, Zhaoqin	GM	NED	2419	6
13	IM	Pruijssers, Roeland	IM	NED	2408	6
14	IM	Grooten, Herman	IM	NED	2350	6
15	IM	Abergel, Thal	IM	FRA	2528	5.5
16	GM	Visser, Yge	GM	NED	2470	5.5
17	IM	Van Delft, Merijn	IM	NED	2418	5.5
18	IM	Willemze, Thomas	IM	NED	2417	5.5
19		Vedder, Henk		NED	2364	5.5
20	FM	Tondivar, Babak	FM	NED	2353	5.5
21	IM	Afek, Yochanan	IM	ISR	2349	5.5
22		Kodentsov, Grisja		NED	2307	5.5
23	WGM	Mamedjarova, Turkan	WGM	AZE	2227	5.5
78 players

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Nakamura wins the Corsica Masters
The XI Corsica Masters took place 28th-30th October 2007. Hikaru Nakamura won the knockout event beating Rustam Kasimdzhanov in the final. The tournament was in two parts. A 10 round preliminary event which all but Karpov had to qualifiy from then a knockout. The time rate was g/10min + 3 seconds a move.

Games in PGN

Corsica Masters 2007
Final		Round 1
Kasimdzhanov,R	0.5	Kasimdzhanov,R	1.5
Nakamura,H	1.5	Milov,L	0.5
Semi-final
Kasimdzhanov,R	3	Mchedlishvili,M	0.5
Karpov,Ana	1	Fridman,D2	1.5

Bareev,E	1	Karpov,Ana	2
Nakamura,H	3	Hamdouchi,H	0
Quarter-final
Kasimdzhanov,R	1.5	Landa,K	0.5
Fridman,D2	0.5	Guliyev,N	1.5

Karpov,Ana	2	Bareev,E	2
Guliyev,N	0	Jussupow,Ar	0

Bareev,E	3	Milov,V	2
Milov,V	1	Cvitan,O	0

Van Wely,L	1	Van Wely,L	1.5
Nakamura,H	3	Prie,E	0.5

Corsica Masters Prelim 28th-29th October 2007 g/10min + 3sec Final Round 10 Standings
1	Nakamura Hikaru	USA	g	2648	8	57	69	2802
2	Van Wely Loek	NED	g	2680	7½	55	65½	2737
3	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	GEO	g	2631	7½	54	64½	2676
4	Fridman Daniel	GER	g	2621	7	58	70	2678
5	Landa Konstantin	RUS	g	2678	7	57	67	2682
6	Milov Vadim	SUI	g	2680	7	55½	66½	2652
7	Bareev Evgeny	RUS	g	2653	7	54½	63½	2660
8	Jussupow Artur	GER	g	2583	7	53	64	2598
9	Mikhalevski Victor	ISR	g	2598	7	53	63	2620
10	Hamdouchi Hichem	MAR	g	2576	7	52½	62½	2581
11	Guliyev Namig	AZE	g	2560	7	52	62	2520
12	Cvitan Ognjen	CRO	g	2543	7	51½	61	2609
13	Milov Leonid	GER	m	2492	7	51½	61	2581
14	Prie Eric	FRA	g	2532	7	49½	59	2480
15	Riff Jean-Noel	FRA	m	2474	7	47½	57½	2470
16	Sanchez Joseph	PHI	m	2496	7	47	56	2444
17	Philippe Christophe	FRA	m	2376	7	45½	49½	2412
18	Maslak Konstantin	RUS	m	2510	6½	55½	64½	2539
19	Chernin Alexander	HUN	g	2587	6½	51½	60	2524
20	Derieux Christian	FRA		2165	6½	48	55	2254
21	Apicella Manuel	FRA	g	2539	6	55	65	2500
95 players

Official site: http://www.echecs.asso.fr

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Ivanchuk - Leko Rapid Match

A match between Vassily Ivanchuk and Peter Leko, took place in Mukachevo, Ukraine 26th-28th October 2007. The 12 round rapid match ended 6-6 after Leko won twice on the final day but Ivanchuk won a second blitz game to take the match.

Games in PGN

Rapid Match g/10+10 Mukachevo UKR
Gm 1	Lékó, Peter	- Ivanchuk, Vassily	½-½	84	B42	Sicilian Paulsen
Gm 2	Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Lékó, Peter	1-0	38	C45	Scotch Game
Gm 3	Lékó, Peter	- Ivanchuk, Vassily	½-½	36	B37	Sicilian Maroczy Bind
Gm 4	Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Lékó, Peter	½-½	49	B30	Sicilian Rossolimo
Gm 5	Lékó, Peter	- Ivanchuk, Vassily	½-½	49	B36	Sicilian Maroczy Bind
Gm 6	Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Lékó, Peter	1-0	55	B31	Sicilian Rossolimo
Gm 7	Lékó, Peter	- Ivanchuk, Vassily	½-½	63	B36	Sicilian Maroczy Bind
Gm 8	Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Lékó, Peter	½-½	37	C45	Scotch Game
Gm 9	Lékó, Peter	- Ivanchuk, Vassily	1-0	32	B36	Sicilian Maroczy Bind
Gm 10	Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Lékó, Peter	½-½	56	C85	Ruy Lopez Steenwijker Defence
Gm 11	Lékó, Peter	- Ivanchuk, Vassily	1-0	80	B03	Alekhine's Defence
Gm 12	Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Lékó, Peter	½-½	33	C85	Ruy Lopez Steenwijker Defence
Bl 1	Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Lékó, Peter	½-½	49	A37	English Symmetrical
Bl 2	Lékó, Peter	- Ivanchuk, Vassily	0-1	48	B80	Sicilian Scheveningen

Rapid Match g/10+10 Mukachevo UKR
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	B1	B2
Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2787	½	1	½	½	½	1	½	½	0	½	0	½	½	1	7½	2784
Lékó, Peter	g	HUN	2755	½	0	½	½	½	0	½	½	1	½	1	½	½	0	6½	2758

Official site: http://www.ivanchuk-leko2007.com/en/index.htm

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World Junior Championship

The World Juniors and Girls Chess Championships took place in Yerevan, October 2nd-17th 2007. Ahmed Adly of Egypt won the Junior (U20) event with 10/13 half a point clear of Ivan Popov from Russia, Wang Hao took the Bronze. Vera Nebolsina of Russia took the women's event.

Games in PGN Junior Section - Games in PGN Girls Section

Juniors Leading Final Round 13 Standings:
Rank	SNo.		Name	Rtg	FED	Pts	RtgØ
1	21	GM	Adly Ahmed	2494	EGY	10.0	2492
2	11	GM	Popov Ivan	2539	RUS	9.5	2515
3	1	GM	Wang Hao	2643	CHN	9.0	2527
4	10	GM	Andreikin Dmitry	2555	RUS	9.0	2512
5	9	GM	Meier Georg	2558	GER	8.5	2536
6	12	GM	Pashikian Arman	2534	ARM	8.5	2521
7	3	GM	Rodshtein Maxim	2615	ISR	8.5	2521
8	18	GM	Negi Parimarjan	2514	IND	8.5	2505
9	5	GM	Jones Gawain C. B.	2567	ENG	8.5	2475
10	34	IM	Jojua Davit	2434	GEO	8.0	2532
11	2	GM	Stellwagen Daniel	2639	NED	8.0	2529
12	17	IM	Romanov Evgeny	2515	RUS	8.0	2484
13	28	IM	Gupta Abhijeet	2470	IND	8.0	2453
14	19	IM	Corrales Jimenez Fidel	2513	CUB	8.0	2427
15	7	GM	Amin Bassem	2561	EGY	8.0	2420
16	6	GM	Khairullin Ildar	2567	RUS	8.0	2375
17	25	IM	Grigoryan Avetik	2489	ARM	7.5	2534
18	16	IM	Gopal Geetha Narayanan	2520	IND	7.5	2505
19	4	GM	Laznicka Viktor	2610	CZE	7.5	2505
20	13	IM	So Wesley	2531	PHI	7.5	2498
21	27		Ashwin Jayaram	2478	IND	7.5	2450
22	22	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2492	IND	7.5	2446
23	8	IM	Vovk Yuri	2561	UKR	7.5	2404
24	26	IM	Brandenburg Daan	2483	NED	7.5	2369
25	40	IM	Simonian Hrair	2405	ARM	7.5	2360
80 players

Girls Leading Final Round 13 Standings:
1	6	WIM	Nebolsina Vera	2349	RUS	10.0	2302
2	4	WGM	Zawadzka Jolanta	2371	POL	9.5	2276
3	5	WGM	Melia Salome	2364	GEO	9.5	2210
4	2	IM	Tairova Elena	2391	RUS	9.0	2211
5	1	IM	Harika Dronavalli	2480	IND	8.5	2298
6	3	WGM	Mongontuul Bathuyag	2389	MGL	8.5	2288
7	13	WGM	Arutyunova Diana	2256	UKR	8.5	2226
8	15	WIM	Soumya Swaminathan	2244	IND	8.5	2199
9	7	WGM	Karavade Eesha Sanjay	2331	IND	8.0	2263
10	8	WGM	Vega Gutierrez Sabrina	2331	ESP	8.0	2252
11	16	WIM	Dauletova Gulmira	2240	KAZ	8.0	2248
12	10	WFM	Guramishvili Sopiko	2305	GEO	8.0	2240
13	27		Priya Panneer Ramachandran	2129	IND	8.0	2145
14	25	WFM	Kulon Klaudia	2139	POL	8.0	2085
15	21	WFM	Gasik Anna	2191	POL	7.5	2189
16	9	WGM	Khotenashvili Bela	2307	GEO	7.5	2186
17	22	WFM	Pertlova Sona	2169	CZE	7.5	2169
18	24		Limontaite Simona	2141	LTU	7.5	2125
19	26	WFM	Bokuchava Madona	2130	GEO	7.5	2088
58 players

Official site: http://www.armchess.am/WJGCC07/wjgcc.html

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Calvia Chess Festival

The IV Calvià Chess Festival takes place in Calvià, Mallorca (Spain) 6th-24th October 2007. There is the CECLUB Spanish team finals, IV open and a strong seniors event.

Games from CECLUB Finals in PGN
Games from the Open

Official site http://www.calviafestival.com/

IV Calvià Chess Festival Open 15th-23rd October 2007 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rank	SNo	Tit	Name	IRtg	FED	Pts	BH.
1	8	GM	Mikhalevski Victor	2584	ISR	8	47
2	11	GM	Spraggett Kevin	2580	CAN	7	44½
3	3	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	2631	GEO	6½	51
4	9	GM	Kuzubov Yuriy	2582	UKR	6½	48½
5	6	GM	Berg Emanuel	2593	SWE	6½	47½
6	20	GM	Godena Michele	2535	ITA	6½	46½
7	2	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	2635	POL	6½	45½
8	14	GM	Arencibia Rodriguez Walter	2562	CUB	6½	45½
9	38	IM	Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan	2432	GEO	6½	44
10	25	GM	Heberla Bartlomiej	2502	POL	6½	43½
11	16	GM	Strikovic Aleksa	2551	SRB	6½	42½
12	5	GM	Malakhatko Vadim	2596	BEL	6	48
13	12	GM	Hamdouchi Hichem	2576	MAR	6	47
14	15	IM	Gharamian Tigran	2557	FRA	6	46½
15	39	IM	Larino Nieto David	2428	ESP	6	46½
16	40	GM	Manik Mikulas	2420	SVK	6	46
17	18	GM	Peralta Fernando	2546	ARG	6	45½
18	32	IM	Orlov Andrey	2481	RUS	6	45½
19	33	IM	Marzolo Cyril	2478	FRA	6	44
20	48		Caspi Israel	2377	ISR	6	44
21	34	IM	Zugic Igor	2477	CAN	6	42
22	19	GM	Jedynak Radoslaw	2543	POL	6	41½
23	24	FM	Kovalyov Anton	2510	ARG	6	41½
24	36	IM	Fernandez Romero Ernesto	2459	ESP	6	41½
25	29	IM	Libiszewski Fabien	2486	FRA	6	39½
142 players

CECLUB Semi-Final Results 21st October 2007

CECLUB Finals Calvia 20th-21st October 2007. Semi-Final 1
Linex - Magic 3½						Intel Tiendas UPI 2½
1	Alexei Shirov	GM	2739	ESP	½	1	Vasily Ivanchuk	GM	2787	UKR
2	Michael Adams	GM	2729	ING	0-1	2	Alexander Grischuck	GM	2715	RUS
3	Sergei Rublevsky	GM	2676	RUS	1-0	3	Etienne Bacrot	GM	2695	FRA
4	Gabriel Sargissian	GM	2673	ARM	0-1	4	Francisco Vallejo Pons	GM	2660	ESP
5	Iván Cheparinov	GM	2670	BUL	1-0	5	Sergey Tiviakov	GM	2643	HOL
6	Manuel Pérez Candelario	MI	2525	ESP	1-0	6	Enrique Rodríguez Guerrero	GM	2440	ESP

CECLUB Finals Calvia 20th-21st October 2007 Semi-Final 2
Iretza-Gros 1						Cuna de Dragones -Ajoblanco 5
1	Vadim Milov	GM	2676	SUI	½	1	Dimitry Jakovenko	GM	2710	RUS
2	Vladislav Tkachiev	GM	2661	FRA	0-1	2	Eugeny Alekseev	GM	2716	RUS
3	Christian Bauer	GM	2634	FRA	0-1	3	Artyom Timofeev	GM	2637	RUS
4	Roberto Cifuentes Parada	GM	2499	ESP	0-1	4	Viktor Bologan	GM	2657	MDA
5	Alberto Andrés González	MI	2435	ESP	0-1	5	Ibragim Khamrakulov	GM	2604	ESP
6	Iñigo Argandoña Rivero	MI	2397	ESP	½	6	Miguel Llanes Hurtado	MI	2459	ESP

Final and 3rd-4th playoff

CECLUB Finals Calvia 20th-21st October 2007. Final
Cuna de Dragones - Ajoblanco 2½						Linex - Magic 3½
1	Dimitry Jakovenko	GM	2710	RUS	½	1	Alexei Shirov	GM	2739	ESP
2	Eugeny Alekseev	GM	2716	RUS	½	2	Michael Adams	GM	2729	ING
3	Artyom Timofeev	GM	2637	RUS	½	3	Sergei Rublevsky	GM	2676	RUS
4	Viktor Bologan	GM	2657	MDA	½	4	Gabriel Sargissian	GM	2673	ARM
5	Ibragim Khamrakulov	GM	2604	ESP	0-1	5	Iván Cheparinov	GM	2670	BUL
6	Miguel Llanes Hurtado	MI	2459	ESP	½	6	Manuel Pérez Candelario	MI	2525	ESP

CECLUB Finals Calvia 20th-21st October 2007 3rd-4th place playoff
Tiendas UPI 4						Iretza - Gros 2
1	Alexander Grischuck	GM	2715	RUS	½	1	Vadim Milov	GM	2676	SUI
2	Etienne Bacrot	GM	2695	FRA	½	2	Vladislav Tkachiev	GM	2661	FRA
3	Francisco Vallejo Pons	GM	2660	ESP	1-0	3	Christian Bauer	GM	2634	FRA
4	Jobava Baadur	GM	2644	GEO	½	4	Roberto Cifuentes	GM	2499	ESP
5	Sergey Tiviakov	GM	2643	HOL	1-0	5	Alberto Andrés Glez	MI	2435	ESP
6	Enrique Rodríguez Guerrero	GM	2440	ESP	½	6	Iñigo Argandoña Rivero	MI	2397	ESP

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European Club Cup 2007

The 23rd European Club Cup for Men, 12th European Club Cup for Women took place 2nd-10th October 2007, Kemer-Antalya, Turkey. Linux Magic won the cup after beating Economist SGSEU-1 Saratov in the final round. The favourites OCS Baden-Baden only finished 4th.

Men's Games in PGN (complete) [all corrected for Jones,RS 2327] - Women's Games in PGN (complete)

Men's Final Round 7 Standings:
Rank	Team	Gam.	+	=	-	MP	Pts.
1	Linex Magic - Merida	7	6	1	0	13	28½
2	Ural Sverdlovskaya	7	5	2	0	12	31
3	Tomsk-400	7	5	1	1	11	29
4	OSC Baden-Baden e.V.	7	4	3	0	11	28½
5	Chess Club Zagreb	7	5	0	2	10	31½
6	Economist SGSEU-1 Saratov	7	5	0	2	10	28
7	Chess Club Zeljeznicar Sarajevo	7	5	0	2	10	28
8	Keystone	7	5	0	2	10	27½
9	Bosna Sarajevo	7	4	2	1	10	26
10	Aquaprofit Chess Club Nagykanisza	7	5	0	2	10	26
11	Bank King Yerevan	7	3	3	1	9	26
12	Clichy Echecs 92	7	4	1	2	9	25
13	Gros Xake Taldea	7	4	1	2	9	24½
14	1. Novoborsky SK	7	4	1	2	9	22
15	Sollentuna Chessclub	7	4	1	2	9	21
16	Vesnianka Gran	7	4	1	2	9	20½
17	Schachfreunde Reichenstein	7	4	0	3	8	26½
18	Reykjavik Chess Club	7	4	0	3	8	25½
19	Cercle d'Echecs de Strasbourg	7	4	0	3	8	25
20	Alkaloid	7	4	0	3	8	24½
56 Teams

Women's Final Round 7 Standings:
1	Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo	7	5	1	1	11	20
2	AVS Krasnoturinsk	7	5	1	1	11	19
3	MIKA Yerevan	7	5	0	2	10	19
4	Southern Ural Cheliabinsk	7	5	0	2	10	18
5	Finec St.Petersburg	7	5	0	2	10	18
6	Economist Saratov	7	4	0	3	8	17½
7	SK T-Com Podgorica	7	3	2	2	8	16
8	Interplast Tbilisi	7	3	2	2	8	15½
9	Utrecht	7	3	1	3	7	14
10	Ladya Kazan	7	3	1	3	7	13
11	SK Bihac - Capital Brokers	7	3	1	3	7	13
12	USV Volksbank Halle	7	2	2	3	6	12
13	Turk Hava Yollari	7	2	2	3	6	10½
14	BGU Minsk	7	2	1	4	5	12
15	Besiktas Jimnastik Kulubu	7	2	1	4	5	11
16	Antalya Deniz Genclik	7	2	0	5	4	11½
17	Vandoeuvre	7	1	1	5	3	9
18	Tarsus Zeka Satranc SK	7	0	0	7	0	3

Official site: http://euroclub2007.tsf.org.tr/

English Page of the Turkish Chess Federation

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Bilbao Blindfold Chess World Cup

The Bilbao Blindfold Chess World Cup took place 16th-20th October 2007. Bu Xiangzhi was the clear winner in an event with 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw (in fact it only once made any difference to the normal standings throughout the entire event, in the final table where Karjakin took 2nd place from Carlsen).

Games in PGN

Official site: http://www.ajedrezbilbao.com/

Blindfold World Cup Bilbao ESP, 16-20 x 2007 cat. XIX (2708)
					1		2		3		4		5		6
1	Bu Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2692	*	*	1	½	1	½	1	0	1	½	1	1	21	2903
2	Karjakin, Sergey	g	UKR	2694	0	½	*	*	0	1	½	1	1	0	1	1	17	2782
3	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2714	0	½	1	0	*	*	½	1	1	½	½	1	16	2778
4	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2708	0	1	½	0	½	0	*	*	0	1	1	½	12	2671
5	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2769	0	½	0	1	0	½	1	0	*	*	½	0	9	2585
6	Harikrishna, P	g	IND	2668	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	½	½	1	*	*	6	2522

(3 points for a win, 1 for a draw)

Round 1 (October 16, 2007)
Bu Xiangzhi	- Karjakin, Sergey	1-0	50	D20	QGA
Topalov, Veselin	- Polgar, Judit	1-0	24	B46	Sicilian Paulsen
Harikrishna, P	- Carlsen, Magnus	½-½	59	A22	English Opening
Round 2 (October 16, 2007)
Carlsen, Magnus	- Harikrishna, P	1-0	35	C09	French Tarrasch
Polgar, Judit	- Topalov, Veselin	1-0	15	C78	Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence
Karjakin, Sergey	- Bu Xiangzhi	½-½	28	C43	Petroff's Defence
Round 3 (October 17, 2007)
Carlsen, Magnus	- Bu Xiangzhi	0-1	68	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Polgar, Judit	- Karjakin, Sergey	½-½	46	B33	Sicilian Sveshnikov
Topalov, Veselin	- Harikrishna, P	½-½	50	C09	French Tarrasch
Round 4 (October 17, 2007)
Bu Xiangzhi	- Carlsen, Magnus	½-½	48	D12	Slav Defence
Karjakin, Sergey	- Polgar, Judit	1-0	45	B98	Sicilian Najdorf
Harikrishna, P	- Topalov, Veselin	1-0	46	B50	Sicilian Defence
Round 5 (October 18, 2007)
Bu Xiangzhi	- Topalov, Veselin	1-0	37	A40	Unusual Replies to 1.d4
Karjakin, Sergey	- Carlsen, Magnus	0-1	34	B30	Sicilian Rossolimo
Harikrishna, P	- Polgar, Judit	0-1	36	E30	Nimzo Indian Leningrad
Round 6 (October 18, 2007)
Carlsen, Magnus	- Karjakin, Sergey	0-1	42	D47	Queens Gambit Meran
Polgar, Judit	- Harikrishna, P	½-½	55	C18	French Winawer
Topalov, Veselin	- Bu Xiangzhi	½-½	59	D19	Slav Defence
Round 7 (October 19, 2007)
Polgar, Judit	- Carlsen, Magnus	½-½	26	C78	Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence
Topalov, Veselin	- Karjakin, Sergey	0-1	22	C84	Ruy Lopez Centre Attack
Harikrishna, P	- Bu Xiangzhi	0-1	42	D17	Slav Defence
Round 8 (October 19, 2007)
Bu Xiangzhi	- Harikrishna, P	1-0	70	D93	Gruenfeld 5.Bf4
Carlsen, Magnus	- Polgar, Judit	1-0	27	A32	English Symmetrical
Karjakin, Sergey	- Topalov, Veselin	0-1	31	B31	Sicilian Rossolimo
Round 9 (October 20, 2007)
Bu Xiangzhi	- Polgar, Judit	1-0	67	E62	King's Indian 6...Nc6
Carlsen, Magnus	- Topalov, Veselin	1-0	37	E20	Nimzo Indian
Karjakin, Sergey	- Harikrishna, P	1-0	49	C18	French Winawer
Round 10 (October 20, 2007)
Polgar, Judit	- Bu Xiangzhi	1-0	39	B51	Sicilian Rossolimo
Topalov, Veselin	- Carlsen, Magnus	½-½	51	E17	Queens Indian
Harikrishna, P	- Karjakin, Sergey	0-1	38	D36	QGD Exchange

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Casino de Barcelona

The Casino de Barcelona tournament took place 18th-26th October 2007. Hikaru Nakamura won the event with 7/9 a point clear of Lenier Dominguez Perez.

Games in PGN [Note the correction to Vaganian - Nakamura rd 4 as given on Susan Polgar's blog, its makes a lot more sense than the version on the official site.]

Casino Barcelona ESP (ESP), 18-26 x 2007 cat. XV (2607)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2648	*	1	½	½	1	1	0	1	1	1	7	2822
2.	Dominguez Perez, Lenier	g	CUB	2683	0	*	½	1	½	½	1	½	1	1	6	2723
3.	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2664	½	½	*	½	½	1	1	0	½	1	5½	2680
4.	Beliavsky, Alexander G	g	SLO	2646	½	0	½	*	1	½	1	1	½	½	5½	2682
5.	Krasenkow, Michal	g	POL	2668	0	½	½	0	*	½	0	1	1	1	4½	2599
6.	Vaganian, Rafael A	g	ARM	2600	0	½	0	½	½	*	0	1	1	1	4½	2607
7.	Oms Pallise, Josep	g	ESP	2506	1	0	0	0	1	1	*	½	0	½	4	2574
8.	Illescas C('o)rdoba,M	g	ESP	2598	0	½	1	0	0	0	½	*	1	½	3½	2527
9.	Narciso Dublan, Marc	g	ESP	2546	0	0	½	½	0	0	1	0	*	1	3	2488
10.	Fluvia, Jordi	m	ESP	2508	0	0	0	½	0	0	½	½	0	*	1½	2344

Round 9 (October 26, 2007)
Krasenkow, Michal	- Gashimov, Vugar	½-½	35	D02	Queen's Pawn Game
Oms Pallise, Josep	- Beliavsky, Alexander G	0-1	54	D45	Anti-Meran Variations
Illescas Córdoba,M	- Dominguez Perez, Lenier	½-½	25	D85	Gruenfeld Defence
Narciso Dublan, Marc	- Nakamura, Hikaru	0-1	71	E43	Nimzo Indian Rubinstein
Fluvia, Jordi	- Vaganian, Rafael A	0-1	22	C11	French Defence

Official site: http://www.escacs.cat/ciutat07/

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September

World Chess Championship Tournament

Round 14 (September 29, 2007)
Anand, Viswanathan	- Lékó, Peter	½-½	20	C89	Ruy Lopez Marshall
Kramnik, Vladimir	- Aronian, Levon	1-0	35	E15	Queens Indian
Svidler, Peter	- Grischuk, Alexander	1-0	42	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Morozevich, Alexander	- Gelfand, Boris	½-½	45	C42	Petroff's Defence

WCh Mexico City MEX (MEX), 13-29 ix 2007 cat. XXI (2752) Final Standings
	Name	Rating		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	Anand,V	2790	56	**	½½	½½	½½	1½	½1	1½	1½	9.0
2	Kramnik,V	2765	32	½½	**	½½	½1	½½	10	½1	½½	8.0	54.5
3	Gelfand,B	2730	72	½½	½½	**	½½	½½	1½	11	½0	8.0	54.25
4	Leko,P	2750	0	½½	½0	½½	**	½½	½1	0½	½1	7.0
5	Svidler,P	2735	-7	0½	½½	½½	½½	**	0½	½½	½1	6.5
6	Morozevich,A	2755	-55	½0	01	0½	½0	1½	**	½½	01	6.0	41.25
7	Aronian,L	2750	-49	0½	½0	00	1½	½½	½½	**	½1	6.0	39.75
8	Grischuk,A	2725	-47	0½	½½	½1	½0	½0	10	½0	**	5.5

ICC broadcast the games live and there will be chess.fm commentary with Mig Greengard and GMs Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen, Jon Speelman, John Fedorowicz, Gregory Kaidanov and Nick De Firmian will take turns alongside him. Also videos by Macauley Peterson (http://www.chessclub.com/chessfm/) and various free podcasts.

Playchess have live coverage with GM Yasser Seirawan doing live audio commentary in English, and GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov doing video and audio commentary in German.

http://www.chessvibes.com will have on the spot videos. Sergey Shipov annotations and live coverage at:http://www.chessok.com - Ian Rogers Daily Blog at the USCF

Also check out Mig's Daily Dirt page.

Schedule: Opening ceremony 12th Sept 2007. Rounds 1-4 13th-16th Sept 2007: Rounds 5-8 18th-21st Sept 2007: Rounds 9-11 23rd-25th Sept 2007: Rounds 12-14 27th-29th Sept 2007. Tiebreak games if required 30th Sept 2007, along with the closing ceremony. Play starts at 14:00 local time (there is a 6 hour time difference with England making it 8pm over here) tiebreaks a couple of hours earler at 12:00. Prize fund: US$1.3 million.

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Czech Coal Carlsbad Chess Tournament

The Czech Coal Carlsbad Chess Tournament took place 7th-15th September 2007. Sergei Movsesian and Ruslan Ponomariov finished on 4.5/7.

Games in PGN

Final Round 7 Standings: 1. Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2667 4.5; 2. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2706 4.5; 3. Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2708 4.0; 4. Navara, David g CZE 2656 4.0; 5. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2735 3.5; 6. Timman, Jan H g NED 2560 3.0; 7. Laznicka, Viktor g CZE 2594 3.0; 8. Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2610 1.5;

Official site: http://www.praguechess.cz/ and http://www.nss.cz/web_site/carlsbad/index.php?zobrazeni=online

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Liverpool Chess International

Short - Bu Xiangzhi Round 3. Photo © Steve Connor.

The Liverpool Chess International took place 3rd-9th September 2007. China had a comfortable 28 - 20 win against a UK team.

Games in PGN

UK - China Match Liverpool. Malcolm Pein Reports on Round 5-6
UK - China Match Liverpool. Malcolm Pein Reports on Round 4
UK - China Match Liverpool. Malcolm Pein Reports on Round 3
UK - China Match Liverpool. Malcolm Pein Reports on Round 2
UK - China Match Liverpool. Malcolm Pein Reports on Round 1

Round 6 (September 9, 2007)

Ding Yixin - Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan 1-0 52 B59 Sicilian Boleslavsky
Shen Yang - Houska, Jovanka 1/2 31 B12 Caro Kann Advanced
Wang Yue - Howell, David W L 1-0 57 A16 English Opening
Zhang Pengxiang - Jones, Gawain C B 1/2 50 A45 Trompowsky
Pert, Nicholas - Wang Hao 1/2 30 D45 Anti-Meran Variations
Bu Xiangzhi - Rowson, Jonathan 1/2 22 D36 QGD Exchange
Short, Nigel D - Ni Hua 1/2 44 B13 Caro Kann Exchange
Adams, Michael - Hou Yifan 1-0 39 B84 Sicilian Scheveningen

Final Round 6 Standings: 
UK-CHN Match Liverpool ENG (ENG), 4-9 ix 2007
---------------------------------------------------
Chinese Men
 1 Wang Hao                  g CHN 2624   4.0  2722
 2 Zhang Pengxiang           g CHN 2649   4.0  2722
 3 Wang Yue                  g CHN 2696   4.0  2722
 4 Ni Hua                    g CHN 2681   4.0  2722
 5 Bu Xiangzhi               g CHN 2685   3.5  2654
 6 Hou Yifan                wg CHN 2523   2.5  2540
                                         22.0
Chinese Women
 1 Ding Yixin               wf CHN 2278   3.5  2466
 2 Shen Yang                wg CHN 2439   2.5  2352
                                          6.0
                                         28.0
UK Men
 1 Adams, Michael            g ENG 2724   3.5  2700
 2 Short, Nigel D            g ENG 2683   3.0  2643
 3 Jones, Gawain C B         m ENG 2526   2.5  2586
 4 Howell, David W L         g ENG 2519   2.0  2518
 5 Pert, Nicholas            g ENG 2536   1.5  2450
 6 Rowson, Jonathan          g SCO 2599   1.5  2450
                                         14.0
UK Women
 1 Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan  m GEO 2418   4.0  2483
 2 Houska, Jovanka           m ENG 2401   2.0  2233
                                          6.0
                                         20.0
---------------------------------------------------

Alongside is an open tournament same dates.

Leading Final Round 9 Standings: 
  1 Fridman, Daniel           GER g  2628  7  

  2 Berg, Emanuel             SWE g  2580  6½ 
  3 Dgebuadze, Alexandre      BEL g  2508  6½ 
  4 Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan      IRI g  2610  6½ 
  5 Gormally, Danny           ENG g  2509  6½ 
  6 Lalic, Bogdan             CRO g  2509  6½ 
  7 Lie, Kjetil               NOR g  2536  6½ 
  8 Vovk, Yuri                UKR m  2557  6½ 

  9 Ansell, Simon             ENG m  2405  6  
 10 David, Alberto            LUX g  2529  6  
 11 Haslinger, Stewart        ENG m  2468  6  
 12 Hebden, Mark              ENG g  2540  6  
 13 McNab, Colin              SCO g  2416  6  
 14 Meijers, Viesturs         LAT g  2483  6  
 15 Miezis, Normandus         LTU g  2524  6  
 16 Quillan, Gary             ENG    2359  6

Official site: http://www.liverpoolchessinternational.co.uk/

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60th Russian Championship Higher League

The winner Nikita Vitiugov (left) is congratulated by 2nd placed Andrey Rychagov. Vitiugov's trainer Makarov is watching on. Photo © Eugney Atarov.

The 60th Championship of Russia (Higher league) took place in Krasnoyarsk 3rd-14th September 2007. There was a huge tie on 7/9 with Nikita Vitiugov having the best tie-break.

Games in PGN

Leading Final Round 11 Standings:

1 17 GM Vitiugov, Nikita 2608 7 67
2 42 GM Rychagov, Andrey 2557 7 66.5
3 18 GM Dreev, Alexey 2606 7 66
4 22 GM Amonatov, Farrukh 2598 7 64.5
5 6 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny 2654 7 62.5
6 8 GM Timofeev, Artyom 2650 7 61.5
7 12 GM Sakaev, Konstantin 2634 7 61.5
8 5 GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim 2658 7 61
9 1 GM Rublevsky, Sergei 2679 7 60
10 21 GM Tregubov, Pavel V. 2599 7 59.5
11 11 GM Kobalia, Mikhail 2634 7 59.5
12 40 GM Zakhartsov, Viacheslav 2559 6.5 65.5
13 7 GM Bareev, Evgeny 2653 6.5 62.5
14 2 GM Malakhov, Vladimir 2676 6.5 62.5
15 9 GM Motylev, Alexander 2648 6.5 62.5
16 50 GM Makarov, Marat 2518 6.5 59
67 players

Official site: http://russiachess.org/ [Live: http://russiachess.org/online/ - PGN http://russiachess.org/online/rc2007.pgn]

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Russia vs China Match

The 4th China vs Russia Chess Match took place 18th-31st August 2007 in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. China won the match overall 52.5-47.5 coming back to win the men's half with three wins in the final round and won the women's half 27-23 (almost entirely due to Elena Tairova's catastrophic 2.5/10, the other Russian players scored at least 50%).

Games in PGN

Final Round 10 Standings: 
IV RUS-CHN Match Nizhniy Novgorod RUS (RUS), 
20-30 viii 2007
 1 Alekseev, Evgeny         g RUS 2689  7.0  2816
 2 Inarkiev, Ernesto        g RUS 2663  5.5  2703
 3 Jakovenko, Dmitry        g RUS 2735  5.0  2667
 4 Tomashevsky, Evgeny      g RUS 2654  3.5  2557
 5 Timofeev, Artyom         g RUS 2650  3.5  2557
                                       24.5

 1 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina  m RUS 2454  5.5  2469
 2 Korbut, Ekaterina       wg RUS 2445  5.0  2433
 3 Kosintseva, Nadezhda     m RUS 2475  5.0  2433
 4 Kosintseva, Tatiana      m RUS 2502  5.0  2433
 5 Tairova, Elena          wg RUS 2410  2.5  2240
                                       23.0
                                       47.5
 1 Bu Xiangzhi              g CHN 2685  5.0  2678
 2 Wang Hao                 g CHN 2624  5.5  2714
 3 Wang Yue                 g CHN 2696  5.5  2714
 4 Zhang Pengxiang          g CHN 2649  5.0  2678
 5 Ni Hua                   g CHN 2681  4.5  2642
                                       25.5
                                       
 1 Ruan Lufei                 CHN 2433  6.0  2529
 2 Zhao Xue                wg CHN 2500  5.5  2493
 3 Shen Yang               wg CHN 2439  5.5  2493
 4 Huang Qian              wm CHN 2410  5.0  2457
 5 Wang Yu A               wg CHN 2384  5.0  2457
                                       27.0
                                       52.5

Official site: http://russiachess.org/

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NH Tournament

Sergey Karjakin won the event as a whole and will play in next years Amber tournament. Photo © Fred Lucas. http://www.fredlucas.eu

The NH Chess Tournament took place 22nd August - 1st September 2007 in the NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam organised by the Association Max Euwe in Monaco. The Scheveningen team tournament was a battle between a team of 'Experience' and a team of 'Rising Stars'. In the end Youth beat Experience 26.5-23.5 and Sergey Karjakin finished on 7/10 and secured an invitation to next years Amber tournament.

Games in PGN

Final Round 10 Standings: 1. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2678 7.0; 2. Cheparinov, Ivan g BUL 2657 6.0; 3. Jussupow, Artur g GER 2583 5.5; 4. Nikolic, Predrag g BIH 2646 5.5; 5. Smeets, Jan g NED 2538 5.5; 6. Khalifman, Alexander g RUS 2632 5.0; 7. Stellwagen, Daniel g NED 2631 4.5; 8. Beliavsky, Alexander G g SLO 2653 4.0; 9. Ljubojevic, Ljubomir g SRB 2550 3.5; 10. Negi, Parimarjan g IND 2529 3.5;

Youth 26.5 - Experience 23.5

The 'Experience' team consists of Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia), Artur Jussupow (Germany), Alexander Khalifman (Russia), Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Serbia) and Predrag Nikolic (Bosnia).

The 'Rising Stars' team consists of Ivan Cheparinov (Bulgaria), Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine), Parimarjan Negi (India), Jan Smeets (The Netherlands) and Daniel Stellwagen (The Netherlands). A place in the Amber 2008 tournament is part of the prize for the top finishing rising star.

Official site: http://www.nhchess2007.nl/

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Cez Chess Trophy

David Navara beat Nigel Short 4.5-1.5. Photo © Jan Rasch (from organisers press release http://www.praguechess.cz/

The Cez Chess Trophy sees Nigel Short play David Navara and Jana Jackova play Jan Timman. The festival opens on Thursday August 30th and closes on Sunday September 1st 2007. The first two days saw normal rapid chess (20 minutes for each game plus 5 seconds for move). Day 3 four games of Fischer´s chess (the starting position of the pieces is randomised) and fourth day of the festival the grand master Short will play the simultaneous game against 30 VIPs.

Navara - Short PGN - Timman - Jackova PGN

Rapid Results

David Navara 4.5-1.5 Nigel Short
Jan Timman 5.5-0.5 Jana Jackova

Official site: http://www.praguechess.cz/

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Euwe Stimulans

Winner Amon Simotuwe. Photo © Fred Lucas http://www.fredlucas.eu

The Euwe Stimulans tournament took place in Arnhem, Netherlands 17th-26th August 2007. IM Amon Simutowe won the event with 7.5/9 a point clear of Dibyendu Barua.

Games in PGN

Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Simutowe, Amon m ZAM 2421 7.5; 2. Barua, Dibyendu g IND 2462 6.5; 3. Wang Puchen f NZL 2348 6.0; 4. Gaprindashvili, Nona1 g GEO 2364 5.0; 5. Panno, Oscar g ARG 2457 4.0; 6. Hendriks, Willy m NED 2420 4.0; 7. Muhren, Bianca wg NED 2334 4.0; 8. Olafsson, Fridrik g ISL 2452 4.0; 9. Ziska, Helgi Dam m FAI 2392 3.5; 10. Rothuis, Vincent NED 2441 0.5;

Official site: http://www.euwe-stimulans.nl/

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British Championships 2007

Buckley, Hebden, Rowson and Kosten. Photo © Bob Jones.

The 94th Championships of The British Isles Organised by the English Chess Federation took place Sunday 29th July - Saturday 11th August - Great Yarmouth College, Great Yarmouth. Jacob Aagaard took the title with a final round win over Glenn Flear with black.

Games in PGN - Top British Games Rd11 [Thanks to Dave Clayton and Jack Rudd]

Final Round 11 Results
 1 Gordon, Stephen  2487 (7½) 1/2 Kosten, Anthony 2508  (7)
 2 Flear, Glenn C   2479  (7) 0-1 Aagaard, Jacob  2467 (7½)
 3 Rowson, Jonathan 2599  (7) 1-0 Pert, Nicholas  2536  (7)
 4 Hebden, Mark     2540  (7) 1/2 Haslinger, Stew 2468  (7)
 5 Howell, David W  2519 (6½) 1-0 Williams, Simon 2480 (6½)
 6 Buckley, Graeme  2379  (6) 0-1 Conquest, Stuar 2546  (6)
 7 Ward, Chris G    2439  (6) 1/2 Sowray, Peter J 2352  (6)
 8 Lewis, Andrew P  2284  (6) 1/2 Ciuksyte, Dagne 2426  (6)
 9 Fowler, Simon    2204  (6) 0-1 Arakhamia-Grant 2418  (6)
10 Bellin, Robert   2403  (6) 1-0 Briscoe, Christ 2224  (6)

Leading Final Standings: 
 1 Aagaard, Jacob            SCO m  2467 8½ 
 2 Gordon, Stephen           ENG m  2487 8  
 3 Rowson, Jonathan W        SCO g  2599 8  
 4 Haslinger, Stewart G      ENG m  2468 7½ 
 5 Hebden, Mark              ENG g  2540 7½ 
 6 Howell, David W L         ENG g  2519 7½ 
 7 Kosten, Anthony C         FRA g  2508 7½ 
 8 Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan  GEO m  2418 7  
 9 Bellin, Robert            ENG m  2403 7  
10 Conquest, Stuart          ENG g  2546 7  
11 Flear, Glenn C            ENG g  2479 7  
12 Pert, Nicholas            ENG g  2536 7  
13 Rudd, Jack                ENG f  2370 7  
14 Chapman, Terence          ENG    2200 6½ 
15 Ciuksyte, Dagne           ENG m  2426 6½ 
16 Lewis, Andrew P           ENG f  2284 6½ 
17 Sowray, Peter J           ENG f  2352 6½ 
18 Ward, Chris G             ENG g  2439 6½ 
19 Williams, Simon K         ENG m  2480 6½

Official site: http://www.bcf.org.uk/events/bc2007/index.html

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August

Chess Classic Mainz

The Chess Classic Mainz takes place August 13th-19th 2007 at the Rheingoldhalle. Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Etienne Bacrot and Rustam Kasimdzhanov will play a mixed rapid chess and Chess960 event. These will take place along with the usual mixture of other events.

The chess960 part of the event was won by Levon Aronian who beat Viswanathan Anand in the final.

Anand beat Aronian in the Rapid final 2.5-1.5.

The Ordix Open was tremendously strong with David Navara winning with 9.5/11 on tie-break from Mikhail Mchedlishvili and Krishnan Sasikiran (who beat Navara in the final round to catch his score). In form Vassily Ivanchuk was an undefeated also ran with +6=5.

Prelim Rapid Games in PGN - Final Games in PGN - 3rd 4th Games in PGN - Ordix Open Games in PGN (now with all the winner, David Navara's games)

Finals 19th Aug 2007

Anand 2.5-1.5 Aronian
Kasimdzhanov 2-2 Bacrot (no playoff)

Rapid Tournament Prelim Final Round 6 Standings: 1. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2792 4.0; 2. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2750 3.5; 3. Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2683 2.5; 4. Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2695 2.0;

Ordix Open Final Standings:
 1.  GM Navara,David          2656 CZE  9,5  63,0
 2.  GM Mchedlishvili,Mikhail 2624 GEO  9,5  57,5
 3.  GM Sasikiran,Krishnan    2674 IND  9,5  56,0
 4.  GM Petrosian,Tigran L.   2613 ARM  9,0  58,0
 5.  GM Bologan,Victor        2650 MDA  9,0  58,0
 6.  GM Pentala,Harikrishna   2664 IND  9,0  57,0
 7.  GM Almasi,Zoltan         2682 HUN  9,0  56,5
 8.  GM Drozdovskyy,Yuriy     2572 UKR  9,0  56,0
 9.  GM Moiseenko,Alexander   2641 UKR  9,0  55,0
10.  GM Nielsen,Peter-Heine   2638      9,0  54,5
11.  GM Volokitin,Andrej      2698 UKR  9,0  54,0
12.  IM Seel,Christian        2495      9,0  54,0
13.  GM Khenkin,Igor          2602      8,5  56,5
14.  GM Ivantschuk,Vassili    2766 UKR  8,5  56,0
15.  GM Karjakin,Sergey       2678 UKR  8,5  55,0
16.  GM Horvath,Adam          2491 HUN  8,5  53,5
17.  GM Bareev,Evgeny         2653      8,5  53,5
18.  GM Kamsky,Gata           2717 USA  8,5  53,5
19.  GM Lalic,Bogdan          2509 CRO  8,5  52,5
20.  IM Schaefer,Markus       2411      8,5  51,5
21.  GM Vogt,Lothar           2473      8,5  51,5
22.  IM Smerdon,David         2461 AUS  8,5  50,0
23.  FM Becking,Stephan       2387      8,5  48,0

Official site: http://www.chesstigers.de - Live Games: http://www.chesstigers.de/live/ccm7/live.htm - Videos: http://www.chessvibes.com/

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40th Biel Chess Festival

GM Group along with Anatoly Karpov. Photo © http://www.bielchessfestival.ch

The 40th Biel Chess Festival took place 21st July-3rd August 2007. A final round win for Magnus Carlsen after two straight losses earned him a tie with Alexander Onischuk for first place on 5.5/9, Carlsen then won a blitz playoff 3-2.

Games in PGN - Blitz Playoff Games

Blitz Playoff (August 2, 2007)

Gm1 Onischuk, Alexander - Carlsen, Magnus 1/2 69 E15 Queens Indian
Gm2 Carlsen, Magnus - Onischuk, Alexander 1/2 54 E36 Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Gm3 Onischuk, Alexander - Carlsen, Magnus 1/2 52 A58 Volga Gambit
Gm4 Carlsen, Magnus - Onischuk, Alexander 1/2 54 C54 Giuoco Piano
Gm5 Onischuk, Alexander - Carlsen, Magnus 0-1 42 E20 Nimzo Indian

Round 9 (August 2, 2007)

Carlsen, Magnus - Radjabov, Teimour 1-0 28 B07 Pirc Defence
Polgar, Judit - Pelletier, Yannick 1/2 49 B47 Sicilian Paulsen
Bu Xiangzhi - Van Wely, Loek 0-1 66 D45 Anti-Meran Variations
Motylev, Alexander - Onischuk, Alexander 1/2 31 C89 Ruy Lopez Marshall
Avrukh, Boris - Grischuk, Alexander 0-1 54 D39 QGD Ragozin

Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2710 5.5; 2. Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2650 5.5; 3. Pelletier, Yannick g SUI 2591 5.0; 4. Polgar, Judit g HUN 2707 5.0; 5. Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2726 5.0; 6. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2746 5.0; 7. Bu Xiangzhi g CHN 2685 3.5; 8. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2680 3.5; 9. Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2648 3.5; 10. Avrukh, Boris g ISR 2645 3.5;

Official site: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch - Videos at: http://www.echecs.com

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5th Gyorgy Marx Memorial

The 5th Gyorgy Marx Memorial took place in Paks, Hungary 4th-15th August 2007. Peter Acs and Pentala Harikrishna finished on 6/10 with Acs taking first place as he scored the most wins. Korchnoi collapsed with only a half from 4 in the final rounds.

Games in PGN

Final Round 10 Standings: 1. Acs, Peter g HUN 2530 6.0; 2. Harikrishna, P g IND 2664 6.0; 3. Balogh, Csaba g HUN 2568 5.5; 4. Berkes, Ferenc g HUN 2597 5.0; 5. Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2610 4.5; 6. Hou Yifan wg CHN 2523 3.0;

Official site: http://www.ase.hu/marxgy/2007/index_eng.html - http://www.ase.hu/marxgy

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French Championships 2007

The French Championships took place in Aix-les-Bains 13th-25th August 2007. There was a playoff between Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Vladislav Tkachiev for the title after both tied on 7.5/11. There were two drawn rapid games (15 min + 5 sec per move) followed by a pair of blitz games both won by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave who thus took the title.

Games in PGN - Playoff Games in PGN

Final Round 11 Standings: 1. Tkachiev, Vladislav g FRA 2655 7.5; 2. Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2595 7.5; 3. Sokolov, Andrei1 g FRA 2582 7.0; 4. Dorfman, Josif D g FRA 2584 6.5; 5. Bauer, Christian g FRA 2626 6.5; 6. Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2646 5.5; 7. Fontaine, Robert g FRA 2567 5.5; 8. Degraeve, Jean-Marc g FRA 2520 5.0; 9. Vaisser, Anatoly g FRA 2544 5.0; 10. Nataf, Igor-Alexandre g FRA 2588 4.0; 11. Renet, Olivier g FRA 2498 3.5; 12. Guidarelli, Laurent m FRA 2450 2.5;

Official site: http://www.echecs.asso.fr and news also at: http://www.echecs.com/actualite/dossier.php

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I.B.C.A. European Individual Championship 2007

Round 4 Board 1 Zsiltzova-Lisenko v Meshkov. Photo © http://www.braillechess.org.uk

The I.B.C.A. European Individual Championship 2007 took place at St Aiden's College in Durham from 13th to 24th August 2007. Jaroslav Olsar finished on 8/9 half a point clear of Yuri Meshkov.

Leading final standings: 1 Olsar 8 2 Meshkov 7.5 3 Grigorchuk 7 4 Wassin 6.5 5 Zsiltzova-Lisenk 6 6 Smirnov 6 7 Gunajew 6 8 Crouch 6 9 Berlinski 6 10 Desanjose Candal 6 11 Mlacnik 6 12 Ross 6 13 Aguilar Sevilla 6 14 Schellmann 6 15 Draghici 6 16 Baloha 5.5 17 Chojnowski 5.5 18 Pribeanu 5.5 19 Sakic 5.5

Games in PGN

Official site: http://www.braillechess.org.uk - Live coverage: http://www.bcfservices.org.uk/livechess/euroblind/tfd.htm

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5th Staunton Memorial

The 5th Staunton Memorial saw six Dutch and six English players compete in a single round robin event. The event as last year, was supported by the Dutch chess enthusiast Jan Mol. Michael Adams took clear first place by a point from Ivan Sokolov and Loek van Wely.

Games in PGN

Final Round 11 Standings: 1. Adams, Michael g ENG 2724 8.5; 2. Sokolov, Ivan NED g NED 2666 7.5; 3. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2680 7.5; 4. Jones, Gawain C B g ENG 2526 6.5; 5. Werle, Jan g NED 2552 6.5; 6. Smeets, Jan g NED 2538 6.5; 7. L'Ami, Erwin g NED 2598 5.0; 8. Timman, Jan H g NED 2560 5.0; 9. Wells, Peter K g ENG 2517 4.0; 10. Speelman, Jon S g ENG 2511 3.5; 11. McNab, Colin A g SCO 2416 3.0; 12. Houska, Jovanka m ENG 2401 2.5;

Official site: http://howardstaunton.com/index.shtml

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July

July FIDE Rating List

The July 2007 rating list has been released. Viswanathan Anand has extended the lead as world number one he gained in April gaining 4 points from 4 Bundesliga games. Veselin Topalov retains his second position by virtue of games played from Vladimir Kramnik for the second list in succession, both lost three rating points in the period, Kramnik by drawing against Jan Smeets in a single Dutch League game.

FIDE July 2007 Rating List: Top 100 Analysis

Top 20 July 2007
 1 Anand, Viswanathan      g IND  2792  4  1969
 2 Topalov, Veselin        g BUL  2769  10 1975
 3 Kramnik, Vladimir       g RUS  2769  1  1975
 4 Ivanchuk, Vassily       g UKR  2762  22 1969
 5 Morozevich, Alexander   g RUS  2758  18 1977
 6 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar  g AZE  2757  14 1985
 7 Leko, Peter             g HUN  2751  9  1979
 8 Aronian, Levon          g ARM  2750  15 1982
 9 Radjabov, Teimour       g AZE  2746  7  1987
10 Jakovenko, Dmitry       g RUS  2735  29 1983
11 Shirov, Alexei          g ESP  2735  28 1972
12 Svidler, Peter          g RUS  2735  6  1976
13 Gelfand, Boris          g ISR  2733  21 1968
14 Grischuk, Alexander     g RUS  2726  18 1983
15 Adams, Michael          g ENG  2724  18 1971
16 Kamsky, Gata            g USA  2718  28 1974
17 Carlsen, Magnus         g NOR  2710  19 1990
18 Akopian, Vladimir       g ARM  2708  5  1971
19 Polgar, Judit           g HUN  2707  10 1976
20 Ponomariov, Ruslan      g UKR  2706  16 1983

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ICC Competition - Prize is a visit to the Mexico World Championship Tournament

Mexico 2007 ICC Qualifiers August 4th-9th 2007. Starting August 4, and running until August 12, you will have a chance to win a trip to be a VIP guest at the World Championships in Mexico City. Now, after the huge record-breaking success of our Mainz qualifier, there comes another bigger and better qualifier - and exclusive ONLY for full ICC members. The package for the overall winner includes: $1500 USD (to be paid out only on arrival in Mexico) to cover your airfares and other expenses. Also included in the package is 4 nights (13-17 Sept.) at a top hotel in Mexico City, plus VIP tickets for the World Championships, and free entry into the "Copa Internacional de la Cd. De Mexico" Open.

Details: http://www.chessclub.com/

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Ian Rogers Retires

Ian Rogers has retired from competitive chess after over 20 years as Australia's number one player. His last event was the Lidums Checkmate Open which he won by defeating IM Andras Toth in the final round. He didn't want to retire and is in reasonable health but multiple doctors told him that due to the stress of playing and its affect on blood pressure if he didn't give up chess immediately and permanently, he would be on a dialysis machine within a few years.

Chess Express on Rogers retirement
Ian Rogers Final tournament
Games in PGN - Two wins from his last event plus a stonking win from the final weekend of the 4NCL in May showing what we'll miss

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8th Montreal International

The 8th Montreal International took place 19th-28th July 2007. Vassily Ivanchuk continued his hot run of form taking clear first with 7/9.

Games in PGN

Round 9 (July 28, 2007)

Ivanchuk, Vassily - Harikrishna, P 1-0 41 C42 Petroff's Defence
Tiviakov, Sergei - Charbonneau, Pascal 1/2 57 B43 Sicilian Paulsen
Kamsky, Gata - Eljanov, Pavel 0-1 36 E55 Nimzo Indian
Sutovsky, Emil - Miton, Kamil 1-0 32 C92 Ruy Lopez Chigorin
Short, Nigel D - Bluvshtein, Mark 0-1 42 C34 Kings Knight Gambit

Final Round 9 Standings:1. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2762 7.0; 2. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2648 6.0; 3. Harikrishna, P g IND 2664 5.5; 4. Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2701 5.0; 5. Kamsky, Gata g USA 2718 5.0; 6. Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2656 4.5; 7. Miton, Kamil g POL 2648 3.5; 8. Bluvshtein, Mark g CAN 2520 3.5; 9. Charbonneau, Pascal g CAN 2503 3.0; 10. Short, Nigel D g ENG 2683 2.0;

Official site: http://www.fqechecs.qc.ca and http://www.monroi.com/tournamentgate/MInternational07/index.html - Blog coverage: http://montrealchessfest2007.blogspot.com/

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Banja Luka 2007

The Banja Luka Tournament took place 22nd-30th July 2007. Korchnoi and Ilincic shared first place.

Games in PGN

Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2610 6.5; 2. Ilincic, Zlatko g SRB 2509 6.5; 3. Ruck, Robert g HUN 2563 5.0; 4. Stojanovic, Mihajlo m SRB 2601 5.0; 5. Andersson, Ulf g SWE 2520 4.5; 6. Vukic, Milan g BIH 2481 4.5; 7. Solodovnichenko, Yuri g UKR 2582 4.5; 8. Jakovljevic, Vlado m BIH 2440 4.0; 9. Savanovic, Aleksandar m BIH 2432 2.5; 10. Narancic, Vlado f SRB 2344 2.0;

Official site: http://www.skbanjaluka.com

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Canadian Open

Winner Bu Xiangzhi. Photo © http://canchess.ca/

The 2007 Canadian Open Chess Championship took place 7-15 July 2007 in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. 10 rounds 100 minutes/game + 1 minute increment / move. Bu Xiangzhi won with 8/10.

Games in PGN

Leading Final Round 10 Standings:

 1   Xiangzhi Bu             GM 2685  8.0 
 2   Nigel D. Short          GM 2683  7.5 
 3   Kamil Miton             GM 2648  7.5 
 4   Chanda Sandipan         GM 2563  7.5 
 5   Tomas Krnan             IM 2492  7.5 
 6   Bator Sambuev           GM 2482  7.5 
 7   Vadim Milov             GM 2678  7.0 
 8   Sergey Tiviakov         GM 2648  7.0 
 9   Andrey V. Rychagov      GM 2557  7.0 
 10  Mark Bluvshtein         GM 2520  7.0 
 11  Abhijit Kunte           GM 2519  7.0 
 12  Alex Yermolinsky        GM 2517  7.0 
 13  Anton Kovalyov          FM 2510  7.0 
 14  Hoang Thong Tu          GM 2483  7.0 
 15  Frank De La Paz Perdomo GM 2452  7.0 
 16  Thomas Roussel-Roozmon  IM 2414  7.0 
 17  Alexander Reprintsev    IM 2410  7.0 
 18  Leonid Gerzhoy          IM 2409  7.0 
 19  Joe Bradford            FM 2406  7.0 
 20  Daniel Rensch           FM 2400  7.0 
 21  Jonathan Tayar          FM 2271  7.0 
 22  Victor Mikhalevski      GM 2601  6.5 
 23  Suat Atalik             GM 2564  6.5 
 24  Anton Shomoev           GM 2561  6.5 
 25  Valeriy Aveskulov       GM 2539  6.5 
 26  David Howell            GM 2519  6.5 
 27  Tomas Likavsky          GM 2494  6.5 
 28  Tom O'Donnell           IM 2427  6.5 
 29  Shiyam Thavandiran      FM 2337  6.5 
 30  Arkady Vul              GM 2312  6.5 
280 players

Official site: Event website: http://www.canchess.ca - Event blog: http://canchess.blogspot.com/

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North Urals Cup

The North Urals Cup took place in Krasnoturinsk, Russia 22nd-31st July 2007.

Games in PGN

Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Zhu Chen g QAT 2522 6.0; 2. Zhao Xue wg CHN 2500 6.0; 3. Pogonina, Natalija wg RUS 2429 5.5; 4. Lahno, Kateryna m UKR 2450 5.0; 5. Muzychuk, Anna wg SLO 2456 4.0; 6. Ushenina, Anna m UKR 2502 4.0; 7. Hou Yifan wg CHN 2523 4.0; 8. Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2457 3.5; 9. Galliamova, Alisa m RUS 2468 3.5; 10. Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2481 3.5;

Official site: http://www.northuralscup.ru/2007/tournamenteng.shtml

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MonRoi International Women's GP

The MonRoi International Women's Chess Grand-Prix saw its finale in an 8 player round robin July 21st-28th in Montreal, Canada. Pia Cramling took clear first with 5/7.

Games in PGN

Final Round 7 Standings: 1. Cramling, Pia g SWE 2533 5.0; 2. Houska, Jovanka m ENG 2401 4.5; 3. Javakhishvili, Lela m GEO 2460 4.5; 4. Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan m GEO 2418 4.0; 5. Rajlich, Iweta m POL 2406 4.0; 6. Krush, Irina m USA 2479 3.0; 7. Foisor, Cristina Adela m ROM 2372 3.0; 8. Roy, Myriam CAN 1925 0.0;

Official site: http://www.monroi.com/GP/

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Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup

Vassily Ivanchuk's hot streak continues as he won with 7/9 half a point clear of Alexander Grischuk. Photo © http://www.worldcup.pivdenny.com

The Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup took place in Odessa, Ukraine from 4th-6th July 2007. Vassily Ivanchuk edged out Alexander Grischuk by half a point.

Games in PGN

Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2729 7.0; 2. Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2717 6.5; 3. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2747 5.5; 4. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2699 5.5; 5. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2733 5.0; 6. Drozdovskij, Yuri g UKR 2558 4.0; 7. Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2709 3.5; 8. Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2623 3.0; 9. Smirin, Ilia g ISR 2650 2.5; 10. Tukmakov, Vladimir B g UKR 2551 2.5;

Official site: http://www.worldcup.pivdenny.com

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4th Taiyuan GM March

The Taiyuan Tournament Scheveningen tournament saw a foreign team beat a Chinese team 17-15. Vadim Zvjaginsev scored 5.5/8 to top score in the event, Wang Yue made 5/8 to top score for the Chinese team.

Games in PGN

4th GM March Taiyuan CHN (CHN), 4-14 vii 2007
                    -----------  Wang Yue        2696 5.0
                    |  --------  Wang Hao        2624 4.0
                    |  |  -----  Ni Hua          2681 3.0
                    |  |  |  --  Zhang Pengxiang 2649 3.0
                    |  |  |  |  
1 Zvjaginsev,V 2658 ½½ 1½ ½1 ½1 5.5
2 Cheparinov,I 2657 00 1½ ½1 ½½ 4.0
3 Asrian,K     2608 ½½ ½½ ½½ ½½ 4.0
4 Balogh,C     2567 ½½ 00 ½½ ½1 3.5

Official site: http://sports.sina.com.cn/chess/live_gx/index.html

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XX Ciudad de León

Anand - Ponomariov on day 1. Photo © http://www.advancedchessleon.com

The XX Ciudad de León Chess tournament took place 4th-9th July 2007. The first round is on Friday July 6th 2007. Viswanathan Anand won the title by beating Vesselin Topalov 3-1 in the final.

Games in PGN

Day 1 6th July 2007 Anand 3-1 Ponomariov
Day 2 7th July 2007 Topalov 2,5-1.5 Kasimdzhanov
Day 2 8th July 2007 Anand 3-1 Topalov

Official sites: http://www.advancedchessleon.com - http://www.elajedrezdelfuturo.com

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Frank K. Berry 2007 US Women's Championship

The Frank K. Berry 2007 US Women's Championship took place in Stillwater, Oklahoma, July 16th-20th, 2007. Irina Krush took clear first place half a point clear of Katerina Rohonyan and Anna Zatonskih.

Games in PGN

Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Krush, Irina m USA 2470 7.0; 2. Rohonyan, Katerina wg USA 2316 6.5; 3. Zatonskih, Anna m USA 2462 6.5; 4. Tuvshintugs, Batchimeg wm USA 2236 5.5; 5. Battsetseg, Tsagaan wm USA 2241 5.0; 6. Baginskaite, Camilla wg USA 2328 4.0; 7. Melekhina, Alisa wf USA 2099 4.0; 8. Abrahamyan, Tatev wf USA 2237 3.5; 9. Vicary, Elizabeth wf USA 2148 2.5; 10. Airapetian, Chouchanik wf USA 2162 0.5;

Official site: http://www.uswcc2007.com

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World Open

The 35th Annual World Open took place June 30th-July 4th 2007 in the Valley Forge Radisson & Convention Plaza, King of Prussia, PA. Varuzhan Akobian won after an armaegeddon speed playoff game against Alex Stripunsky.

Games in PGN

Leading Final Round 9 Standings:1 GM Hikaru Nakamura 2738 6.5 2 GM Sandipan Chanda 2719 6.5 3 GM Leonid G Yudasin 2679 6.5 4 GM Evgeny Najer 2672 6.5 5 GM Alexande Shabalov 2671 6.5 6 GM Alexander Stripunsky 2669 6.5 7 GM Victor Mikhalevski 2663 6.5 8 GM Varuzhan Akobian 2651 6.5 9 GM Julio Becerra 2592 6.5 10 GM Vadim Milov 2731 6 11 GM Borki Predojevic 2709 6 12 GM Jiri Stocek 2692 6 13 GM Abhijit Kunte 2637 6 14 GM Alexander Ivanov 2625 6 15 GM Lars B Hansen 2704 5.5 16 GM Daniel Fridman 2669 5.5 17 GM Yury Shulman 2667 5.5 18 GM Milos Pavlovic 2638 5.5 19 GM David Howell 2611 5.5 20 GM Eugene Perelshteyn 2611 5.5 21 GM Sergey Kudrin 2583 5.5 22 GM Melikset Khachiyan 2553 5.5 23 IM Emory A Tate 2435 5.5

Live coverage: http://www.monroi.com/wdc/tournament.php?tnm_id=360 - Official site: http://www.worldopen.com/ - Results page: http://www.monroi.com/tournamentgate/WorldOpen07/

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Maxim Sorokin 1968-2007

GM Maxim Sorokin has died in hospital, a week after a car accident in Kalmykia from which he was initially expected to survive reports Chess Today. There are also condolences from FIDE at: http://www.fide.com/news.asp?id=1398. He most recently seconded Sergey Rublevsky in the Candidates in Elista.

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Dortmund

Kramnik plays Gelfand in round 2. Photo © Martin Bennedik.

The Sparkassen Chess Meeting took place 23rd June - 1st July 2007 in the Dortmund Civic Theatre. Vladimir Kramnik impressed in winning the event by a point.

Games in PGN

Round 7 (July 1, 2007)

Alekseev, Evgeny - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 31 C42 Petroff's Defence
Leko, Peter - Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 1/2 107 B46 Sicilian Paulsen
Carlsen, Magnus - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 39 D12 Slav Defence
Naiditsch, Arkadij - Gelfand, Boris 1/2 44 B92 Sicilian Najdorf with 6.Be2

Final Round 7 Standings: 1. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2772 5.0; 2. Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2679 4.0; 3. Leko, Peter g HUN 2738 4.0; 4. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2786 4.0; 5. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2757 3.5; 6. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2693 3.0; 7. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2733 2.5; 8. Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2654 2.0;

Official site: http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/

http://www.chessvibes.com has a number of films and interviews from the event.

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June

World Championship Candidate Matches

Levon Aronian beat Alexei Shirov in the game of round 1. Photo © Casto Abundo [http://www.fide.com]

The World Candidates Matches took place May 26th - June 14th, 2007 in Elista, Kalmykia. Each match consisted of six games, and, when necessary, tie-break rapid games. So the line up for Mexico City is Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler and Alexander Morozevich who were already qualified. They are now joined by Peter Leko, Boris Gelfand, Levon Aronian and Alexander Grischuk to make up an eight player field barring any last minute decision to include Topalov.

Candidates Finals

Games in PGN - World Championship Candidates Finals Elista 2007 - Viewer

Comments Finals Games

Playoffs. Comments by Mark Crowther. Flash game notes by IM Malcolm Pein.
Playoffs. Comments by Mark Crowther. Flash game notes by IM Malcolm Pein.
Round 6. Comments by Mark Crowther. Flash game notes by IM Malcolm Pein.
Round 5. Comments by Mark Crowther. Flash game notes by IM Malcolm Pein.
Round 4. Comments by Mark Crowther.
Round 3. Comments by Mark Crowther. Flash game notes by IM Malcolm Pein.
Round 2. Comments by Mark Crowther. Flash game notes by IM Malcolm Pein.
Round 1. Comments by Mark Crowther. Flash game notes by IM Malcolm Pein.

Playoffs (June 13, 2007)

Rublevsky, Sergei - Grischuk, Alexander 0-1 39 C45 Scotch Game
Rublevsky, Sergei - Grischuk, Alexander 1/2 56 B46 Sicilian
Rublevsky, Sergei - Grischuk, Alexander 0-1 38 C45 Scotch Game

WCh Candidates Finals Elista RUS (RUS), 6-13 vi 2007

Aronian, Levon g  ARM 2759   1 = = = = = 3.5  2756
Shirov, Alexei g  ESP 2699   0 = = = = = 2.5  2702

Leko, Peter    g  HUN 2738   1 = 1 = =   3.5  2792
Bareev, Evgeny g  RUS 2643   0 = 0 = =   1.5  2589

Grischuk, A    g  RUS 2717   1 = = 0 = = 1 = 1 5.5  2680
Rublevsky, S   g  RUS 2680   0 = = 1 = = 0 = 0 3.5  2717

Gelfand, Boris g  ISR 2733   = = 1 = 1   3.5  2854
Kamsky, Gata   g  USA 2705   = = 0 = 0   1.5  2584

Deep Fritz vs Deep Junior

"Deep Fritz" and "Deep Junior" played a 6 game match alongside the second round of matches. Deep Junior won 4-2.

Games in PGN

Gm1 DEEP JUNIOR - DEEP FRITZ 1/2 32 D46 Semi-Slav Defence
Gm2 DEEP FRITZ - DEEP JUNIOR 1/2 58 D85 Gruenfeld Defence
Gm3 DEEP JUNIOR - DEEP FRITZ 1-0 85 B97 Sicilian Najdorf
Gm4 DEEP FRITZ - DEEP JUNIOR 0-1 54 D85 Gruenfeld Defence
Gm5 DEEP JUNIOR - DEEP FRITZ 1/2 48 D43 Anti-Meran Gambit
Gm6 DEEP FRITZ - DEEP JUNIOR 1/2 41 A30 English Symmetrical

Candidates Semi-Finals

Games in PGN - World Championship Candidates Semi-Finals Elista 2007 - Viewer

Comments Semi-Final Games

Commented games in PGN

Comments by Mark Crowther. Flash game notes by IM Malcolm Pein.
Playoffs
Round 6
Round 5
Round 4
Round 3
Round 2
Round 1

Standings

WCh Candidates s/f Elista RUS (RUS), 27 v-3 vi 2007

Aronian,Levon  g ARM 2759  1 = 0 1 0 = 1 = = 0 1 1 7.0  2750
Carlsen,Magnus g NOR 2693  0 = 1 0 1 = 0 = = 1 0 1 5.0  2702

Leko, Peter    g HUN 2738  = 1 1 1             3.5  2971
Gurevich, M    g TUR 2635  = 0 0 0             0.5  2416

Rublevsky, S   g RUS 2680  = = 1 = = =         3.5  2774
Ponomariov, R  g UKR 2717  = = 0 = = =         2.5  2623

Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2733  = = = = = = 1 = 1   5.5  2757
Kasimdzhanov,R g UZB 2677  = = = = = = 0 = 0   3.5  2653

Kamsky, Gata   g USA 2705  = 1 1 1             3.5  3045
Bacrot, E      g FRA 2709  = 0 0 0             0.5  2383

Grischuk, A    g RUS 2717  1 = = 1 =           3.5  2828
Malakhov, V    g RUS 2679  0 = = 0 =           1.5  2568

Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2643  = 1 = 1 0 =         3.5  2784
Polgar, Judit  g HUN 2727  = 0 = 0 1 =         2.5  2586

Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2699  = = = 0 = 1 1 1 =   5.5  2814
Adams, Michael g ENG 2734  = = = 1 = 0 0 0 =   3.5  2619

Playoffs 4 game rapid match time rate 25m+10s, if needed then two blitz games 5m+10s, if still tied, then one armageddon game with 6m vs 5m (no increment), black has draw odds.

Official site: http://globalchess.eu/main.php

Further details: http://www.fide.com

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New FIDE World Championship cycle announced

FIDE have announced their new cycle http://www.fide.com/news/download/NewWorldChampCycle.pdf. The format will be a mixed one.

The World Championship itself will be settled by matches after the tournament in Mexico City. In 2008 Vladimir Kramnik will play the winner of Mexico City unless he wins the event himself. Veselin Topalov as the loser of the last match in Elista will play the winner of the World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk which takes place at the end of the year. The winners of those matches will play for the title in 2009. However if Kramnik wins the WCCh tournament in Mexico City 2007, a match between Kramnik and Topalov, the current and the previous world champions, will take place in 2008. In that case, the winner of the Kramnik- Topalov match will play against the winner of the 2007 World Cup.

After that qualification for a world title shot will come from one of two methods. Firstly there will be another World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk in 2009. The winner of that will play the winner of a newly established Grand Prix three events per year (different continents) taking place over the years 2008-9. The winners of the Grand Prix and the World Cup will meet in a match and the winner of that will challenge the world champion in 2010 and on it goes with another match in 2012.

It looks terribly complicated to me but with the World Cups already guaranteed in Khanty Mansiysk for the next two cycles the problem of finding sponsorship for this event is solved. The details of the Grand Prix, who gets invited, scoring and which events are involved is obviously pretty key. We'll have to see how this all works out in practice.

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Aerosvit Tournament

Shirov lost to Ivanchuk in round 10. Photo © Tournament Press Centre.

The Aerosvit tournament in Foros, Ukraine, took place 17th-30th June 2007. Vassily Ivanchuk took clear first with 7.5/11 half a point clear of Sergey Karjakin.

Games in PGN

Round 11 (June 29, 2007)

Ivanchuk, Vassily - Svidler, Peter 1/2 19 D81 Gruenfeld Botvinnik
Onischuk, Alexander - Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 1-0 58 D20 QGA
Rublevsky, Sergei - Dominguez Perez, Lenier 1/2 20 B87 Sicilian Sozin Attack
Jakovenko, Dmitry - Karjakin, Sergey 1/2 29 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Eljanov, Pavel - Shirov, Alexei 1/2 25 D85 Gruenfeld Defence
Sasikiran, Krishnan - Van Wely, Loek 0-1 51 D44 Anti-Meran Gambit

Final Round 11 Standings: 1. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2729 7.5; 2. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2686 7.0; 3. Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2663 6.0; 4. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2736 6.0; 5. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2674 6.0; 6. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2699 6.0; 7. Dominguez Perez, Lenier g CUB 2678 5.5; 8. Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2680 5.0; 9. Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2708 4.5; 10. Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2686 4.5; 11. Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2690 4.0; 12. Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROM 2693 4.0;

Official Site: http://www.ukrchess.org.ua/aerosvit2007/index_e.htm

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Dutch Championship

Dutch Champion Sergei Tiviakov in game two of the playoff against Daniel Stellwagen which he won 1.5-0.5 to take the title. Photo © Fred Lucas http://www.fredlucas.eu

The Dutch Championships took place 16th-28th of June in Hilversum, Holland. Sergei Tiviakov took the title 1.5-0.5 after a rapid playoff with Daniel Stellwagen. Both had finished on 8/11 a point clear of Ivan Sokolov. Peng Zhaoqin took the women's title with a fabulous 8/9.

Games in PGN - Playoff games in PGN - Games in PGN - Women

Final Round 11 Standings: 1. Stellwagen, Daniel g NED 2600 8.0; 2. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2663 8.0; 3. Sokolov, Ivan NED g NED 2655 7.0; 4. Nijboer, Friso g NED 2606 7.0; 5. L'Ami, Erwin g NED 2617 7.0; 6. Smeets, Jan g NED 2552 6.5; 7. Van der Wiel, John g NED 2483 5.5; 8. Janssen, Ruud m NED 2489 4.5; 9. Hendriks, Willy m NED 2412 4.0; 10. Spoelman, Wouter m NED 2428 3.0; 11. Bosboom, Manuel m NED 2423 3.0; 12. Dambacher, Martijn m NED 2466 2.5;

Playoff 28th June 2007

Gm1 Tiviakov, Sergei - Stellwagen, Daniel 1-0 54 B07 Pirc Defence
Gm2 Stellwagen, Daniel - Tiviakov, Sergei 1/2 37 B53 Sicilian Hungarian

Official site: http://www.schaakbond.nl/nk2007

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Kings Tournament Bazna

The Kings Tournament Bazna Romania took place 15th-26th June 2007. Alexander Khalifman beat Rafael Vaganian in the final round to take clear first place from him, they were tied going into the round.

Game in PGN

Final Round 11 Standings: 1. Khalifman, Alexander g RUS 2624 7.0; 2. Vaganian, Rafael A g ARM 2590 6.0; 3. Beliavsky, Alexander G g SLO 2648 5.5; 4. Andersson, Ulf g SWE 2528 5.0; 5. Ribli, Zoltan g HUN 2580 5.0; 6. Mecking, Henrique g BRA 2565 5.0; 7. Sokolov, Andrei1 g FRA 2584 4.5; 8. Chiburdanidze, Maia g GEO 2510 4.5; 9. Portisch, Lajos g HUN 2512 4.5; 10. Suba, Mihai g ROM 2537 4.0; 11. Timman, Jan H g NED 2545 4.0;

Official site: http://www.clubulregilor.ro/ - http://www.sahclub.ro/toma/070615live/ was also helpful.

Live: http://www.clubulregilor.ro/live/tfd.htm

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Gorenje tournament Valjevo

Michael Roiz beat Anatoly Karpov in round 7. Photo © http://www.chessdom.com/

The "Gorenje 2007" tournament in Valjevo took place 13th-21st June 2007. The event was sponsored by the Gorenje Group (http://www.gorenje.com/ and http://www.gorenje.co.uk/) Roiz edged out Atalik on tie-break after both finished on 6.5/9 a point clear of a returning Karpov.

Games in PGN

Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Roiz, Michael g ISR 2605 6.5; 2. Atalik, Suat g TUR 2584 6.5; 3. Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2668 5.5; 4. Ivanisevic, Ivan g SRB 2614 5.0; 5. Nikolic, Predrag g BIH 2631 5.0; 6. Georgiev, Kiril g BUL 2660 4.5; 7. Damljanovic, Branko g SRB 2585 4.0; 8. Stojanovic, Mihajlo m SRB 2588 3.0; 9. Pavasovic, Dusko g SLO 2567 2.5; 10. Iordachescu, Viorel g MDA 2587 2.5;

Official site: http://www.chessdom.com/

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May

Bosna 2007

The traditional 37th Bosna tournament took place May 18th-28th 2007 in Sarajevo. Sergei Movsesian won by a point from Borki Predojevic.

Games in PGN - B Group Games in PGN

Round 10 (May 28, 2007)

Morozevich, Alexander - Predojevic, Borki 1/2 31 B42 Sicilian Paulsen
Short, Nigel D - Movsesian, Sergei 1/2 38 B81 Sicilian Keres Attack
Timofeev, Artyom - Sokolov, Ivan NED 0-1 40 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed

Final Round 10 Standings: 1. Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2642 6.5; 2. Predojevic, Borki g BIH 2609 5.5; 3. Sokolov, Ivan NED g NED 2655 5.0; 4. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2762 5.0; 5. Short, Nigel D g ENG 2691 4.5; 6. Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2658 3.5;

Final Round 9 Standings B Group: 1. Drasko, Milan g MNE 2543 6.0; 2. Stojanovic, Dalibor m BIH 2473 6.0; 3. Atalik, Suat g TUR 2584 6.0; 4. Jakovljevic, Vlado m BIH 2419 5.0; 5. Zugic, Igor m CAN 2481 4.5; 6. Ljubicic, Filip m CRO 2396 4.5; 7. Runic, Zoran m BIH 2414 4.0; 8. Tomic, Bosko f BIH 2393 3.5; 9. Vukic, Milan g BIH 2505 3.5; 10. Trkulja, Goran f BIH 2317 2.0;

Official site: http://www.skbosna.ba

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Mtel Masters

Topalov was held by Kamsky in round 5. Photo © http://www.chessvibes.com/ who have photos, videos and press conferences from Sofia.

The MTel Masters took place in Sofia 9th-20th May 2007. The field for the ten round, double round robin event, was Veselin Topalov, Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Gata Kamsky, Michael Adams and Krishnan Sasikiran. Veselin Topalov recovered from a poor start to win the event alone.

Games in PGN

Malcolm Pein Commentates:

Annotations in PGN

MTel Topalov - Sasikiran (10)
MTel Topalov - Mamedyarov (8)
MTel Mamedyarov - Sasikiran (7)
MTel Kamsky,G - Mamedyarov,S (6)
MTel M Adams - S Mamedyarov (5)
MTel Sasikiran,K - Topalov (4)
MTel Topalov - Adams (2) - Mamedyarov,S - Topalov (3)
MTel Mamedyarov - Kamsky (1). Nigel Short supported by ECF

Round 10 (May 20, 2007)

Topalov, Veselin - Sasikiran, Krishnan 1-0 59 E43 Nimzo Indian Rubinstein
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter - Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 1/2 42 B40 Sicilian Classical
Adams, Michael - Kamsky, Gata 1/2 78 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed

Final Round 10 Standings: 1. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2772 5.5; 2. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2757 5.0; 3. Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROM 2693 5.0; 4. Kamsky, Gata g USA 2705 5.0; 5. Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2690 5.0; 6. Adams, Michael g ENG 2734 4.5;

As a warm up Veselin Topalov played blindfold against Italian Alex Brunetti on May 8th 2007 in Sofia Hall of Grand Hotel Sofia. Alex Brunetii won the prize for "Play like Topalov" that took place during M-Tel Masters. The two players had half an hour each for the game. Topalov won.

Game in PGN

Official site: http://www.mtelmasters.com

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Kramnik - Aronian Rapid Match

World Champion Vladimir Kramnik played World Cup Holder Levon Aronian in a rapid match May 4th-6th, 2007 in Yerevan, Armenia. Two games were played each day. The time control was 25 minutes for the whole game with an increment of 10 seconds per move. The match was organised by the Armenian Chess Federation. Levon Aronian won the match 4-2 after winning both games on the second day.

Games in PGN

Malcolm Pein Commentates

Annotations in PGN
Kramnik - Aronian (5)
Aronian - Kramnik (6)
Aronian - Kramnik (4)
Kramnik - Aronian (1)

Gm1 Kramnik, Vladimir - Aronian, Levon 1-0 45 C89 Ruy Lopez Marshall
Gm2 Aronian, Levon - Kramnik, Vladimir 1-0 76 D17 Slav Defence
Gm3 Kramnik, Vladimir - Aronian, Levon 0-1 77 A30 English Symmetrical
Gm4 Aronian, Levon - Kramnik, Vladimir 1-0 43 D45 Anti-Meran Variations
Gm5 Kramnik, Vladimir - Aronian, Levon 1/2 47 A60 Modern Benoni
Gm6 Aronian, Levon - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 55 D12 Slav Defence

Official site: http://www.aroniankramnik2007.am/

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Alexander Roshal 1936-2007

The famous Russian chess journalist Alexander Roshal has died after a long illness. Born 26th August 1936 died 21st May 2007. Famous since the Soviet era he was a familiar face at the top chess tournaments. He was the editor of 64-Chess Review and his death was announced there on May 21st 2007: http://www.64.ru/

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US Championships 2007

The Frank K Berry 2007 US Championships took place May 15th - 23rd 2007 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Alexander Shabalov defeated Sergey Kudrin in the final round to win on 7/9 half a point clear of Alexander Onsichuk.

Games in PGN

Final Round 9 Standings: 1 Alex Shabalov 2671 7 2 Alex Onischuk 2712 6.5 3 Greg Kaidanov 2686 6 4 Yury Shulman 2667 6 5 Julio Becerra 2608 6 6 Sergey Kudrin 2612 5.5 7 Boris Gulko 2660 5.5 8 Varuzhan Akobian 2651 5.5 9 Alex Stripunsky 2664 5.5 10 Jaan Ehlvest 2683 5 11 Hikaru Nakamura 2738 5 12 Ildar Ibragimov 2680 5 13 Alex Ivanov 2623 5 14 Melik Khachiyan 2550 5 15 Eugene Perelshteyn 2611 5 16 Joe Bradford 2457 5 17 Alex Yermolinsky 2588 4.5 36 players

Official site: http://www.monroi.com/tournamentgate/USChamp07/

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Somov Memorial Kirishi

The V International Chess Tournament "World’s Youth Stars" dedicated to Vanya Somov’s memory took place May 14th-28th 2007 in LLC "KINEF" in Kirishi with players from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Germany, India, Ukraine and Russia. Ian Nepomniachtchi edged out three others on tie-break after they all finished on 7/11.

Games in PGN

Final Round 11 Standings: 1. Nepomniachtchi, Ian m RUS 2602 7.0; 2. Mamedov, Rauf g AZE 2584 7.0; 3. Negi, Parimarjan g IND 2515 7.0; 4. Andriasian, Zaven g ARM 2523 7.0; 5. Zhigalko, Sergei g BLR 2540 6.0; 6. Grigoryan, Avetik m ARM 2455 6.0; 7. Kuzubov, Yuriy g UKR 2545 5.5; 8. Lintchevski, Daniil m RUS 2445 5.0; 9. Popov, Ivan RUS m RUS 2533 4.5; 10. Safarli, Eltaj m AZE 2463 4.0; 11. Gorovykh, Eduard f RUS 2416 3.5; 12. Bindrich, Falko m GER 2469 3.5;

Official site: http://www.somovs-memorial.ru - Further coverage: http://www.bs-chess.com/latin/english.html

During the event there was the G.E.Nesis's Cup a rapid event held on the 21st-22nd May. Time control 20 minutes for the whole game with an increment of 10 seconds per move. Konstantin Sakaev won the event with 7/10.

Games in PGN

Final Round 10 Standings: 1. Sakaev, Konstantin g RUS 2633 7.0; 2. Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2679 5.0; 3. Khalifman, Alexander g RUS 2624 5.0; 4. Komarov, Dimitri g UKR 2539 5.0; 5. Janovsky, Sergey g RUS 2496 4.0; 6. Novik, Maxim g RUS 2466 4.0;

Official site: http://www.somovs-memorial.ru and http://www.ruschess.com/. Further info: http://www.bs-chess.com/latin/tourn/spb/23/kirishi16.html

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42nd Capablanca Memorial

The 42nd Capablanca Memorial took place 17th-29th May 2007. Ivanchuk won by two points from Lenier Dominguez and Vugar Gashimov.

Elite Games in PGN - Open Games in PGN

Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2729 7.5; 2. Dominguez Perez, Lenier g CUB 2678 5.5; 3. Gashimov, Vugar g AZE 2644 5.5; 4. Quezada Perez, Yuniesky g CUB 2541 4.5; 5. Miton, Kamil g POL 2653 4.5; 6. Arencibia Rodriguez, Walter g CUB 2555 4.5; 7. Nielsen, Peter Heine g DEN 2649 4.0; 8. Nogueiras Santiago, Jesus g CUB 2552 3.5; 9. Bruzon Batista, Lazaro g CUB 2620 3.0; 10. Delgado Ramirez, Neuris g CUB 2547 2.5;

Open Final Round 10 Standings: 1 Horvath Csaba GM 2538 HUN 7½ 2 Otero Diasmany IM 2366 CUB 7½ 3 Hernandez Carmenates Holden GM 2541 CUB 7 4 Pozo Vera Sandro FM 2448 CUB 7 5 Needleman Gaston IM 2416 ARG 7 6 Zambrana Oswaldo IM 2512 BOL 7 7 Guerra Mendez Jose Angel FM 2399 CUB 6½ 8 Mateo Ramon IM 2448 DOM 6½ 9 Corrales Jimenez Fidel IM 2479 CUB 6½ 10 Colovic Aleksandar IM 2463 MKD 6½ 11 Fernandez Alexey FM 2414 CUB 6½ 12 Martinez Lelys FM 2400 CUB 6 13 De La Paz Perdomo Frank GM 2474 CUB 6 14 Almeida Quintana Omar GM 2488 CUB 6 15 Leon Hoyos Manuel IM 2454 MEX 6 16 Gongora Reyes Maikel IM 2422 CUB 6 17 Alvarez Pedraza Aramis FM 2449 CUB 6 18 Gomez Garrido Camilo FM 2413 CUB 6 19 Cordova Emilio IM 2507 PER 6 20 Vera Gonzalez-Quevedo Reynaldo GM 2481 CUB 6 87 players

Daily reports at: http://www.vanguardia.co.cu/

Official site: http://www.inder.co.cu/capablanca/Inicio.htm

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1st Women's World Team Championship

The 1st World Women’s Team Chess Championship takes place May 19th- 30th 2007 in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Women`s teams from 10 national federations participate in the Championship; Armenia, Botswana, Vietnam, Georgia, China, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Germany and Czech Republic.

Games in PGN (Rds 1-6)

Official site: http://www.chesswomen.com/en/. Further info: http://www.fide.com/news.asp?id=1318. Live transmission of games: http://www.chesswomen.com/games/

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Radjabov - Carlsen Rapid

The "Match of the Hopes" took place on Friday 18th May 2007 in Porto-Vecchio (south of Corsica) between Teimour Radjvabov (Azerbaïdjan) and Magnus Carlsen (Norway). The rate of play was 15 mins + 3 secs increment per move. Then tie-break blitz (3m+2s) games. 300 pupils of the area will attend the event. Radjaov won a final Armageddon game after two rapid and two blitz games were shared between the players.

Games in PGN

Gm1 Radjabov, Teimour - Carlsen, Magnus 1-0 45 E15 Queens Indian
Gm2 Carlsen, Magnus - Radjabov, Teimour 1-0 57 B33 Sicilian Sveshnikov

Tiebreaks

Gm3 Carlsen, Magnus - Radjabov, Teimour 1/2 77 C63 Ruy Lopez Schliemann
Gm4 Radjabov, Teimour - Carlsen, Magnus 1/2 87 E15 Queens Indian
Gm5 Carlsen, Magnus - Radjabov, Teimour 0-1 34 A80 Dutch Armageddon game. Carlsen had white and 4 minutes with Radjabov black and 3 minutes and draw odds.

All details on the site of the Corsican chess League : Corsican chess League . Games on line at the site of the French Chess Federation http://www.echecs.asso.fr

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FIDE April List

The FIDE website gives http://www.fide.com/ratings/top.phtml?list=men the April 2007 FIDE list.

FIDE April 2007 Rating List: Top 100 now with added Morelia/Linares which makes Anand the 6th man to top the list.

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Russian Team Championship

The Russian Team Championships took place in the Hotel Dagomys Sochi 1st-12th May 2007. Tomsk 400 won the event with a perfect 9/9 score their team was Alexander Morozevich (6/8), Dmitry Jakovenko (4½/7), Sergey Karjakin (5½/8), Rustam Kasimdzhanov (1½/3), Ernesto Inarkiev (3½/7), Vladislav Tkachiev (4/7), Victor Bologan (4½/6) and Pavel Smirnov (6/8).

Chess from Malcolm Pein Chess May 11th 2007. Russian Team Championships. Ibragimov - Kazhgaleyev (7)

Games in PGN

Final Round 9 standings: 1. Tomsk-400 - 18 (35½) 2. Ural - 14 (32½) 3. Elara - 12 (29½) 4. Ekonomist - 11 (29½) 5. Junost Moskvy - 10 (27½) 6. TPS - 9 (28½) 7. Shatar - 5 (23) 8. Ladja - 5 (23) 9. South Ural - 5 (22) 10. Politekhnik - 1 (19)

Official sites: http://russiachess.org/online/ - PGN http://russiachess.org/online/rtc2007.pgn and http://www.chessliga.ru

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Baku Chess Festival

The Baku Chess Festival took place April 30th – May 12th 2007. Arkadij Naiditsch took clear first on 7.5/9.

Games in PGN

Round 9 Standings: 1 Naiditsch, Arkadij GM GER 2654 7.5 2 Malakhatko, Vadim GM BEL 2598 7 3 Van Wely, Loek GM NED 2674 7 4 Fedorov, Alexei GM BLR 2611 7 5 Short, Nigel D GM ENG 2691 6.5 6 Mamedov, Nidjat GM AZE 2547 6.5 7 Guseinov, Gadir GM AZE 2586 6.5 8 Savchenko, Stanislav GM UKR 2545 6.5 9 Mamedov, Rauf GM AZE 2584 6.5 10 Milov, Vadim GM SUI 2675 6.5 11 Balogh, Csaba GM HUN 2617 6.5 12 Morchiashvili, Bachana GEO 2396 6.5 13 Gasanov, Eldar IM UKR 2486 6.5 14 Dovliatov, Sanan IM AZE 2438 6.5 15 Zubarev, Alexander GM UKR 2511 6 16 Sadvakasov, Darmen GM KAZ 2618 6 17 Sanikidze, Tornike IM GEO 2426 6 18 Shanava, Konstantine GM GEO 2532 6 19 Shengelia, Davit GM GEO 2523 6 20 Gelashvili, Tamaz GM GEO 2605 6 21 Burmakin, Vladimir GM RUS 2593 6 22 Magalashvili, Davit IM GEO 2474 6 23 Mamedjarova, Zeinab WGM AZE 2354 6 24 Lomsadze, Davit GEO 2268 6 25 Paichadze, Luka GEO 2392 6 26 Khotenashvili, Bela WIM GEO 2301 6 27 Zozulia, Anna WGM BEL 2344 6 28 Durarbeyli, Vasif AZE 2368 6 29 Badalov, Samir AZE 2245 6 30 Rustemov, Alexander GM RUS 2557 5.5 31 Guliev, Logman IM AZE 2466 5.5 32 Melia, Salome WGM GEO 2396 5.5 33 Sulashvili, Malkhaz IM GEO 2439 5.5 34 Rasulov, Vugar AZE 2271 5.5 35 Velikhanli, Firuza WGM AZE 2310 5.5 36 Babaev, Rashad GM AZE 2510 5.5 37 Gassanov, Assif FM AZE 2353 5.5 38 Agayev, Nidjat AZE 2306 5.5 39 Mammadov, Ayaz AZE 2225 5.5 40 Guramishvili, Sopiko WFM GEO 2267 5.5 41 Laciner, Kerem TUR 2304 5.5 42 Baladjaev, Gara AZE 2158 5.5

Official site: http://www.chessclub.az/kubok2/index.htm

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April

Leko - Kramnik Rapid Match

Game one of the match. Photo © Zsuzsa Veroci

Peter Leko and Vladimir Kramnik played a rapid match April 25th-29th 2007 at the National Theater of Miskolc Hungary. Kramnik won 4.5-3.5.

Chess from Malcolm Pein Chess Saturday April 28th 2007
Chess from Malcolm Pein Chess Monday April 30th 2007

Games in PGN

Gm1 Kramnik, Vladimir - Leko, Peter 1/2 25 A33 English Symmetrical
Gm2 Leko, Peter - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 51 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Gm3 Kramnik, Vladimir - Leko, Peter 1-0 44 E15 Queens Indian
Gm4 Leko, Peter - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 52 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Gm5 Kramnik, Vladimir - Leko, Peter 1-0 57 A30 English Symmetrical
Gm6 Leko, Peter - Kramnik, Vladimir 1-0 49 C84 Ruy Lopez Centre Attack
Gm7 Kramnik, Vladimir - Leko, Peter 1/2 30 D43 Anti-Meran Gambit
Gm8 Leko, Peter - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 30 C77 Ruy Lopez Anderssen

Official site: http://www.lekokramnyik.hu/

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Short charged with bringing the game into disrepute by FIDE

Malcolm Pein reports that Nigel Short has been charged with bringing the game into disrepute by FIDE over his comments on Fide Vice President Zurab Azmaiparashvili and Deputy President Georgios Makropoulos. See story in full:Chess from Malcolm Pein Chess Tuesday May 1st 2007

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8th European Individual Championships

Vladislav Tkachiev won the men's title after beating Emil Sutovsky 2-0 in a playoff. Photo © Peter Sowray.

The 8th Individual European Chess Championships took place 2-16 April, 2007, in the International Congress Center, Dresden (Germany). 11 rounds Swiss system, 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one. Vladislav Tkachiev won the tie-breaks beating Ivan Cheparinov (1.5-0.5) Dmitry Jakovenko (1.5-0.5) and Emil Sutovsky 2-0 in the final. Sutovsky reached the final by beating Konstantin Sakaev (1.5-0.5) and Dusko Pavasovic (1.5-0.5).

Games in PGN - Women's Games in PGN - Playoff Games in PGN [I've used the results sheets to put the games in the right order, in some cases its possible I mixed up rapid and blitz games. There are also obvious errors at the ends of some games. My thanks to Holger Lieske]

Open Letter from Erik van den Doel 17th April 2007. Where did our money go? and now Boris Kutin of the ECU's response- Hotels again are on the agenda.

Issue #649 16th April 2007. Contains the full final standings and playoff results. - The number of places was reduced from 33 to 29 and Alexander Khalifman withdrew from the playoff process in protest.

8th European Individual Championships Dresden 2007. Arrival by Peter Sowray

Official Final Round 11 Standings after playoffs:

1 GM Tkachiev Vladislav 2652 FRA 8 2 GM Sutovsky Emil 2637 ISR 8 3 GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2708 RUS 8 4 GM Pavasovic Dusko 2567 SLO 8 5 GM Cheparinov Ivan 2646 BUL 8 6 GM Sakaev Konstantin 2633 RUS 8 7 IM Iljin Artem 2538 RUS 8 8 GM Volokitin Andrei 2654 UKR 7½ 9 GM Gustafsson Jan 2588 GER 7½ 10 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2641 RUS 7½ 11 GM Almasi Zoltan 2675 HUN 7½ 12 GM Malakhov Vladimir 2679 RUS 7½ 13 GM Galkin Alexander 2590 RUS 7½ 14 GM Laznicka Viktor 2608 CZE 7½ 15 GM Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter 2693 ROM 7½ 16 GM Nevednichy Vladislav 2528 ROM 7½ 17 GM Landa Konstantin 2608 RUS 7½ 18 GM Volkov Sergey 2640 RUS 7½ 19 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2592 RUS 7½ 20 GM Eljanov Pavel 2686 UKR 7½ 21 GM Gurevich Mikhail 2635 TUR 7½ 22 GM Avrukh Boris 2644 ISR 7½ 23 GM Roiz Michael 2605 ISR 7½ 24 IM Rodshtein Maxim 2530 ISR 7½ 25 GM Motylev Alexander 2642 RUS 7½ 26 GM Khalifman Alexander 2624 RUS 7½ 27 GM Tiviakov Sergei 2663 NED 7½ 28 GM Georgiev Vladimir 2540 MKD 7½ 29 GM Bartel Mateusz 2596 POL 7½ 30 GM Naiditsch Arkadij 2654 GER 7½ 31 GM Gajewski Grzegorz 2540 POL 7½ 32 IM Hera Imre 2477 HUN 7½ 33 GM Najer Evgeniy 2624 RUS 7½ 34 GM Socko Bartosz 2641 POL 7½ 35 GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil 2609 GEO 7½ 36 GM Markus Robert 2567 SRB 7½ 37 GM Hracek Zbynek 2613 CZE 7½ 38 GM Iljushin Alexei 2501 RUS 7½ 39 GM Bologan Viktor 2636 MDA 7½ 40 GM Beliavsky Alexander 2648 SLO 7½ 41 GM Jankovic Alojzije 2541 CRO 7½ 42 GM Zhigalko Sergei 2540 BLR 7½ 43 IM Meier Georg 2506 GER 7½ 44 GM Kurnosov Igor 2566 RUS 7½ 45 GM Petrosian Tigran 2580 ARM 7 46 GM Georgiev Kiril 2660 BUL 7 47 GM Ftacnik Lubomir 2573 SVK 7 48 GM Minasian Artashes 2586 ARM 7 49 GM Timofeev Artyom 2658 RUS 7 50 IM Savchenko Boris 2583 RUS 7 51 GM Efimenko Zahar 2620 UKR 7 52 GM Guseinov Gadir 2586 AZE 7 53 GM Riazantsev Alexander 2621 RUS 7 54 GM Ruck Robert 2534 HUN 7 55 GM Gashimov Vugar 2644 AZE 7 56 GM Jussupow Artur 2605 GER 7 57 GM Kacheishvili Giorgi 2587 GEO 7 58 GM Sedlak Nikola 2575 SRB 7 59 GM Halkias Stelios 2569 GRE 7 60 GM Areshchenko Alexander 2647 UKR 7 61 GM Kotanjian Tigran 2560 ARM 7 62 GM Bauer Christian 2629 FRA 7 63 GM Solak Dragan 2575 SRB 7 64 GM Damljanovic Branko 2585 SRB 7 65 IM Ragger Markus 2498 AUT 7 66 GM Prusikin Michael 2567 GER 6½ 67 GM Moiseenko Alexander 2630 UKR 6½ 68 IM Holzke Frank 2467 GER 6½ 69 IM Jianu Vlad-Cristian 2506 ROM 6½ 70 IM Nepomniachtchi Ian 2602 RUS 6½ 71 GM Arutinian David 2544 GEO 6½ 72 GM Van den Doel Erik 2580 NED 6½ 73 GM Huzman Alexander 2591 ISR 6½ 74 GM Bocharov Dmitry 2614 RUS 6½ 75 IM Manolache Marius 2504 ROM 6½ 76 GM Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel 2563 ESP 6½ 77 GM Kuzubov Yuriy 2545 UKR 6½ 78 GM Zelcic Robert 2554 CRO 6½ 79 GM Khairullin Ildar 2586 RUS 6½ 80 GM Lupulescu Constantin 2565 ROM 6½ 81 GM Iordachescu Viorel 2587 MDA 6½ 82 GM Predojevic Borki 2609 BIH 6½ 83 GM Andriasian Zaven 2523 ARM 6½ 84 GM Baramidze David 2543 GER 6½ 85 IM Siebrecht Sebastian 2464 GER 6½ 86 GM Nielsen Peter Heine 2649 DEN 6½ 87 GM Parligras Mircea 2522 ROM 6½ 88 GM Evdokimov Alexander 2530 RUS 6½ 89 GM Van Wely Loek 2674 NED 6½ 90 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco 2676 ESP 6½ 91 GM Korneev Oleg 2565 RUS 6½ 92 GM Movsesian Sergei 2642 SVK 6½ 93 GM Kozul Zdenko 2610 CRO 6½ 94 GM Epishin Vladimir 2559 RUS 6½ 95 GM Shomoev Anton 2551 RUS 6½ 96 GM Nataf Igor-Alexandre 2596 FRA 6½ 97 GM Dizdar Goran 2543 CRO 6½ 98 GM Karjakin Sergey 2686 UKR 6½ 99 GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw 2620 POL 6½ 100 IM Stern Rene 2476 GER 6½ 101 GM Frolyanov Dmitry 2525 RUS 6½ 102 GM Postny Evgeny 2622 ISR 6½ 103 GM Berelovich Aleksandar 2556 UKR 6½ 104 GM Mista Aleksander 2532 POL 6½ 105 GM Romanishin Oleg 2542 UKR 6½ 106 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2651 ARM 6½ 107 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej 2609 BLR 6½ 108 GM Ovetchkin Roman 2554 RUS 6½ 109 GM Bobras Piotr 2545 POL 6½ 110 GM Babula Vlastimil 2586 CZE 6½ 111 GM Van der Weide Karel 2502 NED 6½ 112 GM Neverov Valeriy 2540 UKR 6½ 113 GM Stefansson Hannes 2576 ISL 6½ 114 GM Oleksienko Mikhailo 2560 UKR 6½ 115 IM Iotov Valentin 2491 BUL 6½ 116 IM Erdos Viktor 2518 HUN 6½ 117 GM Miroshnichenko Evgenij 2646 UKR 6½ 118 GM Shanava Konstantine 2532 GEO 6½ 119 GM Smirnov Pavel 2631 RUS 6½ 120 GM Yakovich Yuri 2600 RUS 6½ 121 GM Wells Peter 2499 ENG 6½ 122 IM Geller Jakov 2500 RUS 6½ 123 GM Drozdovskij Yuri 2558 UKR 6½ 124 GM Graf Alexander 2620 GER 6½ 125 GM Sulskis Sarunas 2528 LTU 6½ 126 IM Jones Gawain 2518 ENG 6½ 127 GM Anastasian Ashot 2552 ARM 6½

Official site: http://www.dresden2008.de - http://live.dresden2008.de/generalize/index.php - Dresden - chess-results.com

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15th Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament

Parimarjan Negi at the Sigeman tournament. Photo © Anders Hansen.

The 15th Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament took place in Malmo 18th-26th April 2007. Ivan Cheparinov won the event with 7/9 a point and a half clear of Timman, Hillarp Persson and Berg.

Games in PGN

Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Cheparinov, Ivan g BUL 2646 7.0; 2. Timman, Jan H g NED 2545 5.5; 3. Hillarp Persson, Tiger g SWE 2552 5.5; 4. Berg, Emanuel g SWE 2574 5.5; 5. Carlsson, Pontus m SWE 2506 5.0; 6. Kotronias, Vasilios g GRE 2570 4.5; 7. L'Ami, Erwin g NED 2617 4.0; 8. Negi, Parimarjan g IND 2515 4.0; 9. Hermansson, Emil m SWE 2475 2.0; 10. Hector, Jonny g SWE 2537 2.0;

Official site: http://www.sigeman-chess.com/

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II Chess Festival "Villa de Canada de Calatrava"

The II Chess Festival "Villa de Canada de Calatrava" took place 6th-8th April 2007. The event was a rapid g/25 event. Alexei Shirov won by sum of progressive score from Daniel Fridman, Ivan Sokolov and Boris Gelfand all of whom finished on 7.5/9.

Games in PGN

Leading Final Round 9 Standings:

1	GM	Shirov Alexei		2699	ESP	7½	6	40½	56½	44½
2	GM	Fridman Daniel		2635	LAT	7½	6	40	54	42½
3	GM	Sokolov Ivan		2655	NED	7½	6	39	52½	41
4	GM	Gelfand Boris		2733	ISR	7½	6	38½	52½	40½
5	GM	Polgar Judit	w	2727	HUN	7	6	39½	53½	43
6	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar		2757	AZE	7	6	38½	56½	44½
7	GM	Grischuk Alexander		2717	RUS	7	6	38	54	42½
8	GM	Fressinet Laurent		2644	FRA	7	6	37½	51	40½
9	GM	Krasenkow Michal		2661	POL	7	6	37½	50½	40½
10	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily		2729	UKR	7	6	36½	52	41½
11	GM	Baklan Vladimir		2618	UKR	7	6	35½	47½	37
12	GM	Anand Viswanathan		2786	IND	7	5	38½	56	44½
13	GM	Miton Kamil		2653	POL	7	5	38	53	41½
14	FM	Del Rey Diego		2405	ESP	7	5	37	49½	39½
15	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan		2690	IND	6½	6	36½	52½	41
16	GM	Sadvakasov Darmen		2618	KAZ	6½	6	34½	51½	39½
17	GM	Kazhgaleyev Murtas		2603	KAZ	6½	6	34	49	38
18	GM	Marin Mihail		2533	ROM	6½	6	33½	48	37½
19	GM	Kovchan Alexander		2527	UKR	6½	6	33	42½	33½
20	GM	Shchekachev Andrei		2530	FRA	6½	6	32½	48	37
21	IM	Perez Candelario Manuel		2511	ESP	6½	6	32½	46	35½
22	GM	Arizmendi Martinez Julen L		2525	ESP	6½	6	31½	45½	35½
23	GM	Mamedov Rauf		2584	AZE	6½	6	31½	43½	34½
24	GM	Milov Vadim		2676	SUI	6½	6	30½	47	37
25	IM	Panelo Marcelo		2392	ARG	6½	6	30½	43½	33½
26	GM	Akobian Varuzhan		2574	USA	6½	5	36	52	41½
27	GM	Bacrot Etienne		2709	FRA	6½	5	34½	52	40½
28	GM	Kosyrev Vladimir		2505	RUS	6½	5	34	51	39½
29	GM	Gagunashvili Merab		2625	GEO	6½	5	32½	49	39½
30	GM	Pantsulaia Levan		2616	GEO	6½	5	32½	48	37
31	GM	Karpov Anatoly		2668	RUS	6½	4	37	53½	42½

Official site: http://www.koali.com/festival/index_en.html

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Bangladesh Championship

Winner Al-Rakib Abdulla.

The Mercantile Bank 33rd Bangladesh Championship took place in Dhaka 2nd-15th April 2007. Round one games available. The event was a 13 round all-play-all category V tournament won convincingly by Al-Rakib Abdulla.

Games in PGN

Final Round 13 Standings: 1. Abdulla, Al-Rakib m BAN 2518 11.0; 2. Hossain, Enamul m BAN 2495 9.5; 3. Rahman, Ziaur g BAN 2543 9.5; 4. Islam, Kh. Aminul f BAN 2315 8.5; 5. Reefat, Bin-Sattar g BAN 2479 8.0; 6. Murshed, Niaz g BAN 2448 7.0; 7. Rahman, Taibur f BAN 2269 7.0; 8. Abu Sufian, Shakil f BAN 2356 6.0; 9. Minhazuddin, Ahmed BAN 2225 5.5; 10. Mohammad, Javed BAN 2267 5.0; 11. Ahmed, Sk. Nasir f BAN 2324 5.0; 12. Mohammad, Ali BAN 2200 3.5; 13. Abdul, Maleq BAN 2255 3.5; 14. Rahman, Syed Mahfuzur f BAN 2247 2.0;

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Danish Championship

The Danish Championships took place in Aalborg 31st March - 8th April 2007.

Defending champion GM Sune Berg Hansen won the event with 6½ points, leaving 4 players for a tie on second place with 6 points, including the big surprise of the tournament, FM Allan Stig Rasmussen, who was but ½ point from his second GM norm.

Games in PGN

Official site: http://www.skak-dm.dk/2007/

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Foxwoods Open

The Foxwoods Open takes place in the Foxwoods Resort Casino & Hotel Mashantucket/Ledyard 5th-8th April 2007. Kamsky and Nakamura star.

Official site: http://members.cox.net/tournaments/foxwoods/

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Portisch - Spassky Match

Chess legends Lajos Portisch and Boris Spassky met in a rapid match in Heviz in Hungary 13th-15th April 2007. The match was drawn 3-3.

Games in PGN

Gm1 Spassky, Boris V - Portisch, Lajos 1-0 66 C67 Ruy Lopez Berlin
Gm2 Portisch, Lajos - Spassky, Boris V 1/2 48 A95 Dutch Stonewall
Gm3 Spassky, Boris V - Portisch, Lajos 1/2 32 C84 Ruy Lopez Centre Attack
Gm4 Portisch, Lajos - Spassky, Boris V 1-0 25 A95 Dutch Stonewall
Gm5 Spassky, Boris V - Portisch, Lajos 1/2 25 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Gm6 Portisch, Lajos - Spassky, Boris V 1/2 30 E19 Queens Indian

Further details: http://www.chess.hu

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Moscow Championship

The Moscow Championship took place 18th-24th April 2007. Vladimir Belov won the event on tie-break from Boris Grachev.

Games in PGN [One incomplete game from round 4. Its possible that they came up with a full score somewhere on the site below but I couldn't find it]

Final Round 7 Standings: 1. Belov, Vladimir g RUS 2586 4.5; 2. Grachev, Boris g RUS 2578 4.5; 3. Amonatov, Farrukh g TJK 2574 4.0; 4. Novikov, Stanislav g RUS 2556 3.5; 5. Vorobiev, Evgeni RUS 2258 3.0; 6. Rychagov, Andrey g RUS 2571 3.0; 7. Korotylev, Alexey g RUS 2620 3.0; 8. Gavrilov, Alexei1 m RUS 2479 2.5;

http://www.chessmoscow.ru/index.php?topicID=388

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Gausdal Chess Classics

The Gausdal Chess Classics took place 18th-26th April 2007 at the famous high mountain hotel in Gausdal, Norway. Rate of play: 2 hours / 40 moves,1 hour / 20 moves and 0.5 hour / rest. Magnus Carlsen won the main Category XII GM group with 7/9 a point and a half clear of the field.

Games in PGN

Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2693 7.0; 2. Rozentalis, Eduardas g LTU 2578 5.5; 3. Portisch, Lajos g HUN 2512 5.5; 4. Krasenkow, Michal g POL 2661 5.5; 5. Kulaots, Kaido g EST 2525 5.0; 6. Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2633 4.5; 7. Krush, Irina m USA 2464 4.5; 8. Lie, Kjetil A g NOR 2529 4.0; 9. Jones, Gawain C B m ENG 2518 2.5; 10. Moskow, Eric USA 2260 1.0;

Home page: http://www.bergensjakk.no/gausdal/classics2007/ There will be a least 8 live games in each round at http://www.live.sjakk.net/.

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March

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Amber 2007

The 16th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament was held at the Fairmont Monte Carlo Hotel in Monaco March 17th-29th 2007. The tournament was organized by the Association Max Euwe and the total prize-fund was € 216,000. Every day there was one round consisting of four sessions; two blindfold sessions (three encounters each) and next two rapid sessions. The first session started at 15.00 hrs local time. There were two rest days: March 21 and March 26. Vladimir Kramnik won the overall event by two points. He won the Blindfold event and finished joint second in the rapid. Viswanathan Anand won the rapid and finished second over all.

Blindfold Games in PGN - Rapid Games in PGN

Round 11 29th March 2007

12.30 Blindfold
Leko-Radjabov 1/2-1/2
Carlsen-Van Wely 1/2-1/2
Svidler-Morozevich 0-1
14.00 Blindfold
Gelfand-Anand 1/2
Aronian-Ivanchuk 1-0
Vallejo-Kramnik 1/2-1/2
15.45 Rapid
Radjabov-Leko 0-1
Van Wely-Carlsen 0-1
Morozevich-Svidler 0-1
17.15 Rapid
Anand-Gelfand 1/2
Ivanchuk-Aronian 1/2
Kramnik-Vallejo 1/2

Final Round 11 Standings:

Blindfold

1. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2766 9.0; 2. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2741 7.0; 3. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2733 7.0; 4. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2750 6.5; 5. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2728 6.5; 6. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2744 6.0; 7. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2729 5.0; 8. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2779 5.0; 9. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2690 4.0; 10. Leko, Peter g HUN 2749 4.0; 11. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2683 3.5; 12. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2679 2.5;

Rapid

1. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2779 8.5; 2. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2766 6.5; 3. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2690 6.5; 4. Leko, Peter g HUN 2749 6.5; 5. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2750 6.5; 6. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2744 6.0; 7. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2728 5.5; 8. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2733 4.5; 9. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2741 4.5; 10. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2729 4.0; 11. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2679 4.0; 12. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2683 3.0;

Combined

1. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2766 15.5; 2. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2779 13.5; 3. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2750 13.0; 4. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2728 12.0; 5. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2744 12.0; 6. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2741 11.5; 7. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2733 11.5; 8. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2690 10.5; 9. Leko, Peter g HUN 2749 10.5; 10. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2729 9.0; 11. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2679 6.5; 12. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2683 6.5;

The games can be followed live on the official website http://www.amberchess.com/

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8th Poikovsky Karpov tournament

The 8th Poikovsky Karpov tournament took place 15th-24th March 2007. Dmitry Jakovenko won the event by a point from the field.

Games in PGN

Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2691 6.0; 2. Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2663 5.0; 3. Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2661 5.0; 4. Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2658 5.0; 5. Istratescu, Andrei g ROM 2619 4.5; 6. Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2677 4.5; 7. Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2658 4.0; 8. Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2629 4.0; 9. Tkachiev, Vladislav g FRA 2649 3.5; 10. Zhang Pengxiang g CHN 2643 3.5;

Live coverage: http://russiachess.org/online/

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Ruy Lopez Festival

The 1st Ruy Lopez International Festival took place in Zafra, birthplace of Ruy Lopez, starting March 16th until March 25th, 2007. In the main 7 round Category XV event Gabriel Sargissian scored 6.5/7 for a 3021 result.

Games in PGN

Final Round 7 Standings: 1. Sargissian, Gabriel g ARM 2658 6.5; 2. Granda Zuniga, Julio E g PER 2612 4.0; 3. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2723 4.0; 4. Sokolov, Ivan g NED 2652 3.5; 5. Perez Candelario, Manuel m ESP 2515 3.0; 6. Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2700 2.5; 7. Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2483 2.5; 8. Hou Yifan wf CHN 2509 2.0;

Official site: http://ruylopez.juntaextremadura.net/modules/news/

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Morelia Linares 2007

Viswanathan Anand takes clear first in Linares. Photo © Macauley Peterson http://www.macauleypeterson.com/

The Morelia / Linares tournament took place 16th Feb - 11th March 2007. The Morelia half took place 17th-25th February 2007 and Linares 2nd-10th March 2007. Viswanathan Anand took clear first place for the first time since 1998. He was a point clear of Magnus Carlsen and Alexander Morozevich.

Teimour Radjabov withdrew from Morelia - Linares 2007 - and was replaced by Vassily Ivanchuk.

Commentary

Morelia/Linares 2007 Rounds 13-14 by Malcolm Pein
Morelia/Linares 2007 Rounds 12 by Malcolm Pein
Morelia/Linares 2007 Rounds 11 by Malcolm Pein
Morelia/Linares 2007 Rounds 10 by Malcolm Pein
Morelia/Linares 2007 Rounds 8-9 by Mark Crowther
Morelia/Linares 2007 Rounds 6-7 by Malcolm Pein
Morelia/Linares 2007 Rounds 5 by Mark Crowther
Morelia/Linares 2007 Rounds 4 by Mark Crowther
Morelia/Linares 2007 Rounds 1-3

PGN

Games in PGN

Round 14 (March 10, 2007)

Svidler, Peter - Morozevich, Alexander 0-1 28 C11 French Defence
Ivanchuk, Vassily - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 31 E15 Queens Indian
Topalov, Veselin - Aronian, Levon 1/2 20 E15 Queens Indian
Leko, Peter - Carlsen, Magnus 1-0 53 E15 Queens Indian

Final Round 14 Standings: 1. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2779 8.5; 2. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2690 7.5; 3. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2741 7.5; 4. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2744 7.0; 5. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2728 7.0; 6. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2750 6.5; 7. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2783 6.0; 8. Leko, Peter g HUN 2749 6.0;

Official sites: http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/ajedrez/es/index.html and http://www.soloajedrez.com/. Other info: http://www.ajedrezmorelialinares.org.mx/
Magnus Carlsen Blog
Sergey Shipov commentary http://www.crestbook.com/. http://www.chesspro.ru/ will have daily annotated coverage of the games.
Chess Vibes video Round 8. To a remix of Steppenwolf's greatest track! Film by Macauley Peterson

There was an open tournament alongside the main event. Vadim Milov won the event on tie-break from Ivan Cheparinov. There were a good number of games given in the daily bulletins up until the final two rounds. I've managed to rescue four games from the live coverage of round 7. Hopefully more games will turn up.

Games in PGN

Final Round 7 Standings:
1 Milov, Vadim GM SUI 6.0
2 Cheparinov, Ivan GM BUL 6.0
3 Stellwagen, Daniel GM NED 5.5
4 Gonzalez, Zamora Juan Carl GM MEX 5.5
5 Bruzon, Lazaro GM CUB 5.5
6 Potkin, Vladimir GM RUS 5.5
7 Akobian, Varuzhan GM USA 5.5
8 Leon Hoyos, Manuel IM MEX 5.5
9 Quezada, Yuniesky GM CUB 5.0
10 Mitkov, Nikola GM MKD 5.0
11 Dominguez Aguilar, Guiller FM MEX 5.0
12 Almeida Saenz, Alfonso IM MEX 5.0
13 Norgaard, Jesper FM DEN 5.0
14 Martin Del Campo, Roberto IM MEX 5.0
15 Capo Vidal, Uriel FM MEX 5.0
16 De La Paz, Frank GM CUB 5.0
17 Sanchez Enriquez, Oscar Ge MEX 5.0
18 Alvarez, Miguel Angel MEX 5.0
19 Verduga Zavala, Denis IM MEX 5.0
20 Espinosa, Rafael IM MEX 5.0
21 Ibarra Chami, Luis IM MEX 4.5
22 Escobedo Tinajero, Alberto IM MEX 4.5
23 Tiviakov, Sergei GM NED 4.5
24 Arreguin, Hernandez Alan G MEX 4.5
25 Navarrete Mendez, Gonzalo MEX 4.5
26 Ramirez Ruacho, Juan Manue FM MEX 4.5
27 Morales Garcia, Sergio Jos MEX 4.5
109 players

ICC Chess.FM will have daily live commentary of Morelia-Linares, the second major of 2007, hosted by Mig Greengard, who will be joined by former World Chess Champion, GM Susan Polgar, with IM Jennifer Shahade, GM Jon Speelman, GM Larry Christiansen, GM Joel Benjamin, and GM Gregory Kaidanov.You can get a free trial membership to check it out, at: http://www.chessclub.com/chessfm/

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Cappelle la Grande open

Vugar Gashimov. ELO favourite at Cappelle.

The Cappelle la Grande open took place 3rd-10th March 2007 with more than 600 players - 87 GMs - 81 IMs - and 465 fide rated players from 56 country in the same open. Wang Yue from China won the event with 7/9 on tie-break from Evgenij Miroshnichenko, Vugar Gashimov, David Arutinian, Yuri Drozdovskij and Vasily Yemelin. Anthony Wirig made a GM norm.

Games in PGN

Live games at : http://www.cappelle-chess.com/live/tfd.htm Website : http://www.cappelle-chess.com/

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February

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6th Aeroflot Festival 2007

Winner Evgeny Alekseev. Photo © Manuel Weeks see his photo reports http://www.chessvibes.com

The 6th Aeroflot Festival took place in Moscow. Evgeny Alekseev won in the final round to take clear first place and a spot in the Dortmund tournament.

Games in PGN (Rd1-9)

Official Leading Final Round 9 Standings:

1 Alekseev, Evgeny GM 2661 RUS 7.0
2 Tomashevsky, Evgeny GM 2624 RUS 6.5
3 Jakovenko, Dmitry GM 2691 RUS 6.5
4 Wang, Yue GM 2644 CHN 6.5
5 Ni, Hua GM 2632 CHN 6.5
6 Almasi, Zoltan GM 2669 HUN 6.0
7 Jobava, Baadur GM 2650 GEO 6.0
8 Sutovsky, Emil GM 2629 ISR 6.0
9 Volkov, Sergey GM 2636 RUS 6.0
10 Minasian, Artashes GM 2595 ARM 5.5
11 Akopian, Vladimir GM 2700 ARM 5.5
12 Sargissian, Gabriel GM 2658 ARM 5.5
13 Areshchenko, Alexander GM 2644 UKR 5.5
14 Khalifman, Alexander GM 2619 RUS 5.5
15 Vallejo Pons, Francisco GM 2679 ESP 5.5
16 Asrian, Karen GM 2634 ARM 5.5
17 Riazantsev, Alexander GM 2629 RUS 5.5
18 Laznicka, Viktor GM 2593 CZE 5.5
19 Novikov, Stanislav GM 2535 RUS 5.5
20 Predojevic, Borki GM 2587 BIH 5.5
21 Zhou, Jianchao GM 2551 CHN 5.5
22 Bocharov, Dmitry GM 2602 RUS 5.5
23 Efimenko, Zahar GM 2616 UKR 5.5
24 Wang, Hao GM 2619 CHN 5.5
25 Jussupow, Artur GM 2599 GER 5.0
26 Sadvakasov, Darmen GM 2615 KAZ 5.0
27 Nguyen, Ngoc Truongson GM 2528 VIE 5.0
28 Korotylev, Alexey GM 2615 RUS 5.0
29 Balogh, Csaba GM 2616 HUN 5.0
30 Grigoriants, Sergey GM 2592 RUS 5.0
31 Moiseenko, Alexander GM 2627 UKR 5.0
32 Timofeev, Artyom GM 2663 RUS 5.0
33 Movsesian, Sergei GM 2637 SVK 5.0
34 Smirin, Ilia GM 2654 ISR 5.0
35 Sasikiran, Krishnan GM 2700 IND 5.0
36 Volokitin, Andrei GM 2645 UKR 5.0
88 players

Official site: http://www.aeroflotchess.com/

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Polish Championship 2007

The Polish Championship took place in Opole 9th-22nd February 2007. Tomasz Markowski won the title by half a point from Bartosz Socko, both players won in the final round.

Games in PGN

Final Round 13 Standings: 1. Markowski, Tomasz g POL 2553 10.0; 2. Socko, Bartosz g POL 2629 9.5; 3. Bartel, Mateusz g POL 2587 8.5; 4. Wojtaszek, Radoslaw g POL 2637 7.5; 5. Bobras, Piotr g POL 2542 7.0; 6. Macieja, Bartlomiej g POL 2629 7.0; 7. Kempinski, Robert g POL 2590 6.5; 8. Cyborowski, Lukasz g POL 2580 6.5; 9. Heberla, Bartlomiej g POL 2557 6.5; 10. Bobula, Mateusz POL 2359 6.0; 11. Grabarczyk, Miroslaw g POL 2461 4.5; 12. Tomczak, Jacek f POL 2457 4.5; 13. Lubczynski, Rafal f POL 2383 3.5; 14. Grabarczyk, Bogdan m POL 2441 3.5;

Official site: http://www.ozszach.pl/impm2007/index.html

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GibTelecom Chess Festival

The GibTelecom Chess Festival took place 23rd January - 1st February 2007. including a 9 round Masters with a rest day. Leading players are: Michael Adams, Vadim Milov, Kiril Georgiev, Ivan Sokolov, Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Areshchenko, Mikhail Gurevich, Kevin Spraggett, Viktor Korchnoi and Emil Sutovsky. Vladimir Akopian won his final round game against Yuriy Kuzubov to take clear first place.

Games in PGN

Leading Final Round 9 Standings:

1 Akopian, Vladimir ARM g 2700 7½

2 Areshchenko, Alexander UKR g 2644 7
3 Nakamura, Hikaru USA g 2651 7
4 Sutovsky, Emil ISR g 2629 7

5 Adams, Michael ENG g 2735 6½
6 Al-Modiahki, Mohamed QAT g 2556 6½
7 Efimenko, Zahar UKR g 2616 6½
8 Ehlvest, Jaan USA g 2610 6½
9 Gurevich, Mikhail TUR g 2635 6½
10 Kuzubov, Yuriy UKR g 2554 6½
11 Milov, Vadim SUI g 2665 6½
12 Pavlovic, Milos g 2521 6½
13 Rendle, Thomas ENG m 2366 6½
14 Ris, Robert NED m 2403 6½
15 Roiz, Michael ISR g 2605 6½
16 Sandipan, Chanda IND g 2561 6½
17 Sokolov, Ivan NED g 2652 6½

18 Al Sayed, Mohammed N QAT m 2460 6
19 Epishin, Vladimir RUS g 2561 6
20 Georgiev, Kiril BUL g 2661 6
21 Greet, Andrew ENG m 2425 6
22 Grooten, Herman NED m 2387 6
23 Houska, Jovanka ENG m 2384 6
24 Jones, Gawain ENG m 2509 6
25 Ramesh, R B IND g 2483 6
26 Sengupta, Deep IND m 2416 6
27 Stefanova, Antoaneta BUL g 2483 6
28 Sulskis, Sarunas LTU g 2525 6
176 players

Official site: http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/

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Moscow Open

The Moscow Open took place 27th January - 4th February 2007. Evgeny Najer and Vasily Yemelin finished on 7.5/9.

Games in PGN

Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
1 Najer Evgeniy GM RUS 2605 7,5
2 Yemelin Vasily GM RUS 2539 7,5
3 Svetushkin Dmitry GM MDA 2588 7,0
4 Malakhov Vladimir GM RUS 2663 7,0
5 Smirnov Pavel GM RUS 2621 7,0
6 Vorobiov Evgeny E GM RUS 2563 7,0
7 Kazhgaleyev Murtas GM KAZ 2579 7,0
8 Dobrov Vladimir GM RUS 2479 7,0
9 Aleksandrov Aleksej GM BLR 2601 7,0
10 Askarov Marat IM RUS 2487 6,5
11 Riazantsev Alexander GM RUS 2629 6,5
12 Amonatov Farrukh GM TJK 2559 6,5
Ulko Jaroslav IM RUS 2460 6,5
14 Yakovich Yuri GM RUS 2577 6,5
15 Korotylev Alexey GM RUS 2615 6,5
16 Zvjaginsev Vadim GM RUS 2658 6,5
17 Ionov Sergey GM RUS 2522 6,5
18 Chuprov Dmitry IM RUS 2534 6,5
19 Lastin Alexander GM RUS 2583 6,5
20 Bocharov Dmitry GM RUS 2602 6,0
21 Dreev Alexey GM RUS 2658 6,0
22 Gareev Timur GM UZB 2551 6,0
23 Chernyshov Konstantin GM RUS 2556 6,0
24 Grachev Boris IM RUS 2563 6,0
25 Novikov Stanislav GM RUS 2535 6,0
26 Krapivin Alexander IM RUS 2478 6,0
27 Balashov Yuri S GM RUS 2422 6,0
28 Burmakin Vladimir GM RUS 2568 6,0
29 Khismatullin Denis GM RUS 2599 6,0
30 Deviatkin Andrei IM RUS 2544 6,0
31 Andreikin Dmitry IM RUS 2509 6,0
32 Yandemirov Valeri GM RUS 2523 6,0
33 Zinchenko Yaroslav GM UKR 2507 6,0
34 Oleksienko Mikhailo GM UKR 2541 6,0
35 Shipov Sergei GM RUS 2591 6,0
36 Romanov Evgeny IM RUS 2501 6,0
37 Sergienko Sergey IM RUS 2467 6,0
38 Moiseenko Alexander GM UKR 2627 6,0
39 Iljin Artem IM RUS 2529 6,0
40 Orlinkov Maxim L IM RUS 2377 6,0
41 Prokopchuk Evgeny GM RUS 2516 6,0
245 players

Official site: http://www.moscowopen2007.ru/main/index.html

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Bundesliga

The latest round of the Bundesliga took place 2nd-4th February there is a big chess event in Berlin: Eight teams in the German Bundesliga played against each other. About 35 Grandmaster (Aronian, Navara, Naiditsch, McShane, Nikolic, Eljanov, Sargrissian, Socko, Luther, Gustafsson etc.) and 25 International Master played in the german capital.

Coverage: http://www.schach.com/live (Friday 4 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.) Live-Ticker: http://www.schachbundesliga.de (only in German)

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Dutch League

The Dutch Club Team Championship Round 5 took place on 3rd February 2007. The top matches were played in Hilversum (HSG vs HMC Calder) and in Enschede (ESGOO - Share Dimension Groningen). HSG (top 100 players Nijboer and Seirawan) defeated HMC Calder (Kasimdzhanov) 7-3. Share Dimension Groningen (Ivanchuk, Tiviakov, Rublevsky and I.Sokolov) defeated ESGOO 7½ -2½. HSG leads with 10 match points, followed by Share Dimension Groningen on 9 match points. The clash of the favourites, Share Dimension Groningen vs HSG, will be next round (R6) on 3 March 2007 in Groningen. Report: ChessVista

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Faaborg-Midtfyn Cup

The Faaborg-Midtfyn Cup took place February 2nd-4th 2007. There was a four player rapid double round robin blindfold event which saw the favourites Magnus Carlsen and Peter Heine Nielsen finish on 4/6 (Carlsen beat Nielsen in one of their games). Then the top two met in a final where Carlsen won 2-0. GM Emanuel Berg edged out Steffen Pedersen in the 3rd-4th playoff. Time rate 25 mins+ 20 secs.

Preliminary Game in PGN - Final and 3rd-4th place playoff

Official site: http://www.dsu.dk/faaborg-midtfyn-cup/info.htm

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January

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FIDE Rating List. January 2007

The new January 2007 FIDE Rating list has been released. The World Championship match between Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov didn't change the order of the top three but Topalov lost 30 rating points from the match and the Essent tournament that followed it. Anand was inactive and Kramnik gained 16 points. A poor period for Peter Svidler cost him 22 rating points and a drop to 12th in the world, making the reverse journey from 12th to 4th was Shakhriyaz Mamedyarov. Judit Polgar gained 17 rating points and Ruslan Ponomariov 20 but otherwise changes were confined to single figures in the top 20.

For the full list, analysis and a table which includes other recent ratings see: FIDE January 2007 Rating List: Top 100

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Corus Wijk aan Zee

Veselin Topalov had black against Teimour Radjabov in round 13. Photo © Frits Agterdenbos http://www.chessvista.com.

The Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee took place 12th-28th January 2007. The event ended in a three way tie between Levon Aronian, Veselin Topalov and Teimour Radjabov.

Official site: http://www.coruschess.com including Afek's challengers and daily reports Aviv Friedman.

Games in PGN - Corus A Wijk aan Zee 2007 - Viewer
B Group Games in PGN - C Group Games in PGN

Commentary

Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007 Round 13.
Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007 Round 12.
Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007 Round 11. A whole bunch of stuff from Michiel Abeln and Chessvibes
Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007 Round 10.
Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007 Round 9.
Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007 Round 8.
Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007 Round 7.
Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007 Round 6.
Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007 Round 5.
Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007 Round 4.
Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007 Brief Round 3 comments by Malcolm Pein and Mark Crowther
Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007 Round 2.
Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007 Round 1. Malcolm Pein Comments

A Group:

Round 13 (January 28, 2007)

Aronian, Levon - Tiviakov, Sergei 1-0 43 E06 Catalan
Radjabov, Teimour - Topalov, Veselin 1/2 26 E08 Catalan
Kramnik, Vladimir - Van Wely, Loek 1-0 40 D46 Semi-Slav Defence
Anand, Viswanathan - Navara, David 1/2 27 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Svidler, Peter - Karjakin, Sergey 0-1 32 B90 Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Ponomariov, Ruslan - Motylev, Alexander 1/2 49 D47 Queens Gambit Meran
Carlsen, Magnus - Shirov, Alexei 1/2 60 C90 Ruy Lopez

Final Round 13 Standings Group A: 1. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2744 8.5; 2. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2783 8.5; 3. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2729 8.5; 4. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2766 8.0; 5. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2779 7.5; 6. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2728 7.0; 7. Navara, David g CZE 2719 6.5; 8. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2678 6.5; 9. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2723 6.0; 10. Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2647 5.0; 11. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2667 5.0; 12. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2683 5.0; 13. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2690 4.5; 14. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2715 4.5;

Final Round 13 Standings Group B: 1. Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2675 9.0; 2. Sargissian, Gabriel g ARM 2658 8.0; 3. Bu Xiangzhi g CHN 2644 8.0; 4. Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2691 8.0; 5. Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2573 8.0; 6. L'Ami, Erwin g NED 2594 7.5; 7. Stellwagen, Daniel g NED 2585 7.0; 8. Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2658 7.0; 9. Smeets, Jan g NED 2538 6.0; 10. Nijboer, Friso g NED 2638 5.5; 11. Atalik, Suat g TUR 2586 4.5; 12. Werle, Jan g NED 2566 4.5; 13. Kosintseva, Tatiana m RUS 2474 4.0; 14. Georgiev, Vladimir g MKD 2525 4.0;

Final Round 13 Standings Group C: 1. Krasenkow, Michal g POL 2651 10.5; 2. Nepomniachtchi, Ian m RUS 2587 10.0; 3. Berg, Emanuel g SWE 2586 8.0; 4. Negi, Parimarjan g IND 2538 7.5; 5. Hou Yifan wf CHN 2509 7.0; 6. Spoelman, Wouter m NED 2414 7.0; 7. Van der Wiel, John g NED 2511 6.0; 8. Bosboom, Manuel m NED 2375 6.0; 9. Van Haastert, Edwin m NED 2391 6.0; 10. Kosintseva, Nadezhda m RUS 2496 5.5; 11. Peng Zhaoqin g NED 2431 5.5; 12. Jonkman, Harmen g NED 2425 4.5; 13. Brynell, Stellan g SWE 2501 4.0; 14. Willemze, Thomas m NED 2393 3.5;

Official site: http://www.coruschess.com

Some interesting other sites. Frits Agterdenbos photos at: http://www.chessvista.com - Peter Doggers increasingly famous video site: http://www.chessvibes.com - Sergey Shipov is well known for his annotations (at the moment in Russian): http://www.crestbook.com/ - Mig is on Chessfm at the ICC for daily live audio coverage of Corus free week's trial: http://www.chessclub.com/tryicc/register/

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1st ACP World Rapid Cup

The Final between Vassily Ivanchuk and Peter Leko - 8th January 2006. Photo © ACP World Cup press centre

The 1st ACP World Rapid Cup took place in Odessa in the Ukraine 4th-8th January 2007. The event was sponsored by the Bank Pivdennyi based in Odessa and took place in the Hotel Londonskaya. The tournament organisers were the Bank Pivdennyi and the Association of Chess Professionals. The total prize fund was 136,000 US Dollars. 16 grandmasters participated in this Knock-Out tournament. The time control was 20 minutes for the whole game with an increment of 5 seconds per move, with blitz games (3mins + 2sec/m) to settle ties. Peter Leko won the second blitz playoff game against Vassily Ivanchuk in the final, their first three games were drawn.

IM Malcolm Pein. Chess Wednesday 10th January 2007
IM Malcolm Pein. Chess Monday 8th January 2007

Games in PGN

Final

6 p.m.: Leko-Ivanchuk 1/2 1/2 1/2 1-0

Semi-Finals

08.01.2007
1 p.m.: Gelfand-Leko 1/2 1/2 0-1 1-0 0-1
3.15 p.m.: Ivanchuk-Radjabov 1-0 1-0

Quarter Finals

07.01.2006
1 p.m.: Leko-Rublevsky 1-0 1-0
3.15 p.m.: Shirov-Gelfand 0-1 1/2
5.30 p.m.: Morozevich-Radjabov 0-1 [horror story blunder by Morozevich] 1/2
7.45 p.m.: Bacrot-Ivanchuk 1/2 0-1

Round 1

05.01.2007
13.00: Sokolov-Leko 1/2 0-1
15.15: Rublevsky-Naiditsch 1/2 1-0
17.30: Smirin-Shirov 0-1 1/2
19.45: Gelfand-Nakamura 1-0 1-0

06.01.2007
13.00: Harikrishna-Morozevich 0-1 1-0 0-1 1-0 0-1
15.15: Radjabov-Bareev 1/2 1-0
17.30: Bologan-Bacrot 0-1 1-0 0-1 1-0 0-1
19.45: Ivanchuk-Amonatov 1-0 1-0

* times are local time GMT+2

Official site: http://worldcup.pivdenny.com/en/ with additional live coverage at: http://www.ruschess.com/

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