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Past Chess News & Events
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- 5th International Chess Festival Highlands Open (September 20 - 28 / Zdar nad Sazavou, CZECH REPUBLIC)

* Vega Gomez, Gardner & Snorek shared the 1st place
* Final standings


* Official site

- 5th China vs. Russia Chess Match (September 18-27 / Ningpo, CHINA)

* China won the classical match (26-24)

- Women´s World Chess Championship (August 28 - September 18 / Nalchik, RUSSIA)

* Alexandra Kosteniuk is the new Women´s World Chess Champion after beating Hou Yifan (2.5-1.5)

* Official site

- Bilbao Grand Slam Chess Final (September 2 - 13 / Bilbao, SPAIN)

* Veselin Topalov won the tournament after beating Ivanchuk in the last round

* Official site

- Tal Memorial (August 18 - 27 / Moscow, RUSSIA)

* Vassily Ivanchuk (6/9) won by a full point; Morozevich, Gelfand, Ponomariov & Kramnik shared the 2nd place

* Official site

- 6th Staunton Memorial Tournament (August 7 - 18 / London, UK)

* Michael Adams (8/11) won the tournament, Loek Van Wely finished in second place

* Official site

- New England Masters (August 11 - 15 / Rhode Island, USA)

* Sergey Erenburg (7.5/9) won the tournament, Timur Gareev finished in 2nd place
* Final standings

* Official site

- FIDE Grand Prix Baku (July 31 - August 14 / Sochi, RUSSIA)

* Levon Aronian won the tournament, Teimour Radjabov finished in 2nd place

* Official site

- 11th Chess Festival Olomouc Chess Summer (July 30 - August 8 / CZECH REPUBLIC)

* GM Section: FM Nils Grandelius (6.5/9) won the tournament

* Chess Festival results
* Official site

- Chess Classic Mainz (July 28 - August 3 / Mainz, GERMANY)

* GRENKELEASING Rapid World Championship: Viswanathan Anand beat Magnus Carlsen
* ORDIX Open: Ian Nepomniachtchi (9.5/11) won this strong rapid open; Eljanov & Almasi finished in 2nd-3rd place
* FiNet Chess960 Open: Hikaru Nakamura (9/11) won the event // Final standings
* FiNet Chess960 Women´s Rapid World Ch.: Alexandra Kosteniuk beat Kateryna Lahno
* Livingston Chess960 Computer WM: Rybka keeps the title after beating beat Shredder (2.5-1.5) // Official site

* Official site

- 5th North Urals Cup (July 27 - August 3 / Krasnoturinsk, RUSSIA)

* Antoaneta Stefanova (4.5/7) won the tournament, Sebag & Ushenina finished in 2nd place

* Official site

- Biel Chess Festival (July 19 - August 1 / Biel, SWITZERLAND)

* Evgeny Alekseev beat Lenier Dominguez in the tiebreak for the title

* Official site

- Czech Open 2008 (July 10 - 27 / Pardubice, CZECH REPUBLIC)

* Eldar Gasanov (7.5/9) won this event

* More information here

- Andorra Chess Open (July 19 - 27 / Erts, ANDORRA)

* David Howell (8/9) won this strong chess open

* Final standings
* Official site

- First Saturday Chess Tournaments (July // Budapest, HUNGARY)

* Zlatko Ilincic won the GM section, Hou Yifan shared the 2nd place

* Official site

- 9th Karpov Poikovsky Tournament (July 8 - 17 // RUSSIA)

* Rublevsky, Jakovenko, Gashimov & Shirov shared the first place

- Karjakin vs. Short Chess Match (July 3 - 7 // Kiev, UKRAINE)

* Sergey Karjakin beat Nigel Short (7.5 - 2.5)

* Official site

- World Open Chess Tournament (July 1 -6 // Philadelphia, USA)

* Final standings
* Official site

- Dortmund Chess Tournament (June 28 - July 6 // Dortmund, GERMANY)

* Peter Leko (4.5/7) won the tournament, Gustafsson, Nepomniachtchi, Mamedyarov & Ivanchuk shared the 2nd place

* Official site

- July 2008 FIDE rating list

* Top 10 (men): A nand, Morozevich, Kramnik, Ivanchuk, Topalov, Carlsen, Radjabov, Mamedyarov, Shirov & Leko
* Top 10 (women): Polgar, Koneru, Xie, Hou, Stefanova, Cramling, Sebag, Zhao, Kosintseva  & Kosteniuk

* Complete lists

- New York International Tournament (June 21 - 25 // The Marshall Chess Club, New York)

* Final standings

- Aerosvit Chess Tournament (June 8 - 20 / Foros, UKRAINE)

* Magnus Carlsen (8/11) won the tournament, Ivanchuk was second

* Official site

- Yerevan Chess Giants / Karen Asrian Memorial (June 9 - 15 / Yerevan, ARMENIA)

* Levon Aronian (8.5/14) won the tournament, Leko finished in 2nd place

* Official site

- Karen Asrian (1980 - 2008)

* Armenian GM Karen Asrian passed away / He was 28 years old
* Read more here, here or here

- Las Vegas National Open (June 5 - 8 / Las Vegas / USA)

* Kamsky, Fressinet, Petrosian, Kolev, Finegold & Friedel shared the 1st place

* Final standings
* Official site

- Deep Junior 11 vs. GM Miguel Illescas (June 5 / Barcelona, SPAIN)

* Final result: Deep Junior 11 - Miguel Illescas (aided by Junior 10): 1-1

- Ilyumzhinov guarantees Topalov - Kamsky match in Lvov (Ukraine)

* The match will be held in dates between November 26th and December 14th. Read the press release

- Bosna Chess Tournament (May 23 - June 2 / Sarajevo, BOSNIA)

* Morozevich (7.5/10) won the tournament, Lenier Dominguez finished in 2nd place

Official site

- XXI "Ciudad de León" Chess Tournament (May 29 - June 2 / León, SPAIN)

* Final (June 2): Anand - Ivanchuk: 1.5-2.5 (report)
* 1st semifinal (May 30): Anand - Vallejo: 3.5-2.5 (report)
* 2nd semifinal (May 31): Shirov - Ivanchuk: 1-3 (report)

* Official site

- Leko vs. Carlsen Chess Match (May 27 - June 1 / Miskolc, HUNGARY)

* Magnus Carlsen beat Peter Leko (5-3)
* Download the games

* Official site

- 4th Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup (May 30 - June 1 / Odessa, UKRAINE)

* Pavel Tregubov (9/14) won this rapid tournament by better tie break, he shared the 1st place with Drozdovskij, Gelfand & Ponomariov.  Anatoly Karpov finished half a point behnind the leaders

* Official site

- U.S Chess Championship (May 13-21 / Oklahoma, U.S.A)

* Men section: Yury Shulman (6.5/8) clinched his first U.S Championship title
* Women Section: Anna Zatonskih drew Irina Krush in the armageddon game to win the title

* Official site

- Kramnik vs. Navara Chess Match (May 14-18 / Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC)

* Final score (Kramnik - Navara): 5.5-2.5

* Download the games
* Official site

- Mtel Masters (May 7 - 18 / Sofia, BULGARIA)

* Vassily Ivanchuk (8/10) won the tournament, Topalov finished in second place

* Download all the games
* Official site

- ENCI Limburg Open (May 10 - 12 / Maastricht, NETHERLANDS)

* IM Robin Swinkels won the tournament, Nijboer, Klimov & Jones shared the 1st place

* Final standings
* Official site

- Znojmo Open 2008 (May 8 - 11 / Znojmo, CZECH REPUBLIC)

* Tadeas Klecker (5/7) won the tournament by better tiebreak

* Final standings
* Official site

- FIDE Grand Prix (April 20 - May 6 / Baku, AZERBAIJAN)

* Vugar Gashimov, Wang Yue & Magnus Carlsen shared the 1st prize

* Results
* Download all the games

* Official site

- 9th European Individual Chess Championship (April 20 - May 4 / Plovdiv, BULGARIA)

* Sergei Tiviakov & Kateryna Lahno are the new European Individual Chess Champions
* Final standings: men / women
* Official site

- Dos Hermanas Rapid Tournament (April 18 - 20 / Dos Hermanas, SPAIN)

* Veselin Topalov won the tournament after beating Vallejo Pons in the final (2.5-1.5)

* Download the games
* Official site

- Dutch Chess Championship (April 2 - 13 / Hilversum, NETHERLANDS)

* Jan Smeets became Dutch chess champion / Peng Zhaoquin retains the women title

* Official site

- Russian Team Championship (April 2 - 13 / Dagomys, RUSSIA)

* Ural-Ekaterinburg (Radjabov, Shirov, Kamsky, Grischuk,, Malakhov, Akopian, Dreev & Motylev) won the title

* Official site

- 2nd Magistral Ruy Lopez (April 4 - 13 / Mérida, SPAIN)

* Michael Adams (5.5/7) won the tournament, Zhang Pengxiang finished in 2nd place

* Official site

- Amber Rapid & Blindfold Tournament (March 14 - 28 / Nice, FRANCE)

* Levon Aronian won the tournament; Kramnik, Leko & Topalov shared the 2nd place

* Download all the games
* Final standings

* Official site

- Isbank Ataturk Chess Tournament (March 11 - 20 // TURKEY)

* Hou Yifan (7/9) won the tournament, Pia Cramling finished in 2nd place

* Official site

- 23th Reykjavik Open (March 3 - 11 // Reykjavik, Iceland)

* Wang Hao won the tournament by better tiebreak (Hannes Stefansson & Wang Yue shared the 1st place with him)

* Official site

- Morelia - Linares Chess Tournament (Feb 14 - 19 / Morelia, MEXICO - Feb 28 - March 8 / Linares, SPAIN)

* Viswanathan Anand (8.5/14) won the tournament, Magnus Carlsen finished in 2nd place

* Chessville coverage
* Download all the games

* Participants: Anand, Ivanchuk, Topalov, Leko, Radjabov, Aronian, Shirov & Carlsen
* Official site (Linares)
* Official site (Morelia)

- Aeroflot Chess Open (February 13 - 23 / Moscow, RUSSIA)

* Ian Nepomniachtchi (7/9) won the tournament
* Regulations


* Official site

- Moscow Chess Open (February 2 - 10 / Moscow, RUSSIA)

* Artyom Timofeev (7.5/9) won the tournament

* Official site

- Gibtelecom Chess Festival (January 22 - 31 / Gibraltar)

* Hikaru Nakamura beat Xianzghi Bu in the play-off (2-0)

* Results & standings
* Official site

- Corus Chess Tournament (January 11-22 / Wijk aan Zee, NETHERLANDS)

* Levon Aronian & Magnus Carlsen shared the 1st place

* Chessville coverage
* Download all the games

* Official site

- Robert James Fischer (1943 - 2008)

* Former World Champion, Bobby Fischer, died on January 17th

* BBC Report (incl. video) / Fischer Photo & Quote Montage


- 2nd ACP World Rapid Cup (January 4-7 / Odessa, UKRAINE)

* Teimour Radjabov beat Alexander Grischuk in the final

* Official site

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