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Dortmund R7: Leko wins Sparkassen Meeting, Ivanchuk beats Kramnik
06.07.2008
– Peter Leko, who was in the lead after the penultimate round, drew his game in 31 moves. Since his closest rivals, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Jan Gustafsson drew their game (in 22 moves) Leko became the sole winner with his plus two score. The shocker came when Vladimir Kramnik stumbled against Ivanchuk to end in seventh place.
Final report.
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Izmit: Truva wins Turkish League 2008 with 15/15 points
06.07.2008
– The İş Bank Chess League is a round robin event with 16 teams,
each consisting of ten boards. One is reserved for women, one for a junior, one
each for boys and girls under 16, and under 14. So it was
not enough to import Georgian and Azerbaijani GMs, you had to have young local
talent as well. The team of Truva Satranç Spor Kulübü won every match and the
league.
Big pictorial report.
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Dortmund R6: Leko beats Gustafsson, takes the lead
05.07.2008
– The penultimate round in the Sparkassen Chess-Meeting saw Peter Leko score a fine black-piece victory over yesterday's leader Jan Gustafsson, taking a point and the lead from the German grandmaster. Loek van Wely blundered again to lose to Arkadij Naiditsch. Tomorrow Gustafsson and Nepomniachtchi play against each other with chances to catch Leko.
Round six report.
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Kiev Life Rapid: Karjakin leads Short 3:1
05.07.2008
– On the second day Nigel Short, desperate to break his opponent's clean 2-0 score, played the – Alekhine's Defence. He hung on bravely for 35 moves but then collapsed under the pressure from his young opponent Sergey Karjakin. In the fourth game, with moral support from organiser Bessel Kok, Nigel at last struck back. Pictorial report by Anastasiya Karlovich on
chess in the Puppet Theatre.
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Dortmund R5: Gustafsson beats van Wely, leads the event
04.07.2008
– With two rounds to go (and no more rest days) German GM Jan Gustafsson scored a second point, with black in an 18-move miniature against Loek van Wely. Jan is now at plus two, half a point ahead of Peter Leko and poised to win the tournament. Vassily Ivanchuk climbed to 50% with a win over Arkadij Naiditsch. The other games were drawn.
Round five report.
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Edward Winter's Chess Explorations (4)
04.07.2008
– The Editor of Chess
Notes has selected the five worst chess books in English from the past two
decades. This grisly matter is not for the faint-hearted, although there are touches of black comedy and farce in the egregious books chosen for the Chamber of Horrors. Warning to readers of a sensitive nature or nervous disposition:
do not enter.
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From Kiev life it's – Nigel Short vs Sergey Karjakin
03.07.2008
– The event is taking place in the Academic Puppet Theatre, lasts five days and encompasses ten rapid chess games between the former world championship challenger and a former record-breaking child prodigy. After an evening of press conferences and wild festivities it was the younger player who started with a clearer head.
Karjakin won both games.
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Chessboxing World Championship 2008 in Berlin
03.07.2008
– In October there is one between Anand and Kramnik in Bonn. But that will be
peaceful compared to the World Championship that is scheduled in Berlin
this weekend. There four minutes of chess are interspersed with three minutes
of violent pugilistic activities. We bring you photos and videos – and we also
found out what FIDE President
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov thinks about this sport.
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Dortmund R4: Nepomniachtchi beats van Wely, joins the leaders
02.07.2008
– Ian Nepomniachtchi, the youngest player in Dortmund (he turns 18 in two weeks), scored his first win, beating Dutch GM Loek van Wely in 48 moves. Ian joins Jan Gustafsson and Peter Leko at "plus one", which is enough to lead after four of the seven rounds. The other games were drawn. The other games were drawn; the draw quota is 69% – with all wins scored by White.
Round four report.
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Chess in Iran: Premier League after five rounds
02.07.2008
– The third round of Iranian Premier League took place on Wednesday, June 25th, in Sari, the capital city of Mazandaran, a beautiful and green province on the south coast of Caspian Sea. There were a lot of surprises, as when GM Tigran Petrosian with the white pieces was held to a draw by the untitled Mehdi Atabaki, who is rated exactly 562 points lower.
Report by FM Arash Akbarinia.
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The secret filling station of Vassily Ivanchuk
01.07.2008
– In the restaurant in Linares, scene of the annual Super-GM tournament, Garry
Kasparov always had a permanent table for his entourage, and a chair that was
only his. One day Vassily Ivanchuk sat down on that chair, with a very specific
goal in mind. In his Playchess lecture
Dennis Monokroussos shows us the result: Ivanchuk blasted Topalov off the board
in just 25 moves.
Enjoy.
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Dortmund R3: Naiditsch beats Kramnik with sensational rook sacrifice
01.07.2008
– A very dramatic day in Dortmund. While three games ended in relatively uneventful draws (in 19, 27 and 31 moves) the second-youngest player, Arkadij Naiditsch, uncorked a giant novelty against Vladimir Kramnik's Petroff Defence. It worked like clockwork and Naiditsch took home his first point. Mind you it turns out that Garry Kasparov had analysed this move nine years ago.
Round three report.
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