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Sunday, February 3, 2008

Moscow Open 2008, Round 2

Moscow Open 2008,  Round 2

Under "Open A" category:

There is a game that might need a mention, as it completed in a mere number of moves!

Volkov Sergey won on Demin Vladimir, in 14 moves!!

Below was the position when Demin Vladimir resigned:


Moscow Open 2008, Round 1

Moscow Open 2008 started! (February 2-10)

Round 1

Under "Open A" category:

Number one seeded GM Akopian Vladimir, with White, could not win on a much lower rated player FM Moskalenko
Number two seeded GM Inarkiev, with Black, lost to FM Okara


Under "Open C-ladies tournament" category:

Indian IM Harika Dronavalli (2455), with Black, won on WFM Gvanceladze Anna (2069)

45th Indian National "A" Chess Championship, Round 1

45th Indian National "A" Chess Championship (13 day tournament)

In the Round 1,

Good start for the below, who won! their 1st rounds:

GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2579 
GM Gopal G N 2528

GM Negi Parimarjan 2526
GM Barua Dibyendu 2491
GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J 2491
IM Sriram Jha 2457
IM Venkatesh M R 2444
IM Rathnakaran K 2437
IM Sethuraman S P 2424
IM Arun Prasad S 2423
IM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 2418
IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu 2406
IM Saptarshi Roy 2404

IM Shetty Rahul 2320

IM Shetty Rahul (2320) won on a higher rated IM Sundararajan Kidambi (2442).

Chess Tournaments! - Live now, future & just concluded!

You are @  
http://chessthatiamwatchingnow.blogspot.com/  

Updated daily!

(Check the bold letters in the middle to find the current live tournaments!)

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December 17-30, 2007 / Moscow, RUSSIA  

60th Russian Championship Superfinals

- Morozevich, Grischuk, Svidler and others   
- Morozevich won - Grischuk 2nd

http://www.russiachess.org/online/ 
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December 29, 2007 - January 6th 2008  

50th "Torneo di Capodanno" - Reggio Emilia 2008

- Harikrishna & others
- Zoltan Almasi of Hungary won - Harikrishna, Gashimov & Ni Hua tie at 2nd best points

http://www.ippogrifoscacchi.it/50_tdc/  
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January 2-9, 2008  

(15th Asian Team Chess Championship 2007   
  5th Asian Women Team Chess Championship 2007)  

- Team - (Gold for China - Silver for India)   
- Women Team - (Gold for China - Silver for India)   

(Top 20 boards)   
http://www.vizagchess.net/Live%20Games/monroi_live.htm  
(Rest of the boards - deferred games)  
http://www.vizagchess.net/Online%20games.html  
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January 4-7, 2008 / Odessa, Ukraine

The Second ACP World Rapid Cup
- Radjabov won - Grischuk 2nd

http://www.russiachess.org/online/  
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January 11-27, 2008 / De Moriaan Community Centre, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

The Corus Chess Tournament 2008 / Corus Wijk aan Zee 2008

Group A (Category 20 event)  
- Anand, Ivanchuk, Topalov, Kramnik, Judit Polgar, Magnus Carlsen, Loek van Wely (plays dangerously, ya less than Morozovich), Peter Leko & others  
Group B (Category 15 event) 
- Pentala Harikrishna, Koneru Humpy, Etienne Bacrot, Ivan Cheparinov, Nigel Short, Hou Yifan, Daniel Stellwagen, Jan Smeets & others  
Group C (Category 11 event)  
- Parimarjan Negi (Well done young Negi! - learn more to play more), & others  
Group Honorary / Corus Veterans   
- Viktor Kortchnoi, Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Jan Timman & Lajos Portisch   

Winners 

Group A 
1. L. Aronian, M. Carlsen 8 
3. T. Radjabov, V. Anand 7½ 
5. V. Ivanchuk, P. Leko 7 

Group B 
1. S. Movsesian 9½ 
2. E. Bacrot, N. Short 8½ 
4. P. Harikrishna 7½ 

Group C 
1. F. Caruana 10 
2. P. Negi, D. Reinderman 8 
4. P. Carlsson 7½ 

Group Honorary
1. L. Ljubojevic 4 
2. V. Kortchnoi 
J. Timman 3 
4. L. Portisch 2 
http://www.coruschess.com/livegames.php  
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January 22-31, 2008

Gibtelecom Masters 2008 
(in Caleta Hotel, Gibraltar) 

http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/gib2008/live/index.html 
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February 2-10 

Moscow Open 2008 
(in Moscow, Russia)

600+ participants, including below indian: 
Harika Dronavalli wgm 2455, in the women category 

http://www.moscowchessopen.ru/eng/index.shtml 
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February 3-15, 2008 / Chennai, India

45th Indian National "A" Chess Championship

- GMs like Ganguly Surya Shekhar, Kunte Abhijit, Gopal G N, Negi Parimarjan, Barua Dibyendu, Deepan Chakkravarthy J, Neelotpal Das,Ramesh R B,Thipsay Praveen M,Bakre Tejas and others

http://www.tamilchess.in/ACHESS/Livegames.html

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February 14-22 February 2008

AEROFLOT OPEN 2008
(in Moscow)

http://www.aeroflotchess.com/ 
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February 15-23, 2008 / The 1st half in Morelia, Mexico  
February 28-March 7, 2008 / The 2nd half in Linares, Spain  
(Rest days - Feb 18 & 21, Mar 2 & 5)

The 25th Linares-Morelia 2008 chess tournament

- Anand, Ivanchuk, Topalov, Peter Leko, Magnus Carlsen, Aronian, Radjabov & Shirov 

http://www.chessmorelialinares.com/english/ 
http://www.ajedrezmorelialinares.com.mx/english/ 
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February 16-23, 2008 

Cappelle la Grande 2008 

520 players, including below indians 
SANDIPAN, Chanda 2593 IND 
SARAVANAN, Venkatachalam 2379 IND 

http://www.cappelle-chess.com/ 
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March 3-11, 2008 

XXIII. REYKJAVIK OPEN 2008 

The below players above 2600 are participating: 

GM Wang Yue Kína 2698 
GM Wang Hao Kína 2665 
GM Vladimir Baklan Úkraína 2639 
GM Victor Mikhalevski Ísrael 2632 
GM Vadim Malakhatko Belgía 2600 

Below are the indians: 

GM Parjaman Negi Indland 2526 
IM Tania Sachdev Indland 2421 
Sahaj Grover Indland 2242 
FM Srinath Narayanan Indland 2210 

http://www.skaksamband.is/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=5752&Itemid=418 
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March 10-20, 2008 / Istanbul, Turkey  

(Ataturk Women Masters Chess)  
- Harika Dronavalli (India), Zhu Chen (Qatar), Hou Yifan (China) and others   

http://www.tsf.org.tr/  

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March 14-28, 2008 

Melody Amber Tournament 
Kramnik, Anand, Topalov, Morozevich, Mamedyarov, Leko, Ivanchuk, Aronian, Gelfand, Carlsen, Karjakin and Van Wely 
http://www.amberchess.com/ 
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April 25 - May 4th, 2008 

XXI Open Villa de Benidorm 2008/ XXI Open Internacional Villa de Benidorm 
(in Benidrom, Spain - in Hotel Deloix, Benidorm, 50km from the airport of Altet, Alicante (ALC) 

http://www.chessbenidorm.com/en/ 
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May 7-18, 2008 / Central Military Club in the Bulgarian capital Sofia  

Mtel Masters 2008
- Ivanchuk, Topalov, Radjabov, Aronian, Ivan Cheparinov & Xiangzhi Bu   

www.mtelmasters.com  
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July 19-27, 2008 

2008 Politiken Cup / 30th Copenhagen Open 
325 players 

http://www.politikencup.dk/ 
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September 20-26, 2008 

The 2008 ICCF Congress 
The 2008 International Correspondence Chess Federation Congress 
(in Bulgarian city of Pleven) 

http://www.iccf.com/ 
http://www.corrchessbg.com/ 
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October 11–30, 2008 

Anand - Kramnik (WCC Match) 
Viswanathan Anand will defend his World title against Vladimir Kramnik 
(in Bonn, Germany)

http://www.uep-worldchess.com/ 
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November 12-26, 2008 

Chess Olympiad 2008 
(in Dresden, Germany)

http://www.dresden2008.de/front_content.php?changelang=2 
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November 26, 2008 - December 11, 2008
The Kamsky-Topalov match
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