Ataturk Women Masters Chess, Round 1, All results!

Ataturk Women Masters Chess

Round 1

It started yesterday.
Round 1 had seen all results! No draws!

Here are the results!

Rank Title Name Rating Points - Points Title Name Rating Rank
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1 IM Krush Irina 2473 1 - 0 GM Chen Zhu 2548 10
2 IM Atalik Ekaterina 2408 1 - 0 IM Dronavalli Harika 2455 9
3 IM Javakhishvili Lela 2470 1 - 0 WGM Xue Zhao 2517 8
4 IM Ushenina Anna 2484 0 - 1 WGM Yifan Hou 2527 7
5 WIM Yildiz Betul Cemre 2207 0 - 1 GM Cramling Pia 2524 6

In the 1st 3 games, lower rated players won!! on higher rated players.

All results! Good games. Some obvious poor play & blunders.

However, worth mentioning good lesson game here:

Looked like, Harika dint have a good day. It all seemed as if her plan was to get a Rook for the opponent's Bishop, by loosing all the pawns, for the end game.
Looked like, this is classic example of a wrong plan, by "over extending" pawns, 13th & 16th moves ?. This kind of plans are seen in very high rated players, but are calculated. May be she isn't ready to take on Vishy Anand! yet.
She was defeated by lower rated opponent, and this defeat Harika wont be forgetting in the near furure.

Here is the game!!

Reykjavik Open 2008, Round 8, Wang Hao & Stefansson Hannes leads!! four others follow!

Reykjavik Open 2008 

Round 8

Standings!
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Rank Title Name Rating Flags Points
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1. GM Wang Hao 2665 CHN 6.5
2. GM Stefansson Hannes 2564 ISL 6.5
3. GM Caruana Fabiano 2598 ITA 6.0 
4. GM Wang Yue 2698 CHN 6.0
5. GM Halkias Stelios 2580 GRE 6.0
6. GM Kveinys Aloyzas 2521 LTU 6.0 
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Indians 
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Rank Title Name Rating Points 
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21 FM Grover Sahaj 2242 5.0 
26 IM Tania Sachdev 2417 4.5 
56 FM Narayanan Srinath 2210 3.5 
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Grover Sahaj won on a much higher rated opponent. Tania & Narayanan lost their games to higher rated opponents.

Link:

http://www.skaksamband.is/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=5852&Itemid=460

Reykjavik Open 2008, Round 7, Wang Hao leads!! Stefansson Hannes & Wang Yue follow!

Reykjavik Open 2008

Round 7

In the recent times, I haven't heard Caruana Fabiano being defeated.

Surprisingly, Wang Hao deafeated Caruana Fabiano with ease in just 27 moves!!!! Must watch attacking game!

Excellent learning given by Wang Hao, to Caruana Fabiano, on what happens if you attack by compromising your own king safety (??) without castling the King.

With this loss, Caruna is now pushed to 5.0 points, out of top 3 positions! 

Standings!
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Rank Title Name Rating Flags Points
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1 GM Wang Hao 2665 CHN 6.0
2 GM Stefansson Hannes 2564 ISL 5.5
3 GM Wang Yue 2698 CHN 20s0 5.5
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Indians
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Rank Title Name Rating Points
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21 IM Tania Sachdev 2417 4.5
38 FM Grover Sahaj 2242 4.0
46 FM Narayanan Srinath 2210 3.0
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http://www.skaksamband.is/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=5844&Itemid=457

Reykjavik Open 2008, Round 6, Fabiano, Hao, Stefansson Hannes & Yue lead!

Reykjavik Open 2008

It's in progress, ofcourse overshadowed by the Linares super tournament, where, The King, Vishy Anand won it!

Ok, here are the Top "player list" for Reykjavik Open 2008!

Title Name Place Rating
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GM Wang Yue CHN 2698
GM Wang Hao CHN 2665
GM Mikhalevski Victor ISR 2632
GM Malakhatko Vadim BEL 2600
GM Caruana Fabiano ITA 2598
(this guy has shown really impressive performance in recent past, looks calm but isn't on the chess board!)

Indians are:
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IM Tania Sachdev IND 2417 (famously known as the glamour girl, but has a better chess play)
FM Grover Sahaj IND 2242 (Playing well in this tournament)
FM Narayanan Srinath IND 2210 (played very solid in the recent tournaments)


Ok so, here are the
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Standings after 6 rounds
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Rank Title Name Rating Place Points
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1 GM Caruana Fabiano 2598 ITA 5.0
2 GM Wang Hao 2665 CHN 5.0
3 GM Stefansson Hannes 2564 ISL 5.0
4 GM Wang Yue 2698 CHN 5.0
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Indians - Playing respectably well for their ratings.
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Rank Title Name Rating Points
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23 IM Tania Sachdev 2417 3.5
45 FM Narayanan Srinath 2210 3.0
49 FM Grover Sahaj 2242 3.0
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The 25th Linares-Morelia 2008 chess tournament - Anand winner!!, Carlsen runner!

The 25th Linares-Morelia 2008 chess tournament 

Congratulations  to  Anand ! ! !  - Winner of Linares-Morelia 2008!

Anand won the tournament being clear 1st, with 8.5!! from 14 rounds.

Carlsen did fought hard only to settle with Radjabov, but the young lad is clear 2nd!

Round 14

Results:
Anand, Viswanathan vs. Topalov, Veselin, ½-½
Leko, Peter vs. Aronian, Levon, ½-½
Carlsen, Magnus vs. Radjabov, Teimour, ½-½
Shirov, Alexei vs. Ivanchuk, Vassily, ½-½

Standings:
1. Vishy Anand, 8.5
2. Carlsen, 8.0
3-4. Aronian & Topalov, 7.5
5. Radjabov, 7
6. Vassily Ivanchuk, 6.5
7-8. Leko & Shirov, 5.5

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