Month: May 2015

European Women’s Individual Chess Championship 2015

The European Women’s Individual Chess Championship will be held in Chakvi, Georgia from May 19 – 30, 2015. Its a strong 11 round swiss tourney featuring 9 GMs and 18 WGMs with an average ELO rating of 2255.

Top players are:

Dzagnidze Nana GEO 2570
Khotenashvili Bela GEO 2527
Stefanova Antoaneta BUL 2512
Girya Olga RUS 2479
Galliamova Alisa RUS 2478

Games start 15:00 local time, 16:30 IST, 11:00GMT (last round at 11:00)

Official site: http://e2e4.ge/

Pairings & Results : http://www.chess-results.com/tnr164130.aspx?lan=1&art=1

Live games will be available in Follow Chess app.

Zalakaros open Round 5: Four players in joint lead

After 5 rounds of the Zalakaros Open 2015, four players – GMs Efimenko, Ragger, Boruchovsky and Papp Gabor – lead the table with 4 points each. GM Efimenko joined the leaders group courtesy of his important victory over GM Vajda Levente in Round 5.

Amongst Indian results, GM Adhiban drew GM Medvegy and now, is on the joint-second position with 3.5 points. Meanwhile, the husband/wife duo of IM Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal is on 2.5/5 each. The two have been paired against each other for the 6th round of the tournament.

Full Round 5 Results:  http://www.chess-results.com/tnr164932.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=5&wi=821

Spain International Open: IM Kanmazalp wins, GM Prasanna second

Turksih IM Kanmazalp Ogulcan (2448) IVth Llucmajor International Open 2015 with a score of 7.5/9, half a point ahead of the second placed Indian GM Vishnu Prasanna (2482) who was adjudged second on tie-break with 7.0/9.

Meanwhile, the other Indian hope, GM Sundararajan Kidambi, could only muster up 5.5/9.

View the Final Standings here.

Zalakaros Open Round 4: Three players in lead

After 4 rounds of the Zalakaros Open Chess Tournament 2015, GMs Ragger, Boruchovsky and Papp Gabor lead the pack with 3.5/4 each. 12 others closely follow the trio on 3/4, including Indian GM B. Adhiban, who is the 7th seeded player in this strong open.

The other Indians in the fray – IM Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal – have had contrasting results. The former has struggled with a total of 1.5/4 so far while the latter has drawn a couple of higher-rated players and has managed to notch up a total of 2 points.

Complete Round 4 Results: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr164932.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=4&wi=821

Khanty FIDE GP 2015 Round 4: Caruana in Sole Lead

Sole leader after Round 4: Fabiano Caruana (Pic Source: http://khantymansiysk2015.fide.com/)
Sole leader after Round 4: Fabiano Caruana
(Pic Source: http://khantymansiysk2015.fide.com/)

Overnight joint-leader GM Fabiano Caruana raced clear ahead of the rest of the field as he won an important game with the black pieces against GM Vachier-Lagrave in the 4th round of the Khanty-Mansiysk FIDE GP 2015. The latter over-extended on all fronts in the middlegame and Caruana was spot on in taking advantage of the same.

Meanwhile, the rest of the games ended in draws.


Round 4 Results:

PLAYER

 RTG RESULT PLAYER

RTG

Gelfand

 2744 0.5 – 0.5 Giri

2776

Dominguez

 2734 0.5 – 0.5 Nakamura

2799

Svidler

 2734 0.5 – 0.5 Karjakin 2753

Tomashevsky

 2749 0.5 – 0.5 Jakovenko 2738

Vachier-Lagrave

 2754 0 – 1 Caruana

2803

Jobava

 2699 0.5 – 0.5 Grischuk 2780

Khanty FIDE GP Round 3: Three players in joint lead

The magnificent playing arena! (Pic Source: http://khantymansiysk2015.fide.com/)
The magnificent playing arena! (Pic Source: http://khantymansiysk2015.fide.com/)

The 3rd round of the Khanty-Mansiysk FIDE GP 2015 witnessed two decisive games as GMs Caruana and Svidler overcame GMs Tomashevsky and Jakovenko respectively. This was Jakovenko’s second consecutive defeat. The rest of the games ended in draws, albeit not short of some excitement.

After 3 rounds, Caruana, Svidler and Dominguez lead the table with 2/3 each. The trio is being closely followed by 6 other players on 1.5/3.


Round 3 Results:

PLAYER

 RTG RESULT PLAYER RTG

Jobava

 2699 ½ – ½ Gelfand

2744

Grischuk

 2780 ½ – ½ Vachier-Lagrave

2754

Caruana

 2803 1 – 0 Tomashevsky

2749

Jakovenko

 2738 0 – 1 Svidler

2734

Karjakin

 2753 ½ – ½ Dominguez

2734

Nakamura

 2799 ½ – ½ Giri 2776

 

Khanty FIDE GP Round 2: Lone winner Dominguez!

GM Dominguez Perez Leinier
GM Dominguez Perez Leinier (Pic Source: http://khantymansiysk2015.fide.com/)

The 2nd round of the Khanty Mansiysk FIDE GP 2015 saw only one decisive game in which Dominguez overcame the first-round winner Jakovenko in 36 moves. Dominguez’s play was quite inspirational as he sacrificed the exchange just out of the opening. Although he did stumble on his way with the questionable 19. Bxd4, Jakovenko was unable to take due advantage of the same. After that, Dominguez never looked back and went on to register a fantastic victory. You may replay the game here: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1791983

After 2 rounds, Dominguez and Tomashevsky lead the pack with 1.5/2.


Round 2 Results:

PLAYER

 RTG RESULT PLAYER RTG

Gelfand

 2744 0.5 – 0.5 Nakamura

2799

Giri

 2776 0.5 – 0.5 Karjakin 2753

Dominguez

 2734 1 – 0 Jakovenko

2738

Svidler

 2734 0.5 – 0.5 Caruana

2803

Tomashevsky

 2749 0.5 – 0.5 Grischuk

2780

Vachier-Lagrave

 2754 0.5 – 0.5 Jobava

2699

Spain International Open: GM Prasanna wins again

GM Vishnu Prasanna kept up his strong performance by winning his round 7 game to move to a 6.0/7. He now shares the lead with three others. The second seed Bulgarian GM Kiril Georgiev meanwhile could not keep up pace and lost to Turkish IM Ogulcan Kanmazalp.

GM Sundararajan Kidambi meanwhile managed to register a win to move to 5.0/7.

Check the pairings for Round 8 here.

Icelandic Chess championship 2015

GM Hjartarson facing WGM Ptacnikova in round 1 (pic : official site)

The Icelandic Chess championship 2015 takes place from May 15 – 24. Its a 12 player tournament played with a round-robin format.

The tourney sees a comeback of Iceland’s 52yr old former #1 player, GM Johann Hjartarson. He won his first round!

Important results of round 1:

GM Steingrimsso 2532 1 – 0 IM Thorfinnsso 2416
FM Jensson 2359 0 – 1 GM Gretarsson 2561
GM Hjartarson 2566 1 – 0 WGM Ptacnikov 2284

Other games in round 1 ended in a draw.

Official site: http://icelandicchesschampionship.com/

Pairings & Results: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr169815.aspx?lan=1&art=2&wi=821

American Continental Chess championship 2015

The American Continental Chess championship 2015 takes place from May 15 – 24 in Uruguay.

Its a 11 round swiss tournament with an average ELO of 2113.

The top seed is Peruvian GM Granda Zuniga (2650). The tourney includes 24 GMs and many other titled players from 13 countries of the continent.

Official site : http://fuajedrez.org/Continental/

Pairings & Results : http://www.chess-results.com/tnr169788.aspx?lan=1&art=0&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984