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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

EnterCard Chess Qualifier 05: Hammer, Fressinet lead after the classical tournament

With draws in the final round of the EnterCard Scandinavian Masters Classical Tournament, GMs Hammer and Fressinet go into the rapid tournament with a comfortable lead over their nearest rivals.

The only decisive game of the day was Agdestein vs Hansen. The game followed a rather ‘See-Saw’ course with both the players making mutual mistakes. However, at one point, Agdestein made a string of mistakes which finally brought about Hansen’s first victory in this tournament.

The Rapid Section of the tournament will be played today. The overall winner will qualify for the super-tournament ‘Norway Chess 2015’.

Spain International Open: Ten players in lead

GM Vishnu Prasanna (2482) held GM Andrey Sumets (2563) to a draw to be among the leaders at the end of six rounds at the IVth Llucmajor Chess Tournament in Spain. Ten players in total are tied for the lead at 5.0/6.

GM Sundararajan Kidambi (2427) meanwhile slipped to his second loss to be left stranded at 4.0/6.

Check out the pairings for Round 7 here.

Khanty FIDE GP Round 1: Tomashevsky, Jakovenko start with a win

Jobava misplayed a nice position out of the opening. Jobava 0-1 Tomashevsky. (Pic Source: http://khantymansiysk2015.fide.com/)
Jobava misplayed a nice position out of the opening. Jobava 0-1 Tomashevsky.
(Pic Source: http://khantymansiysk2015.fide.com/)

The opening round of the Khanty-Mansiysk FIDE GP 2015 saw two decisive games while the remaining games finished in draws. Amongst the drawn games, only MVL – Gelfand proved to be an exciting one.

The best game of the day was Jakovenko’s nice positional win over Anish Giri. In a Ragozin Defence, Giri surprisingly opened the position on his own despite Jakovenko possessing the Bishop pair. The ploy backfired on Giri as Jakovenko was able to force matters into an advantageous Rook ending (for Jakovenko), which the Russian player won in a clinical fashion.

However, the other decisive game – Jobava vs Tomashevsky – was nowhere near one-sided. Jobava obtained an excellent position right out of the opening but later went astray in the middlegame. Tomashevsky pounced upon this opportunity and decided the game in his favour in the middlegame itself.

Round 1 Results:

PLAYER

 RTG RES. PLAYER

RTG

Vachier-Lagrave

 2754 0.5 – 0.5 Gelfand

2744

Jobava

 2699 0 – 1 Tomashevsky

2749

Grischuk

 2780 0.5 – 0.5 Svidler

2734

Caruana

 2803 0.5 – 0.5 Dominguez

2734

Jakovenko

 2738 1 – 0 Giri

2776
Karjakin 2753 0.5 – 0.5 Nakamura

2799

Spain International Open: GM Prasanna joins leaders

Five players are leading the IVth Llucmajor International Open 2015 at the end of five rounds.

GM Vishnu Prasanna (2482) held the second seeded Bulgarian GM Kiril Georgiev (2616) to a creditable draw to move to 4.5/5. Next up, he will be facing Ukranian GM Andrey Sumets (2563).

GM Sundararajan Kidambi (2427), the other Indian hope in this event, meanwhile won his second straight game to move to 4.0/5.

Check the Round 6 pairings here.

FIDE Grand Prix starts in Khanty-Mansiysk (May 14 – 26)

(credit: official site)

The final leg of the FIDE Grand Prix series starts in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from May 14-26, 2015.

Its a 11 round-robin tournament with an average ELO of 2755.

Players:

Caruana, Fabiano ITA 2803
Nakamura, Hikaru USA 2799
Grischuk, Alexander RUS 2780
Giri, Anish NED 2776
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2754
Karjakin, Sergey RUS 2753
Tomashevsky, Evgeny RUS 2749
Gelfand, Boris ISR 2744
Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS 2738
Svidler, Peter RUS 2734
Dominguez, Leinier CUB 2734
Jobava, Baadur GEO 2699

Schedule

May 14-17, (18 rest) 19-21 (22 rest) & 23-26, 15:00 local time (15:30 IST)

Official site: http://khantymansiysk2015.fide.com/

Live games with video can be followed using Follow Chess App.

EnterCard Chess Qualifier 03: Hammer, Fressinet in lead

The third round of the EnterCard Scandinavian Masters Chess Qualifier 2015 saw GMs Hammer and Fressinet score full points as they beat GMs Agdestein and Curt Hansen respectively. The 3rd game of the day – Grandelius vs Tari – finished in a draw, although it was nothing short of interesting.

Rankings after Round 3:

Rank

 Player

Points

1

 GM Fressinet, Laurent

2.5

GM Hammer, Jon Ludvig

2.5

3

 GM Grandelius, Nils

2

4

 GM Agdestein, Simen

1

IM Tari, Aryan

1

6

 GM Hansen, Curt

0

The winner of this tournament will qualify for the super-tournament ‘Norway Chess 2015’.