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.
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
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
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’.
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.
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 |
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.
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.
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’.
The IVth LLucmajor International Open, 2015 saw an upset as early as the third round as top seeded French GM Romain Edouard (2627) lost to GM Carlos Garica (2427) of Italy.
Among the Indians, GM Vishnu Prasanna (2482) moved to 3.0/3 and will be facing GM Garcia in his fourth round game. Meanwhile,GM Sundarajan Kidambi (2427) could not overcome the second seeded Bulgarian GM Kiril Georgiev (2616) and is stuck at 2.0/3.
Check the pairings for Round 4 here.