Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting - Round 3

Michael Adams defeated Fabiano Caruana to move into the sole lead in Dortmund tournament with 2,5/3 points.

The other four games of the round were drawn.

The second win in a row put Adams ahead of the rest of the field. Vladimir Kramnik and Georg Meier are half a point behind.

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Round 3 standings:
1. Adams 2.5; 2-3. Kramnik, Meier 2; 4-7. Khenkin, Leko, Caruana, Wang Hao 1.5; 8-9. Fridman, Naiditsch 1; 10.Andreikin 0.5.

Round 4 pairings:
Leko-Adams, Naiditsch-Andreikin, Wang Hao-Caruana, Khenkin-Fridman, Meier-Kramnik

Biel 2013 Round 6 Videos

Etienne Bacrot and Ian Nepomniachtchi discuss their round 6 game with GM Daniel King.


Richard Rapport - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave


Ding Liren - Alexander Moiseenko

Biel 2013 Round 5 Videos

Etienne Bacrot discusses his game against Richard Rapport



Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alexander Moiseenko discuss their game with Daniel King



A brief report of round 5 including interviews with Ding Liren, Etienne Bacrot and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Biel International Chess Festival LIVE

The 46th Biel International Chess Festival will be held from 20th June to 2nd August in Biel, Switzerland.
The main Grandmaster Tournament will be dedicated to the memory of Olivier Breisacher. Six players will play in a category 19 double round robin event:

Etienne Bacrot, FRA, Elo 2725
Ian Nepomniachtchi, RUS, Elo 2717
Alexander Moiseenko, UKR, Elo 2711
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, FRA Elo 2706
Ding Liren, CHN, Elo 2702
Richard Rapport, HUN, Elo 2674 (Juniors U18 #1)

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Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting LIVE

Dortmund Chess 2013 will be held from July 26th to August 4th as a single round robin with 10 participants. Live games with analysis will be daily on Chessdom.com.

The field will be led by ten-times champion of the event Vladimir Kramnik and last year winner Fabiano Caruana, both searching for their 2800 rating. Hungary’s number 1 Peter Leko is back in the roster as well. The best rated players from China and England, Wang Hao and Michael Adams, will play. Russian champion Dmitry Andreikin is the sixth international participant.

Together with these six strong foreign players, four members from the German national team will complete the line-up: Arkadij Naiditsch, Daniel Fridman, Georg Meier and Igor Khenkin.

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Magnus Carlsen - Viswanathan Anand (Video)

Grandmaster Daniel King analyses the game Carlsen vs Anand from round 5 of Tal Memorial in Moscow.

Tal Memorial 2013 LIVE

Tal Memorial 2013 will be held on 12th – 24th June in Moscow, Russia. The Tal Memorial will be among the various elite events that will gather the strongest players in the world, after the Alekhine Memorial and the Norway Chess tournament.

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Dilijan Women Grand Prix LIVE

The second tournament of the FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix 2013-2014 is taking place from 16th to 28th June in Dilijan, Armenia.

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Sinquefield Cup in Saint Louis

For the first time ever, World Championship challenger GM Magnus Carlsen will play a high-profile tournament in the United States.

The World’s No. 1 ranked player will take on three other top-ten players in Saint Louis this September when he joins GMs Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura and Gata Kamsky for the Sinquefield Cup, a four-player, double round robin scheduled to be held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL) September 9-15.

In November, Carlsen will challenge GM Viswanathan Anand of India for the World Championship title.

US Chess Championships, Round 1

The action got a running start today as the majority of the first-round battles at the 2013 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship produced a clear victor.

Half of the men’s games and 80 percent of the ladies’ skirmishes gave decisive results, kicking off nine rounds of chess at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.

Two notable upsets highlighted the U.S. Championship in the opening round. A pair of tournament rookies, IM Kayden Troff and GM Conrad Holt, both defeated their higher-ranked grandmaster opponents.

Other winners included three-time champion GM Gata Kamsky, who had white but chose not to play the Torre Attack for the third straight game against GM Alex Shabalov.

Another tournament favorite and colorful personality that fans wanted to see was GM Timur Gareev. Though seeded second, he played his first-ever U.S. Championship game, taking black against fellow newbie GM Marc Arnold.

Gareev had no problem dispatching his younger opponent, as there were too many open lines aiming at white’s king.

Full report on the official website