At the Kenilworth Chess Club tonight, John Hagerty will be stopping by to draw lots & make the Garden State Chess League schedule. After that, I will assign players to the 2 Kenilworth entries & club members will have a chance to vote on the best game from our recently concluded Championship.
The Checkmate Championship concluded on Sunday with the following results :
Final standings :
Things didn’t look that good for France’s top GM, until victories in the last two rounds put him at the top of the table and gave him first place on tiebreak points. Second, with the same number of points (6.5/9) was Alexander Moiseenko of Ukraine. We bring you all results and games from the top group, plus, from wintry Moscow, a big photo report by WGM Yana Melnikova.
Veselin Topalov sacrificed a pawn in a Tarrasch, which Gata Kamsky took. By move 25 it looked like the American GM had winning chances. But in time trouble he blew a number of opportunities and went down to the counterplay of his opponent. That means Topalov has 4.5:2.5 points and is the winner of the eight-game match. Final report with commentary by GM Mihail Marin.
Would you believe it? After keeping it secret from all but the family circle, today they sent us the happy announcement: Kateryna Lahno, former child prodigy, European Women’s Champion, Ukrainian chess grandmaster, has married Robert Fontaine, French grandmaster and well-known TV reporter for the French chess magazine Europe Echecs. We have pictures and memories.
Two big sensations in round six: Magnus Carlsen beat World Champion Vishy Anand,
and did so convincingly, with remarkable techincal skill. Alexander Grischuk
defeated Levon Aronian to increase his lead in this event to a full point. Sorry,
three sensations: the incalculable Vassily Ivanchuk agreed to a draw
in a winning position. Report with GM commentary and pictorial impressions.