Archive for March 13th, 2010

Section 1

1. NM Mark Kernighan (2200) 1.0
2. Ken Chieu (2180) 0.5
2. Arthur Macaspac (2131) 0.5
4. Ari Minkov (1968) 0.0

3/11
Kernighan 1-0 Minkov
Chieu ½–½ Macaspac

3/18
Macaspac – Kernighan
Minkov – Chieu

3/25 (choose for colors)
Kernighan vs. Chieu
Macaspac vs. Minkov

Section 2

1. Don Carrelli (1866) 1.0
1. Joe Demetrick (1660) 1.0
3. Ian Mangion (1923) 0.0
3. Glen Hart (1707) 0.0

3/11
Mangion 0-1 Demetrick
Carrelli 1-0 Hart

3/18
Hart – Mangion

??
Demetrick – Carrelli*

* This game will be played at an alternate site.

3/25 (choose for colors)
Mangion vs. Carrelli
Hart vs. Demetrick

Section 3

1. Ted Mann (1515) 1.0
1. Dan Komunicky (1481) 1.0
1. Gordon Agress (1331) 1.0
4. Lou Sturniolo (1507) 0.0
4. Bert Shiffman (1315) 0.0
4. Jim Cole (1133) 0.0

3/11
Sturniolo 0-1 Agress
Shiffman 0-1 Mann (played with incorrect colors)
Komunicky 1-0 Cole

3/18
Mann – Komunicky
Agress – Shiffman
Cole – Sturniolo

3/25
Pairings & colors to be determined by round 2’s results.

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Yesterday the twelfth World Champion Anatoly Karpov announced that he was running for FIDE President. Today he addressed the extraordinary meeting of the European Chess Union (ECU), which was meeting during the European Individual Championship in Rijeka. Karpov had hash words for the current FIDE leadership and outlined his own program for change in FIDE. Video interview by Europe Echecs.

The 19th Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament begins today, with the first games at 2:30 p.m. EST (4:40 Moscow, 1:30 London, 8:30 a.m. New York) The participants include Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk (who jumped in for Alexander Morozevich), Peter Svidler, Boris Gelfand, and others. Watch the live action on the official site and on Playchess.

Round seven saw no changes in the rankings prior to the rest day on Saturday, with draws on no fewer than the eight top boards. Though the tendency would be to write they “ended with a peaceful result”, that would be a very inadequate description for all the games except for Almasi-Nepomniachtchi, which did indeed end shortly after it started. Report with pictures of the Zemat Sport Center.

… with an amazing final was played between Michal Krasenkow und Baadur Jobava in the 4th round of the European Individual Championship in the Croatian town of Rijeka. Here White had just attacked the black Nd5 for the third time with
33.Qg2. How would you assess the situation now?

A) the battery in the d-file decides for White;
B) a clever unpinning trick leads to an endgame with a minus exchange for Black, but a likely draw.
C) the second player wins.

The solution is here,
but first ponder over it with a larger version of the diagram.

Fifteen years ago Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov was elected President of the World Chess Organisation. At the next election during the General Assembly of the FIDE Congress, which will be held during the 39th Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk in September this year, he faces a challenge by former World Champion Anatoly Karpov. Press release.