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Queenstown Chess Classic and Irene Sukandar

2012-01-23T15:08:00.000-08:00

A resort town of New Zealand, Queenstown, was hosting their third Chess Classic event from 15th-23rd January 2012 at the Millennium Hotel in Queenstown. The town is famous for being the location of several top end Hollywood motion pictures such as The Lord of The Ring trilogy. In this Chess classic event, three players climbed to the top and ended up sharing the highest points, hence sharing

Medina and Andrean Susilo won Singapore 2011

2012-01-05T12:01:00.000-08:00

As a small and emerging chess culture, Singapore is equipped well with their chess education and chess educator. It is only the matter of public interest that chess is yet to pick their best result as competitive sport in region. With international trainer with super GM title from Georgia, China, Phillipine etc, Singapore is establishing great chess education infrastructure in the city. The

Top Ten Most Memorable Chess Games of 2011

2011-12-28T04:58:00.000-08:00

Once again we are at the end of another great year in chess. A candidate knockout and World Cup happening this year are some of notables events. Surely there are thousand of interesting games, but I would like to recollecting the year 2011 and put in ten of most memorable chess games. These are not the best chess games but something like most memorable because of its intensity, its rivalry, its

Chess at SEA Games 2011 Jakarta Palembang

2011-11-12T01:25:00.001-08:00

SEA Games or South East Asian Games kicking off last night. The multi sport event is the Olympiad of the region. In this year edition, Jakarta will co-hosting with city Palembang, separate by sea as one is in Java island and Palembang in Sumatera archipelago. Chess is getting its share pie in the festival. Three event where design to appeal chess as a sport, surprisingly, it is design as

2011 Chess Hall of Fame

2011-11-01T19:07:00.000-07:00

Hall of Fame 2011 is a dedicated page to the winner of strong chess tournament in 2010. The page will list the first winner only, or in tie break situation, the official tie break winners. Black color mean it is a classical time control event, Green is a rapid event and Red is a blitz event also Magenta mean a Team event. The roman numeric is for category - XX. For 2010 Chess Hall of Fame click

2011 Japfa Chess Jakarta - WGM Event

2011-10-28T15:39:00.000-07:00

From 23rd October 2011 and last for about a week, there were Japfa Chess holding in Jakarta. Japfa is a chess festival with multi events for chess player of all level. The highlight of the event is the Japfa WGM tournament. Invited in this events are three oversea WGMs to compete with three locals female players. In the early rounds, WGM Anna Burtasova was surprises by the competitive level of

2011 6th Japfa Chess Jakarta

2011-10-22T16:18:00.000-07:00

There will be another chess festival at Jakarta, Indonesia. The tournament will be held on 24th to 28th October 2011 location should be Hotel Kartika Chandra, Jakarta. Groups are UMUM (Open), Women, Veteran (>55), Junior Boys/Girls (14-20), Junior (<10), Team etc. Information to be on telephone line 021-573-1340, 08788-1761625, JAPFA Office Tlp 021-2561-7010 ext 11236, 0812-9056652. For those who

Women Chess GP, Zhao Xue and Their Romantic Scoresheet

2011-10-20T15:54:00.000-07:00

October 2011 is a warm month full of romantic chess news. First it is Morozevich who finished ahead their opponents in full points in Saratov 2011. Secondly Yasser Seirawan put his buttock on the chess chair again after about decade of absentus, and tie first in Ciutat de Barcelona. The most sensational news is from the Chinese girl GM Zhao Xue, winning the Women GP in Nalchik with two rounds

Indonesia Open 2011: Li Chao and Ganguly Tie First

2011-10-19T14:48:00.000-07:00

The last round of Indonesia Open Chess Championship 2011 decided two players as top point receiver. Li Chao crack Argentinian GM Mareco Sandro to catch Surya Ganguly on top with 7 points out of 9 rounds. Surya Ganguly unable to upgrade his position as he wasn't able to get full point against GM Wang Yue. Li Chao and Ganguly accurately represent two of Asia's powerhouse in chess in this decade.

Partai Catur Indonesia Open 2011 Tigran Kotanjian vs Tirta Chandra Purnama

2011-10-19T00:17:00.000-07:00

IM Tirta Chandra get a nice win against visiting GM from Armenia Tigran Kotanjian. Here the game preview and copied analysis (in Bahasa Indonesia) for our Indonesian reader. The game done in a Classic Queen Indian defence. After eight rounds, Indian Surya Ganguly position himself as sole leader with 6.5/8. He will be challenge by another five players with half point behind : GM Barbosa

Indonesia Open 2011 - Game Aleksey Dreev vs Susanto Megaranto

2011-10-17T17:19:00.000-07:00

Here some games from the Indonesia Open 2011. Highlight is the game between Aleksey Dreev and Susanto Megaranto, in a complicated pieces manuevering, Dreev blundered on move 49.Ng3?? , allowing Black to penetrated into White king's defence. Analysis in Bahasa Indonesia by Kris Liem, info provided by mr. Djoni. Courtesy of bpk Kristianus Liem (PB PERCASI / SCUA ) Interactive chess game

2011 Indonesia Open Round 5

2011-10-16T15:51:00.000-07:00

After round 5, nobody come with perfect score anymore. GM Vladislav Tkachiev and GM Oliver Barbosa was the clash to decide the (halfway) tournament leader but ended in a draw, so both standing at 4.5/5. Behind them now are eight players including Wesley So (won over GM Shabalov), Megaranto Susanto, Wang Yue, Li Chao etc. Indonesian untitled Surya Wahyudi score another upset to GM Dmitry

2011 Jakarta Open Started

2011-10-13T06:52:00.000-07:00

Starting this afternoon is the Jakarta Open chess tournament. The tournament take place at Hotel Le Meredien Jakarta, afternoon game started at 15:00, but beginning from tomorrow (Friday), it will be a two rounds per day, at 9:00am and 15:00. Foreign players travelling to Jakarta included China players Wang Yue and Li Chao (with several other strong GMs and WGMs around!). From Phillipine,

Three ties at 1st Qin Huangdao Final Result

2011-10-07T03:13:00.000-07:00

In the last round of 1st Qin Huangdao tournament, the Vietname vs China pairings ended in a three way ties. The round 9 results as follows: GM Zhou Jianchao, who been leading for many rounds, was halted by GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, GM Le Quang Liem now having only less one point from Zhou Jianchou was potential to catch in but Le was down by GM Zhou Weiqi. In dramatic turn, this made GM Zhou

Wesley So Shabalov Li Chao in Indonesia Open 2011

2011-10-06T18:56:00.000-07:00

World players GM Wesley So, GM Alexander Shabalov, GM Wang Yue, GM Li Chao, GM Eugenio Torre , GM Dao Thien Hai , are rumours to be taken part in the next prestigious Indonesia Open, 12-19 October 2011, this is posted from the organizer's social network. The Tournament will be held at 5 star Hotel Ballroom Le Meridien, Jl. Jenderal Sudirman Kav 18-20 Jakarta - Indonesia. Total prize money is

Topalov vs Ireland 2-2

2011-10-04T06:38:00.000-07:00

Veselin Topalov travelling to Dublin for a simuls against four of Irish resident chess players. The line up for Irish team are GM Alexander Baburin, Sam Collins, Mark Quinn and Alex Lopez. Alexander Baburin is the only one with previous serious chess playing background, since I rarely found the other Irish playing over Europe. Baburin is nowdays popular as founder and editor of Chess Today.

First Qin Huangdao Open Chess .... in China

2011-10-03T17:48:00.000-07:00

Travelling is main activity for chess player, and right now China have put many serious tournament in their homeland, to encourage more chess players to travel and play in their place. Just established is the 1st International Open Chess in Qin Huangdao, city in Hebei province, North China. Qin Huangdao is a port city, tourism and beaches are their familiar business, perfect place to promote

100 Chess Players Timeline Chart

2011-09-23T00:25:00.000-07:00

This is a graphical chart showing the timeline of 100 chess personalities from the 19th century until Gary Kasparov. The aims is only to show the interconnection between chess player and who meets who in the era. I hope this can do something to the understanding of chess history. Enjoy. The Chess personalities listed: Name,Born, Death Francois Andre Philidor 1726-1795 The Turk 1770-1854, "

Peter Svidler Juara Piala Dunia 2011

2011-09-20T07:16:00.000-07:00

Peter Svidler, pecatur Russia berusia 35 tahun akhirnya tampil menjadi juara Piala Dunia edisi tahun ini. Svidler bermain remis di partai ke empat babak final, dia melawan sesama pecatur Russia Alexander Grischuk. Hasil remis ini cukup untuk mengantar Peter mencapai prestasi tertingginya hingga saat ini, karena di partai pertama sudah mengantongi satu kemenangan. Skor babak final Svidler vs

Partai Catur Piala Dunia 2011 - Final Grischuk vs Svidler

2011-09-17T06:16:00.000-07:00

Event Piala Dunia Catur / World Cup di Khanty Mansiysk sedang berlangsung di awal bulan September 2011. Dan hingga malam ini, turnamen ini telah mencapai babak final dengan partisipan GM Alexander Grischuk tampil menantang GM yang lebih veteran, yaitu GM Peter Svidler. Grischuk sebelumnya menumbangkan GM Vassily Ivanchuk yang juga seangkatan Svidler dalam partai semifinal, di mana Ivanchuk

2011 Chess World Cup Final Svidler vs Grischuk

2011-09-15T05:11:00.000-07:00

Although Svidler vs Grischuk is the real final, I have the feeling Ivanchuk vs Ponomariov will be more the adrenalin rising match. The millions question is, will Ivanchuk qualified for the next candidate match? From the day before, surely Ivanchuk is where fan's eyes going to, hoping for Planet Chucky as one of the entertainment in the, usually, boring candidate rendezvous. The day before

Chess World Cup 2011 Semifinals

2011-09-11T06:50:00.000-07:00

This year's Chess World Cup semi finalist are set: Ruslan Ponomariov vs Peter Svidler This first pairing of Ukraine vs Russian, generations of the 2000s vs 1990s is set after both eliminated their quarter final opponents in "normal" games. Both are familiar enough each other. They are 27 games in chess games database played from year 2000 until now. For this data Ponomariov surprising on

Dr Nazrin Shah KL Open - Oliver Barbosa Wins

2011-09-10T08:28:00.000-07:00

Although the chess-result.com shows IM Nguyen Doc Hoa as first position finisher, but it is confirmed in Peter Long chess and klchess.com that Phillipino IM Oliver Barbosa is the winner of Dr Nazrin Shah KL Open 2011. The Kuala Lumpur Chess website also confirmed GM title on pape for IM Oliver Barbosa and Richard Bitoon, as well IM tile and GM norm for Jahongir Vakhidov of Uzbekistan. Indonesian

2011 World Chess Cup Judit Joint Quarter Final

2011-09-08T08:10:00.000-07:00

Come back from her first game lost to L.Dominguez, Judit Polgar bounced and bounced from any kind of positions into a winning one. Her second normal round against Dominguez was an epic battle up to hundred moves, she sure missed the "easy" Kc1 mate, then she went through a random moves of R+B vs R endgame and finally found the winning pattern to secured the tie break. Easy mate in Dominguez

KL Open 2011 R-6 Perfect Nguyen Duc Hoa

2011-09-07T08:22:00.000-07:00

Far from the spotlight of World Cup in Siberian wizland, happening in Malaysia now Dr. Nazrin Shah International Open aka Kuala Lumpur Open. In Open section, where there are more crowded than the “invitational” section, top seeding is Pinoy GM Joseph Sanchez and GM Megaranto Susanto followed second. Dominating on top now, are Vietnamese IM Nguyen Duc Hoa, with perfect 6.0/6.0 included wins