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Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The 3rd Asian Indoor Games have been held in Vietnam, from October 30th, 2009 to November 8th, 2009. Chess was one of the other 30 games represented in Vietnam and were presented with players from 19 countries. The chess program consisted of the following 4 competitions: Team Blitz (Preliminary, Semi-Final, Final), Men Rapid (Preliminary, Semi-Final, Final), Women Rapid (Preliminary, Semi-Final, Final),...
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Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Hello everybody! The FIDE (International Chess Federation) just published the November 2009 rating list . Below you can find the top 100 women. My rating is at 2517, but that does not count my good performance in Novi Sad, where I earned a little over 10 ELO points . You can see that there are 15 ladies above the 2500 mark, that's great, 3 years ago there were only 7 above 2500 . Rank Name Title Country...
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World Chess Federation - FIDE (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
FIDE is publishing the pairings of the 1st round of the World Cup 2009. World Cup 2009 Round 1 Table White Fed Black Fed 1 1 GM Gelfand, Boris ISR - 128 IM Obodchuk, Andrei RUS 2 2 GM Gashimov, Vugar AZE - 127 IM Sarwat, Walaa EGY 3 3 GM Svidler, Peter RUS - 126 IM Hebert, Jean CAN 4 4 GM Morozevich, Alexander RUS - 125 IM Abdel Razik, Khaled EGY 5 5 GM Radjabov, Teimour AZE - 124 IM Ezat, Mohamed...
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Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
World's youngest GMs Friday, October 23, 2009 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES 1. Sergey Karjakin UKR 12 years, 7 months, 0 days 2. Parimarjan Negi IND 13 years, 4 months, 22 days 3. Magnus Carlsen NOR 13 years, 4 months, 27 days 4. Bu Xiangzhi CHN 13 years, 10 months, 13 days 5. Teimour Radjabov AZE 14 years, 0 months, 14 days 6. Ruslan Ponomariov UKR 14 years, 0 months, 17 days 7. Wesley So PHI 14 years, 1...
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Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Here is my unofficial calculation with some help from Chessdom.com: 1. Sergey Karjakin 12 years, 7 months, 0 days 2. Parimarjan Negi 13 years, 4 months, 22 days 3. Magnus Carlsen 13 years, 4 months, 27 days 4. Bu Xiangzhi 13 years, 10 months, 13 days 5. Teimour Radjabov 14 years, 0 months, 14 days 6. Ruslan Ponomariov 14 years, 0 months, 17 days 7. Wesley So 14 years, 1 month, 28 days 8. Etienne Bacrot...
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