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World Chess Federation - FIDE (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
The final FIDE Grand-Prix tournament is set to take place on 9-25th May in Astrakhan, Russia. The event is crucial to determine who will be the second qualifier for the Candidates Matches 2010-2011. Levon Aronian has already qualified and opted not to participate - current standings . As with the previous Grand Prix stages, the tournament format is round robin with 14 players. Participants: Vladimir...
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Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
If you like, on this rest day at Corus you can spend some time and learn from top grandmasters. In this post we publish both press conferences Alexei Shirov gave, after round 3 and 4, and an ICC Game of the Day video, in which Peter Svidler explains the game Short-Nakamura from round 3. Enjoy! Corus [...]
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United States Chess Federation (Free subscription) | 01/18/2010
A special treat for the US chess community courtesy of the Internet Chess Club: GM Peter Svidler analyzes GM Hikaru Nakamura's Corus 2010 win over GM Nigel Short.
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Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 12/29/2009
Finishing with a victory and a draw, Alexander Grischuk won the the Superfinal of the Russian Championship with 6.5/9. He ended half a point ahead of Peter Svidler. In the women’s section, Alisa Galliamova finished with two draws and this was enough for clear first because the Kosintseva sisters quickly drew against each other in [...]
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Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 12/28/2009
Alexander Grischuk leads the Superfinal of the Russian Championship with 5 points out of 7 games. He’s half a point ahead of Peter Svidler, who lost to Sanan Sjugirov in round 5. In the women’s section, Alisa Galliamova is on a superb 6.5/7. Report with game fragments, lightly annotated. At Moscow’s Central Chess Club the 62nd [...]
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Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 12/23/2009
Because of clashes with other events the Russian Superfinal was postponed till the end of December this year and so it’s the last classical event of 2009 in which a top 10 player is active. That’s Peter Svidler, who defends his title and is leading the Championship with 2.5 points after 3 rounds. At Moscow’s Central [...]
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World Chess Federation - FIDE (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The stakes are high as the 2009 World Cup is closing to its end and the players are becoming more cautious. Vugar Gashimov and Ruslan Ponomariov, and on the another table, Dmitry Jakovenko and Boris Gelfand, did not want to take risks after drawing the first game of the fifth round. Both matches proceed to rapid tiebreaks after draws were simultaneously agreed on the 15th move in the return games....
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Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
All four games ended in draws on the second day of round 5, and so Sergei Karjakin and Vladimir Malakhov are through to the semi-finals of the World Cup, and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Peter Svidler are out. Gelfand, Jakovenko, Ponomariov and Gashimov will play tiebreaks tomorrow. The FIDE World Chess Cup takes place November 20th-December 15th [...]
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World Chess Federation - FIDE (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The Chebanenko Slav has a reputation of solid opening and a growing population of practitioners. The Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Malakhov is using it to a great effect as he eliminated both Pavel Eljanov and Wesley So in the earlier rounds of the 2009 World Cup. Today he unveiled fantastic preparation and iron nerves as his compatriot Peter Svidler attacked from the white side. The battle in the...
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Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Sergey Karjakin, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Peter Svidler are the first three players who have reached the quarter-finals of the 2009 World Cup. On day 2 of round 4, Karjakin defeated Vitiugov with Black while Mamedyarov drew very quickly with Laznicka. Shirov tried against Svidler, but he was never close to more than equality. The second [...]
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World Chess Federation - FIDE (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Official website http://ugra-chess.ru The 6 out of 8 games of Round 4 – day 1 were drawn. Two games were scored and black won in both. The last World Cup runner-up Alexey Shirov became a victim of his miracles. His attack against the Russian player Peter Svidler seemed to be aggressive and decisive. But it ended with nothing. True, Svidler had to make a dozen of superhuman, almost computer moves....
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Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
In his tiebreak match against Arkadij Naiditsch, Peter Svidler was almost dead and burnt yesterday. But like a phoenix he immediately struck on the first day of round 4, beating Alexei Shirov with Black. Like in his first three matches (!), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov started with a win as well today. Vassily Ivanchuk, by the way, [...]
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World Chess Federation - FIDE (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
The result of the classical games of the Round 2 is as follows: there are 16 clear participants of the 1/8 finals of the Cup. Three super Grandmasters are out from the further fight. They lost in the first games of Round 2 and could not equalize in the second day. The Russian Alexander Morozevich lost to Czech Viktor Laznichka 2-0. The Ukrainian Vasily Ivanchuk could not cope with the young So Wesley...
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World Chess Federation - FIDE (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
You wanted sensations? Here they are! The Finnish Tomi Nyback easily won one of the leaders of the Russian team Peter Svidler. Czech Viktor Laznichka played better than another Russian Titan Alexander Morozevich. Vasily Ivanchuk easily let the young So Wesley from the Philippine beat him. The world has turned over: as a result, first seven rating favorites scored only 1.5 points. Two of them, Morozevich...
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Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Starting aggressively again, and finishing it off in the endgame, Vladimir Kramnik grabbed the lead in Moscow today by beating Peter Svidler. Although flu like symptoms among some players have been reported, so far Kramnik seems least affected. The Tal Memorial takes place November 4-18 in Moscow, Russia. The category 21 round-robin has Viswanathan Anand (India, [...]
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