Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The World Blitz Chess Championship that took place on November 16-18, 2009 in Moscow has come to its end. Magnus Carlsen won this event with a fantastic result - 31 out of 42! That's 3 points ahead of Viswanathan Anand who took the silver medal of the championship! In the last 4 days I played 59 blitz-games! Since just before the world blitz championship, on November 15, I took part in another strong...
Magnus Carlsen has won the World Blitz Championship in Moscow. The Norwegian scored 10/14 on the third day and eventually finished three points ahead of Viswanathan Anand, who scored ‘only’ 8/14, just like yesterday, but still finished 2nd in the standings, 3 points ahead of Sergei Karjakin. Vugar Gashimov apparently had enough of his bad [...]
The World Blitz Championship at the Tal Memorial in Moscow has just concluded, with Magnus Carlsen first, Viswanathan Anand second, and Sergey Karjakin third. Carlsen dominated the field today and the three have led since yesterday. See the final table at ChessBase for full results. The Tal Memorial Blitz event is for many the highlight of this wonderful tournament, which this year is among the strongest...
Magnus Carlsen has taken over the lead from Viswanathan Anand on the second day of the World Blitz Championship in Moscow. The Norwegian scored 11/14 today (no draws!) while Anand ‘only’ managed 8/14, but he’s is still 2nd in the standings. Day 2 saw excellent scores for Karjakin, Mamedyarov and Kosteniuk. The World Blitz Championship, the [...]
After the first day of play in Moscow, World Champion Viswanathan Anand has become the favourite to win the World Blitz title as well. The Indian started with a fine score of 12 out of 14 and is 2 points ahead of Magnus Carlsen. On third place after 14 rounds we find… 12th World Champion [...]
The Tal Memorial concluded in Moscow with former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik winning with 6 out of 9 and Vassily Ivanchuk and Magnus Carlsen close behind with 5.5 out of 9. None of the top three finishers had any losses. Current World Champion Viswanathan Anand lost in the final round to Levon Aronian to drop to 5 out of 9, leaving him tied with Aronian for fourth and fifth. Carlsen was widely...
In the only decisive game of the Tal Memorial’s 7th round, Vassily Ivanchuk defeated Boris Gelfand to reach a shared second place with Viswanathan Anand. The two are just half a point behind Vladimir Kramnik, with two rounds to go in Moscow. The Tal Memorial takes place November 4-18 in Moscow, Russia. The category 21 round-robin [...]
Very deep opening preparation and powerful middlegame play brought Viswanathan Anand a deserved victory againt Peter Leko today. The World Champion leads the Tal Memorial together with Vladimir Kramnik, who drew with Boris Gelfand – the same result as in the other three games. The Tal Memorial takes place November 4-18 in Moscow, Russia. The category [...]
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Hello everybody! In May 2009 I had a chance to visit the island of Corsica and met the main inspirer of the "chess fever" on the island - Leo Battesti. I also played a rapid match against Sophie Milliet. I had a wonderful time in Corsica you can read about this visit here , you can also go and see my photo memories of this trip here . On October 31st and November 2nd another big chess match...
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, [...]
The same story as yesterday reaches us from Moscow, Russia: five more draws in round 2 of the Tal Memorial kept everyone together in first and last place, but also today we saw a number of interesting games. The Tal Memorial takes place November 4-18 in Moscow, Russia. The category 21 round-robin has Viswanathan Anand [...]
Ajaccio (France): World Champion Viswanathan Anand tamed former World Champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia in successive two encounters to win the rapid four-game chess series 3.5-0.5 here. The Indian, who was leading the series 1.5-0.5 ...
Ajaccio: World champion Viswanathan Anand tamed former World champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia in successive two encounters to win the rapid four-game chess series 3.5-0.5 here.
Part of this year’s Corsican Circuit was a rapid match of four games, held in both Bastia (games 1 and 2) and Ajaccio (games 3 and 4), between Viswanathan Anand and Anatoly Karpov. Anand won the match 3.5-0.5 on the same day that the 2nd Kasparov-Karpov rapid match, scheduled for December in Paris, was cancelled. Photo [...]
Bastia: World champion Viswanathan Anand took an early lead, winning the first game of the rapid match against former world champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia here.
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