| | Ivanchuk has taken the lead |
Vassily Ivanchuck with black pieces scored a great win against Veselin Topalov that sent him to the first position on MTel.
The games Xiangzhi vs Radjabov and Aronian vs Chepariov finished with a draw. |
| | Three victories in the first round of MTel Masters |
What a tournament start! Veselin Topalov beated Levon Aronian, Ivan Chepariov won his game against Bu Xiangzhi and Vassily Ivanchuk scored a noticeable win with black pieces against Teimour Radjabov.
This event, wich is taking place in Sofia, is a double round-robin tournament with ... |
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| And the Oscar goes to... Vishy |
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The chess magazine 64-Chess Review, continuing with its tradition, collected the votes from more than 130 chess experts that concluded that World Champion Anand deserves his fifth Chess Oscar.
In second place was Vladimir Kramnik and third Gata Kamsky. |
| Gashimov, Wang and Carlsen won Baku FIDE Grand Prix |
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Vugar Gashimov, Wang Yue and Magnus Carlsen are the three winners of the FIDE Grand Prix that took place on Baku.
All of them ended at 8.0/13. Gashimov and Wang drew their games with Adams and Memedyarov while Magnus Carlsen scored a win agains Bacrot. |
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