Biel Round 10: Alekseev wins and catches the leader
Posted by admin on August 1, 2008 in News
Russian GM Evgeny Alekseev scored a win against Yannick Pelletier and tied at the first position with the cuban GM Leinier Dominguez. Dominguez lost with black pieces against the french GM Etienne Bacrot meanwhile Carlsen and Onischuk drew.
Biel R9: Dominguez leads
Posted by admin on July 31, 2008 in News
After 9 rounds and with 1 round to go, GM Leinier Dominguez, with 6.5, leads by 1 point the Biel Tournament. With 5.5 points behind comes Alekseev and Carlsen.
Leko is the winner at Dormund
Posted by admin on July 7, 2008 in News
Peter Leko finished the tournament a point and a half from the rest. Leko’s performance was 2790 points. Surprinsing was the performance of Dormund last winner Vladimir Kramnik who finished in the 7th place.
Dortmund R1: All games drawn
Posted by admin on June 29, 2008 in News
Gustafsson-Kramnik, an Exchange Grünfeld, ended in a symmetrical rook ending and a draw in 29 moves. Naiditsch-Nepomnaichtchi, a Sicilian Najdorf, saw White with some chances but ended in repetition after 30 moves. Mamedyarov vs Leko was a Sämisch and drawn after 24 moves. Ivanchuk-van Wely was a Scheveningen with a drawn queen ending in 39 […]
Carlsen wins the rapid chess match at Miskolc
Posted by admin on June 2, 2008 in News
The young star Magnus Carlsen win game 7 with black pieces and the 8th game the norwegian GM lead the game to a draw. The final score was 5:3.
Miskolc: The first two games ended in a draw
Posted by admin on May 30, 2008 in News
The Hungarian GM Peter Leko is playing an eight games rapid tournament against Magnus Carlsen. The event is taking place from May 28th to June 1st with two games per day.
Ivanchuk wins MTel by 1.5 points
Posted by admin on May 19, 2008 in News
With a remarkable black-piece victory against Cheparinov, Ivanchuk is the winner of Sofia’s MTel Masters with 8.0/10.
Ivanchuk was followed by Topalov in the second place with 6.5 points.
Topalov and Radjabov win. Topalov draw his game.
Posted by admin on May 16, 2008 in News
Veselin Topalov achieved a difficult win against Ivan Chepariov and Levon Aronian lost his game with Teimour Radjabov. Ivanchuk draw with Xiangzhi.
Ivanchuck is still the leader with 6.5 point but Topalov is very near behind him with 6.0 points.
Ivanchuk draws but still leads MTel
Posted by admin on May 14, 2008 in News
Vassily Ivanchuk, who was scoring 5.0/5, drew his sixth game against Teimour Radjabov.
Both Bulgarian GMs, Topalov and Cheparinov, won their games against Aronian and Xiangzhi and are in the second and third place.
Ivanchuk beats them all!
Posted by admin on May 12, 2008 in News
Ivanchuk is in an exceptional moment! He beated Levon Aronian and reaches a perfect score 5.0/5. Veselin Topalov won his third game in MTel tournamet, against Xiangzhi. Chepariov vs Radjabov finished in a draw.
Ivanchuk, the solitaire leader
Posted by admin on May 12, 2008 in News
Vassily Ivanchuk won his fourth game in a row at MTel Masters and leads the tournament by 1 ½ points.
Radjabov scored a draw against Topalov and the game Xiangzhi vs Aronian finished in a draw too.
Ivanchuk has taken the lead
Posted by admin on May 10, 2008 in News
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
Posted by admin on May 8, 2008 in News
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 six grandmasters.
And the Oscar goes to… Vishy
Posted by admin on May 8, 2008 in News
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
Posted by admin on May 5, 2008 in News
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.
Vugar Gashimov defeated Alexander Grischuk and joined Wang Yue in the lead
Posted by admin on May 5, 2008 in News
GM Gashimov scored a win against Grischuk and took the lead. He joined GM Wang Yue in the first position. Magnus Carlsen defeated Michael Adams and it’s half point behind the leaders. Peter Svidler and David Navara won thier games against Gata Kamsky and Teimour Radjabov.
Create your own Database
Posted by admin on April 25, 2008 in Site News
We are very plase to announce the launching of a new tool: My Games.
Now with 365Chess.com you can make your own chess games database and you can have the same tools we have developed for our own database. If you load your games in 365Chess.com you could search the database and browse it using our […]
First FIDE Grand Prix in Baku
Posted by admin on April 24, 2008 in News
The first FIDE grand prix is taking place in Baku city, in Azerbaijan. The tournament started on April 20th and will finish netx May 6th. 21 top masters are selected to play in these grand prix tournaments.
After three rounds Alexander Grischuk from Russia is leading with 2.5 points followed by Karjakin, Radjabov, Gashimov, Carlsen and […]
Anatoly Karpov Playing Simultaneous in Cuba
Posted by admin on April 23, 2008 in News
Anatoly Karpov Playing Simultaneous in Cuba
Former world chess champion and one of the most remarkable players in the history of chess, the Russian GM Anatoly Karpov opened a gigantic 4,000 chess board simultaneous match last Monday in Havana’s Computer Science University, during the 4th Cuban Sports Olympiads.
After being presented with a silver “Hombre del Futuro” […]
Chess Book May Have Leonardo Illustrations (or Not)
Posted by admin on April 15, 2008 in News
Reported discoveries of lost works by Leonardo da Vinci are almost as common as, well, images of the Mona Lisa.
The latest attribution to be proposed involves the design for the illustrations in a chess book from around 1500. The book, “De Ludo Scachorum,” or “The Game of Chess,” is by Luca Pacioli, a Franciscan friar […]