Reggio Emilia Chess R2: Morozevich leads with perfect score

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Hello everyone,

The chess news update from the second day at the Reggio Emilia tournament is that Anish Giri went down fighting to Alexander Morozevich giving the latter a perfect score wit six points according to thee football scoring in effect at the tournament.

 

Anish Giri on his way to losing to Alexander Morozevich.

The other winner of the first round, Hikaru Nakamura had to settle for a draw with Fabiano Caruana while Vassily Ivanchuk and Nikita Vitiugov also had to draw their game after a tough fight. You can access more details at the official website.

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54th Reggio Emilia Chess Tournament from Dec 27

Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011


Hello everyone,


The tournament chess news update via www.chessdom.com is that the 54th Torneo di Capodanno is set to take place from 27th December 2011 to 6th January 2012 in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The tournament is changing the format to the very popular six-player double round robin. The participants will be:

Vugar Gashimov, winner of the 53rd Reggio Emilia tournament
Vassily Ivanchuk
Hikaru Nakamura
Fabiano Caruana
Anish Giri
Nikita Vitiugov



WGM Sopiko Guramishvili, Georgia 2374


The tournament is organized by Circolo Ippogrifo di Reggio Emilia, in collaboration with Accademia Internazionale di Scacchi and Scacchi Randagi.


A women's round robin tournament will take place parallel to the main event:


WGM Sopiko Guramishvili, Georgia 2374
WGM Iva Videnova, Bulgaria 2297, IM norm from ETCC 2011
WGM Anna Sharevich, Belarus 2267
WIM Marina Brunello, Italia 2221
WFM Maria De Rosa, Italia 2122
WFM Marianna Chierici, Italia 2048

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