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Monday, August 5, 2013
Parimarjan Negi Wins Politiken Chess Cup
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Indian Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi emerged convincing winner of the 2013 Politiken Cup following his last-round victory against earlier co-leader Sabino Brunello of Italy.
Negi completed the event with 9,0 points from ten games, leaving the chasing pack of seven players a full point behind. This is his second trophy at the Politiken Cup following the success in 2009.
Politiken Cup was held from 27th July to 4th August at the Konventum Lo-Skolen in Helsingør, Denmark. 309 players from 26 countries took participation.
Tournament director was IA Lars-Henrik Bech Hansen. More information on the official website. (www.chessdom.com)
Progress in Chess is an Ongoing Process: Parimarjan Negi
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He used to be a "one dimensional player" but over the years, India's youngest Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi has adapted more "rounded and universal styles" of play which he is looking to use in the biennial Chess World Cup next month.
"I used to be a one dimensional player going just for the attack, or the complications, but I think over the years I have matured as a player. I believe I have adapted to more rounded and universal style of play. There are many different ways to play chess and I have started adapting to those styles," Negi told PTI from Texas.
"Still, its an ongoing process and I always need to work on little parts of my game. "I feel I have also improved in dealing with the psychological aspect but this area still requires more improvement. But such improvements don't necessarily result in an automatic rise in the ratings as they need to be combined perfectly with the other chess traits," he added.
Negi have had a good season so far, having won the Cappelle de Grande chess event in France in February and Spring Open International chess tournament in Dallas, Texas in March.
In addition to that, he ended up winning the Continental Chess Association Open in Washington and was declared the joint winner of the USD 43,000 World Open Chess in Virginia this month.
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The D.C. International Chess was held from June 27-July 1, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia. The tournament was played as a single section over nine rounds of Swiss system. 71 players took part in the competition.
Indian Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi took a clear first place with 7,5 points, leaving the second placed Canadian IM Bindi Cheng half a point behind. Prize fund $8000: $2000-1200-800-700-600-500-400-300, top FIDE under 2300 or unrated $1000-500. The 41st Annual World Chess Open continues at the same playing venue.
Final standings:1. GM Parimarjan Negi 2634 IND – 7.5 2. IM Bindi Cheng 2406 CAN – 7.0 3-4. GM Conrad Holt 2531 KS and FM Adarsh Jayakumar 2340 IL – 6.5 5-13. GM Gregory Kaidanov 2577 KY, GM Magesh C Panchanathan 2570 IND, IM Leonid Gerzhoy 2469 CAN, IM Daniel Fernandez 2396 TX, IM Max Cornejo 2395 PER, FM Yian Liou 2385 CA, FM Michael H Bodek 2339 NY, FM Atulya Shetty 2320 MI and Mario Alexis Arias 2130 PER – 6.0 etc
China Teen Wei Yi Now Current Youngest Chess GM in the World (Updated)
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The official website of the Reykjavik Chess Open 2013 has reported that Chinese Grandmaster Wei Yi has picked up his 3rd GM norm at the event with one round to go for the end of the tournament. Since Wei Yi's rating is already over 2500, the Chinese teenager now is the official current youngest GM of the world. He is the fourth youngest in history behind Sergey Karjakin of Russia, Parimarjan Negi of India and the current world #1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway.
Wojtaszek Top Seed in Delhi Invitational Chess Event
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GM Anton Korobov being welcomed in New Delhi.
The traditional AICF-AAI Chess Invitational - a Category 18 event - begins in New Delhi, India with six players on Friday. Asian Chess Champion Parimarjan Negi will meet Radoslav Wojtaszek of Poland in the first round. Krishnan Sasikiran is paired with Abhijeet Gupta, and former Russian champion Evgeny Alekseev is paired with current Ukrainian champion Anton Korobov in the first round, according to a press release.
The event is based on the format of double round-robin so that all participants play the others twice over. The time control is Classical with 100 minutes for the first forty moves to be followed by 50 minutes for the next 20 and a 15 minutes sudden death rule to follow thereafter. GM Wojtaszek, World Chess Champion Vishy Anand's second, is the top seed and the favourite in the event with a rating of 2734. Anton Korobov is second seed with a rating of 2702.
Category-18 Chess in New Delhi with GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek as Top Seed
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Former Indian national chess champion GM Parimarjan Negi with journalists.
The AIFC-AAI Chess Cup is being held in New Delhi, India from Dec 20-30, according to a press release. The six-player double round-robin format category-18 tournament will be played at the Airport Authority of India Club (AAI) here. his is the second edition of the AICF-AAI Cup, which was a category-17 event last year. The tournament was won by Fabiano Caruana of Italy in its inaugural edition and the player has subsequently moved into the top-10 of the FIDE world rankings.
All India Chess Federation (AICF) secretary Bharat Singh Chauhan said, "The list of players for this tournament is the best line up India have ever seen and we are expecting very tough competition in the ten days of the tournament."
This year's star attraction would be GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek of Poland. Wojtaszek is a top-50 player and would be looking to add valuable rating points to his tally. Leading the charge of challengers against him would be GM Anton Korobov of Ukraine, who boasts of a 2700+ rating and Russia's in-form player GM Evgeny Alekseev.
Former Indian national champion GM K. Sasikiran would lead the Indian challenge with 2008 World Junior champion GM Abhijeet Gupa and Asian champion Parimarjan Negi completing the line up.
"It is a great achievement for Indian chess that an event of such a stature is happening in India. Personally I am thrilled to be part of the tournament and would do my best to keep the title in the country after the 10 rounds of competition," said Negi.
"I haven't had great performances in the last few months starting with the Oympiad. For the amount of preparations that have gone into it, I haven't played well. So this tournament would be the right opportunity for me to stage a comeback of sorts and get back to winning ways," he added.
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
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Negi (right)
A week after he became the youngest player to win the Asian Chess Championship in Vietnam, Parimarjan Negi still gets the odd phone call congratulating him on the achievement. The 20-year-old however doesn't want to get too excited about the result that puts him in the company of big names like K Sasikiran, SS Ganguly and P Harikrishna. “To be the youngest person to win the Asian Championship doesn't mean much. For my sponsors and supporters, sure it is important. But for me it is just a title. What is more important for me is the quality of my game play,” says Negi, currently in Zaozhuang , China playing for the Indian team in the Asian Nations Chess Cup.
The victory in Ho Chi Minh City wasn't easy for Negi. He was trailing early in the contest after a defeat in the initial game of the competition but managed to recover time. Six straight wins gave him the title with a round to spare. So much so he could afford to lose the last round. It is this recovery, more than anything else that heartens Negi.
“In the past when I would lose one game it would tend to become a streak. Last year I played in many tournaments where that happened and I would pick up a couple of defeats together. I haven't done anything different. I guess it is a natural progression but also something that comes with effort. Psychologically I have become stronger,” he says. Read the full story in The Indian Express.
Youngest to win Asian Chess Championship - Parimarjan Negi
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GM Saleh Salem (UAE) GM Parimarjan Negi (India)
We found a nice review article in DNA India on India's newly-crowned Asian chess champion Primarjan Negi who has become the youngest to chess player to win the continental title. The 19-year-old Negi, who won the Asian title in the Vietnamese capital Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday, will now represent Asia in the World Cup series of events of FIDE from where players advance to the World Championship cycle.
Negi is also the third Indian afer Krishnan Sasikaran (2003), Surya Sekhar Ganguly (2009) and Pendyala Harikishna (2011) to win the Asian title. During the Asian Chess Championship, Negi led most of the while. He lost two games, rounds two and nine. He lost the final round but was declared champion on tie-break. Negi has smoothly moved into higher gear and is now reaching new and higher peaks. His current rating is 2640 and would be settling above the 2650-mark soon. That is an important number since he will walk into any Indian team if he is above that rating mark.
Negi has won a number of events and in 2010 was the Indian national champion. He won major events like the Philadelphia International in 2008 and the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen in 2009. Negi's achievements came when he was young. At 13 years, 4 months and 22 days, he became the second youngest grandmaster ever after Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine.
Asian Chess: Parimarjan Negi Wins on Tiebreak; Irene Sukandar Wins Women's Section
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Here is the latest chess news update from the Asian Continental Chess Championships that have concluded in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Indian Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi has won the Asian continental chess championship despite his final round loss to A R Saleh Salem of UAE.
Negi finished the tournament with 7 points and tied for the first place with Yu Yangyi of China. But in their direct encounter earlier in the championship, Negi had beaten Yangyi, which helped him win the gold medal.
Meanwhile, the Indian leader in the women's section, Mary Ann Gomes lost out on the gold by losing to Tan Zhongyi of China. A draw would have been enough for her to give the Indians a double. Irine Sukandar Kharisma of Indonesia won the women's section. For the record, in the men's section, Yangyi finished second, repeating his performance from last year and the third spot was bagged by Saleh on 6.5 points. In the women's section, Tan Zhongyi finished third.
Results final round open: A R Salem Saleh (Uae, 6.5) beat Parimarjan Negi (7); Le Quang Liem (Vie, 5.5) drew with Yu Yangyi (Chn, 7); Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (5.5) drew with John Paul Gomez (Phi, 5.5); Xiu Deshun (Chn, 5.5) drew with M R Venkatesh (5.5); Wen Yang (Chn, 6) beat G N Gopal (4.5); Nguyen Duc Hoa (Vie, 5) beat Abhijeet Gupta (4); B Adhiban (5) beat Farid Firman Syah (Ina, 4); Nezad Husein Aziz (Qat, 4.5) drew with S P Sethuraman (4); Deepan Chakkravarthy (4) drew ith Le Quang Long (Vie, 4); Tran Tuan Minh (Vie, 3.5) drew with N Srinath (3.5).
Women's section: Tan Zhongyi (Chn, 6.5) beat Mary Ann Gomes (6.5); Irine Sukandar Kharisma (Ina, 7) beat Eesha Karavade (5.5); Padmini Rout (5.5) lost to Wang Jue (Chn, 6.5); Le Thanh Tu (Vie, 5.5) lost to Ding Yixin (Chn, 6.5); Pham Le Thao Nguyen (vie, 5) drew with Tania Sachdev (5); Guo Qi (Chn, 5.5) beat Swathi Ghate (4.5); Ni Shiqun (Chn, 5) drew with Nisha Mohota (5); Nguyen Thi Mai Hung (Vie, 3.5) lost to B Pratyusha (4.5); Kiran Manisha Mohanty (4.5) had a bye.
Asia Continental Chess R7: Negi, Sukandar Lead in Open, Women's Sections
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The latest chess news update from the Asian Continental Chess in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is that Indian GM Parimarjan beat Chinese GM Ding Liren in the seventh round to maintain his lead at the chess championshp. in only 30 moves to keep his lead in the Asian Chess Continental Championship here on Saturday.
Negi sacrificed a pawn on the 18th move to open lines against Ding's king in the centre since he had not castled. Negi controlled the half open file and was about to win a bishop when Ding resigned. Negi leads alone with six points. Three players -- GMs Yu Yangyi of China, Oliver Barbosa of the Philippines and Salem Saleh of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) -- follow with five and a half points each.
In the women's section, WGM Irene Sukandar of Indonesia drew with Ding Yixin of China in 30 moves of a Sicilian Defence. They exchanged pieces and reached a drawn minor piece endgame. Sukandar leads alone with six points followed by Indian WGM Mary Ann Gomes with 5.5. Four players trail with 5 points each namely Eesha Karavade of India, and Chinese Tan Zhongyi, Wang Jue and Ding Yixin.
Gomes upset top seed GM Zhao Xue of China in 70 moves. Zhao had a bad pawn structure in the endgame and could not stop the pawn advance of her opponent.
Asia Continental Chess Round 6 - Negi in Sole Lead
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Here is some chess news update from the Asia Continental Chess event currently on in Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam). Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi went through the defences of Yu Yangyi of China to emerge as the sole leader after the sixth round. With his fourth straight victory, 19-year-old Negi is now looking at the gold medal. The win against Yangyi was a close affair as the Chinese had a draw in hand when he tried too hard with his clock ticking away. You can read a nice report here.
Important Results of Round 6: Open: Yu Yangyi (CHN, 4.5) lost to Parimarjan Negi (5); Ding Liren (CHN, 4.5) drew with John Paul Gomez (PHI, 4.5); Salem A R Saleh (UAE, 4.5) drew with Liu Qingnan (CHN, 4.5); Abhijeet Gupta (3.5) lost to Mark Paragua (4.5); Megaranto Susanto (INA, 3.5) lost to Oliver Barbosa (PHI, 4.5); Lu Shanglei (CHN, 4.5) beat Gao Rui (CHN, 3.5): Ni Hua (CHN, 4) beat B Adhiban (3); Ghaem Maghami Ehsan (IRI, 3.5) drew with Vidit Gujrathi (3.5); S P Sethuraman (2.5) lost to Yu Ruiyuan (CHN, 3.5); G N Gopal (3) drew with Nguyen Anh Dung (VIE, 3); Goh Wei Ming Kevin (SIN, 2.5) lost to M R Venkatesh (3.5); N Srinath (2.5) drew with Kuderinov Kirill (2..5); Nguyen Van Hai (VIE, 2) lost to Deepan Chakkravarthy (3).
Women: Munguntuul Batkhuyag (MGL, 4) lost to Irine Sukandar Kharisma (INA, 5.5); Ding Yixin (CHN, 4.5) drew with Nguyen Thi Thanh An (VIE, 4.5); Zhao Xue (CHN, 4.5) beat Hoang Thi Bao Tram (VIE, 3.5); Tania Sachdev (3.5) lost to Mary Ann Gomes (4.5); Swathi Ghate (3.5) lost to Wang Jue (CHN, 4.5); Batchimeg Tuvshintugs (MGL, 3) lost to Nisha Mohota (4); Zhai Mo (CHN, 3) lost to Eesha Karavade (4); Sihite Chelsie Monica (INA, 2.5) lost to Padmini Rout (3.5); Vo Thi Kim Phung (VIE, 2.5) drew with Kiran Manisha Mohanty (2.5); Jelsen Yemi (INA, 1.5) lost to Pratyusha Bodda (2.5).
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