15th Poikovsky Chess Cup begins May 11: Top Seed Pavel Eljanov Defends Title
Hello chess friends, the 15th Poikovsky Chess Tournament, named after the former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov, is going to take place on 11-20 May. The tournament format is 10-players round robin tournament.
Top seeded is last year’s winner Pavel Eljanov. His opponents are Ian Nepomniachtchi, Dmitry Jakovenko, Etienne Bacrot, Alexander Morozevich, Alexei Shirov, Alexander Motylev, Ivan Saric, Viorel Bologan, and Emil Sutovsky. *Report via FIDE
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Are Killer Chess Robots Kind to Pretty Russian Girls?
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013
Hello everyone,
Yes, pretty girls play very strong chess, but once in a while you cannot help suspect that a killer chess 'gentleman' would allow a pretty girl to 'escape' with a draw? Maybe! Maybe, not!
Kuka Monster spent a recent winter evening in a night club in Moscow - playing chess with Pavel Eljanov and Alina Kashlinskaya. The guests watching closely included Russian national chess team coach Yuri Dokhoyan.
The special chess event was titled 'Mind Games' and included three hours of chess in the blitz format between Alina, Eljanov and Kashlinskaya. The highlight of the event was world chess robot champion Kuka Monster taking on Eljanov and Kashlinskaya in separate games.
Eljamov sacrificed a pawn and lost the chess endgame to Kuka Monster. Kashlinskaya managed to bravely hold Kuka Monster to a draw in a perpetual check after a series of sacrifices. Yes, Alina Kashlinskaya is a strong chess player from Russia, but we couldn't help speculating: Did Kuka Monster flirt with her? Replay the game and decide for yourself. (It was a 5:0 Blitz)
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Pavel Eljanov wins Chigorin Chess Memorial 2013 on Tiebreak
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013
Hello everyone,
The International Chess Festival “Mikhail Chigorin Memorial 2013″ took place from 4th to 13th October at the Park Hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Classic Tournament, valid as a Russian Cup Stage, was played over nine rounds of Swiss system on 5-13th October. There was a huge tie on the first place as eleven players finished on 7,0 points each. Pavel Eljanov from Ukraine took the winner’s trophy on best tie-break. The Blitz Tournament was held on 4th October, the winner was GM Rinat Jumabayev from Kazakhstan. After the event many players head to the massive European Club Cup 2013.
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Pavel Eljanov Wins Anatoly Karpov Chess Tournament in Poikovsky
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hi everyone,
The International Chess Tournament named after the former world champion Anatoly Karpov took place from 27th August to 7th September in Poikovsky, Russia. In the longest game of the final round Pavel Eljanov held Viktor Laznicka to a draw with black pieces to claim a clear first place in the tournament. Eljanov concluded the race with 6,0/9 points, half a point ahead of the reserve player Alexander Motylev.Among the other games of the last round, Viktor Bologan took advantage of Ernesto Inarkiev’s slip with 16…Be7 and quickly destroyed black’s position with combined threats against the clumsy pieces.
Ivan Cheparinov and Emil Sutovsky lived up to their reputation of fearless fighters as an innocent-looking Gruenfeld Indian quickly turned into a wild affair with hanging pieces and white king walking up all the way to h6. But it was the black counterpart that was in real danger as Cheparinov weaved a mating net.
Replay games with computer analysis
Round 9 results:
Alexander Onischuk – Dmitry Jakovenko ½-½
Ian Nepomniachtchi – Alexander Motylev ½-½
Ivan Cheparinov – Emil Sutovsky 1-0
Viktor Bologan – Ernesto Inarkiev 1-0
Viktor Laznicka – Pavel Eljanov ½-½
Final standings:
1. Eljanov Pavel UKR 2702 – 6,0
2. Motylev Alexander RUS 2663 – 5,5
3. Inarkiev Ernesto RUS 2693 – 5,0
4-7. Nepomniachtchi Ian RUS 2723, Onischuk Alexander USA 2667, Jakovenko Dmitry RUS 2724 and Sutovsky Emil ISR 2660 – 4,5
8. Bologan Viktor MDA 2672 – 4,0
9. Laznicka Viktor CZE 2677 – 3,5
10. Cheparinov Ivan BUL 2678 – 3,0
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Reykjavik Chess Open: Pavel Eljanov, Wesley So, Amin Bassem Share First
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The Reykjavik Chess Open has concluded with three joint winners - Pavel Eljanov, Wesley So and Amin Bassem. The final round witnessed a three-move draw between Eljanov and So. There were six players tied to go for the third place. Of them, only Egyptian GM Amin Bassem won his game to tie for first.
Ivan Cheparinov played against the youngest GM in the world, Wei Yi. The Bulgarian was a rook down, but had two pawns and the initiative for it. At move 37, he went for a perpetual check to save the draw, according a tournament report via Chessdom.
Anish Giri was an exchange down against Gawain Jones, and the Englishman even had the initiative, but the first seed was able to equalise and finish the tournament with a very respectable score of 7.5/10. Polish GM Grzegorz Gajewski had a very good tournament before the last round, but was not able to hold Amin Bassem. The Egyptian played with white and the players went into an interesting line arising from the Sicilian Defense. Amin Bassem won a pawn, but it did not seem enough to get the full point. Gajewski made some inaccuracies in the rook endgame and the Egyptian eventually won the game after 52 moves.
The winners of last year’s World Junior Championships for men and women faced each other at the last round of the Reykjavik Open. Turkish GM Alexander Ipatov defeated Women’s Junior World Champion WGM Guo Qi in 50 moves. The Chinese played a Queen’s Gambit Declined and Ipatov decided to give up the bishop pair in exchange of the initiative. The rooks endgame was slightly complicated and the Turkish star demonstrated that he is very well prepared in this part of the game.
With this result, Alexander Ipatov finished on 7/10, winning a few rating points. Guo Qi stayed on 6/10, but also got some extra rating points. She had two remarkable games in this tournament: drawing with GM Gawain Jones and defeating GM Yuriy Kuzubov.
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Ukraine Chess Championship Begins with Ruslan Ponomariov as Top Seed
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The 81st edition of the Ukrainian National Chess Championship has begun today and would run till August 7 at the President Hotel in Kiev. Twelve players are competing in the event with Ruslan Ponomariov being top seed. He is also the defending champion. Vassily Ivanchuk is not taking part in the event. With the average elo of 2666 this is the strongest Championship ever in the history of independent Ukraine.
Players:
Ruslan Ponomariov 2726
Alexander Moiseenko 2706
Andrei Volokitin 2704
Zahar Efimenko 2694
Pavel Eljanov 2693
Alexander Areshchenko 2691
Anton Korobov 2683
Evgeny Miroshnichenko 2632
Sergey Fedorchuk 2630
Yuriy Kuzubov 2629
Alexander Zubov 2621
Yuri Vovk 2584
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