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Dortmund 2008
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6/28
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GM Nick de Firmian
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6/29
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GM Joel Benjamin
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GM Ronen Har-Zvi
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GM Joel Benjamin
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GM Larry Christiansen
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GM Larry Christiansen
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GM Gregory Kaidanov
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 The annual Sparkassen Chess Meeting, sponsored by the German bank of the same name, will take place from June 28th to July 6th, in the Dortmund Civic Theater.
Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik is no stranger to Dortmund being one of his favorite tournaments. He's a big favorite to win and add to his record eight titles there, and heads the 8-player field that also includes top ten players Shakriyaz Mamedyarov, Peter Leko and Vasily Ivanchuk. This will be Kramnik’s first Classical outing since his failure at Corus Wijk aan Zee at the start of the year and one of his last before he attempts to wrest the title from Vishy Anand in the autumn in Bonn, Germany.
The full line-up (in rating order from the April Fide list) is: Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Shakriyaz Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan), Peter Leko (Hungary), Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Loek van Wely (Holland), Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia), Arkady Naiditsch (Germany), and Jan Gustafsson (Germany).
You can find the round-by-round pairings here.
The ICC Chess.FM team (though minus Macauley Peterson) will also be covering Dortmund, with host Mig Greengard being joined each round by GMs Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen, Nick De Firmian, Ronen Har-Zvi and Gregory Kaidanov. Play will get underway each day at 9:00AM ET (Final round 7:00AM ET). Our full schedule can be found here.
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Aerosvit 2008
 Is
there no stopping Norwegian wunderkind Magnus Carlsen? The
17-year-old teenage ace is again in the spotlight by winning yet another big
elite tournament, this time taking first place with ease at Aerosvit ahead of
Vassily Ivanchuk to add to his extraordinary haul so far for
the year.
Carlsen's winning surge now of all the big elite events of the
first half of the year -- Corus, Morelia/Linares, the Fide Grand Prix in Baku,
and now Aerosvit -- is simply remarkable. No teenager has ever performed at
this high a level in the game. Not even former world champion legends such as
Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer - Carlsen is way
ahead of their teenage feats.
And the rating points Carlsen is quickly amassing makes him
odds-on to topple Vishy Anand for the top spot in the world
rankings before the end of the year -- and at the same time, he looks as if
he's going to become only the fifth player in history (behind Kasparov,
Anand, Kramnik and Topalov)
to crack the 2800 barrier.
Fide only publish their rating list ever quarter and the cutoff
dates for the July 1st list means Aerosvit - with Carlsen and Ivanchuk's big
hike in their ratings that would have made them world # 2 & 3 - not being
included. However, you can follow Carlsen's surge to the summit at Hans
Arild Runde's Live
Top List, which is updated minutes after tournaments are completed. The
Live Top List cover all players with a current, live rating above 2700, who
are now generally known as "Super-GMs".
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Kamsky Interview
- Macauley Peterson
GM Gata Kamsky was at the top of a six-way tie for first at
the National Open (June 5-8), part of the Las Vegas International Chess Festival.
In this 8 minute interview with Chess.FM, Kamsky discusses his time in Vegas
and his thoughts on the upcoming World Championship candidates match with Veselin
Topalov, scheduled for November in Lvov, Ukraine.
MTel 2008
Despite a late rally from three-time winner Veselin Topalov, that spectacularly backfired, as he somewhat surprisingly lost in the penultimate round to back-marker Bu Xiangzhi, Vassily Ivanchuk held on for a resounding victory at the category 20 Mtel Masters in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Ivanchuk, who got off to a perfect flying start of 5/5, won his last round game in convincing style against Topalov's second Ivan Cheparinov, who threw just about everything bar the kitchen sink at the Ukrainian ace in an unsound attack. Ivanchuk's remarkable winning score of 8.5/10 gave him the title a full 1.5-points ahead of local hero Topalov. His TPR for the Mtel Masters was a stunning 2977.
As winner of the Mtel Masters, Ivanchuk now goes forward to join Levon Aronian (winner, Corus), Vishy Anand (winner, Linares), the winner of the upcoming Mexico event and two wildcards (to be decided at a later date by the GS organizers), to take part in the Grand Slam final in Bilbao, Spain, running 1-13 September.
| JOHN HENDERSON'S PHOTO GALLERY |
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NAME |
ELO |
FED |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
PTS |
| 1 |
Cheparinov, Ivan |
2695 |
BUL |
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0 0 |
0 0 |
.5 .5 |
.5 .5 |
1 1 |
4.0 |
| 2 |
Ivanchuk, Vassily |
2740 |
UKR |
1 1 |
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1 .5 |
1 .5 |
1 .5 |
1 .5 |
8.0 |
| 3 |
Topalov, Veselin |
2767 |
BUL |
1 1 |
0 .5 |
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1 1 |
.5 .5 |
1 0 |
6.5 |
| 4 |
Aronian, Levon |
2763 |
ARM |
.5 .5 |
0 .5 |
0 0 |
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.5 0 |
.5 .5 |
3.0 |
| 5 |
Radjabov, Teimour |
2751 |
AZE |
.5 .5 |
0 .5 |
.5 .5 |
.5 1 |
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.5 1 |
5.5 |
| 6 |
Bu, Xiangzhi |
2708 |
CHN |
0 0 |
0 0.5 |
0 1 |
.5 .5 |
.5 0 |
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3.0 |
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Final Standings
8.0 points
GM Ivanchuk UKR (2740)
6.5 points
GM Topalov BUL (2780)
5.5 points
GM Radajabov AZE (2751)
4.0 points
GM Cheparinov BUL (2695)
3.0 points
GM BU Xiangzhi CHN (2708)
GM Aronian ARM (2763)
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| 1 |
Ytilitalov |
Default |
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| 2 |
Four-queens |
slipstream |
Toms |
| 3 |
DeathRattle |
PaulFranklin |
DukeBishop |
| 4 |
Lone-Tiger |
Default |
Zenpawn |
| 5 |
BadHabitMarco |
Bill-W |
BadHabitMarco |
| 6 |
Zenith |
funnybird |
govtissue |
| 7 |
davidk90 |
kurochu |
trandism |
| 8 |
slipstream |
idontthink |
Bootylicious |
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FIDE Grand Prix
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Rtg |
Fed |
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
Total |
| 1 |
Inarkiev Ernesto |
2684 |
RUS |
* |
1 |
0 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1/2 |
1 |
1/2 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
| 2 |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
2752 |
AZE |
0 |
* |
1 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
7.5 |
| 3 |
Carlsen Magnus |
2765 |
NOR |
1 |
0 |
* |
1/2 |
1 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1 |
1 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
8 |
| 4 |
Gashimov Vugar |
2679 |
AZE |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
* |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
| 5 |
Radjabov Teimour |
2751 |
AZE |
1/2 |
1/2 |
0 |
1/2 |
* |
0 |
1/2 |
0 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1 |
6 |
| 6 |
Cheparinov Ivan |
2695 |
BUL |
1 |
1 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1 |
* |
1/2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
5.5 |
| 7 |
Karjakin Sergey |
2732 |
UKR |
1 |
0 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
* |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1 |
1/2 |
0 |
0 |
1/2 |
6 |
| 8 |
Navara David |
2672 |
CZE |
0 |
0 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1 |
1 |
1/2 |
* |
0 |
0 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
5.5 |
| 9 |
Grischuk Alexander |
2716 |
RUS |
1 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
0 |
1/2 |
1 |
1/2 |
1 |
* |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
7.5 |
| 10 |
Adams Michael |
2729 |
ENG |
1/2 |
1/2 |
0 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1/2 |
* |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1 |
0 |
6.5 |
| 11 |
Bacrot Etienne |
2705 |
FRA |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1/2 |
0 |
1 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
* |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
5 |
| 12 |
Wang Yue |
2689 |
CHN |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1 |
1 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
* |
1 |
1/2 |
8 |
| 13 |
Svidler Peter |
2746 |
RUS |
1 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
0 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
0 |
1/2 |
0 |
* |
1 |
6.5 |
| 14 |
Kamsky Gata |
2726 |
USA |
1 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
0 |
0 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
1 |
1/2 |
1/2 |
0 |
* |
6 |
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