Grand Pacific Open Victoria BC Canada April 2-5 2010 68 players now registeredhttp://www.grandpacificopen.comOnline and mail in registration available. Welcome to our latest players to register: Polly Wright from Eastchester New York, Noah Fields from Tacoma Washington and Deron Stewart...
Young whiz taking on the world
Young whiz ready to take on the worldRepresenting Canada in world championshipBy DOUG HEMPSTEAD, Ottawa SunLast Updated: March 7, 2010 6:38am Agastya Kalra doesn’t even need to look at the board to beat his father at chess anymore. The...
Unoticed upset
Cutting a grandmaster down to sizeUp-and-coming Ottawa chess players managed to pull off memorable wins against superstar Alexei Shirov. Don Butler reports.The Ottawa CitizenFebruary 14, 2010 When 12-year-old Pranav Sharma knocked off Latvian chess superstar Alexei Shirov in Ottawa...
Friedel, Mikhalevski win Edmonton
Final standings:1-2 GM Josh Friedel 7.01-2 GM Victor Mikhalevski 7.0 3. IM Marc Esserman 6.5 4. IM Gergely Antal 6.0 5. GM Jesse Kraai 5.0 6. FM Eric Hansen 4.0 7. IM Edward Porper 3.5 8. FM Dale Haessel...
Edmonton International
This year’s Edmonton International will be a 10 player round-robin with GM/IM norm opportunities. The field for the event is now set. 4th Edmonton International Final line-up: GM Victor Mikhalevski (Israel, 2607) GM Josh Friedel (US, 2551) GM Jesse...
Naiditsch wins Montreal
Final crosstable No Joueur-Player T Fide Fed. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Tot 1 Étienne Bacrot G 2721 France X 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 7...
Bacrot, Naiditsch lead Montreal with 1 to go
Crosstable after 10 rounds: No Joueur-Player T Fide Fed. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Tot 1 Étienne Bacrot G 2721 France X 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½...
Bacrot, Naiditsch maintain Montreal lead
Official website: http://www.echecsmontreal.ca/ Round 9 results: Y. Shulman 1/2 S. Mazé M. Bluvshtein 1/2 V. Bhat A. Moiseenko 1-0 T. Roussel-Roozmon A. Naiditsch 1/2 S. Tiviakov A. Onischuk 1/2 É. Bacrot V. Akobian 1/2 A. Kovalyov Standings after 9...
Bacrot, Naiditsch lead Montreal
Crosstable after 5 rounds: No Joueur-Player T Fide Fed. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Tot 1 Étienne Bacrot G 2721 France X 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 4 2 Sergei Tiviakov G...
3-way tie for the lead in Montreal
Crosstable after 4 rounds: No Joueur-Player T Fide Fed. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Tot 1 Étienne Bacrot G 2721 France X 1 1 ½ ½ 3 2 Sergei Tiviakov G 2674...