Next Year Aerosvit Tournament To Be Played In Airplane?by Chessdom.com Aerosvit general manager comes up with a new idea We stumbled across an interesting item in Ukrainian newspaper “Gazeta” via link from the excellent Russian website e3e5.com. The bottom...
Carlsen said no!
Picture from the official website Our friends from Chessbase just posted something very interesting about Carlsen in the last round. Karjakin, Sergey (2732) – Carlsen, M (2765) [D86]Foros (11), 19.06.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4...
Final standings: Carlsen 1st, Ivanchuk 2nd
Final standings: 1. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2765 8 2. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2740 7 3-4. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2732 63-4. Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2687 6 5-7. Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2684 5½5-7. Jakovenko, Dmitry g...
Volokitin 1-0 Alekseev
Final position GM Volokitin (2684) – GM Alekseev (2711) [C67]Foros – Final round, 19.06.2008 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0–0 Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.dxe5 Nf5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.Nc3 Ne7 10.h3 Ng6 11.Ne4 Ke8 12.Re1 h6 13.Bd2...
Ivanchuk 1-0 Eljanov to take 2nd
Final position GM Ivanchuk (2740) – GM Eljanov (2687) [D37]Foros – Final round, 19.06.2008 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.d4 Nbd7 5.Qc2 dxc4 6.e4 a6 7.e5 Nd5 8.Bxc4 Nxc3 9.Qxc3 Nb6 10.Bg5 Be7 11.Bxe7 Qxe7 12.Bb3 Nd5 13.Bxd5...
The young phenoms drew
Karjakin tried to launch an attack on the Kingside. However, Carlsen successfully defended the attack. After the exchanges, the endgame is equal and the phenom pair agreed to a draw on move 30. GM Karjakin (2732) – GM Carlsen...
Big battle between Karjakin and Carlsen
Position after 22.f6+ GM Karjakin (2732) – GM Carlsen (2765) [D87]Foros (11), 19.06.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 c5 8.Ne2 Nc6 9.Be3 0–0 10.0–0 Na5 11.Bd3 b6 12.Qd2 e5 13.Bh6 exd4...
The star matchup: Karjakin – Carlsen
Drawing provided by Dario Round 11 – Final round Karjakin, Sergey – Carlsen, MagnusIvanchuk, Vassily – Eljanov, PavelSvidler, Peter – Van Wely, LoekOnischuk, Alexander – Shirov, AlexeiVolokitin, Andrei – Alekseev, EvgenyJakovenko, Dmitry – Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter Standings after 10 rounds:...
3 straight for Carlsen
GM Carlsen (2765) – GM Volokitin (2684) [D56]Foros – Round 10, 18.06.2008 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 0–0 7.e3 Ne4 8.Bxe7 Qxe7 9.Rc1 c6 10.Bd3 Nxc3 11.Rxc3 Nd7 12.Qc2 dxc4 13.Bxc4 e5 14.Qe4...
Shirov 1-0 Svidler
GM Shirov (2740) – GM Svidler (2746) [D16]Foros – Round 10, 18.06.2008 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 e6 6.e3 c5 7.Bxc4 Nc6 8.0–0 cxd4 9.exd4 Be7 10.Bg5 0–0 11.Re1 Bd7 12.Qd2 Rc8 13.Rad1 Nb4 14.Ne5...