English top GM Mickey Adams drew closest rival Van Wely in the final round to win the 2008 Staunton Memorial. The Dutch on the other hand captured the next 5 spots, 2nd through 6th. Here are the final standings:...
Adams leads Staunton Memorial by 1 point
Round 5 results:Wade, Robert – Adams, Michael 0-1Short, Nigel – Cherniaev, Alexander 1-0Smeets, Jan – Wells, Peter 1-0L’Ami, Erwin – Sokolov, Ivan NED ½-½Timman, Jan – Speelman, Jon ½-½Werle, Jan – Van Wely, Loek 0-1 Official website: http://www.howardstaunton.com/hsmt2008/index.shtml Chess...
Adams to face Short
Staunton Memorial, London Official website: http://www.howardstaunton.com/hsmt2008/index.shtml A Category 13 Staunton Memorial takes place from August 7-18 2008, with the rest day on August 13. There will be eleven Grandmasters and 87- year-old IM Bob Wade participating. Here are the...
Carlsen did it again! KO’d Adams
GM Carlsen (2714) – GM Adams (2729) [E36]03.12.2007 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Qxc3 dxc4 7.Qxc4 b6 8.Bf4 Ba6 9.Qxc7 Qxc7 10.Bxc7 0–0 11.Nf3 Rc8 12.Bf4 Nbd7 13.Nd2 Rc2 14.Rb1 Rac8 15.Nb3 Bc4 16.Na1...
The British chess King eliminated
Adams loses outBy Malcolm PeinLast Updated: 12:01am BST 05/06/2007 Michael Adams was comprehensively outplayed by Alexey Shirov in their Candidates Match Rapid Chess tie breaker going down 0.5-2.5 in the best of four game contest and he is eliminated...