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The 11th edition of the Edmonton International Chess Festival is taking place at the Edmonton Chess Club between June 17-26, 2016. The main event is a ten-player Round Robin tournament. This year's event features the legendary GM Alexei Shirov. Other participants include Indian GMs Surya Shekhar Ganguly and S.P. Sethuraman. We bring you an illustrated report with a video lecture by GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly.
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Blitz chess is considered to be a young man's game. You need good reflexes, quick thinking and most of all stamina in order to play 18 rounds in two days. However, Vishy Anand once again proved that he is timeless and ageless by finishing a respectable fourth and playing some high quality chess. He beat MVL 2-0, Nakamura 1.5-0.5 and very nearly got the better of Magnus Carlsen. An overall fourth place finish sets him up well for the remaining two legs of Grand Chess Tour in Sinquefield and London.
For the past few years, National Women Challengers Chess Championship is attracting a lot of IMs, WGMs, and WIMs, competing for the eight slots available in National Women Premier championship. Premier championship is the prime event, leading to the selection of Indian team for Olympiad and other international events. The 2016 edition has three IMs, five WGMs and eight WIMs to its credit and other innumerable strong players, who can spring a surprise on higher rated players. The chief arbiter R. Anantharaman brings us his illustrated report.
The Eurasian Blitz Cup of the President of Kazakhstan was held on 18 June and 19 June at the city of Almaty. The strongest players from Europe and Asia assimilated in the Kazakh city to play the blitz tournament including names such as Nepomniachtchi, Karjakin, Gelfand, Grischuk (the World Champion), Svidler, etc. India had two contenders for the medals — Sasi and Harika. Sasi's flight got delayed en-route to Almaty, and he had no option but to give up the meat of the first half. Harika huffed and puffed to fifty percent at the end of first day that witnessed fourteen rounds, before delivering a golden performance in the remaining games. Report.
"Let's start afresh!" were the words of Bhakti's coach Raghunandan Gokhale when the girl from Goa was struggling in her chess career. With meticulous planning and right selection of events, the duo had made sure that Bhakti was in the best possible form before her Asian Championships in Uzbekistan. And the 24-year-old showed one of the most powerful performances of her chess career winning the title with an Elo performance of 2505! ChessBase India brings you an exclusive interview with the 2016 Asian Women's Champion.
The first leg of the Grand Chess Tour in Paris was won by Hikaru Nakamura. The second leg will begin from the 17th until the 20th of June in Leuven, Belgium. While this is a super strong tournament, the special Indian interest is ignited by the fact that Vishy Anand will be one of the ten participants. It is a nine round rapid plus an 18 round blitz event. On this page you can not only view Vishy's live game but you can also enjoy the commentary by Yasser Seirawan, Maurice Ashley and others. The live game begins at 15.30 hours IST. Go Vishy!
The stage was set for Navigators and Battlers to take on each other yet again. They had already faced each other twice before the finals. The match turned out to be a see-saw battle between the two ace teams of the tournament. Battlers' plunderer in chief Srinath N. was clearly out of sorts, going down to Mary. Navigators' Varshini was winning against Humpy of Jalgaon Battlers. It looked like Navigators would win easily. But Varshini blundered the game and Jalgaon Battlers held Navigators 3.0-3.0. The Maharashtra Chess League 2016 was decided, once again, by an armageddon. Report.
After a rocking day one at the Leuven rapids Anand led the tournament with a score of 7.0/10. He followed it up with an excellent win over Anish Giri on the next day. Just when things were looking perfect for the Indian he suffered two back to back losses against Kramnik and Carlsen. The first one against Kramnik is a mind boggling rook endgame and the loss to Carlsen was thanks to a reckless king move. A final round draw against Wesley So gave Anand the fourth spot. We have the detailed report along with some beautiful pictures sent to us by our Dutch friend.
A few days ago at the MCL 2016 we had a piece drop incident in a blitz game. Abhijeet Gupta who was completely winning the game dropped his queen and pressed the clock. Sethuraman, his opponent, was alert and claimed a win. While Gupta accepted the defeat graciously, things started to heat up when people on the social media began to attack Sethuraman. ACP President Emil Sutovsky wrote about the incident, which led Sethu to write a long post in his defence. We bring you the events in the order that they transpired along with some very interesting blitz videos.
Fresh from his exploits in Leon, Vishy Anand took very little time to get adjusted to the Belgian weather. He came out all guns blazing in the first five rounds of the Your Next Move GCT. After the first day he leads the event with 7.0/10. A spectacular combination against MVL, tenacious defence against Caruana and common sense chess against Topalov were the highlights of the day. We have pictures, videos and in-depth analysis.
It was dubbed as a match between the ex and the future World Champion. The fast and furious talent from China Wei Yi took on the Madras Tiger Vishy Anand. It was one of those cases where the adage of old is gold was 100% true. Anand played some solid chess and with some luck emerged as the winner. We have pictures, analysis and videos from Ciudad de Leon - an event which Vishy has now won for the record ninth time!
At the recently concluded Asian Continental 2016 S.P. Sethuraman and Bhakti Kulkarni won the gold medal in the open and the women's section respectively. In this article we get in touch with S.P. Sethuraman who staged a phenomenal comeback scoring 3.0/3 at the end of the event and crowning it by beating Wei Yi with the black pieces. Sethu speaks about the event, how he prepared, calculated, relaxed and how he aims to break into the 2700 league.
In highly entertaining encounters, Jalgaon Battlers and Pune Sangli Navigators stormed into the finals of the Persistent 4th Maharashtra Chess League which is in the concluding stages at PYC Hindu Gymkhana. The Jalgaon Battlers, thus, qualified straightaway to the finals by winning the first qualifier via an armageddon, while the Eliminator also witnessed an armageddon, Pune Sangli navigators lived to fight another day, on the last day! An illustrated report.
The fourth edition of the Maharashtra Chess League (MCL), the only professional league in India, is being held from June 11 -15, 2016 at the PYC Hindu Gymkhana, Pune. The six-team event with six players a side will be a rapid tournament (25mins + 10 sec increment) where the teams initially play a round-robin followed by a knockout between four teams to decide the winners. ChessBase India brings you LIVE games!
The fourth season of the Maharashtra Chess league 2016 is coming to a scintillating end. Full of interesting games in rapid time controls, this fourth season saw the demise of the 2015 edition finalists Thane Combatants and Ahmednagar Checkers. As you may imagine, a lot was at stake in the fourth and the fifth rounds. Yet another heavily illustrated report.
