Monday, December 28, 2009

An old fogey match that's more interesting than chess "at the top"

Spassky-Korchnoi match ends 4-4

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6013

Monday, December 14, 2009

World Cup R7 - Final

Gelfand beats Ponomariov in second (blitz) round of tiebreaks

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

World Cup R6

Karjakin, Sergey (UKR) 0 0 0.0
Gelfand, Boris (ISR) 1 1 2.0

Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) ½ ½ 0 1 1 1 4.0
Malakhov, Vladimir (RUS) ½ ½ 1 0 0 0 2.0

Saturday, December 05, 2009

World Cup R5

Gelfand, Boris (ISR) ½ ½ ½ 1 1 3.5
Jakovenko, Dmitry (RUS) ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1.5

Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 3.5
Gashimov, Vugar (AZE) ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1.5

Svidler, Peter (RUS) 0 ½ 0.5
Malakhov, Vladimir (RUS) 1 ½ 1.5

Karjakin, Sergey (UKR) 1 ½ 1.5
Mamedyarov, Shakh. (AZE) 0 ½ 0.5

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

World Cup R4

Vachier-Lagrave, Max. (FRA) ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0
Gelfand, Boris (ISR) ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1

Gashimov, Vugar (AZE) ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 3.5
Caruana, Fabiano (ITA) ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1.5

Shirov, Alexei (ESP) 0 ½ 0.5
Svidler, Peter (RUS) 1 ½ 1.5

Laznicka, Viktor (CZE) 0 ½ 0.5
Mamedyarov, Shakh. (AZE) 1 ½ 1.5

Karjakin, Sergey (UKR) ½ 1 1.5
Vitiugov, Nikita (RUS) ½ 0 0.5

So, Wesley (PHI) ½ ½ 0 0 0 1.0
Malakhov, Vladimir (RUS) ½ ½ 1 1 1 4.0

Bacrot, Etienne (FRA) ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 2.5
Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 3.5

Grischuk, Alexander (RUS) ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0
Jakovenko, Dmitry (RUS) ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1