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Unive, Round 2
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Monday, 22 October 2012
Featuring Hikaru Nakamura, Anish Giri, Sergei Tiviakov and Hou Yifan!

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Golden Oldie
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Unive, Round 1
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Sunday, 21 October 2012
Featuring Hikaru Nakamura, Anish Giri, Sergei Tiviakov and Hou Yifan!

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Chess Week on Twitter
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Sunday, 21 October 2012
Pogonina.com offers you a selection of some of the most informative chess tweets from last week. All the fresh chess news in one short post:

Is Judit good at checkers (take a careful look at the board)?

SPICE Cup Open ended in Ray Robson's victory

Mate in two

Welcome to Twitter, FIDE President

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov: Good afternoon! This is my Russian account on Twitter. Your wishes, opinions, suggestions are welcome. And not only chess-related.

Agreed!

Back to the 2500+ club again

Alexandra Kosteniuk: RT @Pogonina @Kosteniuk Sasha, congrats on returning to the 2500+ club! Wish you to further increase your rating <---- Thank you! :)

Chess Tourism

Good luck! May the pawns be with you!

SOCAR (open section) and Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo (women) won gold at European Club Cup

Carlsen won the blitz tie-break 2-0 against Caruana after they tied for first at the Grand Slam


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David vs. Goliath: Upsets of the Week
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Sunday, 21 October 2012

by Candidate Master Peter Zhdanov

In this special weekly column we will be looking at the most unexpected upsets that happened last week. Players usually face opponents of a comparable level. Considerably less frequent are situations when a significantly lower-rated player succeeds in beating a much stronger adversary.

As compared to last week's top-10, this time the numbers have rampantly increased:

Maggiori (1700) Avila (2145), 1-0 445 points

Brizzi (1930) Della Morte (2346), 1-0 416 points

Bianchi (1903) Vasta (2307), 1-0; Elias (1885) De Paiva (2289), 1-0 404 points

Della Morte (2346) Fiora (1954), 0-1 392 points

Liu Dede (2387) Azarya (2005), 0-1 382 points

Sanchez (2544) Bartolini (2178), 0-1 366 points

Bacila (1621) Munteanu (1977), 1-0 356 points

Zalimben (1714) Lo Presti (2065), 1-0 351 points

Bacilia (1621) Vasile (1958), 1-0 337 points

Average difference: 385
White won 7 games; Black won 3 games

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Technical Maintenance
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Saturday, 20 October 2012
Attention: the website is undergoing a technical maintenance. Some of the images dated from September 23rd and on may not be available. This problem should be fixed soon. Thanks for your understanding!

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European Chess Club Cup - Round 4
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The rating favorites are doing well so far in both sections.

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Five games were drawn; Zvyagintsev scored against Lysyj. St. Petersburg defeated Economist SGSEU 3.5-2.5

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SOCAR crushed  Schachgesellschaft Zürich 6-0. Tomsk-400 also didn't lose any points against Tammer-Shakki. Moreover, two other matches finished with such a surprising score

St. Petersburg Chess Federation and Tomsk-400 (both from Russia) are leading the tournament with 8 match points out of 8.

Full results

In the women's event the team from Monaco is still doing perfect, while AVS lost another match - what a disaster.

Round 4 on 2012/10/14 at 15:00
Bo. 8   SHSM-Nashe Nasledie Rtg - 6   Rishon Le-Zion Rtg 3½: ½
1.1 GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra 2490 - WIM Efroimski, Marsel 2162 1 - 0
1.2 IM Gunina, Valentina 2514 -   Reprun, Nadejda 2143 1 - 0
1.3 WGM Kashlinskaya, Alina 2368 -   Vardi, Shlomit 2010 1 - 0
1.4 IM Savina, Anastasia 2303 -   Federovski, Adi 1829 ½ - ½
Bo. 7   Ugra Rtg - 5   Chigorin Club Rtg 2½:1½
2.1 WGM Kovanova, Baira 2408 - IM Bodnaruk, Anastasia 2425 ½ - ½
2.2 WGM Girya, Olga 2454 - WIM Bronnikova, Elizaveta 2244 ½ - ½
2.3 IM Romanko, Marina 2365 - WIM Ivkina, Olga 2266 ½ - ½
2.4 WGM Shadrina, Tatiana 2361 -   Ivanova-Skripova, Tatiana 2173 1 - 0
Bo. 1   Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo Rtg - 4   Ashdod Rtg 4 : 0
3.1 GM Koneru, Humpy 2607 - IM Borsuk, Angela 2260 1 - 0
3.2 GM Muzychuk, Anna 2587 - WIM Vasiliev, Olga 2240 1 - 0
3.3 GM Cramling, Pia 2514 - WIM Tsifanskaya, Ludmila A 2087 1 - 0
3.4 IM Skripchenko, Almira 2437 - WFM Dotan, Valeria 2064 1 - 0
Bo. 2   AVS Rtg - 3   Mika Rtg 1½:2½
4.1 GM Stefanova, Antoaneta 2493 - GM Danielian, Elina 2476 ½ - ½
4.2 GM Cmilyte, Viktorija 2528 - GM Harika, Dronavalli 2512 ½ - ½
4.3 WGM Pogonina, Natalija 2476 - IM Mkrtchian, Lilit 2456 ½ - ½
4.4 IM Muzychuk, Mariya 2474 - IM Javakhishvili, Lela 2444 0 - 1


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Natalia Pogonina @ Saratov Junior Championship Closing Ceremony
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Natalia Pogonina was a honorary guest at the Saratov Junior Chess Championship. Here are some of the pictures:

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With IM Mikhail Nedochetov, head of the Saratov Junior Chess School

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Natalia's son Nickolai prefers White

Presenting trophies:

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European Chess Club Cup - Round 3
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The reigning champion from St. Petersburg was paired against, using Kasparov's terminology, chess tourists - a team composed of IMs, FMs and even non-titled players! The match ended in a wipeout: 5.5-0.5

Meanwhile, on the other boards super grandmasters were fighting bitterly.

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A classical confrontation between the Ukrainian players: Ponomariov vs. Ivanchuk. This game turned out to be critical: Ruslan scored; Tomsk defeated Ashdod 3.5-2.5

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OSG Baden-Baden vs. Economist SGSEU. Nepomniatchi defeated Bacrot and Alekseev won against Naiditsch. 4-2 for Economist


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Ugra-SHSM-64. A very tough match. Shirov - Leko 1-0; Korobov - Grachev 0-1; Rublevsky - Najer 1-0. Ugra won 3.5-2.5

Full results

In the women's tournament Monte Carlo is still cruising towards victory, while AVS is struggling.

Round 3 on 2012/10/13 at 15:00
Bo. 2   AVS Rtg - 8   SHSM-Nashe Nasledie Rtg 2 : 2
1.1 GM Stefanova, Antoaneta 2493 - GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra 2490 ½ - ½
1.2 GM Lahno, Kateryna 2551 - IM Gunina, Valentina 2514 0 - 1
1.3 GM Cmilyte, Viktorija 2528 - IM Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina 2405 ½ - ½
1.4 IM Muzychuk, Mariya 2474 - IM Savina, Anastasia 2303 1 - 0
Bo. 3   Mika Rtg - 1   Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo Rtg 1½:2½
2.1 GM Danielian, Elina 2476 - GM Hou, Yifan 2605 0 - 1
2.2 GM Harika, Dronavalli 2512 - GM Koneru, Humpy 2607 ½ - ½
2.3 IM Mkrtchian, Lilit 2456 - GM Muzychuk, Anna 2587 ½ - ½
2.4 IM Javakhishvili, Lela 2444 - GM Cramling, Pia 2514 ½ - ½
Bo. 4   Ashdod Rtg - 7   Ugra Rtg 2 : 2
3.1 IM Klinova, Masha 2324 - WGM Girya, Olga 2454 ½ - ½
3.2 IM Borsuk, Angela 2260 - IM Romanko, Marina 2365 ½ - ½
3.3 WIM Vasiliev, Olga 2240 - WGM Shadrina, Tatiana 2361 ½ - ½
3.4 WIM Tsifanskaya, Ludmila A 2087 - WIM Bezgodova, Maria 2177 ½ - ½
Bo. 5   Chigorin Club Rtg - 6   Rishon Le-Zion Rtg 3 : 1
4.1 IM Bodnaruk, Anastasia 2425 - WIM Efroimski, Marsel 2162 ½ - ½
4.2 WIM Bronnikova, Elizaveta 2244 -   Reprun, Nadejda 2143 1 - 0
4.3 WIM Ivkina, Olga 2266 -   Federovski, Adi 1829 1 - 0
4.4   Ivanova-Skripova, Tatiana 2173 -   Lahav, Michal 1732 ½ - ½


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Magnus Carlsen won Bilbao Masters
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After a dramatic race for gold between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana the Norwegian superstar came on top by winning the blitz tie-break 2-0. Fabiano Caruana achieved the largest rating gain and became #5 on the live rating list. Carlsen needed a last round win to beat Garry Kasparov's rating record, but the game was drawn. Levon Aronian and Sergey Karjakin performed slightly below expectations, while World Champion Viswanthan Anand had yet another disappointing tournament: he drew 9 games and lost one. Francisco Vallejo Pons predictably finished in last place.

Results (3-1-0 scoring system!)

1. Carlsen - 17
2. Caruana - 17 (lost blitz tie-break)
3. Aronian - 11
4. Karjakin - 10
5. Anand - 9
6. Vallejo - 6


Magnus Carlsen - Viswanathan Anand, 1-0

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