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Chess TV - New Episode

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Latest chess news brought to you by our friends from Sweden.

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Candidates Tournament: Current Standings

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The winner takes it all!

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Candidates Tournament, Final Round Odds

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FIDE April Rating 2013 List

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50 players have a rating of 2700+. No personal records have been broken.

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Fabiano Caruana is not playing in the Candidates, but he will probably get his shots in the future. +12 rating points

Rank Old
Rank
Name Country Title Rating Old
Rating
Games
  1 1 Carlsen, Magnus NOR GM 2872   2872 0
2 3 Aronian, Levon ARM GM 2809   2809 0
3 2 Kramnik, Vladimir RUS GM 2801 -9 2810 6
  4 4 Radjabov, Teimour AZE GM 2793   2793 0
  5 5 Karjakin, Sergey RUS GM 2786   2786 0
  6 6 Anand, Viswanathan IND GM 2783 -1 2784 6
7 11 Caruana, Fabiano ITA GM 2772 +12 2760 6
8 7 Topalov, Veselin BUL GM 2771   2771 0
9 8 Nakamura, Hikaru USA GM 2767   2767 0
10 9 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE GM 2766   2766 0
11 10 Grischuk, Alexander RUS GM 2764   2764 0
  12 12 Morozevich, Alexander RUS GM 2758   2758 0
  13 13 Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR GM 2757   2757 0
  14 14 Svidler, Peter RUS GM 2747   2747 0
  15 15 Leko, Peter HUN GM 2744   2744 0
  16 16 Wang, Hao CHN GM 2743   2743 0
  17 17 Kamsky, Gata USA GM 2741   2741 0
  18 18 Gelfand, Boris ISR GM 2739 -1 2740 6
19 20 Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS GM 2734   2734 0
20 21 Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR GM 2733   2733 0
21 22 Giri, Anish NED GM 2727 -2 2729 3
22 23 Adams, Michael ENG GM 2727   2727 0
23 24 Andreikin, Dmitry RUS GM 2727   2727 0
24 26 Dominguez Perez, Leinier CUB GM 2723   2723 0
25 28 Tomashevsky, Evgeny RUS GM 2722   2722 0
26 27 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA GM 2722   2722 0
27 31 Le, Quang Liem VIE GM 2717 +8 2709 9
28 30 Vitiugov, Nikita RUS GM 2712   2712 0
29 32 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam UZB GM 2709   2709 0
30 33 Malakhov, Vladimir RUS GM 2709   2709 0
31 34 Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS GM 2708   2708 0
32 29 Areshchenko, Alexander UKR GM 2707 -13 2720 3
33 36 Bruzon Batista, Lazaro CUB GM 2707   2707 0
34 35 Ding, Liren CHN GM 2707   2707 0
35 39 Naiditsch, Arkadij GER GM 2706   2706 1
36 40 Fressinet, Laurent FRA GM 2706   2706 0
  37 37 Navara, David CZE GM 2706   2706 0
38 41 Wang, Yue CHN GM 2706   2706 0
39 42 Bacrot, Etienne FRA GM 2705   2705 0
40 43 Harikrishna, P. IND GM 2705   2705 0
41 44 Riazantsev, Alexander RUS GM 2705   2705 0
42 45 Akopian, Vladimir ARM GM 2704   2704 0
43 54 Eljanov, Pavel UKR GM 2703 +6 2697 3
44 46 Moiseenko, Alexander UKR GM 2703   2703 0
45 25 Volokitin, Andrei UKR GM 2702 -23 2725 11
46 38 Cheparinov, Ivan BUL GM 2702 -4 2706 9
47 48 Jobava, Baadur GEO GM 2702   2702 0
48 50 So, Wesley PHI GM 2701   2701 0
49 51 Shirov, Alexei LAT GM 2700   2700 0
50 52 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw POL GM 2700   2700 0

Best results: Caruana +12
Severe losses: Volokitin - 23, Areschenko -13

List of all-times highest-rated players


Women have played more games over this period:

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Olga Girya performed excellently at World Women's Team Chess Championship and won a strong female round robin event in India

Rank Old
Rank
Name Country Title Rating Old
Rating
Games
  1 1 Polgar, Judit HUN GM 2696   2696 0
  2 2 Hou, Yifan CHN GM 2617   2617 0
  3 3 Koneru, Humpy IND GM 2597   2597 0
  4 4 Muzychuk, Anna SLO GM 2585   2585 0
  5 5 Zhao, Xue CHN GM 2565   2565 0
6 7 Lagno, Kateryna UKR GM 2550 +3 2547 8
7 6 Dzagnidze, Nana GEO GM 2545 -9 2554 8
8 9 Kosintseva, Nadezhda RUS GM 2531   2531 0
9 8 Sebag, Marie FRA GM 2527 -10 2537 2
  10 10 Stefanova, Antoaneta BUL GM 2525 -5 2530 9
  11 11 Cramling, Pia SWE GM 2525   2525 0
12 13 Cmilyte, Viktorija LTU GM 2522 +8 2514 4
13 16 Ju, Wenjun CHN WGM 2521 +16 2505 9
14 12 Kosintseva, Tatiana RUS GM 2517   2517 0
  15 15 Gunina, Valentina RUS IM 2510 +5 2505 12
16 14 Harika, Dronavalli IND GM 2509 -1 2510 2
  17 17 Ruan, Lufei CHN WGM 2501   2501 0
18 19 Kosteniuk, Alexandra RUS GM 2496 +1 2495 7
19 18 Khotenashvili, Bela GEO IM 2492 -7 2499 8
  20 20 Zhu, Chen QAT GM 2491   2491 0
21 23 Ushenina, Anna UKR GM 2488 +11 2477 8
  22 22 Muzychuk, Mariya UKR IM 2483 +4 2479 10
23 28 Tan, Zhongyi CHN WGM 2483 +12 2471 9
24 21 Paehtz, Elisabeth GER IM 2479 -8 2487 20
25 30 Danielian, Elina ARM GM 2478 +12 2466 20
26 29 Zhukova, Natalia UKR GM 2476 +5 2471 8
27 24 Hoang, Thanh Trang HUN GM 2476   2476 0
28 26 Pogonina, Natalija RUS WGM 2473 -2 2475 7
29 27 Zatonskih, Anna USA IM 2471 -3 2474 17
30 37 Krush, Irina USA IM 2470 +22 2448 10
31 25 Huang, Qian CHN WGM 2469 -7 2476 7
32 33 Mkrtchian, Lilit ARM IM 2466 +8 2458 11
33 40 Girya, Olga RUS WGM 2464 +24 2440 25
34 31 Javakhishvili, Lela GEO IM 2464   2464 7
35 32 Galliamova, Alisa RUS IM 2458 -1 2459 6
36 39 Moser, Eva AUT IM 2456 +10 2446 11
37 34 Atalik, Ekaterina TUR IM 2455   2455 0
38 35 Socko, Monika POL GM 2451 -1 2452 5
39 36 Hunt, Harriet V ENG IM 2450   2450 0
40 38 Dembo, Yelena GRE IM 2448   2448 0
41 48 Bodnaruk, Anastasia RUS IM 2443 +14 2429 8
42 45 Guo, Qi CHN WGM 2439 +4 2435 19
43 41 Peptan, Corina-Isabela ROU IM 2439   2439 0
44 43 Munguntuul, Batkhuyag MGL IM 2436   2436 0
45 44 Skripchenko, Almira FRA IM 2430 -6 2436 2
  46 46 Cori T., Deysi PER WGM 2430   2430 0
  47 47 Zaiatz, Elena RUS IM 2430   2430 0
48 42 Khurtsidze, Nino GEO IM 2428 -9 2437 7
  49 49 Alexandrova, Olga ESP IM 2427   2427 0
  50 50 Ding, Yixin CHN WGM 2427   2427 0

Best results: Girya +24, Krush +22, Ju Wenjun +16, Bodnaruk +14, Tan Zhongyi +12, Danielian +12, Ushenina +11, Moser +10
Severe losses: Sebag -10

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FIDE Women's Grand Prix: Hot or Not?

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FIDE has recently announced the line-up of the Women's Grand Prix. Most people have ignored the Regulations, but we decided to check the document out.

Surprisingly, there is a revolutionary new rule coming up! To promote chess, video from all the games will be broadcast live. The audience will have a chance to vote "Hot or not" in each match-up. The girl who gets more votes receives a full point, while the game is worth one point too, as usual. The bookmakers are at a loss already: they are not only reviewing ratings and game history, but also the results of chess beauty contests. Who will win the series and qualify for a World Women's Championship match and a professional modelling contract from FIDE's new corporate sponsor - an elite modelling agency?

A similar system will be employed at the Women's World Chess Championship match. As far as we know, the tie-break will be rapid chess and a bikini contest. In the case of a tie we will have blitz and mud wrestling.

Another interesting question that came up was why Natalia Pogonina didn't receive a nomination. A top-level FIDE official told Pogonina.com on terms of anonymity: "She is too hot for my liking".

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Candidates Tournament, Round 13 Odds

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Sunday, 31 March 2013


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Blitz: Don't Forget to Develop Your Pieces

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Candidate master Peter Zhdanov offers video commentary on two of his recent games and shares a few practical tips on how to play blitz. Check out the beginning of the video to see a fantastic picture of Natalia Pogonina.

Warning: the annotations are in Russian. In the future we are planning to experiment with authors & formats and to record videos in English too.



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Chess Week on Twitter

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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:

Olga Girya wins a strong women's tournament in India

Quote of the week

Close is not enough

RussiaChess.org: "Falling just a few steps from the finish" - ten deadly endgame blunders that happened in World Chess Championship-level tournaments

Kramnik is leading the Candidates Tournament after R12; Carlsen 0.5 points behind

UAE now has a huge chess club for 500 players

FIDE President nominations for the Women's Grand Prix Series

Berik Balbagaev: @Chess_News Again only half the truth...not only Nadezhda Kosintseva, but also Viktoria Cmilyte!

New episode of Odessa Chess TV program

R12 proved this statement right

Not the openings you expect to see at 2750+ level

Nice domain name

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Candidates Tournament, Round 10 Odds

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David vs. Goliath: Upsets of the Week

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By candidate master Peter Zhdanov, editor of Pogonina.com

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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.

Top-10 upsets of the week:

Le (1834) - Vo Thanh Ninh (2318), 1-0, 484 points
Le (1834) - Tu Hoang Thai (2291), 1-0, 457 points
Rasic (2015) - Maksimovic (2442), 1-0, 427 points
Vasilyev (2253) - Le (1834), 0-1, 419 points
Hofer (1851) - Gerhold (2256), 1-0, 405 points
Jacobsen (1910) - Holm (2310), 1-0, 400 points
Zhang Weida (2420) - Xu (2034), 0-1, 386 points
Osmolny (2180) - Narciso Dublan (2551), 1-0, 371 points
Churm (2169) - Hebden (2540), 1-0, 371 points
Chevannes (2083) - Camacho Collados (2427), 1-0, 344 points

Average gap: 406; White won 8 games, Black won 2 games

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