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The 2012 World Chess Championship is taking place in Moscow, Russia on May 11-30 and features two of the best players in the game today: Defending World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand (India) and World Chess Championship Challenger Boris Gelfand (Israel). These two seasoned veterans in the chess elite are fighting it out for a prize fund of $2.5 million dollars (the winner will receive $1.5 million and the loser will receive $1 million). While Anand [...]

It’s not easy to keep up with the constantly changing schedules, venues, player lists, etc. for the elite chess tournaments of 2012, so I decided to centralize my research here. The climate at the top of the chess world has become very interesting lately, as Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian have greatly distanced themselves from other super-grandmasters on the current ratings lists – Carlsen at #1 with 2835 FIDE and Aronian stubbornly chasing at #2 [...]

The 7th Mikhail Tal Memorial Chess Tournament 2012 has been confirmed for June 7-19th in Moscow, Russia and will showcase an incredible line-up of elite grandmaster talent. Tal Memorial Chess 2012 has arranged the participation of 7 of the top 10 highest rated players in the world, only missing current World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand at #4, Sergey Karjakin at #8, and Vassily Ivanchuk at #10. The Tal Memorial 2012 promises to be one of [...]

The winner of the 2011 FIDE World Cup may have been chosen but the tournament has yet to go. Here are the latest updates from the 2011 FIDE World Cup. Svidler has won the cup with first place after defeating Grischuk. Ivanchuk has also guaranteed himself a spot for the candidates tournament after drawing game 1 of his consolation match with Ponomariov to determine who would take 3rd place honors and a guaranteed place in [...]

The Semi-Finals of the FIDE Chess World Cup, as expected, featured an incredibly high class of chess. The battle for the chess world cup turned to be one between 2 Russians and 2 Ukranians. Ironically enough, it was the Russians who won and will now have to face each other off into the finals. Here is an update on how the semi-finals went down. Svidler Crushes Ponomariov Svidler was able to overcome Ponomariov in game [...]

As Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR) beat Teimor Radjabov (AZE) and Alexander Grischuk (RUS) beat David Navara (CZE) in tiebreakers yesterday, they will join Peter Svidler (RUS) and Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR) in the Semi-Finals of the 2011 FIDE World Chess Cup. This is one of the strongest FIDE World Cup tournaments ever, with the average rating of the Semi-Finals to be over Svidler won his match by drawing the first game and creatively whipping up a dangerous [...]

After losing game 1 of round 4 of the 2011 FIDE World Chess Cup against fellow Russian and old friend Vladimir Potkin, Alexander Grischuk had to win to stay alive in the tournament and have a chance to win the $120,000 first prize. Grischuk defeats Potkin and moves on… Grischuk opened with e4 and Potkin chose the solid French Defense. Grischuk continued with an aggressive line intended to open and complicate the game as quickly [...]