tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24148943345946350712024-03-19T15:58:27.341+05:30Indian Chess UpdatesPradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-77078611789324703402012-01-05T03:45:00.001+05:302012-01-05T08:14:29.516+05:30Indian Chess Live Ratings<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Updated on 05-January-2012</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/1365/indianchess.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 800px; height: 587px;" src="http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/1365/indianchess.png" border="0" alt="" /></a>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-60996686728979883942012-01-05T03:35:00.003+05:302012-01-05T08:17:15.833+05:30<span style="color:yellow;">Current Tournaments</span><span style="color:yellow;">:-</span><span style="color:yellow;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color:red;">(Click on the Tournament names for current standings)</span></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr63301.aspx?lan=1">4th Chennai Open Grand Master Chess Tournament</a> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">-(2/11 rounds</span>) [Sethuraman, Deepan, Venkatesh]<a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr63301.aspx?lan=1"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.hastingschess.com/2012/SMWSite/index.html">Hastings Masters 2012</a> - (8/9 rounds) [Sengupta, Lalith Babu, Shyam Sundar]<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.chess-results.com/tnr63257.aspx?art=1&lan=1&flag=30">41st Rilton Cup</a> - (8/9 rounds) [Tejas Bakre] To be calulated<br /></li><li><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr57980.aspx?art=6&lan=1">Deutsche Schach-Bundesliga 2011/12</a> - (7/15 rounds) [Harikrishna, Chanda, Negi]</li></ul><a href="http://www.stockholmschack.nu/LIVE/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong></strong></span></a><span style="color:yellow;">Completed Tournaments</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color:yellow;">:- <span style="color:red;">(Click on the Tournament names for final standings)</span></span></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr60605.aspx?art=1&rd=11&lan=1&flag=30">Vizag GM Open</a> - (11 rounds) [Gupta, Arun Prasad, Grover Sahaj, Lalith Babu]</li></ul>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-17363682877779501802011-04-19T03:34:00.004+05:302011-04-20T16:24:14.831+05:30Ongoing Tournaments - April 2011<div style="text-align: justify;">1<a href="http://www.chess-results.com/tnr45591.aspx?lan=1">. 34th Open de San Sebastián</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">-------------------------</span><span class="UIStory_Message"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>India's </span> <span jsid="text">Venkatesh 2455 is in lead with 4 points and Praveen Kumar 2352 is in 3.5 points after 4 rounds. They have earned both 10.9 elo points and 10.6 points respectively</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><br /></span><br /></div>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-4638183040100134362011-04-19T03:33:00.003+05:302011-04-20T16:34:25.193+05:30Completed Tournaments April 2011<a style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);" href="http://chess-results.com/tnr38597.aspx?art=16&lan=1&m=-1&wi=1000">1. Deutsche Schach-Bundesliga 2010/11</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">--------------------------------</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Sandipan Chanda finished with a performance of 2893 with 5/6 points and has gained 18.5 elo points from this tournament<span class="UIStory_Message"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>while Negi ended with 2/5 points and lost around 3.5 elo points.</span><br /></div><span class="UIStory_Message"><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr47759.aspx?art=1&rd=9&lan=1&fed=IND&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=1000"><br />2. </a></span><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr47759.aspx?art=1&rd=9&lan=1&fed=IND&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=1000">13th Dubai open 2011 </a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">----------------------</span><span class="UIStory_Message"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="UIStory_Message">Dream run for Abhijeet Gupta, he became the champion with 7.5 points from 9 rounds and gained around 17 Elo points & Parimarjan Negi was runners-up with 7 points and gained 14.3 Elo points.</span> Sasikiran, Laith Babu, Ashwin Jayram and Shiven Khosla all ended with 6.0 points. <a class="CRdb" href="http://chess-results.com/tnr47759.aspx?art=9&lan=1&fed=IND&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=1000&snr=58"></a></div><span class="UIStory_Message"><br /></span><a href="http://www.chess-results.com/tnr48109.aspx?art=1&lan=1&wi=1000">3. Thailand Open Chess Championship 2011 </a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">------------------------</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">India's Sriram Jha 2442, Saptarshi Roy 2395, Somak Palik 2378 all ended with credible 6.5 points from 9 rounds followed by Tejas Bakre 2530, Abhijit Kunte 2526, Lahiri Atanu 2350, Sanjay 2334, Akshat Khamparia 2328, Sauravh Khherdekar 2325 with 6 points. The tournament was won by Jan Gustafsson, Nigel Short and Pons Francisco Vallejo all ending on 7.5 points<br /></div><br /><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr38865.aspx?art=16&lan=1&wi=1000">4. Icelandic Team Tournament </a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">---------------------</span><span class="UIStory_Message"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>India's Abhijeet Gupta scored with 3/3 points for his team Hellir and earned around 8 elo points</span>.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://main.uschess.org/content/view/11062/621">5. <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>World Amateur Team Championship </a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">--------------------------------</span><span class="UIStory_Message"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="UIStory_Message">Magesh Chandran finished with a 6-0 perfect record in board 2 and in the process earned around 3 elo points</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr47863.aspx?art=1&rd=9&lan=1&wi=1000">6. Delhi State Open Chess Championship 2011 </a><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">----------------------------------------</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">--</span><span class="UIStory_Message"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>Top seed FM Prasenjit Datta won the tournament convincingly with 8.5 points from 9 rounds<br /><br /><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr47205.aspx?art=1&rd=10&lan=1&wi=1000">7. Chess Club Calicut Fide Rated Chess Tournament</a><br /></span><span class="UIStory_Message">-------------------------------------<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>Top seed IM Ratnakaran 2394 won the tournament convincingly with 8.5 points from 10 rounds<br /><br /><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr47111.aspx?art=1&rd=9&lan=1&wi=1000">8.</a></span><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr47111.aspx?art=1&rd=9&lan=1&wi=1000"> 4th Jugal Kishore Newatia Memorial International Tournament</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>------------------------------<span class="UIStory_Message"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>Top seed GM Sriram Jha 2442 won the tournament with 7.5 points from 9 rounds. He tied first with two others GB Prakash and Himanshu Sharma.</span><span class="UIStory_Message"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr48027.aspx?art=1&rd=8&lan=1&wi=1000">9. Rotary International FIDE Rated Chess Tournament</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">----------------------</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><br />Himanshu Sharma 2393 won the tournament with 8.5 points after 10 rounds. Top seed Deepan Chakkravarthy 2484 finished below par on 11th position with 7 points. Konguvel Ponnuswamy 2406 and Das Arghyadip 2478 finished 5th and 7th with 7.5 points</span></span><br /></div>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-28790821411667228602011-04-19T01:10:00.001+05:302011-04-19T17:57:37.280+05:30Upcoming Tournaments<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><a href="http://www.doeberlcup.com.au/registry/registrations/dynoutput">1. O2C 49th Doeberl Cup 2011</a><br />-----------------------------------<br /></span>India's Akshat Khamparia rated 2328 in fray. The tournaments starts on 21st April 2011.<br /><br /><a href="http://parrachessclub.org/SydneyInternationalOpen/entries.php">2. Sydney International Open</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><a href="http://parrachessclub.org/SydneyInternationalOpen/entries.php"> 2011</a><br />-----------------------------------<br /></span>India's Akshat Khamparia rated 2328 in fray. The tournaments starts on 27th April 2011.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lucopen.fr/#/liste-des-invites/3760991">3. LUC Open 2011</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">--------------------</span><br />India's Neelotpal Das 2457 is in the fray. Tournament will be held in Lille, north of France, from April 25th to May 1st 2011.Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-13082901006414267302011-03-31T03:25:00.000+05:302011-04-19T17:37:04.815+05:30Completed Tournaments March 2011<span jsid="text"><div id="id_4d7657ba105b88561035490" class="text_exposed_root"><a href="http://www.utdallas.edu/chess/springgm/springgm-2011-results.html">1. UT Dallas Grandmaster Invitational Tournament</a><a href="http://www.utdallas.edu/chess/springgm/springgm-2011-results.html"> </a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">----------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>GM Magesh Chandran 2542 who lost the first 4 rounds in a trot finished with 6 points from 12 rounds. In the last eight rounds he scored 6 points.<span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_hide"></span><span class="text_exposed_show">In the last round he avenged his first round loss and defeated the top seed GM Alejandro Ramirez (2594). He lost 6.6 elo points from the tournament.</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://skaksamband.is/?c=webpage&id=410&lid=309&option=links">2. </a><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://skaksamband.is/?c=webpage&id=410&lid=309&option=links">Reykjavik Open 2011</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">----------------------------</span><br />Abhijeet Gupta 2580 finished 12th with 6.5 points from 9 rounds just half point behind Joint winners (7 of them). He gained 5 elo points in the process. </span><span><span jsid="text"><span><span jsid="text"><span jsid="text"><span><span><span><span>Dronvalli Harika 2524</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span><span><span><span><span>finished with 6 points and lost around 6 elo pints. Sahaj <span style="font-size:100%;">Grover 2495 and </span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span jsid="text"><span style="font-size:100%;">D</span><span jsid="text"><span><span jsid="text"><span><span><span><span class="CRdb">ebashis Das</span> <span style="font-size:100%;">2398 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size:100%;">ended </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">on 5.5 points followed by </span><span jsid="text"><span><span jsid="text"><span><span><span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span></span></span><span><span jsid="text"><span><span>Eesha Karavade </span></span><span><span>2330, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Sareen Vishal 2358 on 5.0 points</span><span><span jsid="text">.</span></span></div></span><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday/1103/gm.htm">3. First Saturday Chess GM Tournament Series March 2011</a></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">--------------------------------------------------</span><br /><span jsid="text"><div id="id_4d7657ba105b88561035490" class="text_exposed_root"> Indian IM Srinath Narayanan 2310 finished 8th in a 10 player event with 4.0 points from 9 rounds. He has earned well against the top ranked players and has gained around 6 elo points.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">4. 9th international Chess Festival of "Meurthe et Moselle" in Nancy (France)</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);" class="UIStory_Message"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>--------------------------</span><span jsid="text"><div id="id_4d7ef45bbcf378405003375" class="text_exposed_root"><a href="http://echecs54.free.fr/festival2011/festival54_blitzGa.htm">Blitz Tournament</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">----------------</span><br />Harikrishana finished credible 12th in the Blitz tournament with 7.5 points from 11 rounds. French Laurent Fressinet won the tournament with a near perfect score of 10.5 points with 10 wins and lone draw. <span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show">The total participants was 136.</span></span></div></span><span jsid="text"><br /><a href="http://echecs54.free.fr/festival2011/11rapidega.htm">Rapid Tournament</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">--------------------</span><br />Harikrishana finished credible 11th in the Blitz tournament with 6.0 points from 9 rounds. Germany's Daniel Fridaman won the tournament with 7.5 points. The total participants was 169.</span></div></span><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);" href="http://qatar2011.fide.com/tourview/show-6.html">5. Doha Fide Women Grand Prix 2011</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">----------------------------------</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">India's GM Koneru Humpy won the final grand prix with 8 points from 11 . In the last two rounds the Indian caught Elina Danielian in the standings at the FIDE Grand Prix in Doha. In the process she also gained 6.7 elo points.<br /><br />Koneru finished ahead of Nana Dzagnidze in the overall GP standings and qualified for a World Title match against Hou Yifan.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><a style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);" href="http://cappelle-chess.fr/fr2/default.php?page=3943">6. The 27th International Open of Cappelle-la-Grande</a><br />---------------------------------<br /></span>Harikrishna and Sasikiran finished on 6.5 points after 9 rounds. Harikrishna gained 1 elo points while Sasikiran lost 6.5 elo points. Gopal finished with 6 points and lost 12 elo pioints. Harika finished with 5.5 points and gained around 3 elo points.<br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);" href="http://chess-results.com/tnr45360.aspx?lan=1">7. Sri lanka Open Chess Championship 2011</a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">------------------------------</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>India's Players captured the first three places. CR Krishna 2313 won the tournament with 9 points from 11 games and gained 17 elo points. He was closely followed by <span>R </span>Arun Karthik 2308 with 8.5 points and gained 12 elo points and third place went to top seed Vishnu Prasanna 2358 who finished with 8 points and lost 3 elo points.<br /><span class="UIStory_Message"><br /></span><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr43666.aspx?art=0&lan=1&fed=UZB&turdet=YES&m=-1&wi=1000"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">8. 19th Fajr International Chess Open Tournament </span></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">------------------------------------------------</span><br />Sahaj Grover 2462 seeded 26th finished 16th with 8.0 points in 11 rounds. Eight people tied for the first place with 8.5 points. He lost 6 elo points from the tournament.<br /><br /><a href="http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=56208">9. 2011 UMBC Open - Alvin S Mintzes Class Tournament</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">------------------------------------------</span><br />Balasubramanian 2263 finished 1.5 points from 3 games and gained 5 elo points. While Indian American Adarsh Jayakumar 2191 finished 4 points from 5 games and gained 26 elo points.<br /><br /></div>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-44726749101155691802011-02-14T23:30:00.011+05:302011-03-04T12:51:24.460+05:30Completed Tournaments February 2011<div align="justify"><a style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.schaakbond.nl/live/Batavia/SMWSite/index.html">1.The 3rd Batavia Chess Tournament</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">-----------------------------------</span><br />Indian GM Pravin Thipsay finished 8th in a 10 player event with 3/9 points. He lost 16.6 elo points in the process.<br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;" href="http://chess-results.com/tnr45024.aspx?art=16&lan=1&m=-1&wi=1000">2. 31st Red Chillies National Team Chess Championship- 2011</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">------------------------------------------</span><br />Indian Top GM's Gupta, Deep Sengupta, Bakre and Arun Prasad are in the field.<span class="UIStory_Message"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>Abhijeet Gupta finished with a perfect record of 7/7 points and also gained 11.7 elo points in the process.<br /></span><br /><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr44706.aspx?ix=1&lan=1&m=-1&wi=1000&turdet=YES"><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. 4th Colombo International Chess Festival 2011</span><br /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">-------------------------------------------------------</span><br />India's Navin Kanna is the<span jsid="text"> Champion, but lost 4.3 rating points. He was undefeated in this 10 Round Swiss Tournament, scored 8.5 Points with 7 wins & 3 draws.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><strong><a href="http://online.aeroflotchess.org/final_standings&9.html">4. Qualification for the World Blitz Championship 2011<br /></a></strong>-----------------------------------------------<br /></span>Aeroflot Blitz where the top six would qualify for the final . Mamedyarov was winner with 14.5/18, followed by Ponomariov 14, Andreikin & Tomashevsky 13.5, and Wesley So & Vitiugov on 13, all 6 qualified for the World Blitz Championship<br /><br />India's Chanda and Sethuraman finished with 9.5 and 9.0 points and finished at 73 and 95 respectively in a field containing 194 players.<br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><strong><a href="http://www.aeroflotchess.org/tournaments/A/">5.Aeroflot Open 2011 - Group A<br /></a></strong>-------------------------------<br /></span>Chanda continues his superb form. seeded 28th he finished the tournament 11th with 5.5/9 and in the process also gained 9.3 elo points He is slowly moving towards Harikrishana in the live ratings. India's newest GM Sethuraman seeded 69th finished poorly on 67th with 3.5/9... points and lost 4.2 elo points.<br /><br /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><a href="http://www.aeroflotchess.org/tournaments/B/">Group B</a> IM Vishnu Prasanna seeded 71 finished 75th on 4.0/9.0 points and lost 3.5 elo points. </div><div align="justify"><a href="http://www.aeroflotchess.org/tournaments/C/">Group C</a> Panaiappan seeded 79 finished 93rd with 3.0/9 points and lost 7.4 elo points. </div><div align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><br /></span></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><strong><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr44255.aspx?art=4&lan=1&fedb=IND&fed=IND&turdet=YES&m=-1&wi=1000">6.First Saturday IM Chess tournament 2011<br /></a></strong>---------------------------------------------<br /></span>India's WIM Bhakti Kulkarni 2275 finished 5th in a field of 12 players. She scored 5.5/11 points.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a href="...http://e2e4.org.uk/international/2011/Brighton_Feb/mastersB.htm">7. e2e4.org.uk Brighton Masters 2011.</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">---------------------------</span><span class="UIStory_Message"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>India's FM Venkatramanan 2302 finished 8th with 3.5 points after 9 rounds and lost around 16.7 elo points</span>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-78068595420637190332010-04-17T19:55:00.007+05:302010-04-21T08:46:38.512+05:30April 2010 Finished Events<strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">10th BCC Thailand Open 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">--------------------------------</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88j1mG6YDwmT3ptx9mDqUhFDi6Y4NnP0VXq-ASHEFJhPnPxG1PymHoUCn2TYAsM86VVpV8fNq5GlVvXE8ylg3UPOISGi36p-nvVo2RmbHQzHP31EH-vuiRctHO4leab74gY_PmPE5vOys/s1600/Thaillan_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88j1mG6YDwmT3ptx9mDqUhFDi6Y4NnP0VXq-ASHEFJhPnPxG1PymHoUCn2TYAsM86VVpV8fNq5GlVvXE8ylg3UPOISGi36p-nvVo2RmbHQzHP31EH-vuiRctHO4leab74gY_PmPE5vOys/s400/Thaillan_2010.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462424238318317298" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://www.chess-results.com/tnr32758.aspx?art=0&lan=1&turdet=YES&m=-1&wi=1000">Chess-results Site</a><a href="http://bangkokchess.com/?page_id=349"> Official Site</a></p>____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">UKM KL Masters 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBpRGacpZZdqUpHJ0qewg_Ys59qM0r0-o_5qbFg-b9RfRGQWOPSlLhLYAEZAycqd4iA705aD3TFm7CVRMWC6pHOzPXxA_qcV4Ub9Y6waMV5M_X-aGqBbnag6fjcJGM0iQwhQLi1RPGcXYf/s1600/UKlM_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBpRGacpZZdqUpHJ0qewg_Ys59qM0r0-o_5qbFg-b9RfRGQWOPSlLhLYAEZAycqd4iA705aD3TFm7CVRMWC6pHOzPXxA_qcV4Ub9Y6waMV5M_X-aGqBbnag6fjcJGM0iQwhQLi1RPGcXYf/s400/UKlM_2010.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462423890440278146" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://www.chess-results.com/tnr32719.aspx?lan=1">Chess-results Site</a></p>_____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">28th Metz Open 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />GM Andrei Sokolov won the 28th Metz Open with 7/9 points. India's Arghyadip Das scored 6/9 points to finish at 10th place. Prasanna Rao and Latest GM elect Deep Sengupta finished with 5/9 points in 19th and 21st places respectively. Prasanna Rao earned around 20 elo points for his performance.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu2BmX7jb3vU2L8IQLbbEorr060O3wBTv5XnPnRaKmByA3WvFmHC4sjrbEBZqo1HF6Pb28A0qNjUSPfMZcB04cWnHAd8TtH2RuaXSEM4hOGBhT6K5_Q6ox_px0VBgrYv3xJVJPm6Ym4-ud/s1600/Metz_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 336px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu2BmX7jb3vU2L8IQLbbEorr060O3wBTv5XnPnRaKmByA3WvFmHC4sjrbEBZqo1HF6Pb28A0qNjUSPfMZcB04cWnHAd8TtH2RuaXSEM4hOGBhT6K5_Q6ox_px0VBgrYv3xJVJPm6Ym4-ud/s400/Metz_2010.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461589870126489362" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://www.metzalekhine57.fr/ga_opa_2010_1652.htm">Official Site</a></p>____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">12th Dubai Open 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />Grandmaster Eduardo Itturizaga of Venezuela won the 12th Dubai Open 2010 on best tiebreak score based on the average ratings of his opponents. He finished with 7/9 points with eight others.<br /><br />Amongst Indians in the fray, R R Laxman, Abhijeet Gupta, M Shyam Sundar, S Arun Prasad and Ramnesh Bhuvanesh scored 6/9 points each while Negi, Sahaj Grover, M R Lalith Babu, D Harika, and S Satyapragyan ended with a tally of 5.5/9 points apiece.<br /><br />Tejas Ravichandran rated 2165 earned his maiden IM norm, he had beaten 3 GM's and 2 IM's which earned him 58 Elo points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9hyxSFPdxs5VDyaZwZ47e7t-zQwVC2k4XoA1ZH69VFOR-Pwu9K3q8VRc8wthRL9j1_9T-4xW00QZ2sD2MSL7KlhSd8ootR6LkiViTdw5Off-tpbj0jzgv2Nmye44xwE8wjHXnt6gnknwy/s1600/Dubai_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9hyxSFPdxs5VDyaZwZ47e7t-zQwVC2k4XoA1ZH69VFOR-Pwu9K3q8VRc8wthRL9j1_9T-4xW00QZ2sD2MSL7KlhSd8ootR6LkiViTdw5Off-tpbj0jzgv2Nmye44xwE8wjHXnt6gnknwy/s400/Dubai_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460802184717536946" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://www.chess-results.com/tnr32429.aspx?lan=1">Chess-results Site</a><a href="http://www.dubaichess.ae/"> Official Site</a></p>____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">3rd Kuala Lumpur Open Chess Championship 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />GM Hou Yifan was crowned champion of the Third Kuala Lumpur Open Chess Tournament 2010. She ended with 7.5/9 points, a performance of 2730.<br /><br />India's Swapnil S Dhopade and Ashwin Jayaram finished sixth and ninth with 6.5/9 points, they earned 15 and 6 elo points respectively. Das Sayantan rated 2216 who had beaten three 2400 players and drawn two 2400 players finished with 5/9 points and earned around 33 elo points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVxup8dQwUA-jgGA-syQHziUVt-WvBvUFssBY4QmVGaNik5eb0rxWCt8HTB_qHt_Pqd9a8xsW2-LpeVhlvyn8hJq1f1eXsqrXVdtCmY-7dP3mCRVXlvidnjlnncVTeR2Ic0dS1QMMnexNM/s1600/KL_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 388px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVxup8dQwUA-jgGA-syQHziUVt-WvBvUFssBY4QmVGaNik5eb0rxWCt8HTB_qHt_Pqd9a8xsW2-LpeVhlvyn8hJq1f1eXsqrXVdtCmY-7dP3mCRVXlvidnjlnncVTeR2Ic0dS1QMMnexNM/s400/KL_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460802193077260674" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://www.chess-results.com/tnr29862.aspx?lan=1">Chess-results Site</a></p>____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">2nd Tata All India Open 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />GM Neelotpal Das emerged champion of the 2nd Tata All India Open Chess Tournament which is being held after a gap of six years. IM Vikramaditya Kamble also tied for the first place with both players ending at 8.5/10 points. Neelotpal Das and Vikramaditya Kamble earned around 19 and 20 elo points respectively<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqOpu5OuuGuXz-P3qC3KffgLiNJGwM0ZktorEIkxo6xMphoohDGeYoT3LQxTvKNMTnMecsZIA2co9yuXxDsLcSynRItjGESBVrIway34_mCwa1yjjGt2I3SZFqpFwcHU5Mw_rJ9zlvvXkM/s1600/tata_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqOpu5OuuGuXz-P3qC3KffgLiNJGwM0ZktorEIkxo6xMphoohDGeYoT3LQxTvKNMTnMecsZIA2co9yuXxDsLcSynRItjGESBVrIway34_mCwa1yjjGt2I3SZFqpFwcHU5Mw_rJ9zlvvXkM/s400/tata_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460802196865282114" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr32592.aspx?lan=1">Chess-results Site</a></p>____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Dubai International Blitz Tournament 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />GM Pantsulaia Levan won the Dubai blitz with a score of 8/9 points.<br />Lalith Babu finished 9th and Venkatesh M R 12th both scored 6.0/9 points. Negi finished poorly with a score of 5.0/9 and ended up in 25th place.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCauXcUjjOiLTYG3Q0sGxa8y1zMZAa1Ldpk7I67o1v0z2KPh6QXCGFfTrHvv6empXVirrdqPfbTks7Zct-h3MDypgCcylYF_Mus-AiOzzDCa5B1eOQgUM1lsxju2pxEwGbI3AOhaBT1Cte/s1600/dubai_blitz_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCauXcUjjOiLTYG3Q0sGxa8y1zMZAa1Ldpk7I67o1v0z2KPh6QXCGFfTrHvv6empXVirrdqPfbTks7Zct-h3MDypgCcylYF_Mus-AiOzzDCa5B1eOQgUM1lsxju2pxEwGbI3AOhaBT1Cte/s400/dubai_blitz_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458752774187754178" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr32594.aspx?art=1&rd=9&lan=1&flag=30&m=-1&wi=1000">Chess-results Site</a><a href="http://www.dubaichess.ae/"> Official Site</a></p>____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">4th Sydney Open 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDVfGuLDYrZx7UDDB7o1kq0pyFkVgLpgnOb90U3vKa2gQmiDob1y1mkaiTF-tv9g-KCUvgiw3_WB4RvuKuTmQpLtahgeCvSEGMlqYeF2b_HLlzmaeW27UWC5K5BSyyRTrbXcFsQpOFnUe2/s1600/Sydney_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 397px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDVfGuLDYrZx7UDDB7o1kq0pyFkVgLpgnOb90U3vKa2gQmiDob1y1mkaiTF-tv9g-KCUvgiw3_WB4RvuKuTmQpLtahgeCvSEGMlqYeF2b_HLlzmaeW27UWC5K5BSyyRTrbXcFsQpOFnUe2/s400/Sydney_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458752782759821890" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://www.chess-results.com/tnr32474.aspx?lan=1">Chess-results Site</a> <a href="http://www.chessaustralia.com.au/live/"> Official Site</a></p>____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">14th Neckar Open 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />GM Pablo Lafuente won the 14th Neckar Open with 7.5/9 points. Top seed Arkadij Naiditsch finished with a moderate score of 6.5/9 points.<br /><br />India's Swathi Ghate scored 6.0 points to finish at 60th place.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe5FZnP2CLSlXjfK8_3uX1zBKpuTOyClPgBXLmvbLZfwy2ZFEZrBkFQ-kcS4pgi0d4ng7jCJ0sTQRd_PHGFweBtiZeJ_YOLQ7gYZXBGAe6WXAeStYgMxClZAUQT6IdnWDdJkQ_uYPITwsD/s1600/Neckar_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 393px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe5FZnP2CLSlXjfK8_3uX1zBKpuTOyClPgBXLmvbLZfwy2ZFEZrBkFQ-kcS4pgi0d4ng7jCJ0sTQRd_PHGFweBtiZeJ_YOLQ7gYZXBGAe6WXAeStYgMxClZAUQT6IdnWDdJkQ_uYPITwsD/s400/Neckar_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457697901818397506" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://mobil.neckar-open.de/14noa-TeilRang-R9.html">Official Site</a></p>____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">North 24 PGS Chess Tournament 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />Top seeded IM Himanshu Sharma won the North 24 PGS ChessTournament 2010. IM Suvrajit Saha also tied for the first place with both players ending at 9/10 points. IM's Himanshu Sharma and Suvrajit Saha earned around 11 and 19 elo points respectively<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUSp_FtWjWntdtGB0I4sGjj3VdAvnLKKr5DwdWrkrClygsf9oGSqq8JuGnopeWEFe6XVI0LQ-MeTgVdTIasjo0o76Evg67v8l2h3c-qcOMe-aPUBtpm_0vxPOGvWlMJPFbi063Ncd2WCda/s1600/24_Pgs_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUSp_FtWjWntdtGB0I4sGjj3VdAvnLKKr5DwdWrkrClygsf9oGSqq8JuGnopeWEFe6XVI0LQ-MeTgVdTIasjo0o76Evg67v8l2h3c-qcOMe-aPUBtpm_0vxPOGvWlMJPFbi063Ncd2WCda/s400/24_Pgs_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457697310587442178" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr32233.aspx?lan=1">Chess-results Site</a></p>____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">2010 O2C Doeberl Cup - Premier</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />GM Li Chao, the top-seed from China emerged as the clear Champion in Doeberl Cup 2010 scoring 7.5/9 Points.<br /><br />GM Magesh Chandran from India stood 4th(Shared 3rd), India's Latest GM-elect Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury was ranked 6th(Again shared 3rd). Both scored 6.5/9. Veteran GM Dibyendu Barua was placed 7th scoring 6/9. Former Indian National Champion GM Abhijit Kunte scored scored 5.5/9 & finished with a modest 16th.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM2QJkhyphenhyphenHHL2L6Km_i5BghIqEDNezQeB5d4ZDo0NeQSuLlFajBU8BHHXXqv7SaMlaXsXXLAoeIjdrayTf0WhvgxAUIWvKE-PoHHcBmppbmz92MFS-eO1WvSJ2M2JqPhHZeTBrD74K2Cl6L/s1600/Dobera_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 377px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM2QJkhyphenhyphenHHL2L6Km_i5BghIqEDNezQeB5d4ZDo0NeQSuLlFajBU8BHHXXqv7SaMlaXsXXLAoeIjdrayTf0WhvgxAUIWvKE-PoHHcBmppbmz92MFS-eO1WvSJ2M2JqPhHZeTBrD74K2Cl6L/s400/Dobera_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456863026420232882" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr32203.aspx?lan=1">Chess-results Site</a> <a href="http://www.doeberlcup.com.au/DBL2010_results/premier/index.html">Official Site</a></p>____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Philadelphia Open 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />Top seeded Gata Kamsky 2702 won the Philadelphia Open with 7/9 points. India's Siddharth R finished modest 22nd with a score of 5.5/9 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJAxT6iX9MzCrVtoubxujrVhf3qpyR4K2BpcwV3XsqNpUGhA6R-w-WtSRbAFLiTjCqNq2tTKvsu399j2vKMrWiLKSizh1Pa4GLUZvkbAuBbqj2aHP8apYfS3Thpqlr7ULHX4nptl6LfP0C/s1600/Phili_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 338px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJAxT6iX9MzCrVtoubxujrVhf3qpyR4K2BpcwV3XsqNpUGhA6R-w-WtSRbAFLiTjCqNq2tTKvsu399j2vKMrWiLKSizh1Pa4GLUZvkbAuBbqj2aHP8apYfS3Thpqlr7ULHX4nptl6LfP0C/s400/Phili_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456863029004949202" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr32277.aspx?lan=1">Chess-results Site</a> <a href="http://chesstournamentservices.com/cca/category/philadelphia-open/philadelphia-open-standings/">Official Site</a></p>____________________________________________________________________________________Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-17097054547849056342010-03-31T19:45:00.002+05:302010-04-02T01:00:55.216+05:30March 2010 Archive<strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Sri Lanka Open Chess Championship 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />Top seeded P.Karthikeyan of India won the Sri Lanka Open Chess Championship convincingly with 8/9 points. He gained around 8 elo points with a performance of 2381.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisnDn-wyIZdeFhX97EJz745q_q5xelYsSdgaLL7WzTLOxwi593tWqupZHC92DLpdd2ANeLHRnuybewU2AAZ2U1-ksWsmdj-mLd8rbVjqG1ODb0pCivWlbcDviTP34YdHyGp3LVa1VRaMOJ/s1600/sri_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 378px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisnDn-wyIZdeFhX97EJz745q_q5xelYsSdgaLL7WzTLOxwi593tWqupZHC92DLpdd2ANeLHRnuybewU2AAZ2U1-ksWsmdj-mLd8rbVjqG1ODb0pCivWlbcDviTP34YdHyGp3LVa1VRaMOJ/s400/sri_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454494552542611298" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://www.chess-results.com/tnr32040.aspx?lan=1">Chess-results Site</a></p>____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">25th North American Masters</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />GM Ben Finegold and Mackenzie Molner tied for first place with 6.5/9 points in the 25th North American Masters. Molner earned his first GM norm. Molner played the five highest rated players in the event in rating order, in the final five rounds all GM's.<br /><br />Siddarth Ravichandran ended with 5.5/9 points. Siddarth along with Molner earned his final IM norm.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga2TXQV8_iUHxsqHEsKyydQLXwsQi7gwc9s0Z82Ii71IhzmBAh-JqEgmIab2l-SOHUTdYraRQVwV8wcluWNe13Dbk9_lVEhlJ4Xiu8fmyReCzb_WN6eIDErewcaKyxl4p5aqPymWdXirns/s1600/25_Nam.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 390px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga2TXQV8_iUHxsqHEsKyydQLXwsQi7gwc9s0Z82Ii71IhzmBAh-JqEgmIab2l-SOHUTdYraRQVwV8wcluWNe13Dbk9_lVEhlJ4Xiu8fmyReCzb_WN6eIDErewcaKyxl4p5aqPymWdXirns/s400/25_Nam.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452586636988300306" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://www.nachess.org/naca/">Official Site</a></p>____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Purbachal Sakti Sangha Chess Tournament 2010 </span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />Fide Master Sauravh Khherdekar is the Champion of Purbachal Sakti Sangha Chess Tournament. He scored 8.5/10 and gained 25 Elo Points.<br /><br />Ram S Krishnan finished second and Top seed GM R Laxman had to be satisfied with third place. Both Laxman & S Krishan ended on 8.0/10 points and remained un-defeated throught the tournament.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHgu4EXJid1I9I1x44j5FD6Ne0_TQUBIpp9LEFz8IFrbyx81K1zWi9bXH1-0bnAS5qucc6eAYkuFB1OD9eITxLm8voYrnY_b7dd5sFZHb9exUw8_vPseWVfpisc6CZnmC1KLJSHuA_5DkE/s1600/Purba_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 340px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHgu4EXJid1I9I1x44j5FD6Ne0_TQUBIpp9LEFz8IFrbyx81K1zWi9bXH1-0bnAS5qucc6eAYkuFB1OD9eITxLm8voYrnY_b7dd5sFZHb9exUw8_vPseWVfpisc6CZnmC1KLJSHuA_5DkE/s400/Purba_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452205488823354754" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr31713.aspx?lan=1">Chessresults Site</a></p>____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">UMBC Open - Alvin C Mintzes Chess Tournament</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">--------------------------------</span><br /><br />Adithya Balasubramanian of India rated 2222 won his game against top seed IM Tegshsuren Enkhbat 2401 in the second round and finished third with 4.0/5 points in the UMBC Open - Alvin C Mintzes Chess Tournament held in Baltimore, Maryland. He earned 20 elo for this performance<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicCOPrZTjNnDI3TBFohxiH_EzQaZIXByTH0JF8tsDyM8b2-bCz-m17CjiHTsNOpDPLwaQmcjgmBC8Ze022XLdq18Ct4EvFydjOByUGTmEp-bX5m2YCCOBb2VUroJVcQCGtmTmUqiLZy6pX/s1600/Umbc_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicCOPrZTjNnDI3TBFohxiH_EzQaZIXByTH0JF8tsDyM8b2-bCz-m17CjiHTsNOpDPLwaQmcjgmBC8Ze022XLdq18Ct4EvFydjOByUGTmEp-bX5m2YCCOBb2VUroJVcQCGtmTmUqiLZy6pX/s400/Umbc_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452173606284896418" /></a><br /><p></p><a href="http://ratings.fide.com/view_source.phtml?code=48911">Fide site</a><br />_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Six Seasons Grandmasters Chess Tournament 2010 </span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />India's Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury achieved his third and final GM norm by winning the Six Seasons Grandmasters Chess Tournament with 7/9 points. He gained 20 elo points with a performance of 2603. Top seed GM Iuldachev Saidali closely followed him and finished second with 6.5/9 pts.<br /><br />Veteran Dibyendu Barua performed modestly to finish third with 5.5/9 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ExuXWnJEgRP6BYI-NFFPol-vUYJRsrxDWezgz4gFZY-tJWPGI3awa-UcWA_jnaz_MT7Gdx1gUYQNDoUSG7bOsNNV2ca0tQACUdtUdiY3CqKhVZTAixziPzJqNgw9Cef9pDtkji1-U9Fv/s1600-h/six_seasons_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ExuXWnJEgRP6BYI-NFFPol-vUYJRsrxDWezgz4gFZY-tJWPGI3awa-UcWA_jnaz_MT7Gdx1gUYQNDoUSG7bOsNNV2ca0tQACUdtUdiY3CqKhVZTAixziPzJqNgw9Cef9pDtkji1-U9Fv/s400/six_seasons_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451459626357862978" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr31639.aspx?lan=1">Chessresults Site</a><br />______________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">17th Annual Western Class Championships 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />25th seed Chaitanya Vaidya of India rated 2189 held top seed GM Alejandro Ramirez 2544 to a credible draw in the third round and finished fifth with 3.5/5 points in the 17th Annual Western Class Championships held in Agoura Hills, California.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEireNxz2Cn5J-VWcb96GqTrBo_3iMeLWs4w1OI-ThUuMNPa7Ugjbgd8YIMcHqY3nSakO_kYfO54v22mWDxgSvuLI6wi3Henhhw7GG8NOV22ta4-tGrID7N72VFOFd_QbsVFai2GKm5sUQ4Q/s1600-h/Western_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 377px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEireNxz2Cn5J-VWcb96GqTrBo_3iMeLWs4w1OI-ThUuMNPa7Ugjbgd8YIMcHqY3nSakO_kYfO54v22mWDxgSvuLI6wi3Henhhw7GG8NOV22ta4-tGrID7N72VFOFd_QbsVFai2GKm5sUQ4Q/s400/Western_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449640546997902114" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://www.chesstour.com/wcc10r.htm">Official Site</a></p>_______________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">First Saturday Chess Tournament March 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />Gonda Laszlo won the First Saturday GM Chess Tournament March 2010 with 7.0/9 points. He earned a GM norm and got 17 elo points from this tournament. India's Dinesh Sharma K finished sixth with 4.0/9 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEQ46jhqOrGrisfUALophARbfeAzyv8zUy-bIR7Mp-V91NHZCAP_Y_TyKNvmRFAn6xzWexAW4Ph94IFJpfBH01Jp_rdOupaTruUAv1vU38ojZw2dTzCPyDi138adW5Xp5-Z7B_Cju8iu4E/s1600-h/FIRSTSAT_MAR_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEQ46jhqOrGrisfUALophARbfeAzyv8zUy-bIR7Mp-V91NHZCAP_Y_TyKNvmRFAn6xzWexAW4Ph94IFJpfBH01Jp_rdOupaTruUAv1vU38ojZw2dTzCPyDi138adW5Xp5-Z7B_Cju8iu4E/s400/FIRSTSAT_MAR_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449129437825200914" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday/1003/gm.htm">Official Site</a></p>_______________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Parachute Advanced International Chess Tournament</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />India's Manisha Mohanty Kiran achieved the third and last WGM norm by convincingly winning the Parachute Advanced International Chess Tournament by over a point and a half on 7/9. She gained 28 elo points from this tournament.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5i1a-XG9wgygcOicIbck_4J_Px_wPvusDZymhBXTjKur59Yn8ia-I5NOzRmT4U5TQT0tkEQH15Var2dh2DNYA-bEC5PeyGGuqRr1sj_BTmw9k-O8RTfzYUeOKfyxt9aygHrdyNhfDTjKk/s1600-h/Parachute_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 305px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5i1a-XG9wgygcOicIbck_4J_Px_wPvusDZymhBXTjKur59Yn8ia-I5NOzRmT4U5TQT0tkEQH15Var2dh2DNYA-bEC5PeyGGuqRr1sj_BTmw9k-O8RTfzYUeOKfyxt9aygHrdyNhfDTjKk/s400/Parachute_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448560275930007682" /></a><br /><p><a href="http://chess-results.com/tnr31218.aspx?lan=1">Chessresults Site</a></p>________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Caissa Chess Tournament GM February 2010 - Kecskemet</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">--------------------------------</span><br /><br />China's Yu, Lie after finishing joint first in the January GM tournament of Caissa was the clear winner in the Caissa GM Chess Tournament February - Kecskemet with 9.0/14 points. He earned 44 elo points from this tournament alone.<br /><br />India's Dinesh Sharma K finished sixth with a fifty percent score of 7.0/14 and earned 12 elo points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7mXhuBF0Wpw75546ED_SuCG5H9PdwF2ocO2xawYkzenJIMUWiWdZx0E6t86ytauq-TSd0gSyGX_p5g03dehjYfqvMJ1fS2D58JBu5XJGeRI6tFmGunuVcdjFmvWTmtNIjeusPra0f6cyb/s1600-h/cas_feb_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7mXhuBF0Wpw75546ED_SuCG5H9PdwF2ocO2xawYkzenJIMUWiWdZx0E6t86ytauq-TSd0gSyGX_p5g03dehjYfqvMJ1fS2D58JBu5XJGeRI6tFmGunuVcdjFmvWTmtNIjeusPra0f6cyb/s400/cas_feb_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448470594648122818" /></a><br /><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=49586">Fide site</a></p><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">24th Open International "Pierre et Vacances" - Cannes Festival</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">--------------------------------</span><br /><br />Deep Sengupta continues his great form with joint 2nd in Parsvnath Open, 1st in Rochefort, joint 3rd in Toulouse and now Deep Sengupta finished joint 1st with Tigran Gharamian and Vadim Malakhatko with 7/9 points in the Cannes Festival of Games and also got his final GM norm his live rating has crossed the 2500 mark at 2519.9 he will be the 22nd GM for India.<br /><br />Other Indian's also did well Arghyadip Das finished 8th with 6.0/9 and also collected his first GM norm. Sarvanan and Roy Saptarshi finished 20th and 30th with 5.5 and 5.0 points respectively<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBnFcoVj1EGyRwH6ixt4vY1pv2Q_6aDj8FSgtdvznflPu8o8raA2fRn-iIrTO7xmdD8P9gSXDbaycXDQz7jkOUSeU_JSJS1zUzQzzK-uUEsndJzdFGyl2H25nHHyFijiB_vmMEa-yzEB1W/s1600-h/Cannes_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 342px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBnFcoVj1EGyRwH6ixt4vY1pv2Q_6aDj8FSgtdvznflPu8o8raA2fRn-iIrTO7xmdD8P9gSXDbaycXDQz7jkOUSeU_JSJS1zUzQzzK-uUEsndJzdFGyl2H25nHHyFijiB_vmMEa-yzEB1W/s400/Cannes_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446304570046917314" /></a><br /><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Resultat2.aspx?URL=Tournois/2010/CannesFij/FIJA2010&Action=Cl">Echecs site</a></p><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-5877408610833864592010-02-25T00:57:00.010+05:302010-03-14T22:02:50.254+05:30February 2010 Archive<strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">5th Open International de l'Ouest Toulousain</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">--------------------------------</span><br /><br />Anton Kovalyov won the 5th Open International Ouest Toulousain after finishing joint first with Yaroslav Zherebukh on 7.5/9 points.<br /><br />India's Deep Sengupta continued finished 4th in this tournament with 6.5 points along with India's Arghyadip Dasw who finished 6th with same points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4_wYA_oBkCqnrTh22pu97irLcdifLshzCwpr1NIu6jzge7f6dpQEvm-zQqy12LIfnLZesTkAp6iPvOC11cGHTjqNGH2dx3qmOeq9wFT-xxy-vcn8yi5tbGx8qgsQ6HgvJKpyMLFZLOpVW/s1600-h/Toulo_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 386px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4_wYA_oBkCqnrTh22pu97irLcdifLshzCwpr1NIu6jzge7f6dpQEvm-zQqy12LIfnLZesTkAp6iPvOC11cGHTjqNGH2dx3qmOeq9wFT-xxy-vcn8yi5tbGx8qgsQ6HgvJKpyMLFZLOpVW/s400/Toulo_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445464170313293522" /></a><br /><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Resultat2.aspx?URL=Tournois/2010/Tournefeuille/OuestToulousainA2010&Action=Cl">Echecs site</a></p><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Reykjavik Open 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">--------------------------------</span><br /><br />Former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta of India finished joint first at the Reykjavik International Open after playing out a quick draw with local star Hannes Stefansson in the final round. Abhijeet tied for the first place with Ivan Sokolov, Yuri Kuzubov and Stefansson who all scored an identical 7.0/9 points.<br /><br />Former world junior girls' champion D Harika drew her final-round game with Normunds Meizes of Latvia to finish with 6.0/9 points and also made her maiden Grandmaster norm in the event along with the best woman player prize.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd7yWG6z5BGArSsJ2SVEmu8x674hO1X12rsOZDP_TC9btMVunWmMo6QyQJ52WuYXoA6bnEZKKsvLV7R09zAD8TW9JGiWU6z7i1vwcK-frubRgCDY45KrHpY5YrdG09FaaoLZUqKqMEWBse/s1600-h/Reykjaik_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 384px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd7yWG6z5BGArSsJ2SVEmu8x674hO1X12rsOZDP_TC9btMVunWmMo6QyQJ52WuYXoA6bnEZKKsvLV7R09zAD8TW9JGiWU6z7i1vwcK-frubRgCDY45KrHpY5YrdG09FaaoLZUqKqMEWBse/s400/Reykjaik_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445464159455355890" /></a><br /><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.chess-results.com/tnr29384.aspx?lan=1">Chess Results site</a></p><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">2nd Batavia Tournament 2010 - Max Euwe Challenge</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">--------------------------------</span><br /><br />Dutch FM Christov Kleijn has won the 2nd Batavia Amsterdam Chess Tournament, otherwise called the Max Euwe Challenge with 6.5/9 points.<br /><br />14-year-old Khosla Shiven, from India, finished second on 6.0 points. He made an IM norm. Khosla Shiven is the 2009 Asian U14 Youth Chess Champion<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9DZQovALeCGldZI7s7pjf1j6gBPMzc8_j1lITwEqcve2xzW3Qg1CS-T8FdFQPkVmY4RPxqjZ7v5Ix5vU2iVKP39MfIRXrJNP8YQjX1eobu4VwXohIb4C31Q616d6kpxYpxf5wnMNY4rFP/s1600-h/Bat_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9DZQovALeCGldZI7s7pjf1j6gBPMzc8_j1lITwEqcve2xzW3Qg1CS-T8FdFQPkVmY4RPxqjZ7v5Ix5vU2iVKP39MfIRXrJNP8YQjX1eobu4VwXohIb4C31Q616d6kpxYpxf5wnMNY4rFP/s400/Bat_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445464156507290674" /></a><br /><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.schaakbond.nl/data/batavia/index.html">Official site</a></p><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">32nd Marchand Open 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">--------------------------------</span><br /><br />R.Siddharth continues his great form, he finished joint 2nd along with Magesh Chandran in the 32nd Marchand Open 2010 with both finishing at 4.0/5 points. The tourament was won by Eugene Perelshteyn with 4.5/5 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhErxXu8mMR19fZYEpbFPWSNEPuIipxouvLhEeQQ2UozwMHSkcvt_kopzsF_1L5DIEingqw-QdIHcUqdrEAXmZXrnOUf4YUDir4P-JxvKHbNe87HXyDkOhtDDkKoZaTyTnza0LdDKdf4aRB/s1600-h/Marchand_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhErxXu8mMR19fZYEpbFPWSNEPuIipxouvLhEeQQ2UozwMHSkcvt_kopzsF_1L5DIEingqw-QdIHcUqdrEAXmZXrnOUf4YUDir4P-JxvKHbNe87HXyDkOhtDDkKoZaTyTnza0LdDKdf4aRB/s400/Marchand_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443273515537813330" /></a><br /><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://main.uschess.org/assets/msa_joomla/XtblMain.php?201002211281.1">USCF site</a></p><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">18th Fajr International Open</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />Konstantine Shanava, Top seed Sergei Tiviakov and IM Virginijus Grabliauskas all ended with 9.0/11 points in the 18th Fajr Open.<br /><br />While Indian GM Neelotpal Das finished 21st with 7.5/11 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhulhJJSC5rZjPpuMD-EASw1pnM66O6yZewzqAk_fYRbAGBx9siWdEJ-7JE2TVtbhdBuug4E2E0eQyBQGP44nPfkRas56SdM53LiaDrLNxCgOVebiZxEzWdER08_vQPy-JnhWFIQguU1Dyx/s1600-h/fajr_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 380px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhulhJJSC5rZjPpuMD-EASw1pnM66O6yZewzqAk_fYRbAGBx9siWdEJ-7JE2TVtbhdBuug4E2E0eQyBQGP44nPfkRas56SdM53LiaDrLNxCgOVebiZxEzWdER08_vQPy-JnhWFIQguU1Dyx/s400/fajr_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443210583488646866" /></a><br /><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.chess-results.com/tnr30244.aspx?ix=1&art=1&rd=11&lan=1&turdet=NO&m=-1&wi=1000&flag=30">Chess Results site</a></p><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">9th Rochefort International Open</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />With 126 participants competing Indian, Deep Sengupta won the 9th Rochefort International Chess Open. Deep Sengupta finished ahead of the tournament favorite, the Ukrainian Yuri Solodovnichenko, winner of the 2008 edition with 7/9 points.<br /><br />Other Indian's also did well Arghyadip Das finished 5th with 6.0/9, Sahaj Grover and Roy Saptarshi finished 15th and 17th with 5.5 and 5.0 points respectively<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwWPsVS5BfUG_dRCTU5ViTVW90nmxn7Kt6bS1VBCMsbjAFtCU8yRDpu2xTqgRMdsIULl8d957BrMhB7S3CBxQrXJm6tOM2V6jMqhZpndn99R-8aB1ksQQblaVI06O1effWD_YTxwH0jqLK/s1600-h/Roche_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 369px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwWPsVS5BfUG_dRCTU5ViTVW90nmxn7Kt6bS1VBCMsbjAFtCU8yRDpu2xTqgRMdsIULl8d957BrMhB7S3CBxQrXJm6tOM2V6jMqhZpndn99R-8aB1ksQQblaVI06O1effWD_YTxwH0jqLK/s400/Roche_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441170535001985042" /></a><br /><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://ratings.fide.com/view_source.phtml?code=46502#18">FIDE site</a></p><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">2010 South Houston Open</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />Timur Gareev 2590 of Uzbekistan won the 2010 South Houston Open with 4.0/5 points.<br /><br />India's FM CJ Arvind finished poorly on 20th place with 2.0/5 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqKJrEH69-_DpVt8jkGBXtDogA9trAek0SAHossVB6mePY0p1NqqdxspY4j7vZ45yWmu1PsLmZtbKfILwUft0XC2-S7gp8adCwGG6TKT4vRnqM5d93gjGGe0TLd7fYFAxkT40wNzqGLBzR/s1600-h/SHO_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 323px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqKJrEH69-_DpVt8jkGBXtDogA9trAek0SAHossVB6mePY0p1NqqdxspY4j7vZ45yWmu1PsLmZtbKfILwUft0XC2-S7gp8adCwGG6TKT4vRnqM5d93gjGGe0TLd7fYFAxkT40wNzqGLBzR/s400/SHO_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441188237308080610" /></a><br /></p><p></p><p><a href="http://main.uschess.org/assets/msa_joomla/XtblMain.php?201002149011.0">USCF site</a></p><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">World Blitz Championship 2010 - Qualifiers</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />The 2010 World Blitz Championship Preliminaries were held on 18th February 2010 in Moscow, Russia.Top six players qualify for the World Blitz Chess Championship.<br /><br />World Junior Champion Maxime Vachier-Lagrave from France won six matches, drew three, and took the clear first place with 13.5 individual points.Seven players shared the 2nd place, with 13 points each, but only five qualified for the final event. By the additional criteria, these players are: Bu Xiangzhi, Rauf Mamedov, Boris Grachev, Boris Savchenko and Ian Nepomniachtchi.<br /><br />India's Krishnan Sasikiran putup a great show to finish with 11 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk1ByIhZPsYzMBGCeuO1BbVdjBqKCSs-UcDk8Vwwwq-uRq52jxfOcd00SaWrWPxn0ywtSHbXzSyRaV2PPlb6IIvHsqS2rqRgFqkm8L6Y7i11UK45C5T0IihytPRTX9pbJJigV1oBuQAkyA/s1600-h/World_blitz_qualifiers_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 378px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk1ByIhZPsYzMBGCeuO1BbVdjBqKCSs-UcDk8Vwwwq-uRq52jxfOcd00SaWrWPxn0ywtSHbXzSyRaV2PPlb6IIvHsqS2rqRgFqkm8L6Y7i11UK45C5T0IihytPRTX9pbJJigV1oBuQAkyA/s400/World_blitz_qualifiers_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440708211537367042" /></a><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.aeroflotchess.com/blitz/2010/final_standings&9.html">Official site</a></p><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">26th Cappelle-la-Grande Open 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />Yaroslav Zherebukh won the tournament with a last round draw against Indian prodigy Negi. Yaroslav Zherebukh finished with 7.5/9 at top, while Negi finished joint second with 7/9 points<br /><br />Other Indian's in the fray Chanda finished 21st with 6.5/9, while Gopal and Gupta ended with 6/9 to finish 34th and 75th respectively.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTBELP7DwaWK-Fc_4tIpsMd4spQrFvh9CaBHPIE7rXtk4jyrWSW2VYg9PQkwSlrAqxGkSO1qqQsDVvfF2D5ndET3HFirKfmCuMfEMkUiN6ElT4hsEg0dMKGsLExjnny_Z4NlQUXSMGVbUk/s1600-h/Capa_grande_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 364px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTBELP7DwaWK-Fc_4tIpsMd4spQrFvh9CaBHPIE7rXtk4jyrWSW2VYg9PQkwSlrAqxGkSO1qqQsDVvfF2D5ndET3HFirKfmCuMfEMkUiN6ElT4hsEg0dMKGsLExjnny_Z4NlQUXSMGVbUk/s400/Capa_grande_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440546974166359218" /></a><br /><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://cappelle-chess.fr/en2/userpages/cappelle2010Grillefinale.htm">Official site</a></p><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Uxbridge International Alekhine Group February 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />GM Danny Gormally won the tournament 1.5 points ahead of his nearest rival to finish with 7.5/9 points<br /><br />Indian FM Tiruchirapalli Venkataram finished third with 5/9 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMdkEzkoK6KG9_5p9ogSCnIYeBX8XLvx9Cw3ZzX5QXJRvObwF3FFpl_k3BRY1YT42qTc_QK0ea2NE4AnLxyWd9jUDaXu1HBSlXCpbft6Gf2ju538E3kpDBR7ED3SBk7VomqbairgHpptWV/s1600-h/Uxbridge_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMdkEzkoK6KG9_5p9ogSCnIYeBX8XLvx9Cw3ZzX5QXJRvObwF3FFpl_k3BRY1YT42qTc_QK0ea2NE4AnLxyWd9jUDaXu1HBSlXCpbft6Gf2ju538E3kpDBR7ED3SBk7VomqbairgHpptWV/s400/Uxbridge_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440546986960752626" /></a><br /><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.e2e4.org.uk/international/2010/uxbridge/group_alekhine.htm">Official site</a></p><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">First Saturday Chess Tournament February 2010</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />Rapport Richard (HUN) has achieved his second GM norm. He will be just 14 year old on 25th March 2010. He scored 10 points of 12 games to win the Tournament convincingly.<br /><br />India's Dinesh Kumar Sharma finished fourth with 6.5/12 and also gained 17 elo points for his performance.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3x-Nf3tsKsvqnMrxy5JXGBtkfYjPesV2ob6WN6s4c4ZnUkK-BvGGemIDY1YF-fl106kOjmd4123HT97Ig76Kuz5KyRHN8v1vmhx9A-PILgrE3jwg8Y8DvDiXfILuBn8KtxFuDkpKPHix_/s1600-h/Hun_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 361px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3x-Nf3tsKsvqnMrxy5JXGBtkfYjPesV2ob6WN6s4c4ZnUkK-BvGGemIDY1YF-fl106kOjmd4123HT97Ig76Kuz5KyRHN8v1vmhx9A-PILgrE3jwg8Y8DvDiXfILuBn8KtxFuDkpKPHix_/s400/Hun_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440546982721276594" /></a><br /><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday/1002/gm.htm">Official site</a></p><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Aeroflot Open 2010 - A1</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span><br /><br />The 18-year-old from Vietnam stole the show this week at Aeroflot open, Quang Liem secured several eminent scalps, took first prize unbeaten with 7/9, and followed up his victories with first in Moscow Open, second in Kolkata Open and impressive performance in Asian Team championship. Liem is now close to the 2700 in live rankings.<br /><br />Indian Krishnan Sasikiran finished 30th with 5/9 but gained elo's since his oppenent's are higher rated. He is also in the verge of crossing 2700<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFpxae6WAynkQdZ2vZ2am5qjQyh86IhpyrSXgn0K0_5_nSR724GNnNlZehggtzmV6hLkhjstBecQ8xEn7TaPoacayZke91ye1FvDe60UQKir7oyoh_PZQ9L5w1GKLymN1ZuwJvDGBvuNwa/s1600-h/Aero_2010-A1.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 323px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFpxae6WAynkQdZ2vZ2am5qjQyh86IhpyrSXgn0K0_5_nSR724GNnNlZehggtzmV6hLkhjstBecQ8xEn7TaPoacayZke91ye1FvDe60UQKir7oyoh_PZQ9L5w1GKLymN1ZuwJvDGBvuNwa/s400/Aero_2010-A1.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440175703823923282" /></a><br /><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.aeroflotchess.com/results/a1/SMWSite/index.html">Official site</a></p><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /></p><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Aeroflot Open 2010 - A2</span><br /></strong><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span></strong><br />IM Aleksei Pridorozhni won the tournament with 6.5/9 with a better tie-break over four others.<br /><br />IM's Ashwin Jayaram and Harika of India finished poorly with 4/9 points<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvxACQQsf35QEnAe2D2iQCci5NKigGmV0GrtNKmTeZtPVUHmQfJ9zATuY8bldWjulasReNC82bRaLVXeXQYzrJQ3mtMuhUw7letDc1xgZBfcq2c2zJcxawrDTb-oqdQl7tDkVRE0eZxoFJ/s1600-h/Aero_2010-A2.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 364px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvxACQQsf35QEnAe2D2iQCci5NKigGmV0GrtNKmTeZtPVUHmQfJ9zATuY8bldWjulasReNC82bRaLVXeXQYzrJQ3mtMuhUw7letDc1xgZBfcq2c2zJcxawrDTb-oqdQl7tDkVRE0eZxoFJ/s400/Aero_2010-A2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440175706663301570" /></a><br /><p></p><p><a href="http://www.aeroflotchess.com/results/a2/SMWSite/index.html">Official site</a><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">8th International Caspian Cup</span><br /></strong><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------------------</span></strong><br />Farid Abbasov is first with 7/9 points. The same result was shown by Azer Mirzoyev and Toufighi Homayoon but lagged behind to Abbasov in tie-breaks.<br /><br />Indian GM Sriram Jha finished 17th with 5.5/9 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYeUfEOJ-ic7a4WjfjmX4J3f3CNyJpOFS1oAA1x5wymB-go_9x7EHP_swfSSAYgiEiW0MU0ijD09IF_8YMNOt45yUxsNoL2hEeEOALD0WQ85xI4yRjvKFPqcw2v9Z47E-oS9AfGNofsKJZ/s1600-h/Casp_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYeUfEOJ-ic7a4WjfjmX4J3f3CNyJpOFS1oAA1x5wymB-go_9x7EHP_swfSSAYgiEiW0MU0ijD09IF_8YMNOt45yUxsNoL2hEeEOALD0WQ85xI4yRjvKFPqcw2v9Z47E-oS9AfGNofsKJZ/s400/Casp_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440175711182205938" /></a><br />_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;">24th North American Masters<br />-------------------------------</span></strong><br />The 24th North American Masters, FM Robby Adamson won the tournament and secured his second IM norm at the event, with a final score of 6.5/10. He won the tournament 1.5 points ahead of his next rival<br /><br />Indian IM Arjun Vishnuvardhan finished joint 2nd with 5/10 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWU8NsXoUxTWITDlU8BDSK4TzBBvNj3RxCMk7wzmbLkwrvFSMaexbmGjnzDrpJHmSdgBRjBeJJ4VL4HBL68ChoRe-gjdizGs9eY0jicg-EsrI2t6le7gkANPi_esAgV7gE6Q-0Lu8_vJHp/s1600-h/na+chess.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWU8NsXoUxTWITDlU8BDSK4TzBBvNj3RxCMk7wzmbLkwrvFSMaexbmGjnzDrpJHmSdgBRjBeJJ4VL4HBL68ChoRe-gjdizGs9eY0jicg-EsrI2t6le7gkANPi_esAgV7gE6Q-0Lu8_vJHp/s400/na+chess.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446509579895264322" /></a><br />_____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Moscow Open 2010<br />------------------------------</span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;"> </span><br />Konstantin Chernyshov, Evgeny Bareev, Le Quang Liem and Ernesto Inarkiev all finished on 7/9 to tie for 1st place. With better tie-break score Chernyshov won the title.<br /><br />Indian hope Krishnan Sasikiran finished 5th with 6.5/9 after drawing Evgeny Bareev in the last round.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWta_xIqtCwKqx1P_Y7HF9MsesmXTVBQuSRy5sKKRx5rR_Vi1rj1H4gPwcc7GVxQYdLzNvdEnb8BfFv-4oGTXvrJmzpIiEK6HAod-gIjzY082DLdxCeZoDGPXqK_xDO8AWXx3Sqk06Fe6f/s1600-h/Mos+2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWta_xIqtCwKqx1P_Y7HF9MsesmXTVBQuSRy5sKKRx5rR_Vi1rj1H4gPwcc7GVxQYdLzNvdEnb8BfFv-4oGTXvrJmzpIiEK6HAod-gIjzY082DLdxCeZoDGPXqK_xDO8AWXx3Sqk06Fe6f/s400/Mos+2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435737818829861970" /></a><br />_____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">8th Gibtelecom Chess Masters Open<br />------------------------------</span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;"> </span><br />There was a tie for first place with 9 players with 7.5/10 points. The top four players on tie-break played off in a knockout.<br /><br />Michael Adams beat Jan Gustafsson 2-1<br />Francisco Vallejo Pons beat Chanda Sandipan 1.5-0.5.<br />Adams beat Vallejo 1.5-0.5 in the final of the playoff to take the title.<br /><br />India's Gopal also ended with 7.5 points but finished 8th on lower tie break score<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpkSA5zmwkmZfXWXcLtMMWsJ6KOe3Jbswx-eP-U081JJicZyvZwmBHfLULVoTbgIu-N0wMKYhFTWF6_gmdUCPwKmnD8hyphenhyphen8IQOtTABqBJkNv0RK5PBropyNS0MAVlxSG7PmPiI-6as_Y7k0/s1600-h/che+2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 359px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpkSA5zmwkmZfXWXcLtMMWsJ6KOe3Jbswx-eP-U081JJicZyvZwmBHfLULVoTbgIu-N0wMKYhFTWF6_gmdUCPwKmnD8hyphenhyphen8IQOtTABqBJkNv0RK5PBropyNS0MAVlxSG7PmPiI-6as_Y7k0/s400/che+2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434583482183231714" /></a><br />_____________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Caissa Chess Tournament GM January 2010 - Kecskemet</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">--------------------------------</span><br /><br />China's Yu, Lie finished joint first with Galyas, Miklos of Hungary in the Caissa GM Chess Tournament January - Kecskemet with 6/9 points. He earned 35 elo points from this tourament alone.<br /><br />India's Padmini, Rout finished fifth with a fifty percent score of 4.5/9 and earned 25 elo points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKtZuCDU0JOIoePhXc7_A1DSP4rBMmsw7AtOEk9m_hrb6asGrkyod6mXGRO3kUnOO2iZB5n3eSkdSQd_PCVNRBkILHSr2Q-pU9LPGDV3Pg8HhUFQyPf0bgeZGpGgrXuMIvhb0CyX-BhSP4/s1600-h/cas_jan_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKtZuCDU0JOIoePhXc7_A1DSP4rBMmsw7AtOEk9m_hrb6asGrkyod6mXGRO3kUnOO2iZB5n3eSkdSQd_PCVNRBkILHSr2Q-pU9LPGDV3Pg8HhUFQyPf0bgeZGpGgrXuMIvhb0CyX-BhSP4/s400/cas_jan_2010.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448526636557267682" /></a><br /><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=48489">Fide site</a></p><p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Chennai Open 2010<br />------------------------------</span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;"> </span><br />Russian Grandmaster Maxim Turov with overall 9.5 points won the Chennai Open.<br /><br />R Siddharth, the local youngster who secured his maiden Grandmaster norm yesterday, scored yet another resounding win over Ashwin Jayaram to finish third with 9/11.<br /><br />Lalith Babu, who complete his second Grand Master norm in this open drew with Richard Bitoon of the Philippines after 34 moves on board two to take the fourth place with 9/11 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjimz2uXNh9Fq5PiG82igdAhwHYs6c05ENIxPQstCbzps_E0S2LcZ5gfip0y-jJK7Fn4Vq32IWIBlrcQ2YkxA0-u1-S_QVKn9cLE0rePSBe-7WCxCUJ3ls7HUUQniDJFMyH5HLHVXdiFaLw/s1600-h/che+2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjimz2uXNh9Fq5PiG82igdAhwHYs6c05ENIxPQstCbzps_E0S2LcZ5gfip0y-jJK7Fn4Vq32IWIBlrcQ2YkxA0-u1-S_QVKn9cLE0rePSBe-7WCxCUJ3ls7HUUQniDJFMyH5HLHVXdiFaLw/s400/che+2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434101256552733490" /></a>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-84787837696058186822010-01-25T03:10:00.000+05:302010-02-04T00:56:30.101+05:30January 2010 Archive<span style="color:#3366ff;">72nd Corus Chess tournament A<br />-------------------------------</span><br />Carlsen emerged champion with 8.5 points, Kramnik and Shirov tied for second place with eight points each while Anand logged 7.5 poinnts to finish fourth.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0JN5S-l5vu8IaOgdgcgTyLH-av5RD3tFQM-bhztUO5MNFZoi-LW9zn0TQs2zp_CuNaapPVxQKjA4uQBvESuttp5oRcLcS-HzGT6jGdY-xCIU6QtKekG-DuNlERa30wv3OVfutE_5efS5E/s1600-h/CORUS_A_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0JN5S-l5vu8IaOgdgcgTyLH-av5RD3tFQM-bhztUO5MNFZoi-LW9zn0TQs2zp_CuNaapPVxQKjA4uQBvESuttp5oRcLcS-HzGT6jGdY-xCIU6QtKekG-DuNlERa30wv3OVfutE_5efS5E/s400/CORUS_A_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433110513978126290" /></a><br />_______________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">72nd Corus Chess tournament B<br />-------------------------------</span><br />The 15-year-old Giri finished with nine points in the strong 'B' group after settling for a draw with India's Parimarjan Negi in the final round. <br /><br />The Indian duo of Parimarjan and P Harikrishna were joint sixth on a fifty per cent score. In his final round, Harikrishna played out a draw with Tomi Nyback of Finland<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0K2CXzyWeew4QUT_JVxx504Z09GUoz7W4UErQhtsPwGgE4hRZnljSvQr5m0DC4jfYn_eHavRLfb-1NFYeqm_ZeA0hHb7mUtiQo8mCCHJCo3hNJorOww6UoRWXT7qvgZQzj9PGR7Kt9usW/s1600-h/CORUS_B_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 326px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0K2CXzyWeew4QUT_JVxx504Z09GUoz7W4UErQhtsPwGgE4hRZnljSvQr5m0DC4jfYn_eHavRLfb-1NFYeqm_ZeA0hHb7mUtiQo8mCCHJCo3hNJorOww6UoRWXT7qvgZQzj9PGR7Kt9usW/s400/CORUS_B_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433110524815723298" /></a><br />_______________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">72nd Corus Chess tournament C<br />-------------------------------</span><br />Chinese Li Chao won the 'C' group with 10 points out of a possible 13 and will get invitation to the next year's 'B' group.<p>Former world junior champion, Abhijeet Gupta rose to the occasion to beat Ray Robson of United States to finish clear second with 8.5 points in the 'C' group of the tournament. </p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPEI78cSljRnJ8GJNNUuQDcgFfbIMzf0c4BL2K9UNAYkbKV66_BsB4_heu7FsGnPE1gzVv9Pl5cGKNnH3WJ29ZUCqgjMNSeNZ3KfED2TpRZLlZ6bDb5-ghewlMFqPVEkdS6vhc55GF-M1s/s1600-h/CORUS_C_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 323px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPEI78cSljRnJ8GJNNUuQDcgFfbIMzf0c4BL2K9UNAYkbKV66_BsB4_heu7FsGnPE1gzVv9Pl5cGKNnH3WJ29ZUCqgjMNSeNZ3KfED2TpRZLlZ6bDb5-ghewlMFqPVEkdS6vhc55GF-M1s/s400/CORUS_C_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433110528070741634" /></a><br />_______________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">8th Parsvnath Open Chess Tournament<br />------------------------------------------------</span><br />Ehsan Ghaem Maghami topped a three-way tie to emerge as the champion in the 8th Parsvnath International Open chess tournament. Maghami, along with Russia’s Dmitry Kryakvin and Kazakhstan’s Pavel Kotsur finished at nine points in the 11-round competition.<br /><br />From India’s point of view, International Master Deep Sengupta was the best finisher at the sixth spot with 8.5 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSiBHTqMXxfu6xSAuxUEgu1hLu-gbBoUAM3LMSuxBViolCQaWa8MLWinCTOTc90JN3ZehqJmBzlN2GM59Dnl4yXTFHXbS-drgYlymLaVCAZG_DaDie59KuxTAJHRJ2Ey2eG6qf0JSjwJt/s1600-h/Par_2010-1.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 353px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSiBHTqMXxfu6xSAuxUEgu1hLu-gbBoUAM3LMSuxBViolCQaWa8MLWinCTOTc90JN3ZehqJmBzlN2GM59Dnl4yXTFHXbS-drgYlymLaVCAZG_DaDie59KuxTAJHRJ2Ey2eG6qf0JSjwJt/s400/Par_2010-1.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432449417775317970" /></a><br />_______________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"><strong>19th North American Open<br />---------------------------------</strong></span><br />The North American Open, one of the Continental Chess Association's largest annual<br />tournaments had 99-player Open section, featuring nine grandmasters, ended in a five-way tie at 5.5/7 among GMs Varuzhan Akobian, Josh Friedel, Victor Mikhalevski (Israel), Alexander Shabalov and Alex Yermolinsky. On tiebreak, Akobian,drew three of his rivals, received the first prize.<br /><br />Indian GM Kidambi finished sixth with 5.0/7 points and upcoming player R Siddharth finished 14th with 4.5/7<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitTFMfk5nSUE1MeEgyeVP93vtEnZ7Kn9WjxfUAntwE6i41G-5uRksL3XLRAlzG8qWEBB7I_H1fZA8Ef9slc13JcKjO_LQhoeGjpNb8WZQnmFm_6rp1QOaNMY4lrqFVhGlN7GjSmMFHfiDL/s1600-h/19thnaopen.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitTFMfk5nSUE1MeEgyeVP93vtEnZ7Kn9WjxfUAntwE6i41G-5uRksL3XLRAlzG8qWEBB7I_H1fZA8Ef9slc13JcKjO_LQhoeGjpNb8WZQnmFm_6rp1QOaNMY4lrqFVhGlN7GjSmMFHfiDL/s400/19thnaopen.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432448432087405266" /></a><br />______________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">93rd Edward Lasker Memorial and Marshall Chess Championship<br />-------------------------------------------------------------------<br /></span>Lenderman wins Marshall Chess Championship with 7.5/9 points. India's Magesh Chandran finished third with(6.0/9)and R Siddharth finished 23rd with 5 points<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsStOI1VEgWvS_p7aAh0qrJQ4nIzivfX5nHcn2FoOzyFBewwVaheoLtDPoOUUoHgITHmFrC9Xx9BP_fgnPzkSDpBIO3Hplq_onZaWvzCG5sCMZwYK3kpBKj9XwVJ1nr_iRdgWxOy2122F6/s1600-h/Mar_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsStOI1VEgWvS_p7aAh0qrJQ4nIzivfX5nHcn2FoOzyFBewwVaheoLtDPoOUUoHgITHmFrC9Xx9BP_fgnPzkSDpBIO3Hplq_onZaWvzCG5sCMZwYK3kpBKj9XwVJ1nr_iRdgWxOy2122F6/s400/Mar_2010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432447041427803378" /></a><br />_______________________________________________________________________________________Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-22419854408656807082009-08-15T02:01:00.000+05:302010-01-26T01:37:04.254+05:30August 2009 Archive<span style="font-weight:bold;">Olomouc Chess Summer 2009 - Proclient Cup</span><br /><br />Lahiri Atanu finished 2nd with 6/9 points and gained around 7 Elo points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiiBh2J3fzYSJMkMKRTkSOWYwDvKMR5pIZKmSTfiqphaR87VCP5ojsYh1Fc9hBHl4rgxJ4QCvir0MwHbkWBeZigRuA5UbRASfPgdKGgrp3pfQCq7gJEul6fOph6Ib9n_jyvPi7vLQmbFv6/s1600-h/ProClient+Cup.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiiBh2J3fzYSJMkMKRTkSOWYwDvKMR5pIZKmSTfiqphaR87VCP5ojsYh1Fc9hBHl4rgxJ4QCvir0MwHbkWBeZigRuA5UbRASfPgdKGgrp3pfQCq7gJEul6fOph6Ib9n_jyvPi7vLQmbFv6/s400/ProClient+Cup.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370040780310933154" /></a><br />______________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong>XXXV Badalona Open 2009</strong><br /><br />S. Kidambi (7.5/9) finished second after being tied for the first place and gained 15 elo points, Magesh Chandran finished 5th with 6.5/9 and gained 13 elo points in the Badalona Open tournament<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHc2h1lPW4IRqpV_HoBpjquaGtkmOjgsQUhsFemXx7dv-F2a-oMaqUmuHf764c7Z0iLOXIUI2nVXiFe61vOellrN3XXdY9naqLjkppf1Ct-Dtz1XEgcRulAy6GI_3jdpqnfERwV_Z9c8vk/s1600-h/Bado+2009.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 395px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHc2h1lPW4IRqpV_HoBpjquaGtkmOjgsQUhsFemXx7dv-F2a-oMaqUmuHf764c7Z0iLOXIUI2nVXiFe61vOellrN3XXdY9naqLjkppf1Ct-Dtz1XEgcRulAy6GI_3jdpqnfERwV_Z9c8vk/s400/Bado+2009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368329873357467394" /></a><br />______________________________________________________<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Euro Chess 2009 - Young Masters Tournament</span><br /><br />Overnight leader G N Gopal lost in the final round to Valentin Iotov to finish 3rd with 6.5/9 points. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ThpGrD3QSVmgl25aK62eRrzODqX4QjRYAENtjjfRT3XaXI-grLpy4XVSzuI3EIOlegQCc1PgeO3WXMq_PAgB8SQT8ceRU6DjGTWQKGVfc_E_tkhciboF9gKiQ3w_HRd-3ff09nS-j0S0/s1600-h/Euro+2009.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ThpGrD3QSVmgl25aK62eRrzODqX4QjRYAENtjjfRT3XaXI-grLpy4XVSzuI3EIOlegQCc1PgeO3WXMq_PAgB8SQT8ceRU6DjGTWQKGVfc_E_tkhciboF9gKiQ3w_HRd-3ff09nS-j0S0/s400/Euro+2009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368794183820203522" /></a><br />______________________________________________________<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">13th Hogeschool Zeeland Open 2009</span><br /><br />India's Adhiban, Rajesh VAV, Karthikeyan and Shyam Sundar all ended with 6.5/9 to finish in 10th, 11th, 18th and 22nd position respectively. Young talent from Andhra Pradesh Rajesh VAV 2249 finished a credible 11th with 6.5/9 for his best performance till date<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkmUnyy7O773WgswC0zIkxuwmBaUgDNdITmPmDG6jdPk-9d9vyELc4Jqwlc7d9Uf_p3m-u3S6bHl_GJPS4MOJKChEuQPMTrjt8BRiy5vVmgUy-w12CgsLTn7c4jVe_rMgUN1dN9GVEVe9/s1600-h/Zeeland+2009.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 348px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkmUnyy7O773WgswC0zIkxuwmBaUgDNdITmPmDG6jdPk-9d9vyELc4Jqwlc7d9Uf_p3m-u3S6bHl_GJPS4MOJKChEuQPMTrjt8BRiy5vVmgUy-w12CgsLTn7c4jVe_rMgUN1dN9GVEVe9/s400/Zeeland+2009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367690134124032706" /></a><br />______________________________________________________<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">18th Kavala Open 2009</span><br /><br />India's Sandipan Chanda and Abhijeet Gupta finished joint first with 7/9 and in the process gained nearly 16 valuable elo points for their performance.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSoXXtJGiJRs4ejp3T_D-C2OmVp18q_XKLu716UMQ7RTpHneG5Oxe_AFYHEe8AzBR1b6wnbHtU22VG1B3SNDR724wzY47rCsIiH3E4tW8Gqnv0YD1K3CeL_9A4a9gCbl03Zl-HFh1JbsV/s1600-h/Kavala+2009.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 382px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSoXXtJGiJRs4ejp3T_D-C2OmVp18q_XKLu716UMQ7RTpHneG5Oxe_AFYHEe8AzBR1b6wnbHtU22VG1B3SNDR724wzY47rCsIiH3E4tW8Gqnv0YD1K3CeL_9A4a9gCbl03Zl-HFh1JbsV/s400/Kavala+2009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367634324647978530" /></a><br />______________________________________________________<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">14th Grenkeleasing Rapid World Championship 2009</span><br /><br />After World Champion Vishy Anand failed to qualify for the final of the GrenkeLeasing Rapid World Championship, Levon Aronian was clear favorite to win the title against Ian Nepomniachtchi. And indeed, the Armenian had no trouble beating his young opponent 3-1. The only surprise was how easily he seemed to do it. Anand drew his match for third place with Arkadij Naiditsch<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj943xtTLpIAk8lOcUToh1hade3mFV0R7Ia1z0Z2Mzj1PFo-tfYf7Vf1u5FEf4V99kxfQNbsYWZLp1JBGXVcDcsJ-9QjZe7nnZFtSMzK2I-AMprmKtII-ow6op7GUEi3XUuzvD8f83UN5FJ/s1600-h/Grenkeleasing.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj943xtTLpIAk8lOcUToh1hade3mFV0R7Ia1z0Z2Mzj1PFo-tfYf7Vf1u5FEf4V99kxfQNbsYWZLp1JBGXVcDcsJ-9QjZe7nnZFtSMzK2I-AMprmKtII-ow6op7GUEi3XUuzvD8f83UN5FJ/s400/Grenkeleasing.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366808961115974546" /></a><br />______________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong>16th Ordix Rapid Open 2009</strong><br /><br />India's Sasikiran finished 51st in a field comprising 694 players with 7.5/11 points.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-cxfCePVnmXz-vzv0yPET58t4BD6wZz7EOv24s2xeBSV1LHNewCzPAFvqiO4Wa4B5VSWpvTZ8oCMh50KeWXaV9kOhVIUc2FZaD9We2z61GexNOXqH8RXTfXU_wHIdc4uqCV2_m0QKhr0X/s1600-h/Ordix++2009.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-cxfCePVnmXz-vzv0yPET58t4BD6wZz7EOv24s2xeBSV1LHNewCzPAFvqiO4Wa4B5VSWpvTZ8oCMh50KeWXaV9kOhVIUc2FZaD9We2z61GexNOXqH8RXTfXU_wHIdc4uqCV2_m0QKhr0X/s400/Ordix++2009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365468047932437170" /></a><br />______________________________________________________<br /><br /><strong>8th FiNet Chess960 Open 2009</strong><br /><br />India's Sasikiran finished 21st in a field comprising 263 players with 8/11 points.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpubBy2r-nE9bqLEOtFBhFuoYNVshU0yj1WDNa2QAogSar1isBMx27CevM3bMbZBrJc3Rfg8gZv-EL4qHnWjqLCumYXCGeofoP0IKxpO9C-Uclv3L_3cEEM6tXd_v_dOijLQgJrt1nkfIr/s1600-h/Finet+2009.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364857425239832722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpubBy2r-nE9bqLEOtFBhFuoYNVshU0yj1WDNa2QAogSar1isBMx27CevM3bMbZBrJc3Rfg8gZv-EL4qHnWjqLCumYXCGeofoP0IKxpO9C-Uclv3L_3cEEM6tXd_v_dOijLQgJrt1nkfIr/s400/Finet+2009.JPG" border="0" /></a>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-47827652893656475172009-07-31T00:59:00.000+05:302010-03-31T01:59:07.240+05:30Czech Open 2009Lahiri Atanu finished 94th with 5/9 points and gained 5 Elo points.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqSaq-g7ONqWvAGVjHnknirktxKdbTxgTjlmf2SSRyQwkxRtBGbA68zGxRXoOVsj0YrKhS2iC0QD-QGfyFVcfoUUgiPzV_C8DWUhLh-dFm3-x5h6hugnTSFsbPkKQGPV8u-aPsFch530F/s1600-h/cze+2009.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365257924689396578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 303px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqSaq-g7ONqWvAGVjHnknirktxKdbTxgTjlmf2SSRyQwkxRtBGbA68zGxRXoOVsj0YrKhS2iC0QD-QGfyFVcfoUUgiPzV_C8DWUhLh-dFm3-x5h6hugnTSFsbPkKQGPV8u-aPsFch530F/s400/cze+2009.JPG" border="0" /></a>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-70966403282156687332009-07-31T00:55:00.000+05:302010-03-31T01:58:03.396+05:30Open Netherlands Championship 2009<div align="justify">Lalith Babu continued his good form from Leiden tournament by finishing 8th with 6/9 points in the Open Netherlands Championship.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsG0CFE2cb9m_Hr32iTkpHtPJOhT18QjIf9kWtqHgm3jiX3yEI-1BZAaEx51Dj8IbQlLFTI1Zje1TCaYLsXZUjR6_96InrwDKj8F4ew-y67GwjuCaSx7DVV9eHmdpQbojRiFz611KYm7SL/s1600-h/Nk+2009.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364671499728881922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 327px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsG0CFE2cb9m_Hr32iTkpHtPJOhT18QjIf9kWtqHgm3jiX3yEI-1BZAaEx51Dj8IbQlLFTI1Zje1TCaYLsXZUjR6_96InrwDKj8F4ew-y67GwjuCaSx7DVV9eHmdpQbojRiFz611KYm7SL/s400/Nk+2009.JPG" border="0" /></a></div>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-70741416685701993092009-07-31T00:51:00.001+05:302010-03-31T01:54:45.438+05:30XXXV Open Vila de Sitges 2009<div align="justify">A modest finish by all four indian players(S. Satyapragyan, S.Arun Prasad, P.Magesh Chandran and S.Kidambi) with 6.5/9 points each to finish 10, 11, 12th and 18th positions respectively.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqWhqP8IchrQb7oB5TnspueZ_OCPMYOXF9f_vFn0eECM5gWUDUTtGh-sTLbOsAl43CSCbX_9hg6mj3YYLc6ZcqcjlXKYqw4rh31qZwBPIbaBGonvZNI77XqrkcgU9Y0GOB-uO_h77N0yQ0/s1600-h/Sites+2009.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364484684046698418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqWhqP8IchrQb7oB5TnspueZ_OCPMYOXF9f_vFn0eECM5gWUDUTtGh-sTLbOsAl43CSCbX_9hg6mj3YYLc6ZcqcjlXKYqw4rh31qZwBPIbaBGonvZNI77XqrkcgU9Y0GOB-uO_h77N0yQ0/s400/Sites+2009.JPG" border="0" /></a></div>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-59345249694151806342009-07-31T00:47:00.000+05:302010-03-31T01:50:50.301+05:302nd Paleochora Open 2009<div align="justify">India's Das Arghyadip, Konguvel Ponnuswamy and Gupta Abhijeet all ended with 6.5/9 to finish in 17,18 and 19th position respectively.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp3iIBJGMeAyTL8342A0H2IRGVZnvevIpkFtf9nLrzpshtjOCcAat4I3AIe_JIOdQucXyMUcsmt0EeDosVQHcL9gBmb-3fVNUImLWFhynozVV5ErcVNrj8v2-IiW-xisHjk0Spw4RmAEZj/s1600-h/Pal+2009.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363511962579222642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 290px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp3iIBJGMeAyTL8342A0H2IRGVZnvevIpkFtf9nLrzpshtjOCcAat4I3AIe_JIOdQucXyMUcsmt0EeDosVQHcL9gBmb-3fVNUImLWFhynozVV5ErcVNrj8v2-IiW-xisHjk0Spw4RmAEZj/s400/Pal+2009.JPG" border="0" /></a></div>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-51604362927874966052009-07-31T00:41:00.000+05:302010-03-31T01:47:30.408+05:307th Lesvos Open 2009India's WFM Swati Mohota finished fourth with 6.0/9 points<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwlHGzVXW2iG1vHxLpf9jwC-9MZCPq0s4ItEZdfOd_oGHY30au3V2zjPKUyyt18-OqCsqPU_uhIZZcbeJYJ3ZW7VCrzc54FbLzHf9LQeFwXvjiYdtseG_OdqmRWfHGMRvzVlf-06ViJ7xD/s1600-h/Les+2009.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363492536787346226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 277px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwlHGzVXW2iG1vHxLpf9jwC-9MZCPq0s4ItEZdfOd_oGHY30au3V2zjPKUyyt18-OqCsqPU_uhIZZcbeJYJ3ZW7VCrzc54FbLzHf9LQeFwXvjiYdtseG_OdqmRWfHGMRvzVlf-06ViJ7xD/s400/Les+2009.JPG" border="0" /></a>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-90082105440035567352009-07-31T00:35:00.000+05:302010-03-31T01:44:32.826+05:30Politiken Cup 2009<div align="justify">Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi came up with a fine victory in just 28 moves over Emanuel Berg in the final round to win the Politiken Cup chess tournament with a outstanding 8.5/10 at Copenhagen on Sunday. IM S.P. Sethuraman needed a draw to make a GM norm but he lost in the final round to Peter Heine Nielsen and still finished 11th with 7.5 points.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdNdmsndBYehpKm2XcEU29gMz6crBpwaIEa0oJUln-1-PQHiPlKLwVAEDZOmjUFEBN7aM7lm2cTPfi2IeDitZQ2GmIuOsxFwMYJu1PwwQnIdDMexwPVL7x7R4kT43MbzqfQgiWxkKnjKXm/s1600-h/Politiken+2009.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362781085411383074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 323px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdNdmsndBYehpKm2XcEU29gMz6crBpwaIEa0oJUln-1-PQHiPlKLwVAEDZOmjUFEBN7aM7lm2cTPfi2IeDitZQ2GmIuOsxFwMYJu1PwwQnIdDMexwPVL7x7R4kT43MbzqfQgiWxkKnjKXm/s400/Politiken+2009.JPG" border="0" /></a></div>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-68350150148190259902009-07-31T00:30:00.000+05:302010-03-31T01:39:17.507+05:30Najdorf Memorial 2009Sasikiran continues his downslide with a poor 4.5/9 to finish 6th.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh1xlgzqBWouExbqZXpZyW3BicwVn5FwuihEUKdLXS_sqfpxglirx4YoZttv-KprMsk8kkUyeAaaTTqWW87p4GCtyAA8nqCyrurzWqBDkZvnwlj7OhbjVPpBVOFnzBdDIclHDHhAuykf6G/s1600-h/20000.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362772067622890514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 271px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh1xlgzqBWouExbqZXpZyW3BicwVn5FwuihEUKdLXS_sqfpxglirx4YoZttv-KprMsk8kkUyeAaaTTqWW87p4GCtyAA8nqCyrurzWqBDkZvnwlj7OhbjVPpBVOFnzBdDIclHDHhAuykf6G/s400/20000.JPG" border="0" /></a>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-65662954739503927072009-07-31T00:27:00.001+05:302010-03-31T01:40:30.731+05:30XXVII Andorra Open 2009<div align="justify">India's Karavade Eesha finished the tournamet at 22nd place with a strong performance of 6/9.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs3ruBYRAUI31antk9OxpeCMvqNLf10I07gUkI9rOE9YONeSqWW2Iv5VrT2hzGkZBQ8H75M4_OtNm-pBQX24Ps218KFLHn0sQbmwkFtFGNEquM2-mBlpVrVgDo6OhNRof_dEBiJ2I0njJa/s1600-h/And++2009.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362809650523691522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 369px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs3ruBYRAUI31antk9OxpeCMvqNLf10I07gUkI9rOE9YONeSqWW2Iv5VrT2hzGkZBQ8H75M4_OtNm-pBQX24Ps218KFLHn0sQbmwkFtFGNEquM2-mBlpVrVgDo6OhNRof_dEBiJ2I0njJa/s400/And++2009.JPG" border="0" /></a></div>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-74467861253036649942009-07-31T00:25:00.001+05:302010-03-31T01:37:09.874+05:30XIV Balaguer Open 2009<div align="justify">G.N.Gopal finished 5th with 7.0/10. Young talent Aditya Udeshi 2287 finished a credible 8th with 6.5/10 and also made his third and final International Master norm in the Balaguer International chess tournament at Balaguer, Spain.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu5obXsiTnLfu9_WlbOf8I5ZPtmPznTQlMP917H5d8EgRZ36pxBDRQ-vjeHumX071HpLzyJxK3ruffKlLHr4skCBJRynW6Ra0OatA1k2eda7tsrsq7o6mIBIflbF0WqAMeTJwWYSrhTCnM/s1600-h/Balg+2009.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362792886955394146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 330px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu5obXsiTnLfu9_WlbOf8I5ZPtmPznTQlMP917H5d8EgRZ36pxBDRQ-vjeHumX071HpLzyJxK3ruffKlLHr4skCBJRynW6Ra0OatA1k2eda7tsrsq7o6mIBIflbF0WqAMeTJwWYSrhTCnM/s400/Balg+2009.JPG" border="0" /></a></div>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-17610976159189133082009-07-31T00:23:00.000+05:302010-03-31T01:18:00.283+05:302009 Canadian Open<div align="justify">Overnight leader Surya Sekhar Ganguly lost in the final round to Edward Porper to finish 10th with 6.5/9 points<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgExFOy8rwjvEhLUQSra4DevuP3ERA-vfp6_Orp1UsnQIqUhcDKkNtcas3HdEHLWWJm42wgXutpwWKjR5YFncXbYVmS1oZ2nRyW6yZFPl6H9bpNlC2PXDjIGDY2KzbkDERcpGAyQYXZlLQe/s1600-h/7777.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360630166184547954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 313px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgExFOy8rwjvEhLUQSra4DevuP3ERA-vfp6_Orp1UsnQIqUhcDKkNtcas3HdEHLWWJm42wgXutpwWKjR5YFncXbYVmS1oZ2nRyW6yZFPl6H9bpNlC2PXDjIGDY2KzbkDERcpGAyQYXZlLQe/s400/7777.JPG" border="0" /></a></div>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-88400467693145566072009-07-31T00:21:00.001+05:302010-03-31T01:14:39.839+05:30116th Scottish Chess Championship 2009<div align="justify">Arun Prasad wins the oldest continuously running chess event in the world with 7.5/9 by beating overnight leader Magesh Chandran who finishes fourth with 6.5/9<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPpN9lcXldDQavhrdzBZy93jZKbhxRf6K3uVTE1eKdeyTGpjLPtTdxFhMCo0uavianTzf1I95TaQThkFltea65v0jUNvKuyHNx-iRY39pzlSw9G4odPjPz0eALOQqls0VRENYGytljr1al/s1600-h/5555.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360275322857402850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 281px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPpN9lcXldDQavhrdzBZy93jZKbhxRf6K3uVTE1eKdeyTGpjLPtTdxFhMCo0uavianTzf1I95TaQThkFltea65v0jUNvKuyHNx-iRY39pzlSw9G4odPjPz0eALOQqls0VRENYGytljr1al/s400/5555.JPG" border="0" /></a></div>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-44175423671319690832009-07-31T00:19:00.002+05:302010-03-31T01:27:07.390+05:303rd Leiden Chess Open 2009Lalith Babu wins the tournament with a outstanding 7.5/9 points<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf6He0dJUpkLcxslRt22YpsZASUnnmnrmvZ0ejRQHaYtIhPQ2JIX43DT6rovxXjCAKYpdy4MHgD2iMjIfE5mxfTYvMUBuynvRNPFudd71gg7DXZPWeTVwzqNH3K7CYpVLC-zKv8TwBTOV5/s1600-h/Lei+2009.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362850540775713074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 358px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf6He0dJUpkLcxslRt22YpsZASUnnmnrmvZ0ejRQHaYtIhPQ2JIX43DT6rovxXjCAKYpdy4MHgD2iMjIfE5mxfTYvMUBuynvRNPFudd71gg7DXZPWeTVwzqNH3K7CYpVLC-zKv8TwBTOV5/s400/Lei+2009.JPG" border="0" /></a>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414894334594635071.post-50043450585758929282009-07-31T00:14:00.000+05:302010-03-31T01:02:07.344+05:30Aegean Chess Open 2009Lahiri Atanu finished 14th after being tied on joint third place with 6.5/9.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH_Z4qsjyETXqYGybj4VGOMDQjrBsMtx3L5KV0LLmvqAHBiGnrD5kyUTMShyphenhyphenJySQLXTN7tpf_PdMogl1CCdNMVjHrh5EhoaDC_7itq4Wk0TKPoZHNlGDwDBZDTTsKJqXw9cEQHQbSaTiDE/s1600-h/Aeg+2009.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362796592235363042" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 344px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH_Z4qsjyETXqYGybj4VGOMDQjrBsMtx3L5KV0LLmvqAHBiGnrD5kyUTMShyphenhyphenJySQLXTN7tpf_PdMogl1CCdNMVjHrh5EhoaDC_7itq4Wk0TKPoZHNlGDwDBZDTTsKJqXw9cEQHQbSaTiDE/s400/Aeg+2009.JPG" border="0" /></a>Pradeep Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00409547334162020946noreply@blogger.com0