WWCC 2010

The Women's World Chess Championship is being held at Hatay, Turkey, from December 2nd to 25th. It is a 64-player knockout tournament, with two-game mini-matches qualifying a player to the next round, until the final and 6th round, which is a four-game match to determine the champion. In the event of a draw after the two tournament time-control games, there will be a rapid game tie-breaker, followed by a possible blitz playoff, and finally an armageddon blitz game. The time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, and a 30-second increment per move as of the first move.

The question is ,will Hou Yifan become the youngest WC in chess History?My answer is,I believe that she will win this event and thus become WWCC.You heard it here first,
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London Chess Classic 2010

Viswanathan Anand will become the first reigning world chess champion to play in a major tournament in London since Anatoly Karpov in 1984 when he joins the eight-player field for the second London Chess Classic, which runs from 8-15 December 2010 at the Olympia Conference Centre.













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Carlsen Withdraws From Next Cycle

To: FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov & FIDE World Championship Committee.

Reference is made to the ongoing World Championship cycle.

The purpose of this letter is to inform you of my decision not to take part in the planned Candidate Matches between March and May 2011.

After careful consideration I’ve reached the conclusion that the ongoing 2008 - 2012 cycle does not represent a system, sufficiently modern and fair, to provide the motivation I need to go through a lengthy process of preparations and matches and, to perform at my best.

Reigning champion privileges, the long (5 yr) span of the cycle, changes made during the cycle resulting in a new format (Candidates) that no World Champion has had to go through since Kasparov, puzzling ranking criteria as well as the shallow ceaseless match-after-match concept are all less than satisfactory in my opinion.

By providing you with 4 months notice before the earliest start of the Candidates as well as in time before you have presented player contracts or detailed regulations, I rest assured that you will be able to find an appropriate replacement.

Although the purpose of this letter is not to influence you to make further changes to the ongoing cycle, I would like to take the opportunity to present a few ideas about future cycles in line with our input to FIDE during the December 27th 2008 phone-conference between FIDE leaders and a group of top-level players.

In my opinion privileges should in general be abolished and a future World Championship model should be based on a fair fight between the best players in the World, on equal terms. This should apply also to the winner of the previous World Championship, and especially so when there are several players at approximately the same level in the world elite. (Why should one player have one out of two tickets to the final to the detriment of all remaining players in the world? Imagine that the winner of the 2010 Football World Cup would be directly qualified to the 2014 World Cup final while all the rest of the teams would have to fight for the other spot.)

One possibility for future cycles would be to stage an 8-10 player World Championship tournament similar to the 2005 and 2007 events.

The proposal to abolish the privileges of the World Champion in the future is not in any way meant as criticism of, or an attack on, the reigning World Champion Viswanathan Anand, who is a worthy World Champion, a role model chess colleague and a highly esteemed opponent.

Rest assured that I am still motivated to play competitive chess. My current plan is to continue to participate in well-organised top-level tournaments and to try to maintain the no 1 spot on the rating list that I have successfully defended for most of 2010.

Best regards,

IGM Magnus Carlsen

Tal Memorial 2010

The Tal Memorial and World Blitz takes place 4th-18th November 2010. Players: Kramnik, Grischuk, Karjakin, Aronian, Gelfand, Shirov, Eljanov, Nakamura, Wang Hao and Mamedyarov. It is followed by the World Blitz Championships with the same format as last year: 22 participants in playing a double round robin which will include Carlsen and Svidler in addition to the players in the main event.








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39th Chess Olympiad Khanty-Mansiysk 2010

The 39th Chess Olympiad takes place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia 21st September (Round 1) - 3rd October (11th Round) 2010.

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Raw World Chess Challenge

The RAW World Chess Challenge takes place at the Cooper Star Hotel in New York City in New York City on Friday September 10th 2010. The challenge see Carlsen take on registered viewers from throughout the world, they will receive help from Maxime Vachier-Lagrave from France, Hikaru Nakamura from the United States and Judit Polgar from Hungary who will suggest moves that will be voted on. The event is just one day but is similar to the hugely successful Kasparov versus the World in 1999. Kasparov will also be on hand as an Ambassador for this match.


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Baku Open 2010

The Baku Open takes place 23rd-31st August 2010. Gata Kamsky, Evgenij Miroshnichenko, Emil Sutovsky, Alexander Areshchenko, Rauf Mamedov, Ilya Smirin, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Boris Savchenko


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5th FIDE Women Grand Prix Ulaanbaatar 2010

The 5th FIDE Women's Grand Prix takes place in Ulaanbaatar 29th July - 12th August 2010.

Round 4 2nd August 2010 Pairings:

Shen Yang 0-1 Stefanova Antoaneta
Kosintseva Tatiana 1-0 Munguntuul Batkhuyag
Zhao Xue-1-0 Chiburdanidze Maia
Xu Yuhua 1/2 Zhu Chen
Koneru Humpy 1/2 Hou Yifan
Sebag Marie 1/2 Yildiz Betul Cemre

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British Championships 2010

The British Championships take place in Canterbury, Kent 25th July - 7th August 2010. Michael Adams is the top seed.



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Sparkassen Chess-Meeting Dortmund 2010

The Sparkassen Chess-Meeting in Dortmund takes place 15th - 25th July 2010. Former World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik is the top seed. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Ruslan Ponomariov, Peter Leko, Arkadij Naiditsch and the winner of the Aeroflot Open Le Quang Liem compete.

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Kings Tournament

A fter two editions dedicated to the glories of the years 80-90 and the third edition which has represented a very strong tournament of XX category, the Kings' Tournament reaches now its top level (rating average 2742). This year's edition is a part of the Grand Slam Circuit and is special first of all thanks to the participation of the magnificent Norvegian Magnus Carlsen, which at only 19 years old has a rating of 2813 and is the world number 1 player! The previous year's winner, the Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk had to play in Cuba in this period and has been replaced by his fellow countryman, the ex-FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov. Other participants are: the 2009 World-Cup winner Boris Gelfand, the best Chinese player Wang Yue, the second-best Azerbaijani player Teimour Radjabov and the best Romanian player Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. The competition will take place from the 14-th to the 25-th of June in Medias (in the heart of Transilvania) and taking into consideration the above-mentioned outstanding players it will certainly provide us with great and spectacular chess.

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Anand Retains World Chess Crown

New Delhi - Fans and family of India's Viswanathan Anand rejoiced Wednesday after the grandmaster retained his world chess title defeating Bulgarian Veselin Topalov in a dramatic finale, media reports said.

Anand, 40, won the title of the world chess federation FIDE with a stunning victory in the final of the 12-game duel against Topalov in Sofia on Tuesday.

The chess wizard from India's southern Chennai city, clinched an overall 6.5-5.5 victory to win his fourth Chess title. He had previously won the title in 2000, 2007 and 2008.

Anand told Indian news channels that the final game was the 'toughest-ever' in his career.

'Topalov's one of the strongest players in the world and also one of the grittiest .. I feel a decade older after this match,' he told the NDTV network from Sofia.

'I'm just relieved that I'm going to wake up tomorrow as the world champion,' an elated Anand said.

Anand's father, Vishwanathan Iyer, told reporters in Chennai that his son's persistence and determination helped him secure the title.

'When he lost the first game, it was a big upset. But he got back into the game very quickly and each and every game showed his talent,' he told the PTI news agency.

Anand victory came despite reaching Bulgaria with preparations in a disarray.

He made it to Sofia after a 40-hour road journey as volcanic ash in European skies disrupted the air route. His request for a three-day postponement of the championship was rejected.

'A champion shows his class and we are proud of his resilience and victory,' All India Chess Federation president N Srinivasan said.

Meanwhile, Anand's fans were congratulating him on blogs and websites.

'In a country which is little about sports and where cricket is all about money, ads, match-fixing and glamour, Anand has done India proud,' a fan wrote on the
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President's Cup Baku 2010 (7)

The President's Cup takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan 29th April - 2nd May 2010.

The main event was a single round robin rapid tournament (last year was a Scheveningen team event) with half the players from Azerbaijan and half from abroad.The time control was 25 minutes per player per game. Vladimir Kramnik took first place from Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Gata Kamsky on tie-break after all finished on 5.7.

There is a blitz tournament on the final day, May 2nd, I don't know what the format of that event is but 16 players compete.

The President of Azerbaijan is Ilham Aliyev but the cup is named after his father Heydar Aliyev who was the leader of Soviet Azerbiajan and then President of the Independent State for a period of 30 years
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Anand has the black pieces for game 1.

The first game of the World Chess Championship scheduled for April 23 has been postponed by a day and will now be played on Saturday, 24th April. NIIT MindChampion Viswanathan Anand will play his first game with the black pieces in this twelve-game match. Anand, who had not agreed to the Sofia rule (opponent cannot offer draw), when quizzed about it quipped, "A world championship should be played with world championship rules".

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Vasily Smyslov 1921-2010 A TRUE FWCC

Former World Chess Champion
Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (March 24, 1921 - March 27, 2010) has died at the age of 89.

Smyslov was the 7th World Chess Champion in 1957-8. He was a top 10 player between 1940 and 1970, the top player 1953-1958 and remained in the top 100 until 1990 when he was 70. A reknowned positional and endgame player he nevertheless played all sorts of positions throughout his career.

Sadly reports from Moscow suggest that his final years were lived in poverty and that he had been ill for some time before his final admission to hospital.


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Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament 2010 (Nice FRA)

The 19th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament takes place at the Palais de la Mediterranée, a legendary hotel on the world-famous Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, March 12th-25th 2010. The event is organized by the Association Max Euwe of chess maecenas Joop van Oosterom, which is based in Monaco. The new number one in the world rankings, Magnus Carlsen, is the top-seed in Nice. Also present are Levon Aronian, the winner of the past two Amber tournaments, and Vladimir Kramnik, who won the Amber tournament a record six times.

Alexander Morozevich withdrew a week before the start of the tournament and has been replaced by the higher rated Alexander Grischuk.


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Linares

The Linares tournament takes place in Spain 12th-25th February 2010. Players: Veselin Topalov, Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Boris Gelfand and for the first time in a super-tournament Vugar Gashimov who deserves his chance in this company.

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Aeroflot Open 2010

The 9th Aeroflot Open is taking place from February 9th to 18th, 2010, for the fifth year in succession in the tourist complex Izmailovo Hotel Gamma-Delta, where most of the participants also stay. The prize sum is EUR 180,000, including prizes for the World Blitz Qualification Tournament. Four Open Tournaments (A1, A2, B and C) are made up according to the rating of the participants. The A1 tournament has players with a rating of 2550 or higher.

Time controls: for tournament A1 and A2 it is 40 moves in 100 minutes, then 20 moves in 50 minutes, finally 15 minutes for the remaining moves, with an increment of 30 seconds per move from move one. For tournaments B and C: 90 minutes for the whole game with an increment of 30 seconds per move from move one

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CORUS VIDEOS 2010

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72nd Corus Wijk aan Zee 2010

The 72nd Corus tournament takes place in Wijk aan Zee 15th-31st January 2010

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GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 2810 1 1990
GM Viswanathan Anand IND 2790 3 1969
GM Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2788 4 1975
GM Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2749 8 1969
GM Peter Leko HUN 2739 12 1979
GM Alexei Shirov SPA 2723 20 1972
GM Sergey Karjakin RUS 2720 21 1990
GM Leinier Dominguez CUB 2712 25 1983
GM Hikaru Nakamura USA 2708 28 1987
GM Nigel Short ENG 2696 38 1965
GM Fabiano Caruana ITA 2675 51 1992
GM Sergey Tiviakov NED 2662 62 1973
GM Jan Smeets NED 2657 73 1985
GM Loek van Wely NED 2641 104 1972

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