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Komodo wins the TCEC Superfinal!

komodo-chess-engine-1Komodo chess engine is the winner of this year’s world strongest computer chess championship TCEC. Komodo edged Stockfish in the final match 25,0 : 23,0 in a dramatic battle.

Sethuraman maintains lead in Hyderabad Open

Chennai based ONGC employee Grandmaster Sethuraman S P maintained his sole lead with six and half points after splitting the point with Mikhail Mozharov in the eighth round of 2nd Hyderabad International Grandmasters Chess Tournament here at Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Indoor Stadium, Yousufguda on Sunday.

Magnus Carlsen opened Real Madrid match

World Champion Magnus Carlsen celebrated his 23rd birthday with 68,000 people at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium as he took a ceremonial kick-off in the La Liga match between Real Madrid and Valladolid.

Real Madrid CF President Florentino Pérez invited Carlsen to be the special guest of the match and presented him with a shirt and engraved watch as birthday gifts.

December FIDE rating list

FIDE logoMagnus Carlsen enters the month of December as a World Champion and world’s highest rated player for the first time.

Komodo in the lead, Stockfish continues the pursuit at TCEC

komodo-chess-engine-1The Komodo chess engines continues leading the Superfinal of the world’s strongest computer chess championship TCEC. It has a 2 point advantage after round 41, seven rounds before the end.

Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014 – Participants

The 2014 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival will take place from Monday 27th January to Thursday 6th February, 2014.

The Festival will consist of five events: Masters, Challengers Wk1 (U2250), Challengers Wk2 (U2250), Amateurs Wk1 (U1900) and Amateurs Wk2 (U1900). Last year winner was GM Nikita Vitiugov.

Magnus Carlsen: My goal was to play 40-50 good moves in every game

After letting the clock tick for nearly three days, Magnus Carlsen finally made his move.

Since becoming the World Champion on Friday, the 22-year old was virtually out of bounds for the media. Even the Norwegian media delegation was disappointed to note the reluctance of their National hero to share his thoughts with them.

Carlsen slept long hours, turned out for Team Carlsen in games of football and basketball against the Norwegian journalists but stayed away from interviews.

Jonathan Rowson Gets London Chess Classic Wild Card

The three-time British Champion, GM Jonathan Rowson, steps up to play in the biggest tournament of his career after being given the wild card spot into ‘The Super Sixteen’ Grandmaster Rapid at the London Chess Classic, that runs 7-15 December at the Kensington Olympia.

Two spots remain to be filled for the Super Sixteen, and two players will win their way there from the FIDE Open at the Classic.

Sethuraman takes sole lead in Hyderabad Open

Grandmaster S P Sethuraman jumped to sole lead after defeating overnight joint leader Grandmaster Vladislav Borovikov of Ukraine in the sixth round of the ongoing 2nd Hyderabad International Grandmasters Chess Tournament here at Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Indoor Stadium, Yousufguda on today.

Ukraine with commanding lead at World Chess Teams Championship

Vassily IvanchukUkraine is dominating the World Chess Team Championship in Antalya, Turkey. After four rounds Ivanchuk, Moiseenko, Korobov, Kryvoruchko, and Areshchenko have 8,0/8 match points, having defeated USA, China, Azerbaijan, and Germany.

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