Alexei Shirov of Spain is leading the Corus Chess Tournament
with a full score at Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands on Jan 18.
World champion Viswanathan Anand is quiet with three draws, the
last being a draw against former Cuban world junior champion
Linier Dominguez with the black pieces.
Anand is tied for the fifth place with 1.5 points from three
rounds. Ten rounds remain to be played. Carlsen who beat Smeets
in the second round, beat Van Wely, another Dutchman to be in
the joint second place along with Nakamura on 2.5.
Shirov, is a Russian born in Latvia and moved to Spain. He
played for the 2000 World Chess Title against Anand at Tehran
and lost. In 1998, he beat Kramnik in a match at Cazorla (Spain)
to qualify to play Kasparov. Kasparov yet played Kramnik and
lost his title.
Grand Master Group B
Ni joined Anish Giri in the lead on 2.5/3. Pentala Harikrishna
recovered and won his first game against Anna Muzychuk
(Slovenia) to reach 1.5/3. Negi held top seed Arkady Naiditch of
Dortmund to a draw. Negi has 1.5/3.
Grand Master Group C
Former World Junior champion Abhijeet Gupta scored his first win
over Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine to reach the second spot with
2/3.
Soumya Swaminathan lost and is tied for the bottom place with
0.5/3. R. Robson, D. Vocaturo, L. Chao are leading this Category
9 section with 2.5/3.
July 07 2010 - This is to inform all chess
players / organisers / officials that any chess event organized
under the banner of "Chess Association of India" is not
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Associations
May 06 2010 - Please be informed that the FIDE has announced that, here after
all the rating tournaments should be registered 30 days in
advance. We therefore request all the organizers / State chess
associations to send their Bidform along with prescribed fee to
organize any FIDE rating events, 45 days in advance to All India
Chess Federation for onward submission to FIDE and enable us to
allot the FIDE / AICF event code for the event. Download the Bidform
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