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| Posted by loreta legalserv.com 7/17/2008 07:16:31 Play online chess |  Subject: Sites with Annotated gamesMessage: In English, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese.... --- In Russian:  chesspro.ru |
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| Posted by loreta legalserv.com 7/18/2008 01:18:46 Play online chess | Some of Message: www.chessvault.com (see at Opennings section) |
| Posted by loreta legalserv.com 7/18/2008 03:16:30 Play online chess | Russian Federation Message: russiachess.org |
Chess news: Can Karpov Be President of Chess Federation? -- The former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov announced on Saturday that he was running for president of the World Chess Federation. Karpov is trying to unseat Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who has been president of the federation (known as FIDE, its initials in French), since 1995. Ilyumzhinov is also the president of Kalmykia, a small Russian republic on the Caspian Sea. The federation president is elected for a five-year term, and there is no limit on how many times he (or she) can be re-elected. Karpov would not be the first ex-champion to serve as FIDE’s president. Max Euwe, the fifth world chess champion (1935-37), led the federation from 1970-78, a period of exceptional ... Ivanchuk, Carlsen Lead at Amber -- Rapid chess and blindfold chess require different skills. But excelling at both is a prerequisite for victory at the annual Amber Chess Tournament, the most unusual event of the year. Amber is sponsored by Joop van Oosterom, a Dutch billionaire and world correspondence chess champion, who started the tournament in 1992 and named it after his daughter. With a generous prize fund (this year 216,000 euros, or a little less than $300,000), an invitation to the tournament is coveted by the world’s top chess players. (It does not hurt that the tournament is held in Nice, France, on the Côte d’Azur.) This year’s field is made up of ... In Europe, a Young Chess Champion Emerges From Deep Ranks -- The European Championships showed how much the chess world has changed in the last 20 years. The men’s division was won by Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia, a 19-year-old chess grandmaster. Nepomniachtchi is talented, and he was seeded 35th in a field that included more than 150 grandmasters. But he was just one player among dozens who had a realistic shot at the title. On the scale used to measure ability, Nepomniachtchi has a rating of 2,656 and is ranked No. 78 in the world. Yet in 1990, Yasser Seirawan of the United States — one of the most talented chess players of his generation — was 10th with a rating of 2,635. Now, Seirawan’s rating is 2,651, and he is ... | |