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  • 10th Dubai Open
    6-15 April . Average rating: 2188

    Final standings :
    PlayerCountry Points Sum of the ratings of the opponents
    1 So Wesley PHI 720234
    2 Gagunashvili MerabGEO 720085
    3 Ghaem Maghami EhsanIRI 719789
    4 Li Chao BCHN 719605




  • 2.nd Ruy Lopez Chess Festival
    The tournament took place in Merida from April 4th to 13th with 8 players. It was a round robin tournament (Category 15)

    Final standings :
    PlayerCountry Points
    1 Adams ENG 5,5
    2 ZhangCHN 5
    3 SargissianARM 4,5
    4 KoneruIND 4,5




  • 5th "Open International de Balagne"
    The tournament took place from April 6th to 12th with 64 players. 9 rounds of which two days with double round , 9 games 1h30 + 30s Fischer. The players couldn't not offer draw unless it is a dead drawn ending.

    PlayerCountry Points
    1 MACAK Stefan SVK 8
    2 DAVID AlbertoLUX 7,5
    3 AL-MODIAHKI MohamadQAT 7



  • 8th Bangkok Chess Club Open 2008

    99 players played during April 2 - 9. Swiss System, with 9 rounds for BCC Open. Each player was accorded with a time control of 90 minutes plus 30 seconds per move.

    PlayerCountry Points
    1 Xiu Deshun CHN 8
    2 Zhang ZiyangCHN 7,5
    3 Li ShilongCHN 7
    Details



  • European Festival of Chess Composition
    European Festival of Chess Composition, including the 4th European Chess Solving Championship took places in Antalya , Turkey between March 28 , April 3

    One of the questions : Mate in 2 (Milan Velimirovic).


    FINAL TEAMS RANKING
      Country Points
    1 Serbia 223
    2 Russia 222
    3 Poland 206,5


    FINAL INDIVIDUAL RANKING
     Name Points
    1 Piotr Murdzia 77,5
    2 Bojan Vuckovic 76,5
    3 Miodrag Mladenovic 73,5


    Solution of the problem : 1. Qg1 ! Back to the diagram



  • Dutch Championship 2008
    The tournament takes place from April 2nd to 13th. with the participation of 12 players . Average rating is 2536.
    The participants :
    Sergei Tiviakov 2634, Daniël Stellwagen 2621, Erwin L'Ami 2600, Jan Smeets 2578, Sipke Ernst 2559, Friso Nijboer 2558, Dimitri Reinderman 2526, Ruud Janssen 2504, Yge Visser 2477, Jan-Willem De Jong 2474, Manuel Bosboom 2471 and Daan Brandenburg 2435.


  • Turkey chess championship
    The tournament takes place between 23 March - 04 April 2008 with the participation of 14 players .

    Round 13

    Firat Burak - Dogan Ali Ekber: 1 - 0
    Ataman Alper - Erdogdu Mert: 0 - 1
    Haznedaroglu Kivanc - Buker Muhittin: 1 - 0
    Secer Ata - Gurevich Mikhail: 0,5 - 0,5
    Yilmaz Mustafa - Duman Aydin: 0,5 - 0,5
    Kilicaslan Hasan - Erdogan Hakan: 1 - 0
    Citak Selim - Atalik Suat: 0 - 1


  • Fide ratings April



  • 3rd Kolkata Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament
    The tournament takes place between 23 March - 02 April 2008 in Kolkata, India with 113 players . The ratings of 12 players are over 2500. 18 grandmasters.

    PlayerCountry Points
    1 Laznicka Viktor CZE 8,5
    2 Sasikiran KrishnanIND 8,5
    3 Safin ShukhratUZB 7,5




  • 2008 Sydney International Open

    Ganguly Surya Shekhar from India won the tournament on tie break with 7 points (44 points Buccholz ).

    PlayerCountry PointsBuccholz Tie break
    1 Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 744
    2 Zhang ZhongSIN 743,5
    3 Jones Gawain ENG 741,5
    4 Zhao Zong-YuanAUS 741,5

    Details


  • Heviz Grand Master Tournament Category XVI
    18 - 28 March 2008 .

    Playing time: 100 minutes/40 moves+ 30-30 minutes + 30-30 seconds / move until the end of the game.
    The round robin tournament (10 rounds)

    Balogh HUN , Naiditsch GER ,Nisipeanu ROU ,Almasi HUN tied at the top with 5,5 points. Balogh won due to Berger-Sonneborn tie-break.

    Round 10

    Almasi, Zoltan - Balogh, Csaba : 0,5 - 0,5
    Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter - Vallejo Pons, Francisco : 0,5 - 0,5
    Naiditsch, Arkadij - Mikhalevski, Victor : 1 - 0

    Standings and previous rounds


  • Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament 2008
    15 - 27 March 2008 .

    Aronian won the tournament with 14,5 points.Every day one round (four sessions) is played : two blindfold session and two rapid session.

    PlayerCountry PointsBuccholz Tie break
    1 Aronian ARM 14,5 
    2 KramnikRUS 12133,5
    3 LekoHUN 12128
    4 ToplaovBUL 12126

    standings

    Round XI
    Blind
    Anand-Van Wely 1/2-1/2
    Kramnik-Karjakin 1/2-1/2
    Mamedyarov-Gelfand 1-0
    Topalov-Ivanchuk 1-0
    Leko-Aronian 1/2-1/2
    Morozevich-Carlsen 1/2-1/2
    Rapid
    Van Wely-Anand 1/2-1/2
    Karjakin-Kramnik 1/2-1/2
    Gelfand-Mamedyarov 1-0
    Ivanchuk-Topalov 1-0
    Aronian-Leko 1/2-1/2
    Carlsen-Morozevich 1/2-1/2
    Standings and previous rounds




  • Scandinavian Ladies Open 2008

    PlayerCountry PointsBuccholz Tie break
    1 Muzychuk Anna SLO 749
    2 Khukhashvili SopikoGEO 747,5
    3 Danielian ElinaARM 743,5
    Official site


  • 32nd Open International de Fourmies
    HAUB Thorsten-Michael from Germany won the tournament which took place between 22-24 March 2008 with 151 players from 11 different countries.


  • Schack 08 Norrköping
    The tournament takes place between 21-24 March 2008 with 136 players , 5 grand masters. 8 rounds.

    PlayerCountry PointsBuccholz Tie break
    1 Brynell Stellan SWE 6,544
    2 Miezis Normunds LAT 6,542,5
    3 Smith Axel SWE 6,542
    4 Karlsson Lars SWE 6,541
    5 Akesson RalfSWE 6,537,5



  • Atatürk International Women Masters Chess Tournament
    The tournament takes place in Istanbul, Turkey between March 11 to March 21. Average elo rating of participants is 2461.5

    Round 9

    YILDIZ Betul Cemre - CHEN Zhu : 0 - 1
    CRAMLING Pia - USHENINA Anna: 0,5 - 0,5
    YIFAN Hou - JAVAKHISHVILI Lela : 0,5 - 0,5
    XUE Zhao - ATALIK Ekaterina: 1 - 0
    DRONAVALLI Harika - KRUSH Irina : 0,5 - 0,5



  • Schloss-Open
    13 - 16 March 2008 . 924 players . Elo between 2042 - 2583.
    5 rounds (A-Open: 7 rounds) swiss system, FIDE rules
    Time limit: A-Open: 90 min for 40 moves + 15 min for rest of the game + 30 sec increment per move from the first move on

    Official site


  • The XXIII. Reykjavik Open 2008
    The tournament takes place in Reykjavik from 3 March to 11 March 2008 with the participation of 90 players . Elo between 1721 - 2698.
    90 min. / 40 moves + 15 minutes after 40 moves. 30 sec. increment for every move.

    PlayerCountry PointsBuccholz Tie break
    1 Wang Hao CHN 740
    2 Stefansson Hannes ISL 738,5
    3 Wang Yue CHN 738
    Official site


  • 16. International Fajr Men's Chess Tournament
    11 round Swiss tournament, with the Fide Standard Time Control (90 Minutes+30 seconds per move).

    PlayerCountry Points
    1 Ghaem Maghami EhsanIRN 9,5
    2 Grigoryan Avetik ARM 9
    3 Magalashvili Davit GEO 8,5



  • WGM 'Mediterranean Flowers' Rijeka Croatia
    Lujan Carolina won the tournament which took place in Rijeka between 1-8 March 2008 .

    PlayerCountry Points
    1 Lujan Carolina ARG 8,5
    2 Ionica Iulia-Ionela ROU 7,5
    3 Voicu Carmen ROU 6
    Full results


  • 15. Linares Morelia 2008
    Players : Alexei Shirov 2755 , Magnus Carlsen 2733 Peter Leko 2753 Veselin Topalov 2780 Levon Aronian 2739 Teimour Radjabov 2735 Vassily Ivanchuk 2751 Viswanathan Anand 2799

    2.lap in Linares.
    Round 14 :
    Anand - Topalov: 0,5 - 0,5
    Carlsen - Radjabov: 0,5 - 0,5
    Leko - Aronian: 0,5 - 0,5
    Shirovi - Ivanchuk: 0,5 - 0,5


  • 25. Sahovski festival Bled 2008
    Slovenija, 23.2.2008-1.3.2008,
    9 rounds Swiss Time: 90min/40move + 15min + 30sec/move . 54 players participate to Open A. ELO between 2568 - 1996


    PlayerCountry PointsBuccholz
    1 Sveshnikov LAT 738,5
    2 Sebenik SLO 6,540
    3 Lenic SLO 6,538,5
    4 DraskoMNE 6,536,5
    5 Tratar SLO 6,536,5



  • 15. Sélestat Open
    The tournament took place from 21 to 24 February 2008
    7 rounds Swiss , Time: 1h 40 + 30 s

    PlayerCountry PointsBuccholz
    1 Barsov UZB 5,534,5
    2 Ninov NED 5,534
    3 IkonnikovISR 5,534
    4 Karpatchev ISR 5,531,5
    5 Haub GER 5,530,5
    6 Prasad GER 5,528,5
    7 Lerch RUS 5,528,5



  • 1. Pfalz Open
    16 - 23 february 2008 : 224 players . 9 rounds Swiss system. Time control is 40 moves / 120 min, and additional 60 min till the end.


    PlayerCountry PointsBuccholz
    1 Markowski POL 7,548
    2 Tiviakov NED 751
    3 GreenfeldISR 749,5
    4 Postny ISR 749,5
    5 Milov GER 748,5
    6 Kempinski GER 746,5
    7 Korneev RUS 742,5
    Official site


  • Cappelle La Grande chess tournament
    Vugar Gashimov won Cappelle La Grande chess tournament which took place from 16 to 23 february 2008 with the participation of 302 players at Palais des Arts et des Loisirs.

    PlayerCountry Points
    1 Gashimov AZE 7
    2 Arutinian GEO 7
    3 Fedorchuk UKR 7
    4 Kryvoruchko UKR 7
    5 Chernyshov RUS 7
    6 Deviatkin RUS 7
    7 Kotronias GRE 7
    8 L'ami NED 7

    Official site


  • Aeroflot Open 2008
    The tournament took place in Moscow from 13 February to 23 February 2008 .
    4 tournaments :
    A1 for players with a rating higher than 2549 : 66 chess players
    A2 for players with a rating between 2550 - 2400 : 92 players
    B for players with a rating between 2200 - 2400 : 135 players
    C for players with a rating lower than 2200 : 140 players

    Swiss system in 9 rounds

    PlayerCountry Points
    1 Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS 7
    2 Motylev, Alexander RUS 6,5
    3 Dreev, Alexey RUS 6,5


    Official site


  • 10th European Senior Team-Chess-Championship
    The tournament took place in Dresden from 11th February to 19th February 2008 .
    Swiss system in 9 rounds
    100 min/40 moves + 40 minutes for the rest of the game + 30 sec from first move
    Each team consists of four players and one reserve.

    Player Points
    1 Czech 16
    2 Don Rostov 15
    3 Moscow 15

    Official site


  • Four Nations Chess Challenge
    Norway, Sweden, England and Latvia will challenge in Oslo, Norway. 15-17 February.
    40 moves in 90 minutes and 30 minutes for the rest with 30 seconds increment per move.

    Country Match PointsIndividual Points
    1 Sweden6 20
    2 England4 14
    3 Latvia1 13,5
    4 Norway1 12,5

    Official site


  • Festival International des Jeux 2008
    The tournament takes place in Cannes from 11 February to 17 February 2008 .
    102 players in tournament A . Swiss system in 9 rounds
    100 min/40 moves + 20 min + 30 sec/move

    Final standings:
    PlayerCountry Points
    1 Bauer Christian FRA 7
    2 Felgaer Ruben ARG 7
    3 Sanchez Joseph PHI 7
    Official site


  • Moscow open 2008
    Artyom Timofeev from Russia won Moscow open 2008.
    274 players challenge in Moscow open 2008 Open A tournament , 414 players in Open B , 414 players in Open C-ladies tournament and 373 children in Children tournament D between 2-9 February in Moscow.

    PlayerCountry Points
    1 Artyom Timofeev RUS 7,5
    2 Alexander Riazantsev RUS 7
    3 Sergey Volkov RUS 7



  • 68th Daniël Noteboom Tournament 1-3 February 2008
    Predrag Nikolic won the 68th Daniël Noteboom Tournament with 5,5 points.

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    Player PointsBuccholz
    1 Nikolic 5,525
    2 Van der Wiel 5,521
    3 Shilong 525



  • 13.Hit Open Nova Gorica
    Borki Predojevic won 13. HIT Open 2008 .The chess tournament took place in Nova Gorica between 26.1.-1.2.2008. 30 players. Highest Elo : 2641 , lowest Elo : 2151

    PlayerCountry Points
    1 Borki PredojevicBIH 6,5
    2 Luka Lenic SLO 8
    3 Viktor Erdos HUN 5,5



  • Gibtelecom 2008 Masters
    Nakamura beats Xiangzhi in the play-off by 2-0. Both players had 8 points after the 10.th round.

    PlayerCountry Points
    1 Hikaru Nakamura USA 8
    2 Xiangzhi Bu CHN 8
    3 Alexander Areshchenko UKR 7,5

    Official site


  • Corus chess tournament Wijk aan Zee
    Aronian and Carlsen are the joint winners of grandmaster group A. The tournament took place between 11-27 January 2008. Grandmaster Group A : Average rating : 2742 Category : 20

    Round 13 - 27 Jan

    V. Ivanchuk - L. van Wely : 0,5 - 0,5
    J. Polgar - L. Aronian : 0,5 - 0,5
    V. Topalov - M. Adams : 0,5 - 0,5
    B. Gelfand - P. Eljanov : 1 - 0
    P. Leko - S. Mamedyarov : 1 - 0
    M. Carlsen - T. Radjabov : 0,5 - 0,5
    V. Anand - V. Kramnik : 0,5 - 0,5

    S. Movsesian won Corus grandmaster group B with 9,5 points, 2. E.Bacrot and N.Short 8,5 points.

    F. Caruana won grandmaster group C with 10 points , 2. P. Negi and D. Reinderman 8 points.

    Honorary category:
    1. L. Ljubojevic 4 ,
    2. V. Kortchnoi ,
    J. Timman 3 ,
    4. L. Portisch ,



  • Gibtelecom Masters 2008
    The 6th edition of Gibraltar's Gibtelecom Chess Festival takes place from 22-31 January 2008 . Gibtelecom Masters (Open to all) - 22-31January 2008 (10 rounds Swiss, FIDE rated)
    Challengers A (Under 2250) - 22-26 January 2008
    Challengers B (Under 2250) - 27-31 January 2008
    Amateur A (Under 1850) - 22-26 January 2008
    Amateur B (Under 1850) - 27-31 January 2008

    Official site


  • 6th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament 2008
    PlayerCountry Points
    1 Gupta AbhijeetIND 9
    2 Ganguly Surya ShekharIND 8,5
    3 Prakash G BIND 8

    Official site


  • Prague open 2008
    11-18 January 2008. 127 players. Swiss system of 9 rounds, 2 x 1,5h + 30s/move . Open master tournament with IM norm, rating for FIDE

      Player CountryPointsBuccholz
    1 Meijers Viesturs LAT753
    2 Sveshnikov Evgeny LAT750,5
    3 Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi IND750

    Official site


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