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    List of the chess tournaments with detailed information.
    Bilbao masters -- Inventi chess -- NH chess -- Yinzhou Cup China vs Russia -- Women grand prix -- Dortmund -- US women ch. -- Poikovsky China champ. -- US champ.
    World chess champ. -- Serbia chess ch. Russian team ch. -- Amber -- Corus -- Reggio Emilia
    World Team Chess Champ. -- Rilton cup -- Russian super final -- Edmonton festival
    London chess classic -- World cup -- Tal Memorial -- 17th European Team Chess Champ.
    FIDE Grand prix series -- Nanjing Pearl Spring -- M-tel masters
    Corus Linares Morelia -- Olympiad -- World Chess Challenge -- Aerosvit
    Grandmaster Memorial tournaments -- Country championships
    All chess tournaments



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  • Bilbao final masters

    September 3 - 8 , 2010 , Shanghai
    October 9 - 15 , 2010 , Bilbao

    Shanghai stage

    Round 1

    Wang Hao - Levon Aronian: 0–1
    Vladimir Kramnik - Alexei Shirov: ½-½




  • 1st Campomanes Memorial Cup Open

    August 28 - September 3
    Manila, Philipinnes
    Final standings, top 3

    PlayersCountryPointsTie break
    1 Zhao JunCHN 72612
    2 Le Quang Liem VIE 72542
    3 Ding Liren CHN 6,5-


    Tie Break: rating average of the opponents




  • 7th Kalamaria Open 2010

    August 25 - September 1, 2010
    Kalamaria, Greece
    Final standings, top 3

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Andriasian ZavenARM 7
    2 Atalik Suat TUR 6,5
    3 Drozdovskij Yuri UKR 6,5





  • Inventichess 2010

    September 3 - 11 , 2010
    Antwerp, Belgium
    time control: 20 minutes + 10 seconds a move

    participants:

    Georg Meier GER 2648
    Ivan Sokolov BIH 2641
    Andrei Istratescu ROU 2620
    Mhère Hovhanisian ARM 2479
    Bart Michiels BEL 2460
    John De Jong NED 2444
    Stéphane Hautot BEL 2422
    Geert Van der Stricht BEL 2393
    Stefan Docx BEL 2370
    Tom Piceu BEL 2362





  • Ratings : September 2010

    Ratings: Top 100 players and top countries




  • Baku open

    August 23 - 31, 2010
    Baku, Azerbaijan
    Swiss System, 9 Round ,
    158 players.
    Time control: for each player - 90 minutes for the finishing of the game + 30 sec per move (beginning 1st move).

    Final standings, top 3

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Kamsky, GataUSA 7,5
    2 Sutovsky, Emil ISR 7
    3 Aleksandrov, Aleksej BLR 7





  • Arctic Securities Chess Stars Kristiansund

    August 28 - 30, 2010
    Kristiansund, Norway
    time control: 20 minutes + 10 seconds a move

    Carlsen is winner.


    Final:
    Carlsen - Anand: 1,5 - 0,5

    Carlsen, Magnus - Anand, Viswanathan : 1-0
    Anand, Viswanathan - Carlsen, Magnus : ½-½

    3rd-4th:
    Hammer - Polgar: 1,5 - 0,5

    Polgar, Judit - Hammer, Jon Ludvig : ½-½
    Hammer, Jon Ludvig - Polgar, Judit : 1-0


    Preliminary:

      Players Country Points
    1. Anand, Viswanathan IND 5
    2. Carlsen, Magnus NOR 3½
    3. Hammer, Jon Ludvig NOR 2
    4. Polgar, Judit HUN 1½





  • Leko vs Gelfand rapid match

    August 24 - 29, 2010
    Miskolc, Hungary
    8 rapid games ,

    Day 4:
    Leko - Gelfand: : ½ - ½
    Gelfand - Leko: ½ - ½

    Total points: Leko - Gelfand: : 3,5 - 4,5

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  • Istanbul chess festival

    August 21 - 28, 2010
    Istanbul, Turkey
    Swiss System, 9 Round ,
    350 players.

    Final standings, top 3

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Sumets, AndreyUKR 8
    2 Bigaliev, Renat RUS 7,5
    3 Gasanov, Eldar UKR 7,5





  • 6th Prospero A. Pichay Cup Open

    August 21 - 26, 2010
    Manila, Philippinnes
    47 players ,

    Final standings, top 3

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Filippov, Anton UZB 7
    2 Kazhgalayev, Murtas KAZ 6,5
    3 Gelashvili, Tamaz GEO 6,5





  • 63rd Russian championship major league

    August 25 - September 6, 2010
    Irkutsk, Siberia
    Swiss system, 10 rounds ,
    48 players (men),

    Five best participants will be eligible to serve in the
    Russian Championship Super Final.

    August 25 - September 3, 2010
    34 players (women),
    Five winners receive the right to participate in the Grand Final
    60-th Russian Chess Championship for women.





  • NH chess tournament

    August 12 - 22, 2010
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Scheveningen tournament,
    Time control: At least 40 moves in two hours, followed by 30 minutes for the remaining moves.
    In this second period 30 seconds are added on the clock per move.

    Final score:

    Experience team: 24 - Rising stars: 26

    Final Round
    Gelfand – Nakamura: ½ - ½
    Ljubojevic – Caruana: ½ - ½
    van Wely – So: ½ - ½
    Nielsen – Giri: 1 - 0
    Svidler - Howell: 1 - 0




  • France championship

    August 9 - 21, 2010
    Belfort, France
    11 rounds,
    time control: 90 mn / 40 m + 30 mn + 30 sec/move


    Fressinet is champion after tie-break games.

    Tie break games:
    Romain Edouard - Laurent Fressinet : ½-½
    Laurent Fressinet - Romain Edouard : 1-0





  • Negroponte Open

    August 9 - 17, 2010
    Chalkis, Greece

    Final standings, top 7

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Atalik, Suat TUR 8
    2 Hess Robert USA 7,5
    3-7 Burmakin Vladimir RUS 7
    3-7 Graf Alexander GER 7
    3-7 Bosiocic Marin CRO 7
    3-7 Nikolaidis Ioannis GRE 7
    3-7 Moradiabadi Elshan IRI 7





  • Efimenko vs Naiditsch

    August 12-18, 2010
    Mukachevo, Ukraine
    Title R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Res.
    Zahar Efimenko (UKR) 1/2 0 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 2,5
    Arkadij Naiditsch (GER)1/2 1 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 3,5





  • Marx György Memorial 2010

    August 5 - 16, 2010
    Paks , Hungary

    Laznicka (CZE) won with 8 pts.

    Final round :
    Laznicka, Viktor - Robson, Ray : 1-0
    Berkes, Ferenc - Acs, Peter: ½-½
    Timman, Jan H - Almasi, Zoltan : 1-0






  • Yinzhou Cup China - Russia

    August 5 - 15, 2010
    Scheveningen system tournament.
    The time control : 90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes to the end of the game,
    with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from the first move.

    overall score :
    China - Russia: 128 - 122





  • Ulaanbaatar women grand prix

    July 29 to August 12
    Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
    Round robin tournament with 12 players.
    5th tournament of women grand prix series.

    Hou Yifan won the tournament

    Round 11

    Chiburdanidze Maia - Shen Yang : ½ - ½
    Munguntuul Batkhuyag - Zhu Chen : 0 - 1
    Stefanova Antoaneta - Hou Yifan : ½ - ½
    Kosintseva Tatiana - Yildiz Betul Cemre : 1 - 0
    Zhao Xue - GM Sebag Marie : ½ - ½
    Xu Yuhua - Koneru Humpy : ½ - ½




  • Arctic chess challenge

    July 31 - August 8, 2010
    Tromso,Norway
    164 players
    9 rounds

    Final standings, top 3

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Kobalia, Mikhail RUS 7,5
    2 Hoyos, Manuel Leon MEX 7,5
    3 Sandipan, Chanda IND 7





  • British Championship

    July 25 - August 7, 2010
    University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
    78 players
    11 rounds
    Players over 2500: Adams, Michael, 2706 - Gordon, Stephen J, 2534 -
    Conquest, Stuart, 2523 - Williams, Simon K, 2511


    Final standings, top 3

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Adams, Michael ENG 9,5
    2 Pert, NicholasFressinet Laurent ENG 8
    3 Conquest, Stuart C ENG 7,5





  • Dutch open

    July 27 - August 5, 2010
    Dieren, The Netherlands
    74 players
    9 rounds
    time control: 40 moves in 90 minutes , followed by 30 minutes + extra time an increment of 30 seconds from the 1st move.

    Final standings, top 3

    PlayersPoints
    1 Fargere , Francois 7,5
    2 Ernst , Sipke 6,5
    3 L' Ami , Erwin 6,5





  • 4th San Juan International

    July 24 to August 1st
    Pamplona, Mongolia
    9 rounds
    Final standings, top 4

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Wojtaszek Radoslaw POL 6,5
    2 Fressinet Laurent FRA 6,5
    3 Fedorchuk Sergey A UKR 5,5
    4 Zvjaginsev Vadim RUS 5,5







  • Biel Young Grandmaster Tournament

    July 19 - 28, 2010
    Biel, Switzerland
    Double round robin tournament

    Fabiano Caruana won the tournament after tie break games.

    Three players have finished with the same amount of points after the last round. They played tie break games:

    Semi-final:
    First game: Fabiano Caruana - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave: 1 - 0
    Second game: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - Fabiano Caruana: 1 - 0
    Third game (Armageddon): Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - Fabiano Caruana: 0 - 1

    Final:
    First game (rapid): Fabiano Caruana - Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son: ½ - ½
    Second game(rapid): Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son - Fabiano Caruana : 0 - 1




  • Dortmund 2010

    July 15 - 25, 2010
    Dortmund, Germany
    Double round robin tournament

    Ponomariov is winner.

    round 10:

    Leko – Naiditsch : 1 - 0
    Kramnik – Mamedyarov : 1 - 0
    Ponomariov – Le : ½ - ½






  • Andorra open 2010

    July 17 - 25, 2010

    Final standings, top 3

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Zoler Dan ISR 7,5
    2 Bruzon Batista Lazaro CUB 7
    3 Hamdouchi Hicham FRA 7





  • 2010 U.S. Women's chess championship


    July 9 - 20 ,
    Average ELO: 2353
    Saint Louis, USA
    10 players
    Round robin tournament
    .
    Krush is winner with 8 pts.

    Final Round

    Anna Zatonskih - Sabina Foisor: ½ - ½
    Katerina Rohonyan - Tatev Abrahamyan : 0 - 1
    Camilla Baginskaite - Beatriz Marinello : 1 - 0
    Irina Krush - Abby Marshall: 1 - 0
    Alisa Melekhina - Iryna Zenyuk : 0 - 1





  • 117th Scottish championship

    July 11 - 17, 2010

    Final standings, top 3

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Greet, Andrew ENG 7,5
    2 Shaw, John SCO 7
    3 Berry, Neil SCO 6,5





  • Canadian Open Chess Championship,

    July 10 - 18 , 2010
    Toronto, Canada
    213 players
    9 rounds, Swiss System
    time control: 40 moves in 90 minutes and 30 minutes for the remainder of the game
    (with 30 second increments from move 1).

    Final standings

    PlayersRatingsPoints
    1 McShane Luke 2624 8
    2 Noritsyn Nikolay 2536 7,5
    3 Gagunashvili Merab 2596 7





  • Chess Festival Sport Summer 2010 Paracin

    July 7 - 16, 2010
    Paracin, Serbia
    126 players ( 9 GM )
    9 rounds, swiss system
    Time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes with 30 seconds
    cumulative increment for each move starting from the first move.
    Final standings

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Damljanovic BrankoSRB 7,5
    2 Savic Miodrag R SRB 7
    3 Nikolov SashoBUL 7





    • Paris international open

    July 3 - 11 , 2010
    Paris, France
    74 players ( 11 GM )
    Average ELO: 2356 Final standings

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Feller Sebastien FRA 8
    2 Gharamian Tigran FRA 7,5
    3 Sethuran S.P.IND 6,5





  • 38th Greek Team Championship

    July 5 - 11 , 2010
    Peristeri, Greece
    22 teams, 473 players

    Final standings, top 3

    TeamsPoints
    1 Peristeriou 14
    2 Kydon Chania 11
    3 Chania Chess Academy 11





  • Turkey team championship

    July 2 - 8 , 2010
    Konya, Turkey
    47 teams
    9 rounds,

    Final standings

    TeamsCityPoints
    1 Antalya Ramazan Savas S.K.Antalya 16
    2 Gazi Universitesi S.K. Ankara 15
    3 Deniz Genclik S.K.Antalya 14





  • Fide Women Grand-Prix, Jermuk

    June 23 to July 6, 2010.
    Jermuk, Armenia
    4th tournament of FIDE Women Grand-Prix series.
    Round-robin system, 11 rounds

    Dzagnidze won with 9 pts.

    Final round

    Kovanova Baira - Mkrtchian Lilit : ½ - ½
    Fierro Baquero Martha L - Cramling Pia : 0 - 1
    Kosintseva Tatiana - Danielian Elina : 0 - 1
    Chiburdanidze Maia - Stefanova Antoaneta : 0 - 1
    Dzagnidze Nana -Hou Yifan : ½ - ½
    Shen Yang - Xu Yuhua : ½ - ½





  • Chess festival King 's Gambit - 2010

    June 23 - July 1 , 2010
    Lipetsk, Russia
    round robin system, 10 players:

    Final standings

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Zonta Andrew UKR 8
    2 Neverov Valeri UKR 6
    3 Gladyshev OlegRUS 5





  • Fide ratings - July 2010

    Top 100 players -- Women top 10 -- top countries



  • Pula open

    June 19 - 26 , 2010
    Pula, Croatia
    Final standings

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Kovacevic Aleksandar SRB 5
    2 Zelcic Robert CRO 4,5
    3 Fodor Tamas JrHUN 4,5




  • Bazna King's chess tournament

    June 14 - 25 , 2010
    Bazna, Romania
    Average ELO: 2742
    Double round-robin system

    Carlsen won the tournament with 7,5 points.

    Final round Wang Yue - Carlsen Magnus : 0 - 1
    Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter - Ponomariov Ruslan : 0 - 1
    Gelfand Boris - Radjabov Teimour : 0 - 1





  • 45th Capablanca Memorial Elite

    June 9 - 22 , 2010
    La Habana , Cuba
    Average tournament's rating: 2691

    Final round

    Ivanchuk, Vassily - Nepomniachtchi, Ian : 0,5 - 0,5
    Dominguez Perez, Leinier - Alekseev, Evgeny : 1 - 0
    Short, Nigel D - Bruzon Batista, Lazaro : 1 - 0







  • Poikovsky chess championship

    June 2 - 14, 2010

    Round 11

    Karjakin, Sergey - Sutovsky, Emil : 1 - 0
    Bologan, Viktor - Motylev, Alexander : 1 - 0
    Jakovenko, Dmitry - Rublevsky, Sergei : 0,5 - 0,5
    Vitiugov, Nikita - Jobava, Baadur : 0,5 - 0,5
    Riazantsev, Alexander - Onischuk, Alexander: 0,5 - 0,5
    Sokolov, Ivan - Naiditsch, Arkadij : 1 - 0





  • Mitropacup chess tournament

    May 29 - June 6, 2010

    Round 9

    France - Slovenia: 3 - 1
    Hungary - Slovakia: 2 - 2
    Switzerland - Italy: 2 - 2
    Austria - Germany: 2 - 2
    Croatia - Czech Rep.: 2,5 - 1,5




  • China chess championship

    May 24 - June 6, 2010

    Final round

    Wang Hao - Ni Hua : 1 - 0
    Ding Liren - Zhou Weiqi : 0,5 - 0, 5
    Li Shilong - Bu Xiangzhi : 0,5 - 0, 5
    Ji Dan - Zhou Jianchao : 0 - 1
    Hou Yifan - Lu Shanglei : 0 - 1
    Li Chao B - Zhang Ziyang : 1 - 0




  • Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament

    May 26 - 30, 2010

    Final standings

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Giri, Anish NED 4,5
    2 Hammer, Jon Ludvig NOR 3,5
    3-4 Grandelius, Nils IND 2,5
    3-4 Hector, JonnySWE 2,5
    5 Persson, Tiger Hillarp SWE 1,5
    6 Cramling, Pia SWE 0,5








  • 2. Kahraman Olgac Memorial
    May 24 - 28 , 2010

    Istanbul, Turkey

    Final standings:

    Team 2. A (25,5 Pts./13 MP)
    Name Country Pts
    1 Kulaots Kaido EST 8,5
    2 Strikovic AleksaSRB 5,5
    3 Mirzoev AzerAZE 5,5
    4 Movsziszian KarenARM 3,5
    5 Tsatsalashvili Keti GEO 2,5

    Team 1. B (24,5 Pts./7 MP)
    Name Country Pts
    1 Kanmazalp Ogulcan TUR 5,5
    2 Yilmaz Mustafa TUR 5
    3 Erdogdu Mert TUR 3,5
    4 Esen Baris TUR 5
    5 Firat BurakTUR 5,5





  • 4th ACP world rapid cup

    May 27 - 29, 2010
    knock out system

    Final

    Karjakin is winner against Jakovenko after Armageddon blitz game.

    Karjakin, Sergey - Jakovenko, Dmitry: 4 - 3


    Semi finals

    Grischuk, Alexander - Karjakin, Sergey: 1,5 - 2,5
    Jakovenko, Dmitry - Gurevich, Mikhail: 1,5 - 0,5


    Quarter finals

    Grischuk, Alexander - Movsesian, Sergei: 1,5 - 0,5
    Shirov, Alexei - Karjakin, Sergey: 2 - 3

    Eljanov, Pavel - Jakovenko, Dmitry: 0,5 - 1,5
    Gurevich, Mikhail - Gashimov, Vugar: 1,5 - 0,5

    Round 1

    Grischuk, Alexander - Motylev, Alexander: 2 - 0
    Movsesian, Sergei - Naiditsch, Arkadij: 1.5 - 0.5
    Shirov, Alexei - Bacrot, Etienne : 3 - 2
    Karjakin, Sergey - Drozdovskij, Yuri: 3 - 1

    Eljanov, Pavel - Moiseenko, Alexander: 1.5 - 0.5
    Jakovenko, Dmitry - Inarkiev, Ernesto: 2 - 0
    Ivanchuk, Vassily - Gurevich, Mikhail: 0.5 - 1.5
    Gashimov, Vugar - Tregubov, Pavel V.: 3 - 2





  • Astrakhan Grand Prix
    May 9 - 24 , 2010

    Round 13

    Inarkiev Ernesto - Svidler Peter : 1 - 0
    Ponomariov Ruslan - Alekseev Evgeny : 0,5 - 0,5
    Radjabov Teimour - Wang Yue : 0,5 - 0,5
    Leko Peter - Gashimov Vugar : 1 - 0
    Ivanchuk Vassily - Mamedyarov Shakhriyar : 0,5 - 0,5
    Jakovenko Dmitry - Akopian Vladimir : 0,5 - 0,5
    Gelfand Boris - Eljanov Pavel : 0,5 - 0,5








  • U.S. chess championship
    Kamsky won U.S. Championship after the draw against Shulman.




  • Florencio Campomanes Memorial - IM
    May 17 - 21 , 2010

    Ankara, Turkey
    Angora Chess Tournament's name is changed to "Florencio Campomanes Memorial"
    after Florencio Campomanes has passed away.
    The tournament will be played using the Double Scheveningen System with 10 rounds. The rate of play will be 90 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.

    Final standings:

    Team 2. A (31 Pts./15 MP)
    Name Country Pts
    1 Mirzoev Azer AZE 7,5
    2 Marinkovic IvanSRB 5,5
    3 Genov PetarBUL 8
    4 Schleining ZoyaGER 5,5
    5 Genova Lyubka BUL 4,5

    Team 1. B (19 Pts./5 MP)
    Name Country Pts
    1 Ali Marandi Cemil Can TUR 4,5
    2 Ozturk Kubra TUR 4
    3 Kerigan Demre TUR 4
    4 Topak Engin TUR 5
    5 Dastan BatuhanTUR 1,5





  • Commonwealth Chess Championships - 2010
    May 10 - 18 , 2010

    Final standings, top 5

    PlayersCountryPoints Tie break
    1 Maletin PavelRUS 975
    2 Laxman R RIND 972,5
    3 Gupta AbhijeetIND 8,575
    4 Bocharov DmitryRUS 8,574,5
    5 Lalith Babu M RIND 8,574,5






  • Lublin Union Memorial
    May 9 - 18 , 2010

    Final standings, top 3

    PlayersCountryPoints Tie break
    1 Macieja, BartlomiejPOL 5,524
    2 Grachev, BorisRUS 5,523,5
    3 Bartel, MateuszPOL 5,522,5







    • World Chess Championship - Anand vs Topalov
    April 21 - May 12, 2010

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    Game 12 : Topalov - Anand : 0 - 1

    Anand is world champion : 6,5 - 5,5

    world chess championship




  • Women's Grand Prix , Nalchik
    April 25 - May 7 , 2010

    Round 11

    Cramling Pia - Zhu Chen : 1 - 0
    Mkrtchian Lilit - Kosintseva Tatiana : 0 - 1
    Hou Yifan - Yildiz Betul Cemre 2244 4: 1 - 0
    Zhao Xue - Koneru Humpy : 1 - 0
    Danielian Elina - Kovanova Baira : 0 - 1
    Munguntuul Batkhuyag - Dzagnidze Nana : 0,5 - 0,5


    Kosintseva is winner.




  • President's cup
    April 29 - May 1 , 2010

    Baku, Azerbaijan
    8 players

    Final standings, top 3

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Kramnik, VladimirRUS 5
    2 Mamedyarov, ShakhriyarAZE 5
    3 Kamsky, GataUSA 5





  • May 2010 ratings
    Top 100 players and Top countries




  • Serbia Chess Championship
    April 18 - May 1 , 2010
    round robin,


    Sedlak won with 9,5 pts.

    Round 13

    Bogosavljevic Boban - Govedarica Radovan : 1 - 0
    Damljanovic Branko - Sedlak Nikola: 0 - 1
    Tadic Branko - Drazic Sinisa : 0,5 - 0,5
    Pikula Dejan - Perunovic Milos : 0,5 - 0,5
    Saric Sinisa - Savic Miodrag R : 0,5 - 0,5
    Krstic Petar - Pavlovic Milos : 0,5 - 0,5
    Solak Dragan - Lajthajm Borko : 1 - 0








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