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    List of the chess tournaments with detailed information.
    Corus -- Reggio Emilia -- World Team Chess Championship -- 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 -- NH chess -- M-tel masters -- Corus Linares Morelia -- Amber
    Olympiad -- World Chess Challenge -- Aerosvit -- Grandmaster Memorial tournaments -- Country championships
    All chess tournaments












  • 11th European Individual Chess Championship
    men and women

    March 5 – 19, 2010
    Rijeka - Croatia

    Swiss system ,
    Time control: 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one.
    420 male (average ELO: 2389), 163 female (average ELO: 2389) players from 41 European countries.
    The 11th Individual European Chess Championship for men and women is qualification
    event for the next World Cup. According to FIDE regulations and the decision
    of the ECU Board, 22 players will qualify.

    Men, round 5 :
    Jobava Baadur (GEO) , Efimenko Zahar (UKR), Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter (ROU), Timofeev Artyomshare (RUS) share the lead with 4,5 points .

    Women, round 5 :
    Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan (SCO), Kosintseva Tatiana (RUS) and Socko Monika (POL) share the lead with 4,5 points.

    Women
    4 players share the lead with 3 points after 3rd round:


    Socko Monika POL ,Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO ,Chelushkina Irina SRB ,Kosintseva Tatiana




  • Cannes International

    February 28 - March 7 , 2010
    Cannes, France.

    91 players

    Final standings, top 3
    PlayersCountryPoints Tie break
    1 Gharamian TigranFRA 72740
    2 Malakhatko VadimBEL 72733
    3 Sengupta DeepIND 72645





  • Zagreb Open

    February 25 - March 4 , 2010
    Zagreb, Croatia.

    34 players

    Final standings, top 3
    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Ulibin MikhailRUS 7
    2 Brkic AnteCRO 6,5
    3 Radulski JulianBUL 6,5





  • Reykjavik Open 2010

    February 24 - March 3 , 2010
    Reykjavik, Iceland.

    Swiss system , 9 rounds
    Time control: 90 min. + 30 minutes after 40 moves. Increment of 30 sec. for every move.
    104 players

    Final standings, top 4
    PlayersCountryPointsTie-break
    1 Sokolov IvanBIH 753
    2 Kuzubov YuriyUKR 752
    3 Gupta AbhijeetIND 751,5
    4 Stefansson HannesISL 751






  • Gotth' Art cup

    Fberuary 22 - March 3, 2010
    Average ELO: 2506

    Final standings, top 3
    PlayersCountryPointsTie-break
    1 Beliavsky Alexander GSLO 6,5-
    2 Portisch Lajos HUN 626,75
    3 Rapport RichardHUN 623,5


    Tie Break: Sonneborn-Berger


  • Nancy 2010
    February 22 - 28 , 2010
    Nancy, France.

    Swiss system , 9 rounds
    Time control: 1 hour 30 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes to finish the game
    per player (+30 seconds per move).
    And 1 hour 30 minutes per player (+30sec) for the 8 players-4 days-groups.
    19 different tournaments and simultaneous games.

    Final standings, top 3,Tournament A

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Postny EvgenyISR 6
    2 GRranda Zuniga Julio E PER 5,5
    3 Ninov NikolaiBUL 5,5






  • 2nd Batavia Amsterdam Chess Tournament
    February 19 - 28 , 2010
    Cafe Batavia 1920, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
    10 players , round robin tournament.
    Final standings, top 3

    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Kleijn, Christov NED 6,5
    2 Shiven, Khosla IND 6
    3 Wemmers, XanderNED 5,5





  • Fajr Open
    February 19 - 28 , 2010
    Mashhad - Iran
    Final standings, top 3
    PlayersCountryPointsTie-break
    1 Shanava Konstantine GEO 977
    2 Tiviakov Sergei NED 976
    3 Grabliauskas VirginijusLTU 967


    Tie Break: Buchholz




  • Judit Polgar vs. Gregory Kaidanov
    February 22 - 25 , 2010
    February 26 Friday Blitz games.
    South Carolina, USA.
    Sicilian Theme Match :
    Dragon, Scheveningen, Najdorf or Sveshnikov,
    4 Classical 100 min /40 move games, Possible Blitz playoff
    Game 1, Kaidanov - Polgar: 1 - 0 (Sveshnikov)
    Game 2, Polgar - Kaidanov: 1 - 0 (Dragon)
    Game 3, Kaidanov - Polgar: 1 - 0 (Najdorf)
    Game 4, Polgar - Kaidanov: 1 - 0 (Scheveningen)

    Blitz Playoffs: Polgar - Kaidanov: 2 - 1
    Aggregate: Judit Polgar - Gregory Kaidanov: 4 - 3




  • How did Topalov won ?
    Topalov - Gelfand: 1 - 0 (Linares 2010)

    topalov-gelfand.jpg

    61. Rxa7 Rxa7
    62. Kb7 1-0



  • Linares 2010
    February 12 - 25 , 2010
    Linares , Spain
    Chess Grand Slam: 10 rounds, round robin tournament.

    Topalov (BUL) won with 6,5 points.

    Round 10 :

    Francisco Vallejo Pons - Alexander Grischuk: 0,5 - 0,5
    Veselin Topalov - Boris Gelfand: 1 - 0
    Levon Aronian - Vugar Gashimov: 1 - 0
    Boris Gelfand - Levon Aronian: 0,5 - 0,5
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  • 26th Cappelle La Grande chess tournament
    February 13 - 20 , 2009
    Cappelle la Grande , France
    Time control: 1h 30 plus 30 seconds/move for the first 40 moves. Then 30 minutes plus 30 seconds per move until the end.
    652 players
    9 rounds
    Final standings, top 10
    PlayersCountryPointsTie-break
    1 Zherebukh Yaroslav UKR 7,5-
    2 Kryvoruchko Yuriy IKR 743
    3 Radulski Julian BUL 743
    4 Negi Parimarjan IND 743
    5 Gurevich Mikhail TUR 742,5
    6 Amin Bassem EGY 742,5
    7 Edouard Romain FRA 741,5
    8 Arutinian David GEO 740,5
    9 Dziuba Marcin POL 740
    10 Kravtsiv Martyn UKR 738





  • World Blitz Championship-Preliminaries
    February 18 , 2010
    Double nine-round Swiss Blitz Tournament : Preliminaries of World Blitz Championship will take place in Moscow in November 2010. It will consist of 20 players (10 participants of Mikhail Tal Memorial 2010, 6 winners of the Qualification Tournament of Feb.18, 2010 and four to six wild cards named by the Organizers).

    Qualified players for the final tournament
    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 13,5
    2 Bu, XiangzhiCHN 13
    3 Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS 13
    4 Mamedov, RaufAZE 13
    5 Savchenko, BorisRUS 13
    6 Grachev, BorisRUS 13






  • 8th International Caspian Cup
    February 12 - 19 , 2010

    Rasht, Iran
    89 players, Average ELO: 2259

    Final standings, top 3
    PlayersCountryPointsTie-break
    1 Abbasov Farid AZE 748
    2 Mirzoev AzerAZE 747,5
    3 Toufighi HomayoonIRI 742,5

    tie-break: Buchholz




  • Aeoroflot open
    February 8 - 19 , 2010

    Moscow , Russia

    Four Open Tournaments (A1,A2, B and C)

    Time control:
    Tournament A 1 and A 2: 40 moves in 100 minutes, then 20 moves in 50 minutes, finally 15 minutes
    for the remaining moves with an increment of 30 seconds per move from move one.
    Tournament B and C: 90 minutes for the whole game with an increment of 30 seconds per move from move 1.

    Final Standings , top 6,
    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Le, Quang Liem VIE 7
    2 Korobov, AntonUKR 6,5
    3 Motylev, Alexander RUS 6
    4 Zhou, JianchaoCHN 6
    5 Nguyen, Ngoc Truong SonVIE 6
    4 Grachev, BorisRUS 6




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  • Paris Blitz
    Feb 7, 2010

    Paris , France


    Final Standings , top 4,
    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Feller Sebastien FRA 11
    2 Meier Georg GER 11
    3 Shchekachev Andrei FRA 10
    4 Shankland Samuel L USA 10








  • Romanian chess championship
    January 31 - Feb 7, 2010

    Baile Olanesti , Romania


    Final Standings Men, top 3,
    PlayersPointsTie-break
    1 Lupulescu Constantin 7 44
    2 Nevednichy Vladislav 738,5
    3 Dragomirescu Robin-Alexandru 738


    Tie Break: Buchholz

    Final Standings Women, top 4,
    PlayersPointsTie-break
    1 Cosma Elena-Luminita 7 42,5
    2 Paulet Iozefina 737,5
    3 Foisor Cristina-Adela 6,539,5
    4 Dragomirescu Angela 6,537,5





  • Moscow open
    moscow open
    Moscow, Russia
    7 tournaments take place during the international chess festival.
    Open A: January 30 - February 7 , 2010
    187 players for Open A.



    Konstantin Chernyshov won the tournament with 7 points after 4 way tie. Konstantin Chernyshov, Bareev Evgeny, Le Quang Liem, Inarkiev Ernesto concluded the tournament with 7 points.




  • Azerbaijan championship
    Final Standings, top 3,
    PlayersPointsTie-break
    1 Safarli Eltaj 6,5 -
    2 Mamedov Nidjat 6,5-
    3 Durarbeyli Vasif 6-





  • 70th Armenian championship
    January 22 - 31, 2010

    Yerevan , Armenia


    Final Standings, top 4,
    PlayersPointsTie-break
    1 Grigoryan Avetik 7,5 30
    2 Petrosian Tigran L 5,524
    3 Andriasian Zaven 5,521,25
    4 Minasian Artashes 5,520,25





  • Chennai Open 2010
    January 25 - February 3 , 2010

    Chennai, India
    387 players.
    ELO of 13 players is over 2500.

    Final Standings, top 4,
    PlayersCountryPoints
    1 Turov Maxim RUS 9,5
    2 Rahman Ziaur BAN 9
    3 Siddharth R IND 9
    4 Lalith Babu M R IND 9








  • Gibtelecom Chess Festival 2010
    Gibtelecom Masters (Open to all)
    Gibraltar
    January 26 - February 4 , 2010
    10 rounds Swiss, FIDE rated
    218 players. ELO of 57 players are over 2350.

    Other events:
    Challengers A (Under 2250) - 26-30 January 2010 (5 rounds Swiss, FIDE rated)
    Challengers B (Under 2250) - 31 January - 4 February 2010 (5 rounds Swiss, FIDE rated)
    Amateur A (Under 1800) - 26-30 January 2010 (5 rounds Swiss)
    Amateur B (Under 1800) - 31 January - 4 February 2010 (5 rounds Swiss)
    Junior Congress - 6-7 February 2010.

    Michael Adams won the tournament after the playoff games among Michael Adams, Paco Vallejo Pons, Jan Gustafsson and Chanda Sandipan.





  • Corus chess tournament 2010
    January 15 - 31 , 2010
    Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands
    round robin tournaments.
    Grandmaster Group A : 14 players; Average rating : 2719 ; Category : 19
    Group B : 14 players; Average rating : 2629 ; Category : 16
    Group C : Average rating : 2455 ; Category : 9

    Carlsen won the tournament with 8,5 points.

    Round 13

    L. van Wely - V. Anand : 0,5 - 0,5
    N. Short - J. Smeets : 0,5 - 0,5
    H. Nakamura - S. Tiviakov : 1 - 0
    M. Carlsen - F. Caruana : 0,5 - 0,5
    V. Ivanchuk - P. Leko : 0,5 - 0,5
    A. Shirov - L. Dominguez : 0,5 - 0,5
    V. Kramnik - S. Karjakin : 0,5 - 0,5








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