Norway Chess 2013 supertournament 
7th - 18th May,
Stavanger, Norway
10 players
Round robin
Average rating: 2770
Players
Carlsen, Magnus - NOR - 2872
Aronian, Levon - ARM - 2809
Radjabov, Teimour - AZE - 2793
Karjakin, Sergey - RUS - 2786
Anand, Viswanathan - IND - 2783
Topalov, Veselin - BUL - 2771
Nakamura, Hikaru - USA - 2767
Svidler, Peter - RUS - 2747
Wang, Hao - CHN - 2743
Hammer, Jon Ludvig - NOR - 2631
Karjakin ( RUS ) won with 6 points.
Final Round ( 9)
Aronian, Levon - Carlsen, Magnus : 0.5 - 0.5
Hammer, Jon Ludvig - Nakamura, Hikaru : 0 - 1
Karjakin, Sergey - Topalov, Veselin : 0.5 - 0.5
Radjabov, Teimour - Svidler, Peter : 0.5 - 0.5
Wang, Hao - Anand, Viswanathan : 1 - 0
European Individual Chess Championship
4th - 17th May 2013
Legnica ( Poland )
11 rounds
Average rating: 2450
286 players
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.
Final standings , top 3
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points | Tie-break |
| 1- |
Moiseenko Alexander |
UKR | 8 | 2643 |
2- |
Alekseev Evgeny |
RUS | 8 | 2639 |
| 3- |
Romanov Evgeny |
RUS | 8 | 2637 |
Tie-break: Rating average of the opponents
Fide - Foundation Neva Women Grand-Prix Geneva
2nd - 16th May 2013,
Geneva, Switzerland
12 players
Round robin
Average rating: 2511
Players
Hou, Yifan CHN 2617
Muzychuk, Anna SLO 2585
Lagno, Kateryna UKR 2548
Dzagnidze, Nana GEO 2545
Ju, Wenjun CHN 2544
Cmilyte, Viktorija LTU 2522
Kosintseva, Tatiana RUS 2517
Khotenashvili, Bela GEO 2505
Kosteniuk, Alexandra RUS 2491
Ushenina, Anna UKR 2491
Girya, Olga RUS 2463
Batchimeg Tuvshintugs MGL 2298
Khotenashvili (GEO9) won with 8 pts.
Final round ( 11 )
Anna Muzychuk - Alexandra Kosteniuk : 0.5 - 0.5
Olga Girya - Viktorija Cmilyte : 0 - 1
Kateryna Lagno - Tuvshintugs Batchimeg: 0.5 - 0.5
Anna Ushenina - Bela Khotenashvili : 0.5 - 0.5
Wenjun Ju - Tatiana Kosintseva : 1 - 0
Yifan Hou - Nana Dzagnidze : 0 - 1
U.S. chess championship 2013
2nd - 13th May 2013
St.Louis, The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis
10 players
Round robin
Average ELO: 2538
US chess champion: Kamsky . He defeats Ramirez in Armageddon game
Final Round ( 9 )
Robson, Ray - Kamsky, Gata : 0.5 - 0.5
Ramirez, Alejandro - Christiansen, Larry : 1 - 0
Gareev, Timur - Holt, Conrad : 1 - 0
Onischuk, Alexander - Troff, Kayden : 0.5 - 0.5
Benjamin, Joel - Shankland, Samuel : 0.5 - 0.5
Akobian, Varuzhan - Kaidanov, Gregory : 1 - 0
Finegold, Benjamin - Shabalov, Alexander : 0 - 1
Sevian, Samuel - Hess, Robert : 0.5 - 0.5
Bryant, John Daniel - Norowitz, Yaacov : 0 - 1
Shulman, Yury - Sammour-Hasbun, Jorge : 1 - 0
Stripunsky, Alexander - Ivanov, Alexander : 0 - 1
Khachiyan, Melikset - Arnold, Marc : 0.5 - 0.5
U.S. Women chess championship 2013
2nd - 13th May 2013
St.Louis, The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis
24 players
Swiss system
Average ELO: 2280
Krush won with 8 points.
Round 9
Zatonskih, Anna - Foisor, Sabina : 1 - 0
Belakovskaia, Anjelina - Zenyuk, Iryna : 0.5 - 0 .5
Chiang, Sarah - Kats, Alena : 1 - 0
Krush, Irina - Baginskaite, Camilla : 0.5 - 0 .5
Ni, Viktorija -Abrahamyan, Tatev : 0 - 1
Ratings May 2013
Carlsen at the top with 2868 points . Aronian 2813.
List of the Top 100 players & top 10 countries
Capablanca Memorial
20th April - 1st May,
La Havana, Cuba
6 players
Round robin
Average rating: 2688
Players
Dmitry Andreikin ( RUS ) 2727
Inarkiev Ernesto ( RUS ) 2688
Harikrishna Pentala ( IND ) 2705
Almasi Zoltan ( HUN ) 2689
Leinier Dominguez ( CUB ) 2723
Yuniesky Quesada ( CUB ) 2596
Almasi Zoltan (HUN) won with 6.5 points.
Final Round ( 10 )
Pentala Harikrishna - Ernesto Inarkiev : 0.5 - 0.5
Yuniesky Quesada Perez - Leinier Dominguez Perez : 0.5 - 0.5
Zoltan Almasi - Dmitry Andreikin : 0.5 - 0.5
Alekhine Memorial 2013
20th - 26th April 2013 , Paris,France / 27th April - 2nd May, St. Petersburg , Russia.
10 players
Round robin
Average rating: 2745
Aronian won with better tie-break (Sonneborn-Berger) point.
Final Round ( 9 )
Aronian - Vachier-Lagrave : 1 - 0
Gelfand - Anand: 0.5 - 0.5
Adams - Kramnik: 0 - 1
Vitiugov - Ding: 0.5 - 0.5
Svidler - Fressinet: 0.5 - 0.5
Renova Group Grand Prix - Zug 2013
17th April - 1st May, 2013
Zug, Switzerland
Round robin system
12 players
Average rating: 2755
Topalov won with 8 points.
Final round ( 11 )
Leko Peter - Kasimdzhanov Rustam : 0.5 - 0.5
Kamsky Gata - Giri Anish : 0.5 - 0.5
Topalov Veselin - Karjakin Sergey : 1 - 0
Nakamura Hikaru - Caruana Fabiano : 0.5 - 0.5
Radjabov Teimour - Mamedyarov Shakhriyar : 0.5 - 0.5
Ponomariov Ruslan - Morozevich Alexander : 0.5 - 0.5
Russian Team Championship
6th - 14th April , 2013
Loo, Krasnodar-Krai , Russia.
Men:
Round robin, 7 rounds,
time control: 90 mn /40 moves + 30 mn + 30s increments per move, starting from move one.
Average rating: 2527
7 rounds
Swiss system
The players cannot agree to a draw before move 40.
Round 7
SPb Chess Fed - PGMB Rostov: 2.5 - 3.5
Malakhit Chess Club - SHSM Nashe Nasledie: 3 - 3
AGU - Belorechensk - Yugra: 1.5 - 4.5
Economist-SGSEU - Politekhnik: 5 - 1
Navigator - Kazan: 3.5 - 2.5
Rakita Chess Club - Atom: 2.5 - 3.5
Zhiguli - Tverskaya : 4.5 - 1.5
Yamal - EGU-Perspektiva: 4.5 - 1.5
Kaluzhskaya - M.I.Chigorin Chess Club: 1 - 5
54th Mexican International Championship
26th-31st March, 2013
Pueblo, Mexico
9 rounds, Swiss system.
192 players
Final standings , top 3
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Otero Acosta, Diasmany |
CUB | 7.5 |
2- |
Ramirez, Alejandro |
USA | 7.5 |
| 3- |
Onischuk, Alexander |
USA | 7.5 |
Candidates Tournament 2013
Carlsen and Kramnik lost their game in the final round. Thus Calsen won on tie-break rule:
He has more wins (5) than Kramnik (4).
Carlsen will be challenger of Viswanathan Anand for World Chess Champion title.
14th March - 2nd April
London, UK
8 players
Double round robin
Average rating: 2786
The Prize Fund : €510,000.
Players:
Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2872
Kramnik, Vladimir RUS 2810
Aronian, Levon ARM 2809
Radjabov, Teimour AZE 2793
Grischuk, Alexander RUS 2764
Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR 2757
Svidler, Peter RUS 2747
Gelfand, Boris ISR 2740
Final Round - 14
Carlsen Magnus - Svidler Peter: 0 - 1
Ivanchuk Vassily - Kramnik Vladimir: 1 - 0
Gelfand Boris - Grischuk Alexander: 0.5 - 0.5
Aronian Levon - Radjabov Teimour: 1 - 0
Women's World Chess Team Championship
2nd - 13th March, 2013,
Astana, Kazakistan
Round robin system
Final round ( 9 )
China - India : 2.5 - 1.5
France - Turkey : 3.5 - 0.5
Georgia - Kazakhstan : 2.5 - 1.5
USA - Romania : 2 - 2
Russia - Ukraine : 2 - 2
27th Cannes Chess Festival
25th February - 3rd March,
Cannes , France
9 rounds, Swiss system.
Average rating: 2324
92 players
Final standings , top 3
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Akshayraj Kore |
IND | 7.5 |
2- |
Lgaer Ruben |
ARG | 7 |
| 3- |
Safarli Eltaj |
AZE | 7 |
29th International Chess Open Capelle-la-Grande 2013
23rd February - 2nd March , 2013
Cappelle la Grande, France.
9 rounds , Swiss system
560 players
Time control: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with a 30 seconds increment per move.
Final standings , top 3
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Sjugirov Sanan |
RUS | 7 |
2- |
Negi Parimarjan |
IND | 7 |
| 3- |
Rodshtein Maxim |
ISR | 7 |
Zurich Chess Challenge
23 rd February - 1st March,
Zurich , Switzerland
4 players
Round robin
Average rating: 2772
Fabiano Caruana won with 4 points.
Final Round ( 6 ):
Anand - Kramnik: 1 - 0
Caruana - Gelfand: 1 - 0
Reykjavik Open 2013
19th - 27th February, 2013
Reykjavik, Iceland
10 rounds , Swiss system
113 players
Time control: 90 min for 40 moves + 30 minutes after 40 moves. Increment of 30 sec. for every move.
Players whose rating is over 2700
Giri Anish NED 2722
Vachier-Lagrave Maxime FRA 2715
Navara David CZE 2710
Cheparinov Ivan BUL 2709
Ding Liren CHN 2709
Yu Yangyi CHN 2688
So Wesley PHI 2684
Eljanov Pavel UKR 2678
Bu Xiangzhi CHN 2675
Gajewski Grzegorz POL 2644
Sokolov Ivan NED 2644
Socko Bartosz POL 2643
Jones Gawain C B ENG 2637
Amin Bassem EGY 2631
Kuzubov Yuriy UKR 2622
L'ami Erwin NED 2622
Baklan Vladimir UKR 2609
Solak Dragan TUR 2603
Dziuba Marcin POL 2602
Final standings , top 3
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Eljanov Pavel |
UKR | 8 |
2- |
So Wesley |
PHI | 8 |
| 3- |
Amin Bassem |
EGY | 8 |
French blitz championship
17th February, 2013
Paris, France
13 rounds , Swiss system
125 players
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is the champion. ( 12 out of 13 )
Final standings , top 3
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Vachier-Lagrave Maxime |
FRA | 12 |
2- |
Bacrot Etienne |
FRA | 11.5 |
| 3- |
Fedorchuk Sergey A. |
FRA | 10 |
Grenke Chess 2013
7th - 17th February, 2013
Baden-Baden , Germany
6 players
Double Round robin
Average rating: 2715
Anand won the tournament with 6.5 points.
Final Round (10) :
Fridman Daniel - Caruana Fabiano : 0.5 - 0.5
Adams Michael - Meier Georg : 0.5 - 0.5
Naiditsch Arkadij - Anand Viswanathan : 0 - 1
Aeroflot Open
11st - 18th, February, 2013
Moscow, Russia
Schedule
12nd -13th February, Qualifications of the rapid tournament
14th February, Blitz tournament
15th February, Rapid: Knockout tournament with 32 winners of the qualifying rounds
16th - 17 th February, Grand final : 8 winners of the qualifying competition + 8 guest stars ( Alexander Grischuk, Peter Svidler, Dmitry Andreikin, Sergey Karjakin, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Wang Hao and Shahriyar Mammadyarov )
Aeroflot Open - Rapid - knouck out final :
8 players are qualified to the final :
Alexander Shimanov, Sanan Sjugirov, Dmitry Frolyanov (RUS),
Anton Korobov, Pavel Eljanov (UKR),
Gata Kamsky (USA), Le Quang Liem (VIE) & Rauf Mamedov (AZE)
Other 8 invited players : Alexander Grischuk, Peter Svidler, Dmitry Andreikin, Sergey Karjakin, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Wang Hao, and Anatoly Karpov
Final
Karjakin is winner
Karjakin Sergey - Grischuk Alexander : 2 - 1 ( 1-1 regular game; Armageddon tiebreak game 1 - 0 )
Semi final
Kamsky Gata - Grischuk Alexander : 0.5 - 1.5
Karjakin Sergey - Nepomniachtchi Ian : 2 - 1
Quarter final
Grischuk Alexander - Mamedyarov Shakhriyar : 1.5 - 0.5
Svidler Peter - Nepomniachtchi Ian: 1 - 2
Wang Hao - Karjakin Sergey: 1.5 - 0.5
Eljanov Pavel - Kamsky Gata: 0.5 - 1.5
Aeroflot Open - Blitz
Final Standings
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Nepomniachtchi Ian |
RUS | 15.5 |
| 2- |
Svidler Peter |
RUS | 14.5 |
| 3- |
Grischuk Alexander |
RUS | 14 |
Moscow Open 2013
2nd - 10th, February, 2013
Moscow, Russia
Group A
Swiss system
233 players
Savchenko (RUS) won with 7.5 points.
Group A, Final round ( 9 ), top 10 boards,
Kokarev Dmitry - Nepomniachtchi Ian : 0.5 - 0.5
Mamedov Rauf - Smirnov Pavel : 0.5 - 0.5
Maletin Pavel - Khairullin Ildar : 0.5 - 0.5
Ponkratov Pavel - Savchenko Boris : 0 - 1
Ibragimov Ildar - Iturrizaga Eduardo : 0 - 1
Kovalev Vladislav - Guseinov Gadir : 0.5 - 0.5
Goganov Aleksey - Sandipan Chanda : 0 - 1
Nyzhnyk Illya - Matinian Nikita : 0 - 1
Demchenko Anton - Vidit Santosh Gujrathi : 0.5 - 0.5
Gabuzyan Hovhannes - Ganguly Surya Shekhar : 0.5 - 0.5
Group A, Final Standings, top 5
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Savchenko Boris |
RUS | 7.5 |
| 2- |
Nepomniachtchi Ian |
RUS | 7 |
| 3- |
Maletin Pavel |
RUS | 7 |
| 4- |
Mamedov Rauf |
AZE | 7 |
| 5- |
Kokarev Dmitry |
RUS | 7 |
Turkish chess championship
2nd - 9th, February, 2013
Kemer-Antalya, Turkey
11 rounds , Swiss system
320 players
Chess champion of Turkey : Dragan Solak
Final round (11), top 5 boards,
Solak Dragan - Sanal Vahap : 1 - 0
Atakisi Umut - Ipatov Alexander : 0.5 - 0.5
Seyhanoglu Deniz - Esen Baris : 0 - 1
Can Emre - Ali Marandi Cemil Can : 0.5 - 0.5
Haznedaroglu Kivanc - Kinsiz Onur : 0.5 - 0.5
Final standings , top 6
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Solak Dragan |
TUR | 9.5 |
2- |
Esen Baris |
TUR | 9 |
| 3- |
Ipatov Alexander |
TUR | 9 |
| 4- |
Can Emre |
TUR | 8.5 |
| 5- |
Yilmazyerli Mert |
TUR | 8.5 |
| 6- |
Ali Marandi Cemil Can |
TUR | 8.5 |
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2013 - Masters
21st - 31st, January, 2013
Gibraltar,
5 tournaments : Masters, Challenger A, Challenger B, Amateur A, Amateur B
Masters tournament: 246 players ; Average rating:2210
Players whose ratings are over 2700
1- Ivanchuk Vassily UKR 2758
2- Kamsky Gata USA 2740
3- Adams Michael ENG 2725
4- Wojtaszek Radoslaw POL 2723
5-Vachier-Lagrave Maxime FRA 2711
6- Navara David CZE 2710
7- Shirov Alexei LAT 2708
8- Le Quang Liem VIE 2705
Final round , top 10 boards,
Vitiugov Nikita - Vachier-Lagrave Maxime : 0.5 - 0.5
Navara David - Short Nigel : 0.5 - 0.5
Zhao Xue - Ivanchuk Vassily : 0.5 - 0.5
Georgiev Kiril - Adams Michael : 0.5 - 0.5
Le Quang Liem - Sandipan Chanda : 0 - 1
Kamsky Gata - Ibarra Jerez Jose Carlos : 1 - 0
Felgaer Ruben - Wojtaszek Radoslaw : 0.5 - 0.5
Cramling Pia - Yu Yangyi : 0 - 1
Gordon Stephen - Fridman Daniel : 0 - 1
Jones Gawain - Gallagher Joseph G. : 0.5 - 0.5
Final standings , top 7
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Vitiugov Nikita |
RUS | 8 |
| 2- |
Vachier-Lagrave Maxime |
FRA | 8 |
| 3- |
Sandipan Chanda |
IND | 8 |
| 4- |
Short Nigel |
ENG | 8 |
| 5- |
Georgiev Kiril |
BUL | 7.5 |
Asian zone 3.3 chess championship
22nd - 29th, January, 2013
Tagaytay City, Phlipinnes
Final standings, top 4
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son |
VIE | 7.5 |
| 2- |
So Wesley |
PHI | 7 |
| 3- |
Megaranto Susanto |
INA | 6 |
| 4- |
Antonio Rogelio Jr |
PHI | 6 |
Tata steel chess 2013
12th - 27th January, 2013
Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands
Three main groups with 14 players each.
Grandmaster Group A : Average rating : 2732
Category : 20
Group B : Average rating : 2620
Category : 15
Group C : Average rating : 2476
Category : 10
Round robin system
round 13
Karjakin - van Wely: 1 - 0
Hou - Leko: 0.5 - 0.5
L'Ami - Sokolov: 0.5 - 0.5
Wang - Anand: 1 - 0
Nakamura - Harikrishna: 0.5 - 0.5
Giri - Carlsen: 0.5 - 0.5
Caruana - Aronian: 0.5 - 0.5
73rd Armenian Championship
12th - 21st, January, 2013
Yerevan, Armenia
10 players
Round robin.
Average rating: 2574
Players
Melkumyan Hrant 2656
Petrosian Tigran L. 2648
Hovhannisyan Robert 2615
Pashikian Arman 2607
Grigoryan Avetik 2599
Andriasian Zaven 2598
Ter-Sahakyan Samvel 2567
Kotanjian Tigran 2518
Hayrapetyan Hovik 2488
Aghasaryan Robert 2443
Petrosian won with 7 points.
Final standings , top 3,
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Petrosian Tigran L. |
ARM | 7 |
| 2- |
Grigoryan Avetik |
ARM | 6.5 |
| 3- |
Hovhannisyan Robert |
ARM | 6.5 |
11th Delhi International Open Chess Festival
5th - 13th, January, 2013
New Delhi, India
105 players
10 rounds of Swiss system.
Time control: 90 Minutes plus 30 second increment from move 1 for entire game.
Average rating: 2307
Aleksandrov (BLR) won with 8 pts.
Final Standings, top 5,
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Aleksandrov Aleksej |
BLR | 8 |
| 2- |
Dzhumaev Marat |
UZB | 7.5 |
| 3- |
Teske Henrik |
GER | 7.5 |
| 4- |
Vaibhav Suri |
IND | 7.5 |
| 5- |
Lalith Babu M.R. |
IND | 7 |
Basel Chess Festival 2013
1st - 5th January, 2013
Basel, Switzerland.
90 players
7 rounds of Swiss system.
Grachev (RUS) won the tournament.
Final standings, top 5,
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points | Tie break |
| 1- |
Grachev,Boris |
RUS | 5.5 | 25 |
| 2- |
Vajda, Levente |
NED | 5.5 | 23.5 |
| 3- |
Van Kampen, Robin |
NED | 5.5 | 23 |
| 4- |
Istratescu,Andrej |
FRA | 5.5 | 22.5 |
| 5- |
Vachier-Lagrave,M |
FRA | 5 | 22.5 |
AICF-AAI Chess Cup
20th to 30th December 2012 , New Delhi, India
Double round robin tournament
Average rating: 2684
Korobov (UKR) won with 6.5 pts
Final round - Round 10
Negi Parimarjan - Gupta Abhijeet : 0.5 - 0.5
Alekseev Evgeny - Sasikiran Krishnan : 0.5 - 0.5
Wojtaszek Radoslaw - Korobov Anton : 0 - 1
36th Zurich Christmas Open
26th - 30th December, 2012
Zurich, Switzerland.
133 players
7 rounds of Swiss system.
Final Standings
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Vajda, Levente |
RUM | 6 |
| 2- |
Bartel, Mateusz |
POL | 5.5 |
| 3- |
Melkumyan, Hrant |
ARM | 5.5 |
World Cities Team Champ.
21st - 28th December , 2012 ,
Al -Ain, UAE
24 World city teams
Hoogeveen (NED) are World Cities Team Champion after beating Tashkent: 2.5 - 1.5
Makita women chess match
16th-22nd December, 2012
Sekolah Catur Utut Adianto , Indonesia
| Blitz | Rapid | Classical | Total |
| Indonesia | 1 | 10 | 9.5 | 20.5 |
| France | 3 | 6 | 6.5 | 15.5 |
World Mind Games - Chess
14th - 19th December, 2012
Beijing , China
16 men, 16 women players
Rapid, Blitz, Blindfold and Pair games
*** Blindfold Chess ***
18th-19th Dec
Aronian, Levon ( ARM ) won the bllindfold chess tournament.
Standings
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Aronian, Levon |
ARM | 5.5 |
| 2- |
Leko, Peter |
HUN | 5 |
| 3- |
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar |
AZE | 4.5 |
| 4- |
Kamsky Gata |
USA | 4.5 |
*** Blitz Chess ***
16th-17th Dec: Blitz
Karjakin Sergey ( RUS ) won the blitz chess tournament.
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Karjakin Sergey |
RUS | 12.5 |
| 2- |
Nakamura Hikaru |
USA | 11 |
| 3- |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
AZE | 9 |
| 4- |
Aronian Levon |
ARM | 9 |
| 5- |
Fressinet Laurent |
FRA | 9 |
*** Rapid Chess ***
14th-15th Dec: Rapid
Fressinet Laurent ( FRA ) won the rapid chess tournament.
| Rank |
Players | Country | Points |
| 1- |
Fressinet Laurent |
FRA | 5.5 |
| 2- |
Nakamura Hikaru |
USA | 5.5 |
| 3- |
Grischuk Alexander |
RUS | 4.5 |
| 4- |
Ding Liren |
CHN | 4.5 |
| 5- |
Morozevich Alexander |
RUS | 4 |
| 6- |
Radjabov Teimour |
AZE | 4 |
Snowdrops vs Oldhands
8th - 16th December, 2012
Podebrady , Czech Rep.
2 round scheveningen match of two four-members teams.
Time control : 90 minutes per 40 moves + 30 minutes till the end, increment 30 seconds per move
Oldhands :Legendary grandmasters: Wolfgang Uhlmann, Fridrik Olafsson, Oleg Romanishin and Vlastimil Hort
Snowdrops: New generation of women grandmasters: Valentina Gunina, Tania Sachdev, Alina Kashlinskaja and Kristyna Havlikova
Final :Oldhands - Snowdrops : 17 - 15
Individual results:
Snowdrops
Valentina Gunina 3.5 points
Tania Sachdev 6
Alina Kashlinskaya 3.5
Kristyna Havlíková 2
Oldhands
Fridrik Olafsson 4
Wolfgang Uhlmann 4
Vlastimil Hort 4.5
Oleg Romanishin 4.5
European Blitz Chess Championship 2012
14th December, 2012
Warszawa , Poland
435 players
Final standings
1- Vachier-lagrave, Maxime, FRA , 18.5 pts
2- Sargissian, Gabriel , ARM , 2666 17.5
3- Tkachiev, Vladislav , FRA , 2647 17.0
London Chess Classic 2012
1st - 10th December , 2012, London, UK
Average rating : 2751
Round robin system
Carlsen won the tournament with 18 pts.
Final Round ( 9 )
Mickey Adams - Vladimir Kramnik : 0.5 - 0.5
Judit Polgar - Levon Aronian : 0.5 - 0.5
Hikaru Nakamura - Luke McShane: 1 - 0
Magnus Carlsen - Vishy Anand : 0.5 - 0.5
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Chess news mobile
