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News & Events: Year 2008
-
Pamplona Chess Tournament (December
22-29 / Pamplona, SPAIN)
- FIDE Grand Prix (December 13 - 29 /
Elista, RUSSIA) - Nanjing Chess Tournament (December 11 - 21 // Nanjing, CHINA)
* Topalov won the tournament (7/10), Aronian finished 2nd while Bu
Xiangzhi was 3rd
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Michael Adams also
withdraws from the FIDE Grand Prix (December 11)
- 7th Chess Festival "Ciudad de Benidorm"
(November 28 - December 8 / Benidorm, SPAIN)
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Magnus Carlsen withdraws from the FIDE Grand
Prix (December 5); Aronian´s open letter to FIDE (December 6) - German Bundesliga, rounds 5-7 (November 28 - 30 // GERMANY)
* OSG Baden-Baden keeps the lead after winning their three matches this
weekend - FIDE announces Candidates Tournament (November 25) * Chessvibes.com has the details * FIDE.com - 38th Chess Olympiad (November 12 - 25 // Dresden, GERMANY)
* Open section: Armenia (gold), Israel (silver), USA (bronze) - Istanbul will be the host-city of the World Chess Olympiad (2012)
* Read
the press release - Next Grand Prix tournament to take place in Elista (Kalmykia, RUSSIA) instead of Doha (Quatar) - November 23
* Read
FIDE press release - 9th Liberec Open (November 15 - 22 / Liberec, CZECH REPUBLIC)
* IMs Vavra & Plischki (8/9) shared the 1st place with Vavra winning by
better tiebreaks - Bulgaria ready to host the match Kamsky - Topalov (November 12)
* Read more
here - World Blitz Chess Championship (November 8 // Almaty, KAZAKHSTAN)
* Lenier Dominguez (11.5/15) won the championship, Ivanchuk was second
while Svidler finished in 3rd place - FIDE announces Challenge Match is back on track (November 6)
* Read more details
here - Corus 2009 complete field announced (November 6)
* Morozevich, Ivanchuk, Carlsen, Aronian, Radjabov, Yue, Adams,
Movsesian, Karjakin, Kamsky, Dominguez, Van Wely, Stellwagen & Smeets - Pan American Continental Championship (November 1 -7 / Florida, USA)
* Jan Ehlvest won the 1st prize, Joshua Friedel & Alexander Ivanov shared
the 2nd place - Cap d´Agde Rapid Tournament (October 26 - November 1 // Cap d´Agde, FRANCE)
* Final (November 1): Nakamura - Ivanchuk: 1.5-0.5 - World Chess Championship (October 14 - November 2 / Bonn, GERMANY)
* Viswanathan Anand retained the title after defeating Vladimir Kramnik (6.5-4.5) - Essent Chess Tournament (October 17 - 25 // Hoogeveen, NETHERLANDS)
* Ivan Sokolov (5/6) won the tournament with 2.5 points of advantage - European Club Cup (October 16 - 23 // Kallithea, GREECE)
* Open section: Ural Sverdslovskaya won the tournament - 2nd South Bohemia Open (October 11 - 18 // Cesky Krumlov, CZECH REPUBLICH)
* IM Dolezal & GM Vokac (7.5/9) shared the 1st place - Russian Championship Superfinal (October 3 - 16 / Moscow, RUSSIA)
* Evgeny Alekseev, Peter Svidler & Dmitry Jakovenko tied for
first, Svidler won his 5th Russian Championship after winning the playoffs played on October 28 - 2nd Annual USDAN Chess Challenge (October 12) - FIDE rating list (October 2008)
* Topalov regained the first place - SPICE CUP (September 19 - 28 / Texas, USA)
* Pentala Harikrishna took first on tie-break - 5th International Chess Festival Highlands Open (September 20 - 28 / Zdar nad Sazavou, CZECH REPUBLIC)
* Vega Gomez, Gardner & Snorek shared the 1st place - 5th China vs. Russia Chess Match (September 18-27 / Ningpo, CHINA) * China won the classical match (26-24) - Women´s World Chess Championship (August 28 - September 18 / Nalchik, RUSSIA)
* Alexandra Kosteniuk is the new Women´s World Chess Champion after
beating Hou Yifan (2.5-1.5) - Bilbao Grand Slam Chess Final (September 2 - 13 / Bilbao, SPAIN)
* Veselin Topalov won the tournament after beating Ivanchuk in the last
round - Tal Memorial (August 18 - 27 / Moscow, RUSSIA)
* Vassily Ivanchuk (6/9) won by a full point; Morozevich, Gelfand,
Ponomariov & Kramnik shared the 2nd place - 6th Staunton Memorial Tournament (August 7 - 18 / London, UK)
* Michael Adams (8/11) won the tournament, Loek Van Wely finished in
second place - New England Masters (August 11 - 15 / Rhode Island, USA)
* Sergey Erenburg (7.5/9) won the tournament, Timur Gareev finished in
2nd place - FIDE Grand Prix Baku (July 31 - August 14 / Sochi, RUSSIA)
* Levon Aronian won the tournament, Teimour Radjabov finished in 2nd
place - 11th Chess Festival Olomouc Chess Summer (July 30 - August 8 / CZECH REPUBLIC)
* GM Section: FM Nils Grandelius (6.5/9) won the tournament - Chess Classic Mainz (July 28 - August 3 / Mainz, GERMANY)
* GRENKELEASING
Rapid World Championship: Viswanathan Anand beat Magnus Carlsen - 5th North Urals Cup (July 27 - August 3 / Krasnoturinsk, RUSSIA)
* Antoaneta Stefanova (4.5/7) won the tournament, Sebag & Ushenina
finished in 2nd place - Biel Chess Festival (July 19 - August 1 / Biel, SWITZERLAND)
* Evgeny Alekseev beat Lenier Dominguez in the tiebreak for the title
- Czech Open 2008 (July 10 - 27 / Pardubice,
CZECH REPUBLIC)
- Andorra Chess Open (July 19 - 27 / Erts,
ANDORRA) - First Saturday Chess Tournaments (July // Budapest, HUNGARY)
* Zlatko Ilincic won the GM section, Hou Yifan shared the 2nd place - 9th Karpov Poikovsky Tournament (July 8 - 17 // RUSSIA) * Rublevsky, Jakovenko, Gashimov & Shirov shared the first place - Karjakin vs. Short Chess Match (July 3 - 7 // Kiev, UKRAINE) * Sergey Karjakin beat Nigel Short (7.5 - 2.5) - World Open Chess Tournament (July 1 -6 // Philadelphia, USA)
* Final standings - Dortmund Chess Tournament (June 28 - July 6 // Dortmund, GERMANY)
* Peter Leko (4.5/7) won the tournament,
Gustafsson, Nepomniachtchi, Mamedyarov & Ivanchuk shared the 2nd place - July 2008 FIDE rating list
* Top 10 (men): A nand, Morozevich, Kramnik, Ivanchuk, Topalov, Carlsen,
Radjabov, Mamedyarov, Shirov & Leko - New York International Tournament (June 21 - 25 // The Marshall Chess Club, New York) - Aerosvit Chess Tournament (June 8 - 20 / Foros, UKRAINE)
* Magnus Carlsen (8/11) won the tournament, Ivanchuk was second - Yerevan Chess Giants / Karen Asrian Memorial (June 9 - 15 / Yerevan, ARMENIA)
* Levon Aronian (8.5/14) won the tournament, Leko finished in 2nd place - Karen Asrian (1980 - 2008)
*
Armenian GM Karen Asrian passed away / He was 28 years old - Las Vegas National Open (June 5 - 8 / Las Vegas / USA)
* Kamsky, Fressinet, Petrosian,
Kolev, Finegold & Friedel shared the 1st place - Deep Junior 11 vs. GM Miguel Illescas (June 5 / Barcelona, SPAIN)
* Final result: Deep Junior 11 - Miguel
Illescas (aided by Junior 10): 1-1 * The match will be held in dates between November 26th and December 14th. Read the press release - Bosna Chess Tournament (May 23 - June 2 / Sarajevo, BOSNIA)
* Morozevich (7.5/10) won
the tournament, Lenier Dominguez finished in 2nd place - XXI "Ciudad de León" Chess Tournament (May 29 - June 2 / León, SPAIN)
* Final (June 2): Anand - Ivanchuk: 1.5-2.5 (report) - Leko vs. Carlsen Chess Match (May 27 - June 1 / Miskolc, HUNGARY)
* Magnus Carlsen beat Peter Leko (5-3) - 4th Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup (May 30 - June 1 / Odessa, UKRAINE)
* Pavel Tregubov (9/14) won this rapid tournament by better tie break, he
shared the 1st place with Drozdovskij, Gelfand & Ponomariov. Anatoly
Karpov finished half a point behnind the leaders - U.S Chess Championship (May 13-21 / Oklahoma, U.S.A)
* Men section: Yury Shulman (6.5/8) clinched his first U.S Championship
title - Kramnik vs. Navara Chess Match (May 14-18 / Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC)
* Final score (Kramnik - Navara): 5.5-2.5 - Mtel Masters (May 7 - 18 / Sofia, BULGARIA)
* Vassily Ivanchuk (8/10) won the tournament, Topalov finished in second
place - ENCI Limburg Open (May 10 - 12 / Maastricht, NETHERLANDS)
* IM Robin Swinkels won the tournament, Nijboer, Klimov & Jones shared
the 1st place - Znojmo Open 2008 (May 8 - 11 / Znojmo, CZECH REPUBLIC)
* Tadeas Klecker (5/7) won the tournament by better tiebreak - FIDE Grand Prix (April 20 - May 6 / Baku, AZERBAIJAN)
* Vugar Gashimov, Wang Yue & Magnus Carlsen shared the 1st prize - 9th European Individual Chess Championship (April 20 - May 4 / Plovdiv, BULGARIA)
* Sergei Tiviakov & Kateryna Lahno are the new European Individual Chess
Champions
- Dos Hermanas Rapid
Tournament (April 18 - 20 / Dos Hermanas, SPAIN) - Dutch Chess Championship (April 2 - 13 / Hilversum, NETHERLANDS)
* Jan Smeets became Dutch chess champion / Peng Zhaoquin retains the
women title - Russian Team Championship (April 2 - 13 / Dagomys, RUSSIA)
* Ural-Ekaterinburg (Radjabov, Shirov, Kamsky, Grischuk,, Malakhov,
Akopian, Dreev & Motylev) won the title - 2nd Magistral Ruy Lopez (April 4 - 13 / Mérida, SPAIN)
* Michael Adams (5.5/7) won the tournament, Zhang
Pengxiang finished in 2nd place - Amber Rapid & Blindfold Tournament (March 14 - 28 / Nice, FRANCE)
* Levon Aronian won the tournament; Kramnik, Leko & Topalov shared the
2nd place - Isbank Ataturk Chess Tournament (March 11 - 20 // TURKEY)
* Hou Yifan (7/9) won the tournament, Pia Cramling finished in 2nd place - 23th Reykjavik Open (March 3 - 11 // Reykjavik, Iceland)
* Wang Hao won the tournament by better tiebreak
(Hannes Stefansson & Wang Yue shared the 1st place with him) - Morelia - Linares Chess Tournament (Feb 14 - 19 / Morelia, MEXICO - Feb 28 - March 8 / Linares, SPAIN)
* Viswanathan Anand (8.5/14) won the tournament, Magnus Carlsen finished
in 2nd place
- Aeroflot Chess Open (February 13 - 23 / Moscow, RUSSIA)
* Ian Nepomniachtchi (7/9) won the tournament - Moscow Chess Open (February 2 - 10 / Moscow, RUSSIA)
* Artyom Timofeev (7.5/9) won the tournament - Gibtelecom Chess Festival (January 22 - 31 / Gibraltar)
* Hikaru Nakamura beat Xianzghi Bu in the play-off (2-0) - Corus Chess Tournament (January 11-22 / Wijk aan Zee, NETHERLANDS)
* Levon Aronian & Magnus Carlsen shared the 1st place - Robert James Fischer (1943 - 2008)
* Former World Champion, Bobby Fischer, died on
January 17th
* Teimour Radjabov beat Alexander Grischuk in the final |
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