White to move. Will you find how to proceed further?
Chess Tactic #62
January 29th, 2012 
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Penultimate Round of Tata Steel Chess 2012 – Aronian is Close to Become a Winner [pgn files, video]
January 29th, 2012 petrs
Penultimate Round of Tata Steel Chess 2012 – Aronian is Close to Become a Winner [pgn files, video]
The first super tournament of 2012 has its last round on the program today. Results of penultimate round, which was played yesterday, meant that Levon Aronian is very close to win the whole tournament. He beat Boris Gelfand in his game and now Aronian has a full point margin. But there are five wolves who hopes to take another places on winners’ podium.
Tata Steel 2012 Promises Dramatic Finish – Two Videos From 11th Round
January 28th, 2012 petrs
Tata Steel 2012 Promises Dramatic Finish – Two Videos From 11th Round
The tournament in Wijk aan Zee runs to its finish very quickly. Leading Levon Aronian lost his game against David Navara (it was his first win in the tournament) and this result made the finish of the tournament very interesting as you can see it from the standing.
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012 – Players take a time out before the first move
January 24th, 2012 petrs
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012 – Players take a time out before the first move
Chess players from all over the world continue to arrive at the Caleta Hotel for what will be the best and greatest chess open tournament ever held in Gibraltar and the world – the 2012 Tradewise International Chess Festival. There is no denying that the tournament celebrating its tenth anniversary has attracted some of the world’s leading Grandmasters and the largest concentration of women players.
Open Praha 2012 – 7th round
January 23rd, 2012 petrs
Open Praha 2012 – 7th round
The tournament is over already, but I still have some games to show you. To be precise I owe you my games from 7th, 8th and 9th rounds. This post is dedicated to the game, which started the last third of the tournament. Yes, we are in the 7th round right now!
I had 3.5 points after 6 rounds and if I wanted to think about good place and good rating after the tournament, I needed to gather 2 points from last three games.
Invitation to GM Vladimir Petrov Memorial
January 19th, 2012 petrs
Invitation to GM Vladimir Petrov Memorial
Latvian Chess Federation and GM Alexei Shirov have a pleasure to invite all chess friends to the GM Vladimir Petrov memorial. The memorial will contain several rapid and blitz events.
The main tournament (A) will consist of preliminary tournament and final. The final will take place on February 18-19. Four supergrandmasters are invited and approved their participation: Alexander Morozevich (Russia), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) and Alexei Shirov(Latvia).
Open Praha 2012 – 5th and 6th Rounds
January 18th, 2012 petrs
Open Praha 2012 – 5th and 6th Rounds
Tuesday was dedicated to playing two rounds in one day. It was new experience for me and I was curious how I enjoy it. In fact it was not so bad :)
My “plan” was to play an easy game in the morning and prevent to becoming tired. As you can imagine, I played very complicated game in the morning :)
I met my strongest opponent in the tournament. The guy was rated 2002 ELO point, almost 250 higher than me. We played the French Defence and choose the plan when knight is going on the way b1-d2-f1-e3 to g4 square where it should blockade Black’s breakthrough on e5 square.
