Tomashevsky’s Win Against Morozevich, Tal Memorial 2012

 

17 June 2012, Kuala Lumpur – Here is a winning game by Evgeny Tomashevsky  against Alexander Morozevich of round 7 during the Tal Memorial 2012, held in Moscow, Russia.

[Event "7th Mikhail Tal Memorial"]
[Site "Moscow RUS"]
[Date "2012.06.16"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Tomashevsky, E."]
[Black "Morozevich, A."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E90"]
[WhiteElo "2738"]
[BlackElo "2769"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "2012.06.08"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. h3 e5 7. d5 a5 8. g4 Na6  9. Be3 Bd7 10. Nd2 Kh8 11. Be2 Ng8 12. h4 f5 13. gxf5 gxf5 14. exf5 Nc5 15.  Nde4 Nxe4 16. Nxe4 Bxf5 17. Ng3 Bh6 18. Qd2 Bxe3 19. fxe3 Bd7 20. O-O-O Nf6 21.  Rdf1 Qe7 22. Bd3 b6 23. Bc2 Rf7 24. Nf5 Bxf5 25. Rxf5 Raf8 26. Qg2 Ne8 27. Rh5  e4 28. Rg5 Rf2 29. Qg3 R2f3 30. Qg2 Qf6 31. Rg1 Ng7 32. Rg4 Rf1+ 33. Rxf1 Qxf1+  34. Qxf1 Rxf1+ 35. Kd2 Rf2+ 36. Kc3 Nf5 37. Rxe4 Kg7 38. Rg4+ Kh6 39. Bxf5 Rxf5  40. Re4 Rf7 41. b4 a4

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Morozevich, Kramnik Co-Leads in Tal Memorial 2012

 Pix 1. Playing Venue of Tal Memorial 2012, Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Eri Kublashvili)

16 June 2012, Kuala Lumpur - The traditional round-robin grand master Tal Memorial tournament is taking place in Moscow from June 7−19, 2012. The average rating of the competition — 2776 — corresponds to the highest 22^nd category.

TWIC reported that the 7th Tal Memorial round 6 saw the leader Alexander Morozevich play incredibly creatively against Hikaru Nakamura but eventually he blundered in time trouble with 38.Qd1? and lost.

 

Vladimir Kramnik finally beat Evgeny Tomashevsky in an ending that the latter came close to drawing to join Morozevich in the lead. Magnus Carlsen drew with Levon Aronian in a Berlin Defence. Carlsen confirmed that the Kings tournament has been either postponed or cancelled. Caruana outlasted McShane in a game where the Englishman had a number of drawing chances in a position that looked quite bad for a long time. Grischuk drew with Radjabov.

Here is the round 6 game between Morozevich and Nakamura during the 7th Mikhail Tal Memorial 2012 in Moscow, Russia in which Morozevich made the 38th move Qd1? blunder. Despite that he still co-leads in Tal Memorial with Vladimir Kramnik.
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Standings After Round 6:

7th Mikhail Tal Memorial 2012 (Moscow RUS)
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Johan Wins Insofar Ipoh

15 June 2012, Kuala Lumpur – Here are the results of the recent Insofar Ipoh held last Sunday, 10 June 2012 in Ipoh, Perak. It was won by Mohd Johan Jamil with a score of 4 points. In second was Azmi Ishak and third, Abdul Rahman.

 

(source: Mat Zaki Yeop, Insofar Chess Academy)

Morozevich Win Over Aronian, Tal Memorial 2012

14 June 2012, Kuala Lumpur – Chess.com reported that Alexander Morozevich is showing his best form at the 2012 Tal Memorial, and he won his third game in the fifth round to claim the sole lead by beating Lev Aronian.

It was a thrilling game, with Aronian preempting Morozevich's threatened kingside attack with a piece sacrifice which eventually netted four pawns and an impressive centre.  However, Aronian's position fell apart in time pressure and the tide turned in his opponent's favour leaving Morozevich as the sole leader.

In the only other decisive game of the round, Magnus Carlsen pressurised Teimour Radjabov into time-trouble errors in an unpleasant endgame to record his first win of the tournament.

 

Round Five Results:

Standings After Round 5:

To read more, please visit chess.com or click here.

Insofar Combined Tournament June 2012

28 May 2012, Kuala Lumpur (repost) – Here is the announcement for the upcoming June Insofar Combined Tournament 2012 slated for 17th June 2012.

INSOFAR
COMBINED TOURNAMENT
(NATIONAL RATED)
JUNE 2012
(RAPID OPEN, & SCHOLARSHIP TOURNAMENT COMBINED)

-RAPID OPEN (fees RM20)
-RAPID OPEN & SCHOLARSHIP TOURNAMENT (fees RM50)
Prizes
Fees RM20 - Qualified for Rapid Open prizes only
Fees RM50 – Qualified for both prizes (Rapid Open &
Scholarship prizes)
SUNDAY 17^th JUNE 2012
PLACE :DATCC, Wilayah Complex, KL
TIME: 9.00am – 6.00pm(check attendance at 9am)
All players will play in the same one tournament
Time Control:25 minutes Swiss 7 Rounds
SMS Full name to
017-2032051
(LIMITED TO 64 PLAYERS ONLY)
Priority to those bank in fees earlier.
No walk-in registration will be accepted
NOTE: Juniors are encouraged to participate in Jalan Davidson Youth Open, which is on the same date.

Round 4 Results, Kazan FIDE Women 2012

 

14 June 2012, Kuala Lumpur – Here are the latest round 4 results of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix in Kazan, Russia. Four decisive results with another loss suffered by Hou Yifan at the hands of Viktoria Cmilyte.

Official website: http://kazan2012.fide.com

7th Negeri Sembilan Closed 2012

13 June 2012, Kuala Lumpur – The Negeri Sembilan Chess Association (Persatuan Catur Negeri Sembilan) is organising the upcoming 7th Negeri Sembilan Chess Closed 2012. Closing date is 25th June 2012 and the tournament will be held on the 30th June 2012 (Saturday) at Lobby Area, 1st Floor, Plaza Ampangan, Seremban, Negeri Sembilan.

Three categories: Open, Under-18 and Under-12.

To provide some excitement to the tournament, the organisers is opening the tournament to 20 participants outside of Negeri Sembilan with a rating of less than 1600. The organisers reserves the right to verify the player’s rating. These players are also entitled to win the main prizes.

For further information, please contact

• Kamar Dani, h/p: 019-344 5343, or,
• Amir 017 – 616 0019

(source: Syazrin, email:syazlita103@gmail.com)

Two games of Round 3, FIDE Women's GP in Kazan

13 June 2012, Kuala Lumpur – Here are two games of round 3, FIDE Women’s Grand Prix in Kazan, Russia.

Here is the game between Viktorija Cmilyte of Lithuania and Alisa Galliamova which gave a win to Viktorija with white pieces.

Here is a game between Humpy Koneru of India and Anna Muzychuk which ended in a draw during round 3, FIDE Women GP Kazan, Russia.

 

Official website: http://kazan2012.fide.com

Chess Festival 2012

13 June 2012, Kuala Lumpur – Arthur Tan Chess Festival 2012 is coming up soon from 19 August – 26 August 2012. The flyers for each tournament is enclosed here with the tentative program for the chess festival 2012 shown below:-

IGB Dato’ Arthur Tan Rapid Open Chess Championship 2012:

Seniors:

AmBank Rapid Chess Challenge:

ASTRO Rapid Open Team Chess Championship 2012:

Swensen Open Rapid Age-Group :

For more details, please contact IA Abdul Hamid Majid, 019-3158098, email: aham@pc.jaring.my.

Two In The Lead In Kazan

13 June 2012, Kuala Lumpur – In Kazan, Hou Yifan recovers to achieve a win in the third round over Tatiana Kosintseva. The official tournament website reported that four decisive games were played on the third day of Women Grand Prix tournament in Kazan.

Alexandra Kosteniuk and Alisa Galliamova lost their games against Nadezhda Kosintseva and Viktorija Cmilyte accordingly.  Viktorija Cmilyte could have played quiet variation but preferred to go into an extremely sharp middle-game and outplayed her opponent in complications.

Alexandra Kosteniuk got quite comfortable position with Black but didn’t play precisely and got into troubles in the rook ending.  Former world champion desperately tried to find a draw but after 78 moves the longest game of the third round was over. Elina Danielian used inaccurate play of Betul Yildiz in the middle game and found an interesting plan which destroyed the position of her opponent. Hou Yifan recovered after the previous round and outplayed Tatiana Kosintseva with black. World champion found few exact moves in the opening and got sensible advantage.

  One more decisive game could have happened in the match Stefanova-Lahno.  Repeating the scenario of the previous round Bulgarian player grabbed a pawn but had problems with the coordination of her pieces. This time she managed to escape as Katerina Lahno didn’t find the precise way to fight for more than a draw. In the game Koneru – Muzychuk playing black Slovenian player succeeded to equalize the position after the opening and after 72 moves players agreed for a draw. After the third round two players Anna Muzychuk and Elina Danielian lead with two points.

Standings after round 3:

Official website: http://kazan2012.fide.com

(Photos from tournament website)