Chess - General Thread

[prasen9]

Fireworks:
Kommersant: new cheating accusations against Topalov
Bulgarian organizers take Chessbase to court

[Prashant]

The Kommersant link appears to be from 2007...

[viji]

A bunch of Indian GMs are playing at the 3rd New York International hosted by the famous Marshall Chess Club in New York City. The list includes Surya Ganguly (2672), Pentala Harikrishna (2660), Sandipan Chanda (2640) and Sundarerajan Kidambi (2520). They had a terrible start. Among other things, Ganguly lost to the local junior talent Kassa Korley (2284) and then to Zimbabwe's Farai Mandizha (2315). Chanda lost to Michael Lee (2391). Kidambi had quite few draws with lower rated players. These guys recovered a bit as the tournament went on. Currently, the leader is GM Jaan Elvest (2591) with 5.5 points out of 6. Harikrishan, who is at 5 points and second place according to the tiebreaking system, will play him today. Chanda is at 5 points as well and playing GM Nick Defirmian (2549). Ganguly and Kidambi are currently at both at 4 points. There are three more rounds, two would be played today (12.00 noon and 7PM) and one more tomorrow (12.00 noon).

For more information, see:
http://www.marshallchessclub.org/

[viji]

Harikrishna had a short draw with Ehlvest at noon, but managed to defeat GM Kekelidze. He thus joins Ehlvest in the lead (6.5). Today it is Chanda vs Harikrishna at the top board. Chanda is at 6 points. Chanda and Harikrishna both have a shot at winning the tournament.

[viji]

Given that the top boards drew in the final round, Harikrishna and Ehlvest should be joint winners. Some games are on this page
http://www.thechessdrum.net/blog/2010/0 ... rnational/
Korley's killer move against Ganguly appeared as a chess puzzle in the Polgar blog (that's how I knew that this tournament is going on).
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2010/06 ... html#links

[haidivolume]

good post for me

[viji]

The Indian gang is playing chess around US North East. In the World Open Hari came second with a 2706 performance. Chanda was eleventh, just behind Gata Kansky and on par (performance approximately same as rating). Poor Ganguly (Anand's second in the Wch match) just missed the cut for any prize money.