The 2008 Magistral Casino de Barcelona Tournament was held in Barcelona, Spain from October 30, 2008 to November 7, 2008. The event was held at the Casino of Barcelona. It featured a 10 player Round Robin event with 9 of the 10 players being Grand...
Now with only a few weeks left in the US Chess League all the teams are trying to make a strong run towards the QuarterFinals. Each match was played with increasing importance and filled with more tension than the previous weeks. The first mat...
The US Chess League is now deep into the season in week 6. And with some critical match ups this week there would surely be some interesting chess. The first match of the week was between the struggling New York Knights and the Seattle Slugger...
US Chess League week 5 continued on with some heated action. As the season goes on each match and each game becomes increasingly more important. With that said let's take a look at all the chess from this week: The first match of the week feat...
The US Chess League is now through the opening phase and all the teams hope to shake off the dust and make some positive results as the matches are getting more important as the weeks go on. Now let's see what took place in week 4 of the US Ches...
Week 3 of the US Chess League saw some interesting results with a couple of the undefeated teams losing their perfect records which tightened up the league standings. Let's get right into the action! The first match up of the week was a Monday...
As usual week 2 of the US Chess League was full of great chess action. So without further delay let's get right into it and see what happened this week in the US Chess League. The first match of the week was the New Jersey Knockouts against th...
The US Chess League kicked off it's first week with some exciting chess action. Now with the league having 14 teams there were 7 hard fought matches, each team hoping to start out the season in strong fashion. The feature Monday night match wa...
The 2008 Stare Mesto FIDE Open Tournament took place on August 8-16, 2008 in Stare Mesto, Czech Republic. The tournament was held at the Stare Mesto Sports and Cultural Center and was organized by the Stare Mesto Chess Club. FM Marian J...
The 2008 World Junior Championships were held from August 2-16, 2008 in Gaziantep, Turkey. On the boys side GM Abhijeet Gupta from India won the World Junior Championship title in dramatic fashion with a victory over another top contender in the f...
The 2008 Najdorf Memorial took place in Warsaw, Poland from August 2-10, 2008. This was a category XV event with an average rating of 2608. GM Sasikiran won clear first with a score of 6.5/9 a full point ahead of second place and going throughout ...
The 2008 Irish Chess Championships took place July 5-13, 2008 at the Academy Plaza Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. After 9 hard fought rounds GM Baburin and GM Greenfeld split first place with an impressive score of 8/9 which was 1.5 points out in front...
The 2nd New Jersey Futurity International was held from July 7-11, 2008 In New Jersey, USA. GM Sergey Erenburg won the event with a score of 7.5/9, a full point ahead of second place and by doing so successfully defended his victory from last year...
The 2008 South Carolina Open was held from June 27-29, 2008 in Greenville, SC. The event had 2 GMs and 6 NMs to make a very competitive field. GM Roman Dzindzichasvili and NM Chris Mabe both of who scored 4.5/5 and went undefeated split first plac...
The Philadelphia International event was held from June 26-30, 2008 at the Philadelphia Center City Sheraton. The event had 5 GM participants and many more titled players to make it a very competitive field. GM Parimarjan Negi won the event with a...
The 2008 US Cadet event was held from June 14-18, 2008 in Lindsborg Kansas had many of the top youth players throughout the United States. In a bit of a surprise finish Conrad Holt rated 2109 won the event with an impressive score of 5/6! Now lets...
The Final tournament of the Moscow Chess Championship took place May 12-18, 2008. This was a category XI event with an average rating of 2516 with 8 players participating including 6 GMs and 2 IMs. GM Boris Savchenko took clear first with a score ...
The 2008 Foxwoods Open was held from March 19-22, 2008. Five players ended up tying for first place with a score of 7/9. GM Yuri Shulman ended up winning the title after an armageddon blitz playoff with GM Alexander Ivanov. A couple of players end...
The 2008 Eastern Class Championship was held in Sturbridge, MA from February 29 - March 2, 2008. The event featured 3 GMs competing for the title along with many other master players. GM Alexander Shabalov made a score of 4.5/5 to take clear first...
The Aeroflot Open took place from February 14-22, 2008 in Moscow, Russia. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the event with an impressive score of 7/9 and a performance rating of 2822! Now lets take a look at one of Nepomniachtchi's key victories...
The 68th Daniël Noteboom Memorial was held from February 1, 2008 to February 3, 2008 in Leiden, Netherlands. There were 131 participants including 7 GMs and 3 IMs. GM Predrag Nikolic and GM John Van Der Wiel both finished with scores of 5.5/6...
The 2008 Croatian Championship was held from January 16-29, 2008 in Split, Croatia. The event included the European U18 champion IM Ivan Saric, 2006 European Champion GM Zdenko Kozul, and three former World Junior Champions GM Hrvoje Stevic, GM Bo...
The 68th Armenian Championship was held from January 7 - 21, 2008 in Yerevan, Armenia. GM Karen Asrian and GM Artashes Minasian both finished with scores of 8/13 but GM Asrian won the event on tie-breaks. Lets take a look at the game between the ...
The 50th "took place in Reggio Emilia, Italy from December 29th 2007 - January 6th 2008. GM Zoltan Almasi took clear first with 6/9 and a performance rating of 2752! Now let's look at one of his important victories which led him to...
The XVII Pampona International took place 21st-29th December 2007 in Pamplona, Spain. GM Francisco Vallejo Pons won the event with a score of 4.5/7 and a performance rating of 2752! Now lets take a look at one of his key victor...
