Posted in Africa, Bulgaria, Cote d'Ivoire, Grand Chess Tour, The Chess Drum on May 13th, 2019 No Comments »
Former World Champion Veselin Topalov with Daaim Shabazz in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. Photo by The Chess Drum. Veselin Topalov has seen a thing or two in chess. Known as a tremendous fighter and the master of the exchange sacrifice, he has playing many a scintillating game. However, he is a bit more relaxed and is […]
Posted in Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Games, Italy, Media Stories, Norway, Sinquefield Cup, Tournaments, USA on Sep 7th, 2014 4 Comments »
2014 Sinquefield CupAugust 27th – September 7th, 2014 (St. Louis, USA)Round #10 – Saturday, 6 September 2014 1 Aronian, L ARM ½-½ Caruana, F ITA 2 Topalov, V BUL ½-½ Carlsen, M NOR 3 Nakamura, H USA ½-½ Vachier-Lagrave, M FRA Official Site Caruana wins 2014 Sinquefield Cup! Fabiano Caruana, 2014 Sinquefield Cup champion! For […]
Posted in Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Games, Italy, Media Stories, Norway, Sinquefield Cup, Tournaments, USA on Sep 6th, 2014 2 Comments »
2014 Sinquefield CupAugust 27th – September 7th, 2014 (St. Louis, USA)Round #9 – Friday, 5 September 2014 1 Caruana, F ITA ½-½ Nakamura, H USA 2 Carlsen, M NOR ½-½ Aronian, L ARM 3 Vachier-Lagrave, M FRA ½-½ Topalov, V BUL Official Site All three games drawn for the first time! Round nine… hard to […]
Posted in Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Media Stories, Norway, Sinquefield Cup, Tournaments, USA on Sep 6th, 2014 2 Comments »
2014 Sinquefield CupAugust 27th – September 7th, 2014 (St. Louis, USA)Round #8 – Thursday, 4 September 2014 1 Caruana, F ITA ½-½ Carlsen, M NOR 2 Aronian, L ARM ½-½ Vachier-Lagrave, M FRA 3 Nakamura, H USA 0-1 Topalov, V BUL Official Site Carlsen breaks streak… holds Caruana to a draw. Caruana leaving the playing […]
Posted in Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Games, Italy, Media Stories, Norway, Sinquefield Cup, Tournaments, USA on Sep 4th, 2014 4 Comments »
2014 Sinquefield CupAugust 27th – September 7th, 2014 (St. Louis, USA)Round #7 – Wednesday, 3 September 2014 1 Vachier-Lagrave, M FRA 0-1 Caruana, F ITA 2 Carlsen, M NOR 1-0 Nakamura, H USA 3 Topalov, V BUL ½-½ Aronian, L ARM Official Site Carlsen surging… dispatches Nakamura.Caruana continues immortal streak! Twitter is a chess player’s […]
Posted in Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Games, Italy, Media Stories, Norway, Sinquefield Cup, Tournaments, USA on Sep 2nd, 2014 6 Comments »
2014 Sinquefield CupAugust 27th – September 7th, 2014 (St. Louis, USA)Round #6 – Tuesday, 2 September 2014 1 Caruana, F ITA 1-0 Topalov, V BUL 2 Carlsen, M NOR ½-½ Vachier-Lagrave FRA 3 Aronian, L ARM ½-½ Nakamura, H USA Official Site Fabiano Caruana on a Fischeresque 6-0 blitz… history books being rewritten. Let’s start […]
Posted in Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Games, Italy, Media Stories, Norway, Sinquefield Cup, Tournaments, USA on Sep 1st, 2014 4 Comments »
2014 Sinquefield CupAugust 27th – September 7th, 2014 (St. Louis, USA)Round #5 – Sunday, 31 August 2014 1 Nakamura, H USA 0-1 Caruana, F ITA 2 Aronian, L ARM 0-1 Carlsen, M NOR 3 Topalov, V BUL 1-0 Vachier-Lagrave FRA Official Site “Fab Five”… unprecedented performance in strongest tournament! Two products of the American Swiss […]
Posted in Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Media Stories, Norway, Sinquefield Cup, Tournaments, USA on Aug 31st, 2014 3 Comments »
2014 Sinquefield CupAugust 27th – September 7th, 2014 (St. Louis, USA)Round #4 – Saturday, 30 August 2014 1 Caruana, F ITA 1-0 Aronian, L ARM 2 Carlsen, M NOR ½-½ Topalov, V BUL 3 Vachier-Lagrave FRA ½-½ Nakamura, H USA Official Site Caruana is now at 2820 on live list.Photo by uschesschamps.com. A tremendous tsunami […]
Posted in Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Games, Italy, Media Stories, Norway, Sinquefield Cup, Tournaments, USA on Aug 30th, 2014 1 Comment »
2014 Sinquefield CupAugust 27th – September 7th, 2014 (St. Louis, USA)Round #3 – Friday, 29 August 2014 1 Carlsen, M NOR 0-1 Caruana, F ITA 2 Vachier-Lagrave FRA 1-0 Aronian, L ARM 3 Topalov, V BUL 1-0 Nakamura, H USA Official Site Caruana on fire at 3/3, beats Carlsen! What a homecoming it has been […]
Posted in Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Games, Italy, Media Stories, Norway, Sinquefield Cup, Tournaments, USA on Aug 29th, 2014 6 Comments »
2014 Sinquefield CupAugust 27th – September 7th, 2014 (St. Louis, USA)Round #2 – Thursday, 28 August 2014 1 Nakamura, H USA ½-½ Carlsen, M NOR 2 Caruana, F ITA 1-0 Vachier-Lagrave FRA 3 Aronian, L ARM 1-0 Topalov, V BUL Official Site Caruana wins again… Topalov loses again… this time to Aronian. Nakamura-Carlsen showdown drawn. […]
Posted in Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Media Stories, Norway, Sinquefield Cup, Tournaments, USA on Aug 28th, 2014 3 Comments »
2014 Sinquefield CupAugust 27th – September 7th, 2014 (St. Louis, USA)Round #1 – Wednesday, 27 August 2014 1 Vachier-Lagrave FRA ½-½ Carlsen, M NOR 2 Aronian, L ARM ½-½ Nakamura, H USA 3 Topalov, V BUL 0-1 Caruana, F ITA Official Site “Fire on Board” in MVL-Carlsen… Topalov toppled. Carlsen had to find the resourceful […]
Posted in Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Games, Italy, Media Stories, Norway, Sinquefield Cup, Tournaments, USA on Aug 27th, 2014 26 Comments »
Six of the world’s top ten chess players will assemble in what has recently been claimed as America’s “Chess Capital”. St. Louis will host the 2nd Sinquefield Cup beginning today touts the strongest ever tournament on American soil. With the average rating at a stratospheric 2801.67 it is the first tournament whose average rating tops […]
Posted in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Europe, India, Russia, Tournaments, World Championships on Feb 14th, 2014 No Comments »
FIDE just released the pairings for the Candidates tournament which will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia is about a month away. The winner will face World Champion Magnus Carlsen in his first title defense. This double round-robin event of the eight qualifiers is sure to be hotly-contested as many of the marquee players are present. […]
Posted in Bulgaria, Europe, FIDE, Matches, Tournaments, Ukraine, World Championships on Nov 28th, 2012 10 Comments »
A new World Championship will be declared in a few days and it will come down to two players. Former champion Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria faces the Ukraine’s Anna Ushenina for the crown to culminate two weeks of bruising chess battles. The winner will have to face Hou Yifan in a match next year. Stefanova […]
Posted in Bulgaria, FIDE, Matches, Tournaments, USA, World Championships on Feb 16th, 2009 18 Comments »
Gata Kamsky will take on the world’s highest-rated player in Veselin Topalov is an eight-game match to determine who will challenge Viswanathan Anand in the World Championship match. After a long tortuous battle of negotiations, the venue will be Sofia, Bulgaria and will begin play on February 18th and end February 28th. GM Veselin Topalov […]
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