Archive for October, 2006
Vladimir Kramnik – the absolute world chess champion
When Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) won the rapid chess tie-break match against Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) in Elista, Russia’s chess capital, on October 13, 2006, he became the “absolute” world chess champion. This was – hopefully – the end of a story that began in… When exactly?
?When Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) won the rapid chess tie-break match against [...]
Correct Names of European Chess Clubs
Wojciech Bartelski (Poland), webmaster of OlimpBase, is working on the standardisation of the names of teams which participated in the European Club Cup.
He asks for help to correct his list with clubs from more than 40 federations. Readers should post their replies either as comments or via e-mail.
7th International Chess Festival LIBEREC 2006
Here ist the information about the possibility still to register without additional charge for 7th International Chess Festival LIBEREC 2006 which will be held on 11.-18.11. 2006 in Liberec (the Czech Republic).
Registration deadline without additional fee is prolonged till 5.11. 2006. To date 22.10. 2006 more than 90 players from 9 countries were registered.
The list [...]
European Club Cup 2006 – MonRoi’s Brilliancy Prize
MonRoi has offered a Brilliancy Prize for the best game broadcasted by MonRoi. The result of the public voting was…
MonRoi has offered a Brilliancy Prize for the best game broadcasted by MonRoi. The result of the public voting was round 4: Vitali Golod – Vladimir Akopian 1-0.
In round 7 MonRoi has broadcasted 56 games. At [...]
European Rapid Chess Championship 2006 Invitation
The Warsaw Foundation for Chess Development has a great pleasure and an honor to invite chess players from the FIDE zones 1.1-1.9 to the 6th Amplico AIG Life International Chess Tournament – European Rapid Chess Championship to be held from December 16 till December 17, 2006, in Warsaw (Poland).
Enclosed, please find the General Information and [...]
European Club Cup 2006 – Final Results
Here are the Round 7 report from the Austian Chess Federation and the final results of the ECC-2006.
Women
An exciting final brings the last round. Mika Yerevan can?t manage a win against Cheliabinsk. All four games end draw. So Sakartvelo would have won title with a victory against Saratov. However, after two draws Natalija Pogonina stops [...]
European Club Cup 2006 – Report Round 6
Here is the Round 6 report of the Austrian Chess Federation.
Women
Status quo on top of table is unchanged after round 6. Yerevan wins 3,5:0,5 against Herzliya Chess Club. Only Maia Chiburdanidse accepts a draw offer of Irina Botvinnik after 6 moves. Nino Khrutsidze shows excellent form. She scores again full point and has now [...]
European Club Cup 2006 – Report Round 5
Here is the Round 5 report of the Austrian Chess Federation and some press photos.
Women
Preliminary decision in womens competition. Round 5 brings a 2,5:1,5 for Yerevan against Saratov. Maia Chiburdandse wins a benoni against Natalija Pogonina. This is basis for this 4th team win. Now Yerevan has played against nearly all strong team and [...]
European Club Cup 2006 – Report Round 4
Here is the Round 4 report of the Austrian Chess Federation.
Women
First team-draw for Yerevan. Maia Chiburdanidse wins against Nana Dzagnidze but Lela Javakhishvili keeps for Sakartvele a 2:2. Russian favorit Krasnoturinsk shows best form in match with Herzliya. Stefanova, Kosintseva Tatiana, Kosintseva, Nadezhda and Maria Kursova win all games. Result is 4:0.
An important success [...]
The Cups Are Waiting for Their New Owners
ECC2006 will finish tonight! At the closing ceremony, which starts at 9PM CET, the cups will change their owners.
European Club Cup tournament director Dirk De Ridder and European Club Cup for Women tournament director Werner Stubenvoll have been preparing for the handing over the cups. We are impatiently looking forward to enlightening of this event!
ECC2006 [...]