THE WEEK IN CHESS 834 1st November 2010 by Mark Crowther

1) Introduction

My thanks to Luiz Roberto Da Costa Jr, Luis Blasco de la Cruz, Jim Hill, Mitko Iliev, Kopylov Michael, Holger Lieske, Gerard Demuydt and everyone else who helped with the issue.

A very abbreviated issue of TWIC. I am working on an method of keeping on top of all the games and events and I didn't quite finish it in order to be able to process a number of larger tournaments. So there should be a bumper issue of games next week and a good opportunity for me to do some testing.

Viswanathan Anand takes the number one spot in the new FIDE Rating list. However with Magnus Carlsen's victory at Pearl Spring would have taken him back to the top had it been included in the list. There will no doubt be a big battle over the number one spot for the next few months with Levon Aronian being only a few points behind too.

Hope you enjoy this issue.

Mark

2) Pearl Spring Masters Nanjing 2010

The Pearl Spring Masters took place in Nanjing 18th-30th October 2010. Players: Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Vugar Gashimov, Wang Yue and Etienne Bacrot. 6 players 10 Round Double Round Robin. Magnus Carlsen repeated his win in 2009 taking clear first with 7/10 a point clear of World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand.

Official site: http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/

3rd Pearl Spring Nanjing (CHN), 20-30 x 2010											cat. XXI (2766)
					1		2		3		4		5		6
1.	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2826	*	*	½	½	1	½	½	½	1	1	1	½	7	2903
2.	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2800	½	½	*	*	0	1	½	½	1	½	½	1	6	2831
3.	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2716	0	½	1	0	*	*	1	½	½	0	1	½	5	2776
4.	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2719	½	½	½	½	0	½	*	*	½	½	½	½	4½	2739
5.	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2803	0	0	0	½	½	1	½	½	*	*	½	1	4½	2722
6.	Wang Yue	g	CHN	2732	0	½	½	0	0	½	½	½	½	0	*	*	3	2623

Round 1 (October 20, 2010)
Carlsen, Magnus	- Bacrot, Etienne	1-0	38	C45	Scotch Game
Anand, Viswanathan	- Wang Yue	½-½	32	D10	Slav Defence
Topalov, Veselin	- Gashimov, Vugar	½-½	55	D16	Slav Lasker/Smyslov
Round 2 (October 21, 2010)
Anand, Viswanathan	- Carlsen, Magnus	½-½	44	C95	Ruy Lopez Breyer
Bacrot, Etienne	- Topalov, Veselin	½-½	36	E21	Nimzo Indian 4.Nf3
Wang Yue	- Gashimov, Vugar	½-½	60	E12	Queens Indian Petrosian
Round 3 (October 22, 2010)
Carlsen, Magnus	- Wang Yue	1-0	38	C43	Petroff's Defence
Gashimov, Vugar	- Bacrot, Etienne	0-1	45	A29	English Four Knights
Topalov, Veselin	- Anand, Viswanathan	0-1	33	D57	Queens Gambit Lasker's Defence
Round 4 (October 23, 2010)
Bacrot, Etienne	- Anand, Viswanathan	1-0	46	D17	Slav Defence
Gashimov, Vugar	- Carlsen, Magnus	½-½	75	C95	Ruy Lopez Breyer
Topalov, Veselin	- Wang Yue	½-½	35	D17	Slav Defence
Round 5 (October 24, 2010)
Carlsen, Magnus	- Topalov, Veselin	1-0	32	C84	Ruy Lopez Centre Attack
Anand, Viswanathan	- Gashimov, Vugar	½-½	25	D10	Slav Defence
Wang Yue	- Bacrot, Etienne	0-1	43	E15	Queens Indian
Round 6 (October 26, 2010)
Bacrot, Etienne	- Carlsen, Magnus	½-½	48	E15	Queens Indian
Gashimov, Vugar	- Topalov, Veselin	½-½	43	B14	Caro Kann Panov
Wang Yue	- Anand, Viswanathan	0-1	51	E00	Catalan
Round 7 (October 27, 2010)
Carlsen, Magnus	- Anand, Viswanathan	½-½	68	C67	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Gashimov, Vugar	- Wang Yue	½-½	66	C42	Petroff's Defence
Topalov, Veselin	- Bacrot, Etienne	1-0	37	E15	Queens Indian
Round 8 (October 28, 2010)
Anand, Viswanathan	- Topalov, Veselin	½-½	31	E10	Blumenfeld Counter Gambit
Bacrot, Etienne	- Gashimov, Vugar	½-½	14	D10	Slav Defence
Wang Yue	- Carlsen, Magnus	½-½	28	E00	Catalan
Round 9 (October 29, 2010)
Bacrot, Etienne	- Wang Yue	½-½	27	C42	Petroff's Defence
Gashimov, Vugar	- Anand, Viswanathan	½-½	42	C67	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Topalov, Veselin	- Carlsen, Magnus	0-1	33	E00	Catalan
Round 10 (October 30, 2010)
Carlsen, Magnus	- Gashimov, Vugar	½-½	71	C49	Four Knights Metger
Anand, Viswanathan	- Bacrot, Etienne	1-0	33	E59	Nimzo Indian
Wang Yue	- Topalov, Veselin	0-1	41	D82	Gruenfeld 4.Bf4

3) 14th Unive Tournament

The 14th Unive Tournament took place in Hoogeveen, Netherlands 22nd-30th October 2010. The 4 player double round robin sawAlexei Shirov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri and Sergei Tiviakov compete. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took clear first place with 4.5/6 undefeated a point clear of Alexei Shirov.

(4 players 6 Rds DRR Indiv TC: 90m:30m+30spm(1))

Official Site

Unive Crown Group Hoogeveen (NED), 25-30 x 2010											cat. XVIII (2696)
					1		2		3		4
1.	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2721	*	*	½	1	½	½	1	1	4½	2880
2.	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2749	½	0	*	*	½	1	1	½	3½	2735
3.	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2677	½	½	½	0	*	*	½	1	3	2702
4.	Tiviakov, Sergei	g	NED	2637	0	0	0	½	½	0	*	*	1	2442

Round 1 (October 25, 2010)
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	- Shirov, Alexei	½-½	25	D16	Slav Lasker/Smyslov
Tiviakov, Sergei	- Giri, Anish	½-½	15	C43	Petroff's Defence
Round 2 (October 26, 2010)
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	- Giri, Anish	½-½	45	D44	Anti-Meran Gambit
Shirov, Alexei	- Tiviakov, Sergei	1-0	26	B01	Centre Counter
Round 3 (October 27, 2010)
Giri, Anish	- Shirov, Alexei	½-½	73	D45	Anti-Meran Variations
Tiviakov, Sergei	- Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	0-1	40	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Round 4 (October 28, 2010)
Shirov, Alexei	- Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	0-1	29	D86	Gruenfeld Simagin
Giri, Anish	- Tiviakov, Sergei	1-0	42	B36	Sicilian Maroczy Bind
Round 5 (October 29, 2010)
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	- Tiviakov, Sergei	1-0	74	B01	Centre Counter
Shirov, Alexei	- Giri, Anish	1-0	25	E52	Nimzo Indian
Round 6 (October 30, 2010)
Giri, Anish	- Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	½-½	31	E60	King's Indian without Nc3
Tiviakov, Sergei	- Shirov, Alexei	½-½	23	C77	Ruy Lopez Anderssen

4) Cap d'Agde

The 9th Chess encounters Nationales and Internationales of Cap d'Agde (FRA) took place 22nd - 31st October 2010 The organisers got the final they would have wanted between the top seeds Vasily Ivanchuk (2754) UKR and Hikaru Nakamura (2733) USA.Ivanchuk beat Nakamura 1.5-0.5 in the final which saw two King's Gambits. After go astray and losing game one Nakamura decided to try the King's Gambit but Ivanchuk pointed out that "h4 and 0-0 seem dubious and can't not be good for white". Time control: 25 minutes + 10"

Info - Official site: http://www.capechecs.com/trophee_ccas.php

Trophee CCAS GpA Cap d'Agde (FRA), 23-26 x 2010											cat. XV (2619)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1.	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2733	*	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	6½	3024
2.	Bu Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2695	½	*	½	1	½	1	1	1	5½	2838
3.	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	g	VIE	2633	0	½	*	½	½	1	½	1	4	2666
4.	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2682	0	0	½	*	1	0	1	1	3½	2609
5.	Edouard, Romain	g	FRA	2636	0	½	½	0	*	1	0	1	3	2566
6.	Karpov, Anatoly	g	RUS	2619	0	0	0	1	0	*	1	½	2½	2516
7.	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	m	RUS	2565	0	0	½	0	1	0	*	1	2½	2524
8.	Milliet, Sophie	m	FRA	2388	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	*	½	2229

Round 1 (October 23, 2010)
Nakamura, Hikaru	- Edouard, Romain	1-0	52	B57	Sicilian Sozin Attack
Bu Xiangzhi	- Karpov, Anatoly	1-0	53	A15	English counter King's Fianchetto
Polgar, Judit	- Kosintseva, Nadezhda	1-0	38	C86	Ruy Lopez Worrall Attack
Milliet, Sophie	- Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	0-1	41	C02	French Advance
Round 2 (October 24, 2010)
Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	- Bu Xiangzhi	½-½	95	A45	Trompowsky
Polgar, Judit	- Milliet, Sophie	1-0	59	C63	Ruy Lopez Schliemann
Karpov, Anatoly	- Nakamura, Hikaru	0-1	64	E32	Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Kosintseva, Nadezhda	- Edouard, Romain	1-0	78	C11	French Defence
Round 3 (October 24, 2010)
Nakamura, Hikaru	- Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	1-0	30	C10	French Rubinstein
Bu Xiangzhi	- Polgar, Judit	1-0	75	A15	English counter King's Fianchetto
Edouard, Romain	- Karpov, Anatoly	1-0	37	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Milliet, Sophie	- Kosintseva, Nadezhda	0-1	73	C44	Scotch Gambit
Round 4 (October 25, 2010)
Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	- Edouard, Romain	½-½	81	A45	Trompowsky
Polgar, Judit	- Nakamura, Hikaru	0-1	113	C92	Ruy Lopez Chigorin
Kosintseva, Nadezhda	- Karpov, Anatoly	0-1	59	C65	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Milliet, Sophie	- Bu Xiangzhi	0-1	45	B22	Sicilian Alapin
Round 5 (October 25, 2010)
Nakamura, Hikaru	- Milliet, Sophie	1-0	35	C29	Vienna Game
Bu Xiangzhi	- Kosintseva, Nadezhda	1-0	63	A29	English Four Knights
Edouard, Romain	- Polgar, Judit	0-1	39	B30	Sicilian Rossolimo
Karpov, Anatoly	- Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	0-1	74	D11	Slav Defence
Round 6 (October 26, 2010)
Bu Xiangzhi	- Nakamura, Hikaru	½-½	31	A88	Dutch Leningrad
Polgar, Judit	- Karpov, Anatoly	0-1	64	C92	Ruy Lopez Chigorin
Kosintseva, Nadezhda	- Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	½-½	38	C10	French Rubinstein
Milliet, Sophie	- Edouard, Romain	0-1	33	B51	Sicilian Rossolimo
Round 7 (October 26, 2010)
Nakamura, Hikaru	- Kosintseva, Nadezhda	1-0	44	C45	Scotch Game
Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	- Polgar, Judit	½-½	57	A45	Trompowsky
Edouard, Romain	- Bu Xiangzhi	½-½	32	C42	Petroff's Defence
Karpov, Anatoly	- Milliet, Sophie	½-½	64	A30	English Symmetrical

Trophee CCAS GpB Cap d'Agde (FRA), 23-26 x 2010											cat. XV (2615)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1.	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2754	*	½	1	1	½	1	½	1	5½	2825
2.	Le Quang Liem	g	VIE	2694	½	*	½	1	1	1	½	1	5½	2834
3.	Pelletier, Yannick	g	SUI	2592	0	½	*	0	1	1	1	½	4	2668
4.	Hammer, Jon Ludvig	g	NOR	2633	0	0	1	*	½	½	1	1	4	2662
5.	Gharamian, Tigran	g	FRA	2658	½	0	0	½	*	½	½	1	3	2559
6.	Lahno, Kateryna	g	UKR	2539	0	0	0	½	½	*	1	1	3	2576
7.	Zhu Chen	g	QAT	2480	½	½	0	0	½	0	*	½	2	2476
8.	Kosintseva, Tatiana	g	RUS	2573	0	0	½	0	0	0	½	*	1	2312

Round 1 (October 23, 2010)
Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Pelletier, Yannick	1-0	50	C10	French Rubinstein
Hammer, Jon Ludvig	- Le Quang Liem	0-1	28	D83	Gruenfeld 4.Bf4
Lahno, Kateryna	- Kosintseva, Tatiana	1-0	56	D38	QGD Ragozin
Zhu Chen	- Gharamian, Tigran	½-½	69	E38	Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Round 2 (October 24, 2010)
Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Zhu Chen	½-½	50	B00	Owen or Nimzowitsch Defence
Pelletier, Yannick	- Le Quang Liem	½-½	58	A15	English counter King's Fianchetto
Gharamian, Tigran	- Lahno, Kateryna	½-½	35	B72	Sicilian Dragon
Kosintseva, Tatiana	- Hammer, Jon Ludvig	0-1	82	C95	Ruy Lopez Breyer
Round 3 (October 24, 2010)
Le Quang Liem	- Kosintseva, Tatiana	1-0	59	A29	English Four Knights
Hammer, Jon Ludvig	- Gharamian, Tigran	½-½	73	E04	Catalan
Lahno, Kateryna	- Ivanchuk, Vassily	0-1	50	E17	Queens Indian
Zhu Chen	- Pelletier, Yannick	0-1	38	E32	Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Round 4 (October 25, 2010)
Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Hammer, Jon Ludvig	1-0	38	A14	Reti Opening
Pelletier, Yannick	- Kosintseva, Tatiana	½-½	42	A07	Barcza System
Gharamian, Tigran	- Le Quang Liem	0-1	45	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Zhu Chen	- Lahno, Kateryna	0-1	85	E70	King's Indian Fianchetto
Round 5 (October 25, 2010)
Le Quang Liem	- Ivanchuk, Vassily	½-½	37	A30	English Symmetrical
Hammer, Jon Ludvig	- Zhu Chen	1-0	54	D10	Slav Defence
Lahno, Kateryna	- Pelletier, Yannick	0-1	27	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Kosintseva, Tatiana	- Gharamian, Tigran	0-1	53	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Round 6 (October 26, 2010)
Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Kosintseva, Tatiana	1-0	38	A14	Reti Opening
Pelletier, Yannick	- Gharamian, Tigran	1-0	36	E11	Bogo Indian Defence
Lahno, Kateryna	- Hammer, Jon Ludvig	½-½	51	C49	Four Knights Metger
Zhu Chen	- Le Quang Liem	½-½	38	E32	Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Round 7 (October 26, 2010)
Le Quang Liem	- Lahno, Kateryna	1-0	47	E91	King's Indian Classical
Hammer, Jon Ludvig	- Pelletier, Yannick	1-0	57	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Gharamian, Tigran	- Ivanchuk, Vassily	½-½	36	C42	Petroff's Defence
Kosintseva, Tatiana	- Zhu Chen	½-½	63	C96	Ruy Lopez

5) SPICE Cup 2010

The SPICE Cup (Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence) takes place Thu 28th - Sun 7th Nov 2010 at the Texas Tech University in Lubbock. The top group with Zoltan Almasi, Alexander Onischuk Wesley So, Georg Meier, Ray Robson and Eugene Perelshteyn will see 3 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The B Group uses the normal scoring system.

Official site: Website

Susan Polgar Blog

SPICE Cup GMA Lubbock USA (USA), 28 x-7 xi 2010											cat. XVI (2632)
					1		2		3		4		5		6
1.	Meier, Georg	g	GER	2659	*	*	½	.	1	.	1	.	½	.	.	.	8	2843
2.	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2707	½	.	*	*	.	.	½	.	1	.	½	.	6	2698
3.	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2668	0	.	.	.	*	*	½	.	1	.	1	.	7	2698
4.	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2688	0	.	½	.	½	.	*	*	.	.	1	.	5	2640
5.	Robson, Ray	m	USA	2539	½	.	0	.	0	.	.	.	*	*	½	.	2	2447
6.	Perelshteyn, Eugene	g	USA	2528	.	.	½	.	0	.	0	.	½	.	*	*	2	2457

Round 1 (October 28, 2010)
Almasi, Zoltan	- Perelshteyn, Eugene	½-½	39	E10	Blumenfeld Counter Gambit
So, Wesley	- Onischuk, Alexander	½-½	43	E06	Catalan
Robson, Ray	- Meier, Georg	½-½	34	C11	French Defence
Round 2 (October 29, 2010)
Meier, Georg	- Onischuk, Alexander	1-0	44	C67	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Robson, Ray	- Almasi, Zoltan	0-1	40	C48	Four Knights Rubinstein
Perelshteyn, Eugene	- So, Wesley	0-1	76	E92	King's Indian Classical
Round 3 (October 30, 2010)
Almasi, Zoltan	- Meier, Georg	½-½	38	C11	French Defence
So, Wesley	- Robson, Ray	1-0	27	B76	Sicilian Modern Dragon
Onischuk, Alexander	- Perelshteyn, Eugene	1-0	58	E44	Nimzo Indian Rubinstein
Round 4 (October 31, 2010)
So, Wesley	- Meier, Georg	0-1	60	C07	French Tarrasch
Onischuk, Alexander	- Almasi, Zoltan	½-½	31	E55	Nimzo Indian
Perelshteyn, Eugene	- Robson, Ray	½-½	23	A05	Various

6) US Chess League

The US Chess League takes place August 23rd - 20th November 2010. The first phase is now complete.

Time Controls range from 60+30 to 90+30 depending on the start time and time zone. Games take place on ICC.

Official site: http://www.uschessleague.com/

USCL ICC (INT), 23 viii - 20 xi 2010
10/25/2010:
Manhattan				vs	New England
1.	IM	Lev Milman	MAN	vs	IM	Sam Shankland	NE	0-1
2.	FM	Charles Riordan	NE	vs	IM	Eli Vovsha	MAN	0-1
3.	WFM	Elizabeth Vicary	MAN	vs	FM	Braden Bournival	NE	0-1
4.	NM	Carey Theil	NE	vs		James Black	MAN	1-0
Carolina				vs	Philadelphia
1.	IM	Jonathan Schroer	CAR	vs	FM	Tom Bartell	PHI	1/2-1/2
2.	IM	Jay Bonin	PHI	vs	FM	Ron Simpson	CAR	1-0
3.	NM	Craig Jones	CAR	vs	FM	Karl Dehmelt	PHI	1/2-1/2
4.	FM	Michael Shahade	PHI	vs		Richard Herbst	CAR	1/2-1/2
Boston				vs	New York
1.	SM	Jorge Sammour-Hasbun	BOS	vs	GM	Giorgi Kacheishvili	NY	1-0
2.	GM	Pascal Charbonneau	NY	vs	SM	Denys Shmelov	BOS	1-0
3.	NM	Vadim Martirosov	BOS	vs	FM	Alec Getz	NY	1/2-1/2
4.	NM	Aleksandr Ostrovskiy	NY	vs	NM	Ilya Krasik	BOS	1/2-1/2
New Jersey				vs	Baltimore
1.	GM	Joel Benjamin	NJ	vs	GM	Sergey Erenburg	BAL	0-1
2.	IM	Tegshsuren Enkhbat	BAL	vs	IM	Mackenzie Molner	NJ	1-0
3.	IM	Albert Kapengut	NJ	vs	FM	Ralph Zimmer	BAL	1-0
4.	NM	Adithya Balasubramanian	BAL	vs		Sean Finn	NJ	1-0
10/27/2010:
Chicago				vs	Dallas
1.	GM	Dmitry Gurevich	CHC	vs	IM	Salvijus Bercys	DAL	1/2-1/2
2.	IM	Julio Sadorra	DAL	vs	GM	Mesgen Amanov	CHC	1-0
3.	IM	Florin Felecan	CHC	vs	NM	Tyler Hughes	DAL	1-0
4.	NM	Nelson Lopez	DAL	vs	NM	Trevor Magness	CHC	0-1
San Francisco				vs	Miami
1.	GM	Jesse Kraai	SF	vs	GM	Julio Becerra	MIA	1/2-1/2
2.	GM	Renier Gonzalez	MIA	vs	IM	Dmitry Zilberstein	SF	1/2-1/2
3.	FM	Andy Lee	SF	vs	FM	Marcel Martinez	MIA	0-1
4.		Nicholas Rosenthal	MIA	vs	NM	Yian Liou	SF	1-0
Seattle				vs	St. Louis
1.	GM	Varuzhan Akobian	SEA	vs	GM	Yury Shulman	STL	1-0
2.	GM	Ben Finegold	STL	vs	FM	Slava Mikhailuk	SEA	1-0
3.	FM	Michael Lee	SEA	vs	IM	Michael Brooks	STL	1-0
4.		Spencer Finegold	STL	vs		Alex Guo	SEA	0-1
Los Angeles				vs	Arizona
1.	FM	Alexandre Kretchetov	LA	vs	IM	Levon Altounian	ARZ	1/2-1/2
2.	FM	Warren Harper	ARZ	vs	WFM	Tatev Abrahamyan	LA	0-1
3.	FM	Michael Casella	LA	vs	FM	Robby Adamson	ARZ	1/2-1/2
4.		Amanda Mateer	ARZ	vs	FM	Eugene Yanayt	LA	0-1

USCL ICC (INT), 23 viii - 20 xi 2010
EASTERN DIVISION	W	L	Game Points	Opps Avg Rating	Opps Record
# - New England	9.5	0.5	28.0/40 (70%)	2345	40.0 - 46.0 (47%)
@ - Boston	7.0	3.0	21.5/40 (54%)	2402	40.0 - 46.0 (47%)
@ - Baltimore	5.5	4.5	22.0/40 (55%)	2417	41.5 - 44.5 (48%)
@ - New York	5.0	5.0	23.5/40 (59%)	2408	43.0 - 43.0 (50%)
X - Philadelphia	3.5	6.5	18.0/40 (45%)	2399	47.0 - 39.0 (55%)
X - New Jersey	3.5	6.5	16.5/40 (41%)	2407	45.0 - 41.0 (52%)
X - Manhattan	3.5	6.5	15.5/40 (39%)	2396	40.0 - 46.0 (46%)
X - Carolina	2.0	8.0	14.0/40 (35%)	2405	43.0 - 43.0 (50%)
WESTERN DIVISION	W	L	Game Points	Opps Avg Rating	Opps Record
# - Arizona	6.5	3.5	22.5/40 (56%)	2407	44.5 - 41.5 (52%)
@ - Chicago	6.0	4.0	20.5/40 (51%)	2410	43.0 - 43.0 (50%)
@ - Miami	5.5	4.5	21.0/40 (53%)	2412	42.0 - 44.0 (49%)
@ - Seattle	5.0	5.0	22.0/40 (55%)	2400	42.0 - 44.0 (49%)
X - St. Louis	5.0	5.0	18.5/40 (46%)	2411	49.0 - 37.0 (57%)
X - Los Angeles	4.5	5.5	18.5/40 (46%)	2402	42.0 - 44.0 (49%)
X - San Francisco	4.0	6.0	19.0/40 (48%)	2424	46.0 - 40.0 (53%)
X - Dallas	4.0	6.0	19.0/40 (48%)	2394	40.0 - 46.0 (47%)

7) 36th Guernsey chess festival

The 36th Guernsey chess festival took place 17th-23rd of October 2010, at the Peninsula Hotel, Grand Havre Bay. Tiger Hillarp-Persson, Nick Pert and Evgeny Sveshnikov finished on 6/7. Games will be available soon.

Official site: http://www.guernseychessclub.org.gg/festival/information.htm

8) World Youth Chess Championships

The World Youth Chess Championships took place in Porto Carras, Greece 20th October - 31st October. 1400 participants from 80 countries took part in Boys and Girls age sections that run from under-8 to under-18. I will round up the results and games next week.

Official site: http://wycc2010.chessdom.com/

9) 14th Corsica Masters

The 14th Corsica Masters takes place October 24th-30th 2010. There is a 7 Round Swiss System tournament which provides qualifiers for a later knockout. The start was in Bastia but the final of the knockout was in Ajaccio between Mamedyarov and Radajov. More next week.

Official site: http://www.corse-echecs.com/ligue/

10) Liberec Open

The 11th Liberec Open 2010 took place Sat 23rd Oct 2010 - Sat 30th Oct 2010. Pawel Szablowski won with 7.5/9. I will round up the results and games next week.

Official site: Website

11) FIDE Ratings November 2010

The top of the FIDE Rating list is at its most volatile for a number of years. With many events involving the elite players recently any of the top 3 could have emerged top. As it is Viswanathan Anand is top after poor performances from Magnus Carlsen at the Olympiad and the start of Bilbao. However Carlsen already has a great performance in the Pearl Spring tournament which would have taken him back to the top if included. I can't be the only one who doesn't like to see a list out of date at the moment of publication. Levon Aronian's fine Olympiad and European Club Cup would have taken him top had he just got a couple of better results. More analysis to follow later in the week.

FIDE Rating List November 2010 Top 100
Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2804	6	1969
2	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2802	14	1990
3	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2801	22	1982
4	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2791	21	1975
5	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2786	9	1975
6	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2771	15	1983
7	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2764	16	1969
8	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2763	16	1985
9	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2760	16	1990
10	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2756	21	1987
11	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2744	20	1983
12	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2744	14	1987
13	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2742	25	1983
14	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2741	16	1968
15	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2741	15	1987
16	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2735	32	1972
17	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2733	10	1986
18	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2727	22	1989
19	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2726	26	1974
20	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2726	18	1987
21	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2726	17	1983
22	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2723	18	1971
23	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2722	16	1976
24	Movsesian, Sergei	g	SVK	2721	26	1978
25	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2721	15	1976
26	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2720	26	1990
27	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2717	10	1979
28	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2716	10	1983
29	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2715	6	1983
30	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2712	25	1980
31	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2709	19	1992
32	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2709	15	1981
33	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2709	15	1987
34	Navara, David	g	CZE	2708	28	1985
35	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2707	16	1983
36	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2703	29	1990
37	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2701	27	1985
38	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2701	25	1985
39	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2700	0	1977
40	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2699	25	1987
41	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2698	31	1982
42	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2695	24	1977
43	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2692	22	1979
44	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2689	20	1991
45	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2689	16	1985
46	Laznicka, Viktor	g	CZE	2688	22	1988
47	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2688	11	1981
48	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2686	17	1971
49	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2686	10	1976
50	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2685	21	1979
51	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2685	15	1985
52	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2684	7	1985
53	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2683	10	1975
54	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2683	6	1990
55	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2682	12	1994
56	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	2681	19	1985
57	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2680	16	1985
58	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2680	13	1965
59	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2680	10	1985
60	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2678	27	1974
61	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2678	13	1976
62	Kurnosov, Igor	g	RUS	2676	21	1985
63	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2676	17	1986
64	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2676	15	1976
65	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2675	29	1971
66	Dreev, Alexey	g	RUS	2674	22	1969
67	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	g	UKR	2674	17	1981
68	Miroshnichenko, Evgenij	g	UKR	2670	19	1978
69	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2670	16	1980
70	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2670	7	1973
71	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2669	31	1965
72	Zhou, Jianchao	g	CHN	2669	23	1988
73	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2669	19	1993
74	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2668	21	1986
75	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	g	CUB	2668	15	1982
76	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2667	24	1983
77	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2667	10	1985
78	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2666	15	1972
79	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	2666	7	1978
80	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	2665	32	1989
81	Bareev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2663	0	1966
82	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2661	6	1986
83	Mamedov, Rauf	g	AZE	2660	21	1988
84	Socko, Bartosz	g	POL	2660	16	1978
85	Smeets, Jan	g	NED	2660	15	1985
86	Khismatullin, Denis	g	RUS	2659	21	1984
87	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2657	16	1986
88	Feller, Sebastien	g	FRA	2657	9	1991
89	Meier, Georg	g	GER	2656	14	1987
90	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	2654	21	1968
91	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2654	19	1986
92	Gustafsson, Jan	g	GER	2652	13	1979
93	Nyback, Tomi	g	FIN	2650	16	1985
94	Gharamian, Tigran	g	FRA	2650	1	1984
95	Rodshtein, Maxim	g	ISR	2649	26	1989
96	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	2649	13	1983
97	Aleksandrov, Aleksej	g	BLR	2649	9	1973
98	Hammer, Jon Ludvig	g	NOR	2647	19	1990
99	Potkin, Vladimir	g	RUS	2646	10	1982
100	McShane, Luke J	g	ENG	2645	16	1984
101	Turov, Maxim	g	RUS	2645	9	1979
102	Fridman, Daniel	g	GER	2645	0	1976

12) Forthcoming Events and Links

73rd Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2011

The 73rd Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2011 takes place Friday 14th to Sunday, January 30th, 2011, in the traditional "De Moriaan" venue in Wijk aan Zee. The event which has taken place since 1938 will carry a new name, that of Tata Steel, they bought Corus a number of years ago.

Confirmed players are: World Number One Magnus Carlsen (last year's winner), reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand and his predecessor Vladimir Kramnik along with Levon Aronian, Veselin Topalov doesn't play. The composition of the A and B Groups been finalised The start for the registration for the amateur groups is on November 1, 2010. The official website will change to http://www.tatasteelchess.com/ (not yet active probably from October the old Official Site is currently the one to look at)

Tata Steel Chess GMA Wijk aan Zee (NED), 14-30 i 2011				cat. XX (2736)
Ti	Name	FED	WRk	EloSep	DoB
GM	Magnus Carlsen	NOR	1	2826	1990
GM	Viswanathan Anand	IND	3	2800	1969
GM	Levon Aronian	ARM	4	2783	1982
GM	Vladimir Kramnik	RUS	5	2780	1975
GM	Alexander Grischuk	RUS	7	2760	1983
GM	Ruslan Ponomariov	UKR	11	2749	1983
GM	Alexey Shirov	ESP	12	2749	1972
GM	Hikaru Nakamura	USA	15	2733	1987
GM	Wang Hao	CHN	22	2724	1989
GM	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	FRA	25	2721	1990
GM	Ian Nepomniachtchi	RUS	34	2706	1990
GM	Anish Giri	NED	61	2677	1994
GM	Jan Smeets	NED	70	2669	1985
GM	Erwin l'Ami	NED	114	2624	1985

Tata Steel Chess GMB Wijk aan Zee (NED), 14-30 i 2011			cat. XVII (2657)
Ti	Name	FED	EloSep	DoB
GM	David Navara	CZE	2722	1985
GM	Laurent Fressinet	FRA	2718	1981
GM	Radek Wojtaszek	POL	2711	1987
GM	Le Quang Liem	VIE	2694	1991
GM	Zahar Efimenko	UKR	2683	1985
GM	Gabriel Sargissian	ARM	2677	1983
GM	Wesley So	PHI	2668	1993
GM	Luke McShane	ENG	2657	1984
GM	Surya Ganguly	IND	2650	1983
GM	Li Chao	CHN	2633	1983
GM	Jon Ludvig Hammer	NOR	2633	1990
GM	Vlad Tkachiev	FRA	2632	1973
GM	Friso Nijboer	NED	2582	1965
GM	Wouter Spoelman	NED	2538	1990

Tata Steel Chess GMC Wijk aan Zee (NED), 14-30 i 2011
Ti	Name	FED	EloSep	DoB
GM	Murtas Kazhgaleyev	KAZ	2620	1973
GM	Ivan Ivanisevic	SRB	2613	1977
GM	Mark Bluvshtein	CAN	2583	1988
GM	Daniele Vocaturo	ITA	2581	1989
GM	Katherina Lahno	UKR	2539	1989
IM	Ilya Nyzhnyk	UKR	2538	1996
IM	Benjamin Bok	NED	2453	1995
IM	Jan Willem de Jong	NED	2444	1981
IM	Mark van der Werf	NED	2432	1968
IM	Robin van Kampen	NED	2430	1994
GM	Sebastian Siebrecht	GER	2421	1973
IM	Tania Sachdev	IND	2382	1986
	Cultural Village Qualifier
	Cultural Village Qualifier

European Chess Championship in Rapid and Blitz

European Chess Championship in Rapid and Blitz, Warsaw, 17-19.12.2010.

The Amplico Life International Chess Tournaments: European Blitz Chess Championship and European Rapid Chess Championship. This yearly event is the biggest tournament in Poland and one of the biggest in whole Europe. In previous year 697 players competed in one Swiss Tournament with Gashimov, Ivanchuk and Shirov as a top seed. In this year, for the first time in history, this tournament will also consist of European Blitz Chess Championship with the prize fund 10,000 Euro (another 20,000 Euro is for rapid tournament). Since now already many strong players have confirmed their participation in the event: Ivanchuk, Shirov, Movsesian, Wojtaszek, but surely more strong players will take part in this splendid event.

Official website: http://www.poloniachess.pl/amplico2010/en/

70th Italian Championship

The 70th Italian Championship takes place 23rd November - 4th December 2010. The tournament will consist of 12 players in a round robin at the 4 star Hotel Athena in Siena. Games will be played on DGT boards, and viewable live at the Italian Chess Federation's web site. The players are: GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Michele Godena, GM Sabino Brunello, GM Lexy Ortega, GM Carlos Garcia Palermo, IM Denis Rombaldoni, IM Carlo D'Amore, IM Daniyyl Dvirnyy, IM Axel Rombaldoni, IM Daniele Genocchio, IM Pierluigi Piscopo, and FM Alessandro Bonafede.

Official federation site: http://www.federscacchi.it/

Schachbundesliga 2010-11

The Schachbundesliga takes place 9th October 2010 - 10th April 2011.

Official site: http://www.schachbundesliga.de/

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr38597.aspx

London Chess Classic 2010

Viswanathan Anand will become the first reigning world chess champion to play in a major tournament in London since Anatoly Karpov in 1984 when he joins the eight-player field for the second London Chess Classic, which runs from 8-15 December 2010 at the Olympia Conference Centre.

Alongside him will be World Number one Magnus Carlsen, former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, US number one Hikaru Nakamura and the top four English players Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Luke McShane and David Howell.

Name	Title	Country	Rating (May 2010)	World Rnk May	Date of Birth
Carlsen, Magnus	grandmaster	NOR	2813	1	30.11.1990
Kramnik, Vladimir	ex-world champion	RUS	2790	3	25.06.1975
Anand, Viswanathan	world champion	IND	2789	4	11.12.1969
Nakamura, Hikaru	grandmaster	USA	2733	19	09.12.1987
Adams, Michael	grandmaster	ENG	2697	41	17.11.1971
Short, Nigel	grandmaster	ENG	2685	48	01.06.1965
McShane, Luke	grandmaster	ENG	2623	138	07.01.1984
Howell, David	grandmaster	ENG	2620	144	14.11.1990

For more information and to buy tickets to The London Chess Classic, please go to www.londonchessclassic.com Tickets will go on sale in July.

The London Chess Classic doesn't just feature the World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand and the World Number one Magnus Carlsen and a strong field of English and foreign stars. There are a large number of side events for amateur and professional alike. There are two simuls with chess legend Viktor Korchnoi, the very popular daily blitz tournaments, weekend and rapidplays. Finally, and definitely not least, there is the FIDE rated open which last year was won by Jon Ludvig Hammer with a first prize of £2500. This year you can play the full schedule 8th-15th December or the busy person's 11th-15th December.

The Entry form is now available.

DOWNLOAD PDF Entry form

See body of this article for links to tickets and downloads and a grid of the schedule of the events.

Swedish Elitserien

The Swedish Elitserien league takes place 8th October 2010 - 13th March 2011. I couldn't see any games so far.

Details: http://larsgrahn.blogspot.com/

Official site: http://www.schack.se/

Results: http://member.schack.se/ShowTournamentServlet?id=28

Results: http://www.sjakk.no/nsf/eliteserien_index.html

49th Danish League

The 49th Danish XtraCon Chess League takes place 6th November 2010 - 13th March 2011. I couldn't see any games so far.

Official site: http://www.divisionsskak.dk/holdarkiv/div1011/

Chinese Chess League Division A

The Youngor Chinese Chess League Division A takes place April 16th - December 30th 2010 in China. 10 teams compete in the Double Round-Robin event.

Time control: 1 hour 30 minutes for the whole game with an incremental time of 30 seconds per move.

Prize: 500,000 yuan or Euro 50,000.

The first 3 rounds took place in Ningbo city.

Official website : http://ccl.sports.cn/ - http://games.sports.cn/chessorg.ccl2010/index.html

The live games broadcast : http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

Archive of games should be here eventually: http://ccl.sports.cn/2010/news/2010-04-01/1995059.html

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr32818.aspx

Rounds 4-6 take place June 6th - June 9th 2010 in Shenzhen

Rounds 7-9 July 23rd - July 26th 2010 in Shanghai

Rounds 10-12 9th-11th Sept 2010 in Guangzhou

Rounds 13-15 in Oct. 10th-13th 2010

Round 16-18 in Dec. 28th-30th 2010 in Beijing.

Leading players: Wang Yue g CHN 2749; Wang Hao g CHN 2713; Alexander Motylev g RUS 2705; Bu Xiangzhi g CHN 2682; Zhou Jianchao g CHN 2650; Li Chao b g CHN 2613; Zhang Pengxiang g CHN 2605; Zhou Weiqi g CHN 2585; Peng Xiaominn g CHN 2581; Zhao Jun g CHN 2575; Yu Yangyi g CHN 2574; Hou Yifan g CHN 2570; Ding Liren g CHN 2564; Wen Yang g CHN 2520; Li Shilong g CHN 2514; Xu Jun g CHN 2513; Liang Chong g CHN 2502; Ju Wenjun wg CHN 2500; Xiu Deshun CHN 2493; Zhao Xue g CHN 2490; Ruan Lufei wg CHN 2479; Xu Yuhua g CHN 2478; Zhu Chen g QAT 2476; Tan Zhongyi wg CHN 2464; Wu Shaobin g SIN 2453; Lin Chen CHN 2448; Liu Qingnan m CHN 2445; Shen Yang wg CHN 2444; Huang Qian wg CHN 2439; Zhang Xiaowen wg CHN 2437; Le Thanh Tu wg VIE 2318

Gujuan Tzu Blog is http://blog.sina.com.cn/chessnews

6th TCh-CHN (CHN), 16 iv-30 xii 2010 Round 15 (of 18) Standings:
Rk.	SNo	Team	Games	+	=	-	TB1	TB2
1	1	SHANGDONG Linglong	15	13	1	1	27	49,5
2	8	BEIJING Aigo	15	9	2	4	20	47,5
3	2	ZHEJIANG	15	9	2	4	20	44,0
4	5	SHANGHAI Jianqiao	15	8	3	4	19	41,5
5	10	Lanpo JIANGSU	15	6	5	4	17	39,5
6	7	China Mobile CHONGQING	15	6	4	5	16	42,5
7	9	HEBEI	15	7	0	8	14	34,0
8	4	TIANJIN Nan Kai	15	4	2	9	10	31,0
9	6	GUANGDONG Huateng	15	3	0	12	6	26,5
10	3	BEIJING Rendafuzhong	15	0	1	14	1	19,0

4NCL

The 4NCL takes place 6th November 2010 - 2nd May 2011.

Official site: http://www.4ncl.co.uk/

Vasylyshyn Memorial

The Vasylyshyn Memorial Chess Festival takes place in Lviv, Ukraine November 23rd - December 1st 2010. Men's and women's events.

For more details: http://www.grandcoach.com/en/students/11/blog/31/

Men's event tournament director GM Yuri Vovk (English, Ukrainian, Russian languages ) via: e-mail:wolfisthegreatestpredator@gmail.com mobile phone:+380 673912027 skype:Imperator15chess ICC: Imperator15 Playchess: JohnConnor

Women's tournament director IM Vladimir Grabinsky (English, Ukrainian, Russian languages) via: e-mail:perfectchess@ukr.net mobile phone:+380 977471673 skype: perfectchess ICC: grandcoach

Final list of players in the GM event so far: GM round robin: Oleksienko, Mikhailo g UKR 2559; Vysochin Spartak g UKR 2550; Vovk, Andrey g UKR 2540; Fedoseev Vladimir m RUS 2477;Petr, Martin m CZE 2468; Smith, Axel m SWE 2445; Bernadskiy, Vitaliy m UKR 2430; Semcesen Daniel m SWE 2416; Grabliauskas, Virginijus m LTU 2404; Polivanov Anatoliy m UKR 2388.

List of players in the IM event so far (9 of 10 players): Grekh, Andrey m UKR 2373; Nester, Ihor m UKR 2340; Duzhakov, Ilya f RUS 2336; Tsyhanchuk, Stanislav f BLR 2328; Orzechowski, Jacek POL 2283; Vovk, Ilja f EST 2267; Vetoshko, Volodymyr UKR 2211; Terletsky, Oleg UKR 2170; Leinov, Roman BLR 2162;

List of players in the WGM event so far (7 of 10 players): Hryhorenko, Nataliya wm UKR 2344; Soloviova, Liza wg UKR 2315; Matseyko, Katerina wg UKR 2243; Chulivska, Vita wm UKR 2215; Gasik, Anna wf POL 2203; Cherednichenko, Elena wf UKR 2147; Chlost, Marlena wf POL 2146;

Chigorin Memorial

The Chigorin Memorial takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, October 26th to November 5th 2010 and will consist of a rapid and a classic tournament. Details and regulations at: http://www.totalchess.spb.ru/

53rd Reggio Emilia 2010

The 53rd "Torneo di Capodanno", takes place December 28th 2010 - January 6th 2011. Venue hotel Astoria Mercure in Reggio Emilia. Games start at 2.30 pm. Free day: Jan 01, 2011 - Press conference December 28th, morning.

53rd Reggio Emilia Tournament (ITA), 28 xii 2010 - 6 i 2011		cat. XVIII (2696)
Name	NAT	Sept Elo
Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2754
Movsesian, Sergei	SLO	2723
Navara, David	CZE	2722
Gashimov, Vugar	AZE	2719
Morozevich, Alexander	RUS	2715
Caruana, Fabiano	ITA	2702
Vallejo Pons, Francisco	SPA	2697
Short, Nigel	ENG	2690
Onischuk, Alexander	USA	2688
Godena, Michele	ITA	2548

Bansko Grand Chess Open

The Bansko Grand Chess Open 12th-19th December 2010, Bansko - Bulgaria.

Details: http://www.bansko.chessdom.com

Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2011

The 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival takes place at the Caleta Hotel, Gibraltar, from Monday 24 January to Thursday 3 February 2011. The new primary sponsors, Tradewise Insurance Company Ltd, have enabled the prize fund to be increased to £126,000, with £17,500 going to the winner of the Gibraltar Masters, £10,000 to the top woman scorer and two extra rating prizes (of £2,000 and £1,000) being awarded to each of two further rating bands (2000-2099 and under 2000) in the Masters. The tournament will be powered by previous primary sponsors Gibtelecom.

Official site: http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com

Gibraltar Masters

Official site: http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/

X Benidorm Chess Festival 2010

The X Benidorm Chess Festival takes place 3rd-12th December 2010.

Official site: http://www.ajedrezenelbali.com

XL Rilton Cup 2010-11

The XL Rilton Cup takes place in Stockholm, Sweden 27th December 2010 - 5th January 2211.

Details: http://www.rilton.se

PDF Invitation: http://www.rilton.se/1011/inbjudan_eng/XL_RILTON_CUP_eng.pdf

4th Rijeka open chess tournament "Mediterranean 2017"

The 4th Rijeka open chess tournament "Mediterranean 2017" takes place 13th-20th November 2010 in the city of Rijeka, located at the North-west part of the Croatian coast of the Adriatic sea.

The president of the Republic of Croatia, Ivo Josipovic, has accepted to be a sponsor of this chess event while the County primorsko-goranska and the City of Rijeka are the co-sponsors.

Details: http://www.mediteran2017.com/en/home/About_the_tournament/Application

IX Festival Internacional de Ajedrez Benidorm 2010

The IX Festival Internacional de Ajedrez Benidorm 2010 takes place 3rd-12th December 2010.

Further details: http://www.ajedrezenelbali.com

Entries: info@ajedrezenelbali.com

Information: festivaldebenidorm@gmail.com

Mobile: 0034-615547567

European Individual Senior Championship 2011

The European Individual Senior Championship 2011 has been awarded by the ECU to Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy 10th-20th April 2010.

Official site: http://www.scacchivda.com

Chinese Events 2010

Gujuan Tzu sends new of events in China in 2010. At the moment if you don't grab the games live they have a tendency to disappear (although http://ccl.sports.cn/2010/news/2010-04-01/1995059.html does now seem to have the early rounds of the Chinese League). It would be nice to find one spot where the Chinese Federation archives all their games.

1. The 2nd Chess King and Queen Matches in 29 August-3 Sept. 2010 in Jiangzhou, China. Live games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

2. Chinese League A Round 10-12 in 9-12 Sept. 2010 in Guangzhou, China. Live Games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

3. Chinese League A Round 13-15 in 10-13 October 2010 in Hangzhou, China. Live Games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

4. The 3rd Nanjing Super Chess Tournament in 18-28 October 2010 in Nanjing, China. 6 players, Official site: http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/www/chess_pk/2009/cn/index.htm

5. The second half of Bilbao Final Masters in 10-16 October 2010 in Shanghai, China. Official site: http://www.bilbaofinalmasters.com/

6. Chinese League A Round 16-18 in 28-30 December 2010 in Beijing, China. Live Games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

Gujuan Tzu Website: http://blog.sina.com.cn/chessnews

World Chess Tour Events

Tournaments, simuls and classes in Moscow.

Contact: Contact: Igor Glek, International Grandmaster, FIDE Trainer, Deputy Chairman of the RSUPES&T Chess Chair E-mail: worldchesstour@gmail.com Russia: (7)903-5593052, (Germany/World): (49)152-04014194

Web-site: http://www.chess-events.org

Swiss Team Championships 2010

The Nationalliga A of Switzerland takes place 14th February - 7th November 2010. Round 2 games not yet available.

Dates: Round 1 (2010.02.14), Round 2 (2010.03.21), Round 3 (2010.04.25), Round 4 (2010.06.13), Round 5 (2010.06.27), Round 6 (2010.08.28), Round 7 (2010.08.29), Round 8 (2010.11.06) and Round 9 (2010.11.07).

Details

TCh-SUI NatLigaA Switzerland (SUI), 14 ii-7 xi 2010
Round 2 21st March 2010
Tribschen 1	-	Wollishofen 1	2	:	6
Reichenstein 1	-	Bern 1	5½	:	2½
Zuerich 1	-	Geneve 1	6	:	2
Luzern 1	-	Riehen 1	5	:	3
Joueur 1	-	Winterthur 1	5½	:	2½

Czech Tour 2010-11

The 10th International Chess Festivals Series Czech Tour 2010-11 has the following preliminary list. (Subject to small changes.)

11th Liberec Open (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 23rd-30th October 2010.

1st BRNO OPEN (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 14th-20th November 2010

4th SOUTH BOHEMIA OPEN - Cesky Krumlov (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 21st-27th November 2010.

Czech Chess Christmas 2010 Litomysl (CZE) 26.12.2010-2.1.2011

12th christmas chess FIDE tournament, swiss system of 9 round, rate of game 2 x 1,5h + 30s/move, prize fund 33.000 CZK (1st prize 10.000 CZK = 400 EUR), special conditions for IM, WGM and GM, New Year's Eve programme.

Children's Chess Christmas 2010 Litomysl (CZE) 28.-30.12.2010 1st international chess tournament of youth under 12, categories U10 and U12, swiss system of 9 rounds, rate of game 2 x 1 h.

Contact: Proclient s.r.o., Jaroslav Fuksik, Svedska 3, 772 00 Olomouc, mobile: +420 608 364 664, e-mail: a64@proclient.cz, web: http://www.a64.cz/tournaments/litomysl2010/

2nd PILSNER OPEN (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament).4th-11th December 2010.

10th PRAGUE OPEN (2 FIDE opens, one of them with IM norm, active chess, blitz tournament). 7th-14th January 2011.

10th MARIENBAD OPEN (FIDE open, closed GM and IM tournaments, active chess, blitz tournament). 15th-22nd January 2011.

2nd NOVY BOR OPEN (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 12th-19th February 2011.

More detailed information: AVE-KONTAKT s.r.o., Sukova 1556, 530 02 Pardubice, Czech Republic tel./fax + 420 466 535 200, mobile phone + 420 608 203 007 e-mail: j.mazuch@avekont.cz

http://www.czechtour.net

Historical Elo Ratings

http://www.shakki.net/history/elotop.htm has a list of historical top ten FIDE lists. The text is in Finnish but is understandable anyhow.