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| Maine Chess Association president Phil Lowell knotched his second tournament victory of the year (his first being at the ChessMaine.net Championship) with a perfect score of 4.0 at the Eastern Maine Open played on Saturday, September 29, 2007 at the University of Maine, Orono. Lowell was followed by Ruben Babayan with 3.5 and Lucan McCain and Fritz Eyerer each with 3.0. Here's the big illustrated report with USCF crosstables. |  |
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With a final round draw vs. Peter Leko, Vishy Anand has clinched the world championship title. Undefeated in this fourteen round tournament, Anand turned in a performance rating of 2848 to take his place amongst the lineage of world chess champions beginning with Wilhelm Steinitz in 1886. Congratulations Vishy! Kramnik fought back in the last round to beat Aronian and tie for second place with Boris Gelfand who drew with Morozevitch. |
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| Kramnik and Gelfand played to a draw and with that Kramnik has lost the title of world champion. Leko playing the white pieces beat Morozevich. Grischuk - Anand turned out to be the game of the day, it was a long and interesting struggle that, at points, Anand was in jeopardy of losing. He fought gallantly and maintained the draw. With only one round to go there is one configuration in which Anand would tie for the title and not win it outright. Anand would need to lose to Leko and Gelfand would have to beat Morozevich. This scenario highly unlikely as Anand - Leko will undoubtedly be a quick draw. |  |
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There were three decisive games this round: Morozevich, Kramnik and Gelfand all won while Svidler and Anand agreed to a twenty-two move draw. With two rounds to go this tournament is getting very interesting and it's by no means over. Gelfand - Kramnik will be a key match up in Friday's round thirteen. |
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| Viswanathan Anand playing the white pieces against Alexander Morozevich saw his opportunity and seized it. With his fifty-six move victory, Anand pulls ahead of Gelfand (who is still clinging to second place) by one and a half points. With three rounds to go Anand will be very difficult to catch. All other games this round were drawn including Kramnik's peaceful thirteen move outing vs. Grischuk. Here's the big illustrated report. |  |
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With all the action at the World Championship in Mexico City, let's not forget about local chess in Maine. The Eastern Maine Open is coming up on Saturday, September 29th. This four round, G/60 event will be played at the University of Maine, Orono and will have prizes for sections from Open down to Class G. Here are all the specifics. |
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| The Kramnik - Anand game was a tense Semi-Slav with chances for both sides. In the end it was a forty-one move draw which kept the Indian Super GM in the lead by one point. Gelfand remains in second followed by Kramnik, Leko and Aronian who beat Grischuk to move within striking distance. |  |
Continue reading "Mexico City Round 10: Kramnik - Anand draw; Aronian wins" »
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And what a round it was! Morozevich took down Kramnik in a very beautiful game and Grischuk ground down Gelfand. The real winner however was Anand who quickly drew his game with Aronian and then sat back to watch his two closest rivals both loose to give him a full point lead. Monday's critical matchup is Kramnik with white vs. Anand. If Kramnik wins, the tournament is thrown wide open. |
Continue reading "Mexico City Round 9: Morozevich and Grischuk topple Anand's closest rivals" »
| Peter Leko posted his first full point of this tournament with a win over Alexander Grischuk to move up to forth place in the standings. The current leaders, Anand and Gelfand, played to a draw which allowed Anand to maintain his half-point lead. Games and images from round eight and the second half schedule. |  |
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With a win over Morozevich, the world's number one rated player Viswanathan Anand has taken sole possession of first place as we approach the half way point in the world championship tournament. The darkhorse Boris Gelfand got a draw with current world champion Vladimir Kramnik to hold his position in second. Round eight will be played on Friday then players will have Saturday off to regroup and prepare for the second half and six more rounds of top-level chess. |
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