Asian Chess Federation president Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifah Al Nahyan delivering his speech at the opening ceremonies. Honored guests, tournament participants, Ladies and Gentlemen. On behalf of the Asian Chess Federation I welcome all teams to Zao Zhuang for the Asian Nations Cup Chess Team Championship. We are pleased to have with us many of the strongest countries in Asia including defending champion India led by newly titled Asian Champion Parimarjan Negi. We have highly rated grandmasters in the teams of Kazakhstan,...
World champion Viswanathan Anand remained rock solid with the black pieces to draw game four against challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel at Moscow on May 15. The score is tied at 2-2 after four games with eight games still to go. So far there has not been much for the spectator say most of the commentators. Match games three and four were slightly better than the other draws fought in the series so far. Interest can bubble in the match when there is a decisive game. Like in the previous game, white had a central extra pawn but Anand as black captured it and defended a rook and...
Asian Chess Federation president Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifah Al Nahyan awarding medals. GM Wesley So of the Philippines won the Asian Individual Blitz Championshp alone with 7.5 points followed by silver medalist IM Nguyen Van Huy of Vietnam and GM Ding Liren of China for bronze with 7 points each. GM Zhao Xue, Wang Jue and WGM Tan Zhongyi, all of China, won gold, silver and bronze medals in the Asian Women’s blitz with 7 points each. In photo, Asian Chess Federation president Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifah Al Nahyan awards the gold medal to WGM Irene Sukandar of Indonesia,...
World champion Viswanathan Anand made a better impression in game three but it still wasn’t enough to win the third match game against Boris Gelfand of Israel in Moscow on May 14, 2012. They drew after 37 moves. The score is level at 1.5-1.5 after three games. Nine games remain to be played. The winner get one and a half million and the loser one million dollars. Anand opened with the queen pawn and faced the same Grunfeld defence from Gelfand as in game one. On move three, Anand chose 3.f3, a side variation opted first in the Kramnik v Shirov, WCC Match at Cazorla 1998. One...
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World champion Viswanathan Anand remained rock solid with the black pieces to draw game four against challenger Boris...
Asian Chess Federation president Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifah Al Nahyan awarding medals. GM Wesley So of the Philippines...
World champion Viswanathan Anand made a better impression in game three but it still wasn’t enough to win the...
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GM Negi Parimarjan of India beat GM Oliver Barbosa of the Philippines in 41 moves of a Caro Kann defense to get closer...
World champion Viswanathan Anand drew the second game with the black pieces after 25 moves in Moscow on May 12. The...
