SM Marilao : 2011 Bulacan Rapid Chess Festival

Sixth FIDE Women Grand Prix Round 2: Dzagnidze,Danielian shares lead

Nana Dzagnidze of Georgia defeated IM Bathkhuyag Munguntuul of Mongolia in 51 moves of an English Opening to gain a share of the lead with GM Elina Danielian of Armenia who beat Maia Chiburdanidze in 74 moves of a Queens Indian Defense.

Sixth FIDE Women Grand Prix Round 1: Upset,upset,upset!

2011 Poland ChessChampionship:Back to back title for Matheusz Bartel!

Defending champion GM Matheusz Bartel  finished with five victories, four draws and no loss to win  the 2011 Poland Chess Championship held February 12-20,2011 at the Hotel Novotel in Warsaw.Bartel finished one point ahead of Pawel Jaracz and top seed Radoslaw Wojtaszek both with 6.0 points.

Aeroflot World Blitz Championship Qualifying : 5 th place finished for Wesley So!! Mamedyarov clinch title .

Wesley So of the Philippines score a total of 13 points out of 18 on six wins 3 draws and no loss to finished a strong fifth at the end of the World Blitz Chess Qualifying Tournament held February 17 at complex "Izmailovo".  So defeated 2011 Aeroflot champion GM Le Quang Liem 1.5: 0.5; GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (2733) of Russia 1.5 : 0.5 ;

Aeroflot 2011 Final Standings: Back to back title for Le Quang Liem !; Philippine's Darwin Laylo 2nd over-all in Group "B"

 Philippines IM Richard Bitoon; IM Oliver Dimakiling and GM Darwin Laylo, GM Laylo increased his Fide rating by 20 points with a 7/9 performance .Laylo finished 2nd over all.IM Richard Bitoon scored a respectable 5.5/9 to finished in 25th place. Its a 50% performance for IM Oliver Dimakiling as he finished with 4.5 points for 52nd place.


It's back to back title for Le Quang Liem of Vietnam as co-leader Ivan Cheparinov

Aeroflot Round 8: Cheperinov outplayed Le Quang Liem; join his victim for the lead!

Ivan Cheperinov of Bulgaria ended Le Quang Liem unbeaten record,winning a turbulent Classical Kings Indian in 45 moves. Le Quang Liem playing aggressively open up his king side playing g4 on the 11th move, Le was already quality up on the 23rd moves and poised for another win ,until Cheperinov launch a counter attack on the king side.The hard earned triumphed by Cheperinov vaulted him into the lead

2011 Aeroflot "A" Round 7 : Le Quang Liem now full point ahead!

Vietnam's Le Quang Liem defeated Mikhail Kobalia of Russia in only 28 moves of an English Opening,Four Knights variation to pad his lead to one point as his nearest pursuer content themselves to a draw.The Zhou Jianchao-Dmitry Jakovenko; Vachier-Lagrave vs Chanda Sandipan; Evgeny Tomashevsky vs Denis Khismatullin

Aeroflot Round 6 : GM So withdrawing from the tournament ? Four shares Group "B" lead.

GM Wesley So is not playing in the 7th round of the Aeroflot group"A", So was held to another draw in the 6th round this time against FM Roman Necheporenko of Russia, So is now in 54th to 69 th place with only 2.5 points or   a minus 14 FIDE rating points performance. In Group "B',

604 Boards World Record Simultaneous Chess Exhibition by GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami

GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami of Iran set a new world record of 604 boards for Simultaneous Chess Exhibition by an Individual. The exhibition took 25 hours from 8th to 9th February 2011 at the sports stadium of the Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran,Iran.