FIDE Grand Prix 2012 – Tashkent (Uzbekistan) – Round 3

So far Morozevich is a sole leader with 2 out of 2.

The pairings are:

Gelfand-Morozevich 1/2

Karjakin-Wang Hao 1/2

Mamedyarov-Svidler 1-0

Ponomariov-Leko 1/2

Dominguez-Kasimdzhanov 1/2

Caruana-Kamsky 1-0

Khanty Mansiysk Round 5/game 2

Photos of the remaining players

Today we have the 2nd game and the pairs are:

Harika-Stefanova (Stefanova leads 1-0, so Harika has to win by force in order to get to tie-breaks) – the game ended in a draw, so Stefanova is in the final.

Ju Wenjun-Ushenina (1/2 in the first round, so all is possible :)) 1/2 again, proceeding to tie-breaks tomorrow.

Watch live games on http://chess2012.ugrasport.com/houdini.html and on Playchess.

Using the Rook on the 7th to chase the King

While looking at various games you often remember similar ideas you have seen sometimes years ago. Exactly this happened to me some days ago while going over the game Luther-Ftacnik, Germany 2007!

Which game came to my mind once I saw Rxf7 followed by Rxg7? The first game from my first book!

Today my mum discovered one more such idea:

Looks like it is not so rare after all 😀

FIDE Grand Prix 2012 – Tashkent (Uzbekistan) – Round 2

After the 1st round we have 2 leaders – Morozevich and Karjakin.

Today’s pairings:

Kamsky-Karjakin 1/2
Wang Hao-Dominguez Perez 1/2
Kasimdzhanov-Ponomariov 1/2
Leko-Mamedyarov 1/2
Svidler-Gelfand 1/2
Morozevich-Caruana 1-0

Morozevich is the sole leader with 2 out of 2 so far.

The 2nd round games

Watch games live on http://tashkent2012.fide.com/en/component/content/article/40-static-content/133-live-games and on Playchess.

Khanty Mansiysk Round 5/game 1

Today the semi-final starts! The pairings are:

Stefanova-Harika 1-0

Ushenina-Ju Wenjun – 1/2

You can watch the games live on http://chess2012.ugrasport.com/houdini.html and on Playchess.

To view the photo gallery of the event click here.