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Showing posts with label Fide Grand Prix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fide Grand Prix. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

In Tribute For The British Prodigy WFM\Jessie Gilbert (January 30, 1987 – July 26, 2006)


Jessica Gilbert had represented England in every major chess competition from the age of 12, and came to prominence when she won the Women’s World Amateur Chess Championship in 1999. She was mentioned in a parliamentary debate by the then sports minister, Tony Banks, who said: "We are extremely proud of what Jessie Gilbert has achieved for chess and for this country."She also gained the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title from the game's governing body, FIDE. In recognition of her achievement, the Brain Trust charity and Swedish health care company Bure provided Gilbert with a bursary of £4000 so that she could travel to America to study with grandmaster Edmar Mednis in New York .Gilbert had won a place at Oxford University to study medicine from September 2005, but decided to take a gap year in order to spend time focused solely on chess. In the space of only a few months in early 2006, Gilbert achieved three "norms" in major chess tournaments...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_GilbertAlso:http://www.jessiegilbert.com/
Source of the photo:http://www.chessbase.com/news/2006/gilbert01.jpg by (Pufichek)

Saturday, June 5, 2010

GM\Pavel Eljanov Convincingly Won The Sixth FIDE Grand Prix With A 2809 Performance !


Pavel Eljanov was born May 10th, 1983 in Kharkiv, USSR (now Ukraine) and was awarded the Grandmaster title in 2000. In 1999, Eljanov was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team, which won the U-16 Chess Olympiad in Artek, Ukraine ...(http://www.chessgames.com/player/pavel_eljanov.html)
GM\Pavel Eljanov won convincingly the 6th Fide Grand Prix which took place
from May 10th to 25th in the new State Drama Theatre of the city of Astrakhan ;Russia.
Now 7 players qualified for the candidates matches in
Azerbaijan :(1)GM\Levon Aronian Winner of the FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2010,(2)GM\Teimour RadjabovRunner-up of the FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2010 (3)GM\Boris Gelfand Winner of the Chess World Cup 2009 (4)GM\Vaselin Topalov Loser of the World Chess Championship 2010 match (5)GM\Gata Kamsky Loser of the 2009 Challenger Match (6) and (7)GM\Magnus Carlsen and GM\Vladimir Kramnik The next two highest rated players in the world (average of July 2009 and January 2010 ratings) (8)To be announced soon ( Tournament organisers' nominee must have Elo rating over 2700)
Source of the photo:http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/eljanov-wins-final-fide-gp-radjabov-qualifies-for-candidates/