The Candidates Semi Final Matches In Kazan "The 2 Gs Eliminate the 2 Ks ":GM\Grischuk Beats GM\Kramnik And GM\Gelfand Beats GM\Kamsky To Reach The Final

The FIDE Candidates matches are being held in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, From 3 to 27 May 2011with eight super GMs competing to qualify as Challenger for the 2012 World Champion match against GM\Vishi Anand for the world chess crown.The prize fund of the candidates is 500,000 Euros .

Scoreboard

Nat.

Rtg

G1

G2

G3

G4

R1

R2

R3

R4

Blitz

Tot.

Perf

Vladimir Kramnik

RUS

2785

½

½

½

½

½

½

½

½

0.5

4.5

Alexander Grischuk

RUS

2747

½

½

½

½

½

½

½

½

1.5

5.5

Nat.

Rtg

G1

G2

G3

G4

R1

R2

R3

R4

Blitz

Tot.

Perf

Boris Gelfand

ISR

2733

½

½

½

½

½

½

0

1

1.5

6.0

Gata Kamsky

USA

2732

½

½

½

½

½

½

1

0

0.5

4.0

Source : http://kazan2011.fide.com/

The Candidates Semi Final Matches In Kazan : GM\Kramnik X GM\Grischuk And GM\Gelfand X GM\Kamsky With The Same Result 2 Draws !

The FIDE Candidates matches are being held in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, From 3 to 27 May 2011with eight super GMs competing to qualify as Challenger for the 2012 World Champion match  against GM\Vishi Anand for the world chess crown.The prize fund of the candidates is 500,000 Euros .

SEMI-FINAL

	Nat.	Rtg	G1	G2	G3	G4	R1	R2	R3	R4	Tot.
Vladimir Kramnik	RUS	2785	½	½							1
Alexander Grischuk	RUS	2747	½	½							1

 

	Nat.	Rtg	G1	G2	G3	G4	R1	R2	R3	R4	Tot.
Boris Gelfand	ISR	2733	½	½							1
Gata Kamsky	USA	2732	½	½							1

 Source : http://kazan2011.fide.com/

The Clash Between 2 World Chess Champions :GM\Ponomariov Beats GM\Kramnik In Dortmund 2010

The above endgame resulted from a very exciting game and powerful play by GM\Ponomariov against GM\Kramnik in their encounter (round 2) in Sparkassen GM Tournament (Dortmund 2010).How should white proceed in the above diagram ?
Source of the event:http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/2010/
Source of the photo:http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/2010/fotos/runde-2.html by Georgios Souleidis
The diagram is created by :Chessup.net (http://tinyurl.com/34y4wcq)

The Celebration of The First Graduates Of SCCA (Beginner's Level)On 23rd Of March 2009

On the 23rd Of March 2009 a huge ceremony under the auspice of Engineer\Farag Amer Chairman Of Smouha Club and members of board was conducted to celebrate the graduates Of SCCA (The beginner's level) and SCCA students who achieved good results in the national youth 2009.

Mr.Ihab Hamido -Smouha Club General Director-and Engineer\Ahmed Hassan -Head of sport's committee- honored the ceremony and distributed the awards.

The ceremony began by listening to the Egyptian National Anthem followed by a few words of welcome by SCCA director and then introduced Mr.Ihab Hamido -Smouha Club General Director-who delivered a speech of welcome encourage to all the players and their families ;then the audience watched a short video clip about the world chess champions till 2000 and another clip from the 2008 world chess championship in Bonn between GM\Anand and GM\kramnik.
The photos show honoring Mark Medhat during the celebration.

The link for more photos is here:http://tinyurl.com/2ehfvrm