Germany Won The Gold Medal -Open Section- And Russia Won -The Women's Section- At The European Team Chess Championship 2011 In Greece

The German chess national team (with an average rating 2666 Elo) made a huge surprise by winning the European Team Chess Championship (ETCC) -Open Section- after beating the very strong Armeninan chess team in the last round (2.5-1.5) .The German champions are : GM.Arkadij Naiditsch (2712 Elo) ,GM.Georg Meier (2659 Elo) ,GM\Daniel Fridman (2661 Elo) ,GM.Jan Gustafasson (2633 Elo) and GM.Rainer Buhmann (2612 Elo) .

The Russian Women Chess team dominated the field from the start and desrvely won the gold medal .The Russian champions are : GM.Nadezhda Kosintseva (2546 Elo) ,GM.Tatiana Kosintseva (2526 Elo) ,IM.Valentina Guinena (2514 Elo) ,GM.Alexandra Kosteniuk (2439 Elo) and WGM.Natalija Pogonina (2451 Elo).
The tournament that took place from 3rd – 11th of November was a 9 round swiss event  with one open section and another section for the women’s teams. The time control was 90 min for 40 moves + 30 min for the rest of the game + 30 sec increment for every move played starting from the first move.The games were played in the Olympic Hall Congress Center  within the five-star Porto Carras Grand Resort, which is located in Halkidiki, Greece .
The organizers are : European Chess Union ,Porto Carras SA ;the Tournament Director : IA.Sotiris Logothetis and the Chief Arbiter is : IA.Panagiotis Nikolopoulos .
For more information : http://euro2011.chessdom.com/ and http://chess-results.com/tnr57856.aspx?art=0&lan=1&turdet=YES&flag=NO and http://chess-results.com/tnr57855.aspx?art=0&lan=1&turdet=YES&flag=NO

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 Chess Genius GM\Gata Kamsky Masterpiece !

Gata Kamsky was born June 2nd, 1974 in Siberia. After beginning his chess career in Russia, winning two USSR Junior Championships, Kamsky relocated to the United States in 1989. In July 1990 he became the youngest player ever to be rated in FIDE's world top ten. After a short while spent adjusting to this level of opposition, Kamsky scored some major tournament triumphs, including the U.S. Championship of 1991, clear first at Las Palmas 1994, and shared first in 1995 at Dos Hermanas. In 2010 he won the U.S. Championship once again...(http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=15874)
In the above diagram GM\Gata Kamsky finished the game in 7 moves ...Could you figure it out ?
Source of the photo:https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsucntLj93eNOBLwOxoo4OsBEEBGy0kcN8Aer8b1RjbCdHpSS85jwUy47Xx9-fUia5K4kmYg_5P6awQ-VFAM-f-grpvXd2o6we5BrHCW7ILAiSIc-ymsRTMkaYp8T9OGKwhjs-q1F8OmMH/s320/kamsky.jpg
Diagram created by Chessup.net
(http://tinyurl.com/33qod7c)