IM\Vladimir Okhotnik (2427 Elo) And WIM\Galina Strutinskaya (2277 Elo) Are The New World Senior Champions

IM\Vladimir Okhotnik (2427 Elo) From France and WIM\Galina Strutinskaya (2277 Elo) From Russia deservedly won the 21st Individual World Senior Chess Championships that took place in Optija ;Croatia from 14-27 November .IM\Okhotnik scored 9 points out of 11 games with a performance of (2612 Elo) and was officially awarded the grandmaster title , GM\Davorin Komljenovic (2451 Elo) from Croatia came second with (8.5 points) while GM\Gennadij Timoscenko from Slovakia came third with (8.5 points) .
WIM\Galina Strutinskayan scored 8.5 points out of 11 games with a performance of (2375 Elo) ,WFM\Nino Melashvili (2106 Elo) from Geogia scored 8 points and came second while WGM\Ludmila Saunina (2274 Elo) from Russia came third with 8 points .
IM\Aly Yasseen (2342 Elo) represented Egypt and Africa in the tournament and scored 6.5 points and came in the 50th place among 201 players from 49 countries .
For more information : http://www.rijekachess.com/ and http://www.chess-results.com/tnr51860.aspx?art=0&lan=1&fedb=SVK&fed=SVK&flag=30

A Tribute To The Legendary US President John Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)

JFK, Jackie, and the Connallys in the presidential limousine seconds before the assassination

In just a few seconds America died .
For more information : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy#Assassination
Source of the photo : http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MC5.jpg

Women's World Chess Champion GM\Hou Yifan Deservedly Retained Her Title

Women's World Chess Champion the Chinese GM\Hou Yifan (2578 Elo) deservedly retained her title after drawing the eight's game -with the black pieces- against her Indian rival GM\Humpy Koneru (2600 Elo) to reach the score (5.5:2.5) .The match took place in the Tirana International hotel (Albania) from (14-30) November .The time control was 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.The prize fund for the match was 200,000 Euros (120,000 Euros for the winner).The chief arbiter was I.A Panagiotis NIkolopoulos and I.A Carol Jarecki - Deputy Chief Arbiter ,the members of the Appeals Committee were : Mr.Yorgos Makropoulos - Chairman ,Mr. Ali Nihat Yazici  ,IM\Beatriz Marinello .WGM\Anastasiya Karlovich -press officer-.

For more information : http://www.wwcc2011tirana.com/ 

Women's World Chess Championship 2011 In Tirana :After Round (3) GM.Hou Yifan Takes The Lead

Women's World Chess Champion GM\Hou Yifan (2578 Elo) won an important game with the black pieces against her Indian rival GM\Humpy Koneru (2600 Elo) .The game was a Queen's Gambit Declined (Ragozin Variation -D38) where the game entered into a very tense and sharp struggle ;the Chinese GM took the a-pawn on move 18 but allowed the White rook to invade on the f6 square GM.Yifan played very precisely on the queen-side and the center although she overlooked a simple win on move 25 with Rd8 ! GM.Humpy was very short in time during the game ;for instance she had to play 12 moves in one minute ,and she was unable to stop black's 2 connected  central passe pawns which proved to be decisive .

For more information :  http://www.wwcc2011tirana.com/ 
Source of the photos : http://www.wwcc2011tirana.com/ftp_gallery/wwcc2011Round%201/#18

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

A Tribute To " The Father Of The Russian School Of Chess " The Legendary Mikhail Chigorin

Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin also (Tchigorin; Russian: Михаил Чигорин) (12 November 1850 (31 October old style), Gatchina – 25 January 1908, Lublin) was a leading Russian chess player. The last great player of the Romantic chess style, he also served as a major source of inspiration for the "Soviet school of chess", which dominated the chess world in the middle and latter parts of the 20th century.Chigorin was born near St. Petersburg and moved to the city some time later. His father worked in the Okhtensk gunpowder works. Chigorin's parents died young and Chigorin entered the Gatchinsk Orphans' Institute at the age of 10. He became serious about chess uncommonly late in life; his schoolteacher taught him the moves at the age of 16, but he did not take to the game until around 1874, having first finished his studies before commencing a career as a government officer.

Once smitten with the game, he terminated his employment and started life as a chess professional. In 1876, he started a chess magazine,Chess Sheet, which he edited until 1881 (only 250 subscribers in all of Russia). He played a series of matches with established masters Emanuel Schiffers (1878–1880) and Semyon Alapin (1880) and notched up a large plus score against each. It was not long after that he was regarded as the best player in the city and possibly the whole of Russia.

His first international tournament was Berlin 1881, where he was equal third (+10-5=1) with Szymon Winawer, behind Johannes Zukertort and Joseph Henry Blackburne. There were 17 master competitors in this event.

At the great London tournament of 1883, he finished fourth (+16-10=0) behind Zukertort, Wilhelm Steinitz and Blackburne. There were 14 competitors in this double round robin event. The tournament included practically all the best chessplayers in the world.

At the very strong tournament of New York 1889 he was equal first with Max Weiss. Following this great success he challenged the world champion Steinitz for a match with the World Championship at stake.

The match was played at Havana in 1889, but he lost 10½–6½ (+6-10=1). A second match was played also at Havana in 1892, but he still lost 12½–10½ (+8-10=5). His overall record against Steinitz was very close (+24-27=8). He also played a much publicised 'telegraph match' against Steinitz in 1890, devised to settle a theoretical argument. Chigorin had the slight advantage of choosing the openings in advance from a list supplied by Steinitz and duly won both games...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Chigorin)

Source of the photo : http://www.chessville.com/images/people/chigorin_pic.gif

A Tribute To The Legendary First British Grandmaster\Tony Miles

Anthony John Miles (born 23 April 1955 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England; died 12 November 2001 in Harborne, Birmingham) was an English chess Grandmaster.Miles was born in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham. He learned the game of chess early in life and made good progress nationally, taking the titles of British under-14 Champion and under-21 Champion in 1968 and 1971, respectively.

In 1973, Miles won the silver medal at the World Junior Chess Championship at Teesside, his first important event against international competition. Both he and compatriot Michael Stean defeated the tournament winner Alexander Beliavsky, but were unable to match the Soviet player's ruthlessness in dispatching lesser opponents. Miles went on to win this prestigious title the following year in Manila, while an undergraduate of the University of Sheffield.
Taking the decision to pursue the game professionally, Miles did not complete his studies, but in 1975, was awarded an MA by the University for his chess achievements.In 1976, Miles became the first UK-born, 'over-the-board' chess Grandmaster, narrowly beating Raymond Keene to the accolade.Miles had meanwhile matured into a world class player and he won games against high calibre opponents, such as former World Chess Champions Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, and Boris Spassky.

In 1980 at the European Team Championship in Skara, he beat reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov with black, using the extremely unorthodox opening 1. e4 a6!?, the St. George Defence. (It is often said that Miles learned this line from offbeat openings enthusiast Michael Basman, though in his book Play the St. George, Basman asserts there is no truth to this.) Miles beat Karpov again three years later in Bath in a game that was part of the BBC's Mastergame series, but it was only shown by the (co-producing) German television network, due to a BBC technicians' strike at the time of broadcast..(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Miles)

Source of the photo : http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/miles3.jpg
Source of the video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU_0sbG_Jbc by Sirb0b1

A Tribute To The "Magician From Riga" The Legendary Late World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Tal (Latvian: Mihails Tāls; Михаил Нехемьевич Таль, Michail Nechem'evič Tal, [mʲixʌˈiɫ nʲɪˈxɛmʲɪvʲit͡ɕ ˈtal]; sometimes transliterated Mihails Tals or Mihail Tal; November 9, 1936 – June 28, 1992) was a Soviet–Latvian chess player, a Grandmaster, and the eighth World Chess Champion.

He was often called "Misha", a diminutive for Mikhail, and "The magician from Riga" for his daring combinatorial style. Both The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games (Burgess, Nunn & Emms 2004) and Modern Chess Brilliancies (Evans 1970) include more games by Tal than any other player. Tal was also a highly-regarded chess writer; his professional career was that of a chess journalist.

The Mikhail Tal Memorial is held in Moscow each year since 2006 to honour his memory.

He holds the records for both the first and second longest unbeaten streaks in competitive chess history. Many authorities consider him to have been the greatest attacking Grandmaster of all time...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Tal)

Source of the photo : http://www.nesterovsky-bros.com/chess/content/binary/MTal.BMP

Source of the video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAdwQFhXa0 by LuxusOhr

GM\Sergei Tiviakov (2650 ELO) Deservedly Won Panama 1st Chess Open 2011

  

Dutch GM\Sergei Tiviakov deservedly won the first Panama Chess Open that took place from 3-7 November 2011 at the  Hall Portobello Atlapa Convention Center in Panama City . 132 players from many  countries (11 GMs,15 IMs ,11 FMs ,6 CMs ,5 WGMs ,7 WIMs ,1 WFM and 2 WCMs ) participated in the 9 round Swiss event . The time control was Fischer's (90 min and an increment of 30 sec from move 1 to the entire game . The first prize is 2000 $ while the second took 1300 $ and the third 1000 $. The Cuban GM\Walter Arencibia won the second place -by tiebreaks-after scoring 7 points while the Cuban     GM\Aramis Alfarez came third ,GM\Manuel Perez came 4th and the Egyptian rising star IM\Samy Shoker came fifth with 7 points

For more information :http://ajedrezpanama.net/joomla and http://chess-results.com/tnr58982.aspx?art=1&rd=9&lan=1&turdet=YES

IM\Aly Yasseen Will Represent Egypt And Africa In The 21st World Senior Chess Championship 2011 In Croatia

IM\Aly Yasseen will participate in the 21st World Senior Chess Championship that will take place in Opatija , Croatia from November 14 (arrival of the participants) until November 27,2011 (day of departure) .

The tournament is under the auspice of : Chess club "Rijeka", Blaza Polica 2, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia in agreement with Croatian Chess Federation, Trg Kresimira Cosica 11,  10000 Zagreb,the Mountain-litoral County, the City of Rijeka and the City of Opatija.

The 21st World senior chess championship for men and women is open to all players representing the FIDE Chess Federations, regardless of their title or rating, providing that the men are older than 60 and women 50 years of age .

241 players from 49 countries will participate in the tournament ;the Tournament director is Mr.Boris Golubovic ;Chief Arbiter is Mr.Vladimir Sakotic (IA) and the honorary president of the club Rijeka is Mr.Damir Vrhovnik . 

For more information : http://www.rijekachess.com/

and http://www.chess-results.com/tnr51860.aspx?lan=1&zeilen=99999

International Chess Player\Osama Zayan (2232 Elo) And FM\Moheb Ameir (2192 Elo) Won El Sharqia Second International Chess Tournament

International Chess Player\Osama Zayan (2232 Elo) And FM\Moheb Ameir (2192 Elo) -equally first-Won El Sharqia Second International Chess Tournament -by scoring 7.5 points- that took place from 22\10\2011 to 31\10\2011 at El Zagazig -which is a town in Lower Egypt Situated in the eastern part of the Nile delta, it is the capital of the governorate of Sharqia-in The Youth And Sports Club located inside El Zaqaziq stadium under the auspice of the Egyptian Chess Federation and El Sharqia and El Qanah Chess region .The main sponsor of the tournament was Teba Cola Company .The tournament director was Mr.Hamed Mansour ; the chief arbiter was I.A\Wagdy Soliman and I.A\Hassan Khaled was responsible for the pairing. 
The tournament attracted 109 players -3 IMs ; 4 FMs and 2 WFMs and 1 WCM-.IM\Abdul Hameed El Arousy (2310 Elo) came third with 7 points while IM\Mohsen Elgabry (2331) came 4th and A K Abdelrahman (2189 Elo)came fifth .
Congratulations to all !
For more information : http://chess-results.com/tnr58194.aspx?lan=1