Chess in World Cup 2010 Season

With World Cup 2010 hailed in South Africa, will it enough time for chess watching ? Sure it is, in fact the combo do nicely, sadly, the chess live perfectly fill for waiting time between World Cup match. On last night, North Korea finished the 90 minute with a face look like a person who just won the battle, though they are 1-2 against Brazil. Portugal score a 'spectacles' against Ivory Coast and New Zealand is perfect example chess player to never resign (early), having equalized against Slovekia 1-1. Tonight will be Spain versus Swiss, Honduras vs Chili and S.Africa looking for first win over Uruguay.

Meanwhile in the waiting time here recommended live chess :

45th Capablanca
Ivanchuk and Short are the only guy who has a win result. Ivanchuk now won three times and twice draw, he is on top with 4 point after 5 rounds. The event is double round robin of 6 players.

Dutch Championship
Funny game between Benjamin Bok - van Wely, Bok try a 13 repetition fold draw. A bit stubborn, van Wely reportedly not happy with this approach by the young player. See Chessvibes.

4th Bazna King
Magnus Carlsen play, Nisipeanu and Gelfand temporary on top standing. Radjabov and Wang Yue need to pay their minus point and Ponomariov still looking for decisive result. Chessdom annotated live games.

1st Danzhaou Tournament
Is in Danzhou City, Hainan province, China. All elites from China guys minus Wang Yue. Wang Hao is top seed , Hou Yifan still enjoying jump in all male species tournament.

Ruy Lopez Festival
And a rapid chess, nice to watch live, in Spain. Unique combo of 8 players, from 2700 elite Malakhov, Madame Pia Cramling, Peruvian Deysi Cori, Caruana and so on.

11th ASEAN Age Group - Dita Karenza and friends result

This year ASEAN+ Age group chess is ongoing. The Standard chess section already finished and I guess this are the most prestigious section to be mentioned. The ASEAN team included Indonesia, Phillipine, Vietnam, Singapore,Thailand and Malaysia, while a 'plus' indicated players from Australia, Iran and Russia also join in. Phillipine is the host and score many boys/girls on gold medal, Vietnam also dominated and Indonesia come third, all girl rulez!

Standard CHess 11th ASEAN+ Age group 2010

Open 20 - FM Ton That Nhu Tung (VIE)
Open 16 - Dang Hoang Son (VIE)
Open 14 - Literatus Austin Jacob (PHI)
Open 12 - Bersamina Paulo (PHI)
Open 8 - Nguyen Anh Khoi (VIE)
Open 10 - CM Tabatabei M Amin (IRI)
Open 50 - Ibanez Rudy (PHI)


Girls 20:
1st WIM Pham Bich Ngoc (VIE)
2nd WIM Hoang Thi Nhu Y (VIE)

3rd WIM Nguyen Thi Mai Hung (VIE)
4th WFM Medina Warda Aulia (INA)
6th WFM Liu Yang (SN)
10th WFM Dewi Aa Citra (INA)

Girls 16 - WCM Sihite Chelsie Monica (INA)
Girls 14 - Do Hoang Minh Tho (VIE)
Girls 12 - WCM Anastasia Patrics (INA)
Girls 10 - WCM Karenza Dita (INA)
Girls 8 - WCM Le Tran Phuong Uyen (VIE)

Chess result here.

The event continue to Rapid and Blitz section.

Mumbai Mayor Cup 2010

Quick update on this event: The 3rd Mumbai Mayor Cup finished minutes ago. GM Dmitry Kokarev from Russia has the highest point with 9 out of 11 rounds. Six players followed behind with 8,5 points including names like Dreev etc. Then more than dozen of players  with 8 which is included a sole Indonesian IM Tirto. Tirto finished the event with 'only' three loses to all GM opponents, but he managed to get down the last GM, Deepan Chakkravarthy. The game is quite bizzare with Deepan taking black side of Sicilian started a provocative attack involving some sacrifice. At some point in fact Tirto in significant winning position. Here the game :

See chess-resulst for final standing.

Wang Hao and Ju Wenjun 2010 Chess Champions

Wang Hao come out the best tie breaker to get the Chinese Chess Champ title. He shared same point with Bu Xiangzhi and Zhou Jianchao with 7.5 points. 12 participant, 11 men and Hou Yifan played in Men section of the championship, in Xinghua.

In Women section, Ju Wenjun continue to be a bright promising 2010 generation chess line up. She was a point clear in the championship for the title. Second place is Huang Qian and third Tan Zhongyi. Week in Chess report here.

Here Ju Wenjun's game for Sicilian of the week. See the king traveling to the other end without worry since there is nothing to stop her.

Other LIVE games to watch this weekend :
Karpov Poikovsky, featuring many interesting line up, Sokolov, Onischuk, Karjakin, etc.
Mitropa Cup, well.. just to see Caruana hanging around. Can be watched at Chessbomb.
Leon Rapid KO, just begin and going to finished...Gelfand beat Vallejo
3rd Mumbay, Dreev extended his staying in India.
and French Team Championship with Svidler and friends.