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English grandmaster Michael Adams has scored a victory in Ruy Lopez Tournament 2008 in a Spain town of Merida. The peculiarity of the festival was that the players had to choose only a Ruy Lopez opening!

The English grandmaster, who occupies 14th position in FIDE rating, was a clear favorite in this tournament with not-such-a-strong contingent.

Adams confirmed his reputation of an expert of a Ruy Lopez game and passed all along the festival without a loss, however scoring four wins. All in all the leader got 5.5 points out of possible 7.

Zhang Pengxiang (2640, 81st position in FIDE rating) from C...

The final round of Russian Team Championship took place on April 13th in Dagomys.

The ahead-of-schedule winner of the tournament “Ural” from Ekaterinburg was meeting “FINEK-GazPromBank” from St. Petersburg in the 11th round and the game has ended, as it has in the previous round, in a draw.

“Economist-SGSEU-1” from Saratov has won a narrow victory over “Spasio Swiss” from Moscow. Ernesto Inarkiev (“Spasio-Swiss” — Russia, 2684) on the 4th board has lost to Ni Hua (“Economist-SGSEU-1” — China, 2703).

The match between “TPS-Saransk” from Saransk and “Shatar-Metropol” from Ulan-Ude has ended with a similar narrow victo...

To the surprise of specialists the new Dutch Chess Champion is Jan Smeets (2578), who is not even in the first hundred of FIDE male rating.

In the last round of the championship Smeets has defeated his more experienced and eminent fellow team member Daniel Stellwagen (2621) in the most fundamental dispute and scored 7.5 points out of 11.

Stellwagen and Dimitri Reinderman (2526) both scored 7 points. Stellwagen got silver thanks to additional ratios.

The rating favorite 35 y.o. immigrant from Soviet Union Sergey Tiviakov (2634, 85th position in the rating) performed relatively poor and took only 6...

After the end of the 10th Russian Team Championship, which took place in Dagomys, the ahead-of-schedule winner of the championship has been revealed. It is “Ural” from Ekaterinburg, which headed the tournament’s race almost the whole encounter. A draw with “TPS-Saransk” from Saransk was enough for the ahead-of-schedule victory.

One of the pursuers of the leader, “Economist-SGSEU-1” team from Saratov, has lost the game to “FINEK-GazPromBank” from St. Petersburg. Evgeny Alekseev (“Economist-SGSEU-1” – Russia, 2711) playing black on the 1st board has defeated Peter Svidler (“FINEK-GazPromBank” – Russia, 2746). A y...