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Hooray!

Posted in Chess, skaak, tagged Adams, Bacrot, Baku 2008, Baku city, Baku images, Carlsen, Cheparinov, Chess, Chess Grandmasters, Gashimov, Grischuk, Inarkiev, Kamsky, Karjakin, Mamedyarov, Navara, Radjabov, Svidler, Wang on 05/05/2008| 4 Comments »

Only if you follow Baku-Chess…you will know what this is all about…. 😉

Icheri Sheher – an old inner city of Baku
Image:Baku2008.Fide.com

See more Baku-photos on THIS LINK …which is also about round 5 and the games that were played.

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Chess Grandmasters play football!

Posted in Chess, Chess Grandmasters, chess movies, Sergey Karjakin, skaak, tagged Baku 2008, Baku chess, Chess, Chess Grandmasters, Chess Grandmasters play football, chess movies, Sergey Karjakin, Sergey Karjakin interview, skaak on 27/04/2008| 3 Comments »

Chess players in Baku had a free day yesterday! See how they spent their day…playing football…watch the second movie to see the players in action!

Images: Fide.com

Sergey Karjakin, from Ukraine, (Ukrainian: Сергій Карякін; born January 12, 1990 in Simferopol) is a top chess player. At the age of twelve years and seven months he became the youngest grandmaster in history. On the FIDE ranking list of April 2008, he has a rating of 2732, making him number 14 in the world, number 2 in the category of boys up to 20 years old and number 2 in the Ukraine. On this first movie you can see the interview held with him. Both movies can be watched on the Fide.com site too.

Round 6 will be played today. You can see the pairings on this image.

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Baku Chess round 3

Posted in Chess, chess games, tagged Azerbaijan chess 2008, Baku 2008, Baku Chess round 3 results, Baku chess round 4, Baku round 2, Carlsen, Chess, chess games, Chess Grandmasters, Chess in Baku, chess masters, chess players, chess results round 3 Baku 2008, chess videos, Gashimov, Grischuk, Inarkiev, interactive chess games, Navara, Svidler on 23/04/2008| 6 Comments »

Azerbaijan is now a world of chess! GrandMasters in the world of Chess are there for this prestigious event taking place in Baku. Round 4 results now available too. On my side bar you can follow the games LIVE. Look for the “Fide Grand Prix”-link! Read HERE more about Azerbaijan.

Please click HERE to play through the games of Gashimov vs. Svidler, Carlsen vs. Inarkiev and Navara vs. Grischuk in round 3 played on the 23rd April.
Click HERE for the results of round 4.

On this table you can see the results after round 3. The video can also be seen on
Baku’s Official website and it’s about round 2! See more photos on this link too.