Chess Superpower

[gegev]

Re: Chess Superpower

FIDE Grand Prix
NALCHIK 2009
14th-30th April

The winner of the Grand Prix series will play in 2011 in the Candidate event of the World Championship Cycle.

After Round 10

1 Aronian Levon 6.5
2 Leko Peter 6.0
3 Grischuk Alexander 5.5
4 Alekseev Evgeny 5.5
5 Akopian Vladimir 5.5
6 Bacrot Etienne 5.0
7 Svidler Peter 5.0
8 Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 5.0
9 Karjakin Sergey 5.0
10 Kamsky Gata 4.5
11 Kasimdzhanov Rustam 4.5
12 Eljanov Pavel 4.5
13 Gelfand Boris 4.0
14 Ivanchuk Vassily 3.5

etc.
Note please that the second Armenian; Vladimir Akopian shares the third place while Levon Aronian is the first.

Congratualations!!!
Sorted by ELO ratings.

[gegev]

Re: Chess Superpower

FIDE Grand Prix
NALCHIK 2009
14th-30th April

The winner of the Grand Prix series will play in 2011 in the Candidate event of the World Championship Cycle.

After Round 9

1 Aronian Levon 5.5
2 Alekseev Evgeny 5.5

etc.

Sorted by ELO ratings.

[gegev]

Re: Chess Superpower

FIDE Grand Prix
NALCHIK 2009
14th-30th April

The winner of the Grand Prix series will play in 2011 in the Candidate event of the World Championship Cycle.

Round 8

1 Aronian Levon 5.0
2 Leko Peter 4.5
3 Grischuk Alexander 4.5
4 Svidler Peter 4.5
5 Karjakin Sergey 4.5
6 Alekseev Evgeny 4.5
7 Bacrot Etienne 4.0
8 Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 4.0
9 Akopian Vladimir 4.0
10 Eljanov Pavel 4.0
11 Gelfand Boris 3.5
12 Kasimdzhanov Rustam 3.5
13 Kamsky Gata 3.0
14 Ivanchuk Vassily 2.5

Sorted by ELO ratings.

[Pazooki]

Re: Chess Superpower

oooooooooxx were back in 1st place again ^^ hopefully Vladimir can catch up and get 2nd

[gegev]

Re: Chess Superpower

FIDE Grand Prix
NALCHIK 2009
14th-30th April

The winner of the Grand Prix series will play in 2011 in the Candidate event of the World Championship Cycle.

Round 7

1 Aronian Levon 4.5
2 Leko Peter 4.0
3 Grischuk Alexander 4.0
4 Svidler Peter 4.0
5 Karjakin Sergey 4.0
6 Alekseev Evgeny 4.0
7 Bacrot Etienne 3.5
8 Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 3.5
9 Akopian Vladimir 3.5
10 Kasimdzhanov Rustam 3.5
11 Kamsky Gata 3.0
12 Eljanov Pavel 3.0
13 Gelfand Boris 2.5
14 Ivanchuk Vassily 2.0

Sorted by ELO ratings.

[ara87]

Re: Chess Superpower

Federate, unfortunately for him, if it doesn't involve a couple of African-Americans running around getting paid ridiculous millions to throw a stupid ball in a basket to appeal to the modern man's ADD-esque capacity of a brain, then he's not going to bother.

Hey white guys play "run around getting payed ridiculous millions to throw a stupid ball in a basket" too you know

http://www.bballcity.com/images/2006...tzki-1-med.jpg

PA chess rules it's not like it's checkers or something

[MrHyeSev]

Re: Chess Superpower

That's like saying "Who really cares about the NBA?"

Again a smart remark.

[iFemale]

Re: Chess Superpower

Who really cares about Chess?

That's like saying "Who really cares about the NBA?"

[Federate]

Re: Chess Superpower

Who really cares about Chess?

Lol, Chess is actually one of the most popular games/sports in the world. So I care and so do millions of other people and you probably should care too. You can read about it here.

Your Armenia compatriots are one of the top ranked teams in the world having won the last two World Chess Olympiads (see 2007 and 2008) Chess being a mind sport, that says a lot about our small, semi-impoverished country with barely 3 million people.

Here's someone you should look up to and be proud of - Tigran Petrosian

[MrHyeSev]

Re: Chess Superpower

Who really cares about Chess?