Monday, December 28, 2009

Susan Polgar Writes on Rani Hamid

I was happy to see GM Susan Polgar writing in her blog on Rani Hamid, IWM from Bangladesh here.

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2009/12/grandma-chess-queen.html

I am privileged to have played with her for a while in Bangladesh chess federation in the 90s in different chess tournaments and practice games.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Kasparov Defeated Karpov by 9 - 3

As I easily predicted, Kasparov defeated Karpov with a good margin 9-3 in the rapid match that finished in Madrid today. Karpov is aged, 58 now, although Kasparov himself is no more young (46). They are planning play another match this December in Paris.

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-match-same-result.html

Saturday, September 5, 2009

GM Zia and Enamul Amongst Top Scorers in Kilkata Open

After fifth round, GM Ziaur Rahman and Enamul Hossain of Bangladesh are jointly in second position with other top GMs like Nigel Short in the Kolkata Open with 4 points each. GM Sandipan is solely leading with 4.5 points.


It's so great to see our GMs in the front line of the scorers!

Monday, June 8, 2009

Anand Wins Rapid Match with Leko - Chess.com

As I predicted, Anand defeated Leko very easily in the Rapid Chess.

Anand Wins Rapid Match with Leko - Chess.com

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Topalov Took Early Lead by Defeating Kamsky in 2nd Match

Topalov came out with good opening surprises for Kamsy both in yesterday's first game with White and today's second game with black. While Kamsky skillfully held himself in first game, he took too much time to respond to Topalov's plan today and eventually lost the game. Topalov is now leading 1-0 in the 8 game challenger deciding match in Bulgeria.

I found an interesting URL today here -

http://activereader.org/mini-games/amazon-chess/

Update: Topalov defeated Kamsky and became the challenger for world championship crown against Anand that will be help next year in 2010!!! I would love to see Anand defeating Topalov.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy New Year 2009 Fide Chess Rating

Fide 2009 January Rating list is topped by Topalov with 2796 closely followed by World Champion Vishy Anand.

FIDE January 2009 Top Players Rating List

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
1 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2796 8 1975
2 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2791 11 1969
3 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2779 19 1969
4 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2776 17 1990
5 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2771 20 1977
6 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2761 27 1987
7 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2760 40 1983
8 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2759 20 1975
9 Leko, Peter g HUN 2751 23 1979
10 Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2751 16 1978
11 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2750 16 1982
12 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2745 19 1972
13 Wang, Yue g CHN 2739 28 1987
14 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2733 28 1983
15 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2733 17 1968
16 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2726 9 1983
17 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2725 16 1974
18 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2724 29 1985
19 Gashimov, Vugar g AZE 2723 28 1986
20 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2723 27 1976

For Bangladesh Chess, 3 of our 5 GMs are over the 2500+ marks after a good Chess Olympiad performance.

Bangladesh (Active players)

#NameTitleFedRatingGB-Year
1 Abdulla, Al-Rakib g BAN 2535 9 1980
2 Hossain, Enamul g BAN 2513 28 1981
3 Rahman, Ziaur g BAN 2509 21 1974
4 Reefat, Bin-Sattar g BAN 2480 9 1974
5 Murshed, Niaz g BAN 2429 11 1966
6 Abu Sufian, Shakil f BAN 2386 24 1980
7 Minhazuddin, Ahmed f BAN 2349 36
8 Islam, Kh. Aminul f BAN 2324 0 1977
9 Rahman, Md. Taibur f BAN 2320 11 1976
10 Ahmed, Sk. Nasir f BAN 2281 9 1975
11 Mohammed Abdul, Malek f BAN 2280 19 1983
12 Rahman, Syed Mahfuzur f BAN 2278 29
13 Hasan, Kayes BAN 2249 0
14 Hasan, Mehdi f BAN 2243 33
15 Mohammad, Ali BAN 2232 26 1985
16 Gosh, Chanchal Kumar BAN 2231 0
17 Chatterjee, Debaraj BAN 2218 38 1980
18 Ahmed, Mahtabuddin BAN 2199 26
19 Chowdhury, Sohel BAN 2194 37 1972
19 Ahmed, Shafiq BAN 2194 11 1976
21 Mohammad, Javed f BAN 2188 34
22 Haque, Rezaul f BAN 2186 24 1959
23 Ahmed, Mainuddin BAN 2182 0
24 Uddin, Saif BAN 2181 0
25 Hossain, Monir BAN 2180 35 1974
26 Ali, Mohammad Imran BAN 2156 17 1989
27 Anisuzzaman, Jewel BAN 2153 9
28 Monir, Arman BAN 2150 33
29 Hossain, Enayet Mohammed BAN 2147 0
30 Hossain, Delwar BAN 2146 20