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Showing posts with label Mesgen Amanov. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mesgen Amanov. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Monday, October 14, 2013
Midwest Class results
Yes, I'm still blogging, but I've been doing procrastinators' tax returns for the past couple weeks. Back in business later this week.
The Midwest Class was rather strong this year! Check out the results. Dmitry Gurevich won the top section 4-1, on tiebreaks over his GM colleagues Nikola Mitkov, Yury Shulman, and Swiss Gambiteer Mesgen Amanov.
The Midwest Class was rather strong this year! Check out the results. Dmitry Gurevich won the top section 4-1, on tiebreaks over his GM colleagues Nikola Mitkov, Yury Shulman, and Swiss Gambiteer Mesgen Amanov.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
2013 Illinois Open
Crosstables here. I had a lot of fun this weekend! We were worried about tournament fatigue just a few weeks after the US Open in Madison, but I believe we had 138 noses, all with players attached. The group was very strong and very congenial. On behalf of the Illinois Chess Association, thank you for playing! (And if you didn't play this year, why not put it on your calendar for next Labor Day weekend?)
Congratulations to the 2013 Co-Champions, Grandmaster Mesgen Amanov and Grandmaster Nikola Mitkov. (Mesgen was first on tiebreaks.)
And thanks to ICA President Carl Dolson, who organized on behalf of ICA, directors Tim Just, Wayne Clark, and Chris Baumgartner, Illinois Chess Tour impresario Mike Cardinale, postcard mailer Adrian Brock, and everyone else who made this event possible.
Congratulations to the 2013 Co-Champions, Grandmaster Mesgen Amanov and Grandmaster Nikola Mitkov. (Mesgen was first on tiebreaks.)
And thanks to ICA President Carl Dolson, who organized on behalf of ICA, directors Tim Just, Wayne Clark, and Chris Baumgartner, Illinois Chess Tour impresario Mike Cardinale, postcard mailer Adrian Brock, and everyone else who made this event possible.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Not so drawish
GM Mesgen Amanov and IM Florin Felecan are not only two of the strongest players in Illinois, they're two of the nicest people in Chicagoland chess. Over the board, however, no quarter is given or expected.
Opposite-color bishop endings are not nearly as drawish as some assume they are, especially when a pair of major pieces remain on the board, Make the enemy bishop irrelevant, and you're attacking with an extra piece! In achieving this end, a well-timed pawn sacrifice is useful: activity trumps materialism.
Opposite-color bishop endings are not nearly as drawish as some assume they are, especially when a pair of major pieces remain on the board, Make the enemy bishop irrelevant, and you're attacking with an extra piece! In achieving this end, a well-timed pawn sacrifice is useful: activity trumps materialism.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Defending a difficult position against a grandmaster
Sometimes the mundane losses are as impressive as the spectacular wins. Earlier today, ten-year-old Awonder Liang held out for forty moves against GM Mesgen Amanov. Not just forty moves... forty moves after a monster knight landed on d6.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Shulman & Amanov win Michigan Chess Festival
The field at last weekend's Michigan Chess Festival in Troy was ridiculously powerful: Grandmasters Sam Shankland, Alexander Shabalov, Yury Shulman, Victor Mikhalevski, Sergey Kudrin, Ben Finegold, and Mesgen Amanov.
The two Illinois grandmasters, Shulman and Amanov, were the only players to win their first four games. They drew each other in the final round, and nobody caught them. And our Carl Boor didn't win any cash, but he was the top finisher under 2400, losing only to GM Shabalov. Excellent road trip, gentlemen!
International Master Irina Krush used day one of the event as the warmup for the Women's World Championship, giving her the dubious distinction of having been in Detroit and Siberia in the same week. Tomorrow, Krush faces Alexandra Kosteniuk in round one.
Crosstables here!
The two Illinois grandmasters, Shulman and Amanov, were the only players to win their first four games. They drew each other in the final round, and nobody caught them. And our Carl Boor didn't win any cash, but he was the top finisher under 2400, losing only to GM Shabalov. Excellent road trip, gentlemen!
International Master Irina Krush used day one of the event as the warmup for the Women's World Championship, giving her the dubious distinction of having been in Detroit and Siberia in the same week. Tomorrow, Krush faces Alexandra Kosteniuk in round one.
Crosstables here!
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Chicagoans in Istanbul
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| Gata Kamsky & Irina Krush Tony Rich for St. Louis Chess Club / Chess Life Online |
Sevan Muradian of Chicago (North Shore Chess Center / North American Chess Association) is also there, schmoozing away. Armenians are reminded to keep a low profile at the Bermuda Party, especially when rowdy Brits are around.
GM Mesgen Amanov of Glenview is once again playing first board for his native land, Turkmenistan. As I write, Mesgen is playing Black against GM Bator Sambuev of Canada. (Update 11:45 a.m.: the website reports that Mesgen lost.
How old is this photo from the Olympiad website?
If you have more luck than I did, you may be able to follow live games here.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Friday, July 27, 2012
Mesgen Amanov lecture & simul at North Shore Chess Center tomorrow!
Dutch grandmaster Loek Van Wely had to postpone his lecture, but the winner of the 2012 Chicago Class is a more than capable pinch-hitter. Mesgen is not just a great player, but a wonderful teacher! To spend six hours with a grandmaster for the bargain-basement price of $16.67 per hour is a wonderful deal.
Details here!
Chicago Class recap: Master Section
You know it's a tough event when you beat a GM and finish out of the money. WGM Anna Sharevich knocked off GM Nikola Mitkov in round 4, but lost to GM Mesgen Amanov in round 2 and IM Qignam Liu in the final round: ridiculously difficult pairings. And Gopal Menon defanged GM Mitkov's Grand Prix attack and drew IM Angelo Young in the first two rounds, but had less fun on Saturday night, as he got ground down by GM Dmitry Gurevich in a rather harmless-looking ending. You have just joined a very large club, Gopal.
Oh yes, prizewinners. GM Amanov converted against IM Young in the last round and made his 4-1 first place on tiebreaks ($1,366.67) look routine. FM Carl Boor continues to impress: he beat GM Gurevich's pet anti-Catalan system, grinding the grinder down in an ending (no mean feat). IM Qignam Liu also had a very steady event, highlighted by his last-round win against WGM Sharevich. Both Boor and Qignam Liu won $1,266.67.
I had the pleasure of losing to Guijue Zhou in round 4: in the postmortem, she had the most kind and tactful way of suggesting to me the stupidity of my middlegame planning. She, Matthew Marsh of Tennessee, and super-junior Kevin Cao of Missouri each won $466.67.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Two more Yury Shulman chess camps this summer!
The 2008 U.S. champion (and third-place finisher in the just-finished World Open) is offering two more camps this summer. One is next week in Barrington, the other is July 30 to August 3 in Palatine.
Both camps feature a four-grandmaster lineup: Yury Shulman, Mesgen Amanov, Alexander Onischuk, and Gregory Kaidanov: very impressive. More info here!
Both camps feature a four-grandmaster lineup: Yury Shulman, Mesgen Amanov, Alexander Onischuk, and Gregory Kaidanov: very impressive. More info here!
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Standard rook-for-four-pawns middlegame
Mesgen Amanov punishes a hungry queen. (And what's the name of this opening?)
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Final results, Chicago Open
Reposted from chicagoopen.net:
On the local front, a great comeback for Mesgen Amanov, who was upset in round 1, but then scored five wins and three draws against a field that included five GMs and one IM. Nikola Mitkov also shared second place with a last-round win against GM Mikheil Kekelidze.
Games and reports to follow!
The 21st Annual Chicago Open was held May 24-28, 2012, at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel, 601 North Milwaukee Ave, Wheeling, Illinois.
The Open Section was won by Armenian GM Gabriel Sargissian, who finished undefeated with 7/9. A crucial 8th round win over GM Tamaz Gelashvili followed by a draw in the final round against GM Mesgen Amanov secured at least a share of first place. GMs Robert Hess and Milos Perunovic, the only other people capable of sharing the spoils, were unable to beat GMs Yury Shulman and Michael Adams respectively, leaving Sargissian all alone at the top.
IM Daniel Ludwig finished in joint 2nd-8th with 6½/9, scoring a GM norm, as well as taking the top U2500 prize, while FM Kayden Troff finished with 5/9, scoring an IM norm.
Final standings, with prizes, are now posted for all sections.Congratulations to Gabriel Sargissian: the Armenian grandmaster also won the Open in 2009.
On the local front, a great comeback for Mesgen Amanov, who was upset in round 1, but then scored five wins and three draws against a field that included five GMs and one IM. Nikola Mitkov also shared second place with a last-round win against GM Mikheil Kekelidze.
Games and reports to follow!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
"Awonder Liang, the eight-year-old chess prodigy"
Hat tip to GM Mesgen Amanov, who also makes an appearance in the video.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Three GM events at North Shore Chess Center, right now!
Busy week for the North Shore CC:
GM Georg Meier of Germany (one of Germany's top players, currently #109 in the world) is playing GM Wesley So of the Phillippines (#99 in the world). Game one of their four-game classical match was drawn today.
And there are TWO GM norm events going on this week: a six-player double round-robin, and a ten-player single round-robin. Local participants include GM Mesgen Amanov, IM Angelo Young, IM Florin Felecan, and cheesehead GM Josh Friedel. GMs Bykhovsky (Israel), Boros (Hungary), Diamant (Brazil), Moradiabadi (Iran), and IMs from the USA, Canada, Israel, and Azerbaijan make the fields truly international.
IM Mackenzie Molner might be the best US hope for a GM norm in these events.
More info here!
GM Georg Meier of Germany (one of Germany's top players, currently #109 in the world) is playing GM Wesley So of the Phillippines (#99 in the world). Game one of their four-game classical match was drawn today.
And there are TWO GM norm events going on this week: a six-player double round-robin, and a ten-player single round-robin. Local participants include GM Mesgen Amanov, IM Angelo Young, IM Florin Felecan, and cheesehead GM Josh Friedel. GMs Bykhovsky (Israel), Boros (Hungary), Diamant (Brazil), Moradiabadi (Iran), and IMs from the USA, Canada, Israel, and Azerbaijan make the fields truly international.
IM Mackenzie Molner might be the best US hope for a GM norm in these events.
More info here!
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Final standings, 27th North American Masters
Unofficial, with FIDE ratings (hat tip to Keith Ammann). GM Mesgen Amanov wins the Schiller System event comfortably, while FM Gauri Shankar and NM Adarsh Jayakumar score IM norms. I believe that one doesn't get the IM title until one gets one's FIDE rating over 2400, so both Gauri and Adarsh have their work cut out for them.
Official results (with USCF ratings) are now up on MSA!
# Name Rtng Rd1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Tot
1 Mesgen Amanov 2524 W3 D2 D4 W12 D10 W11 W6 W8 W9 7.5
2 Adarsh Jayakumar 2197 W5 D1 W7 L6 D8 D9 W12 W10 W11 6.5
3 Gauri Shankar 2274 L1 D7 W5 W9 W6 D8 W10 D11 W12 6.5
4 Eric S Rosen 2305 L7 D5 D1 W8 W9 W6 D11 D12 W10 6.0
5 Angelo Young 2350 L2 D4 L3 W11 W12 D10 W8 D9 D6 5.0
6 Aung Thant Zin 2300 D10 W11 D12 W2 L3 L4 L1 W7 D5 4.5
7 Arjun Vishnuvardan 2308 W4 D3 L2 D10 D11 W12 D9 L6 D8 4.5
8 Nikhilesh Kumar 2249 W12 D10 W11 L4 D2 D3 L5 L1 D7 4.0
9 Trevor S Magness 2154 D11 W12 D10 L3 L4 D2 D7 D5 L1 3.5
10 Albert C Chow 2205 D6 D8 D9 D7 D1 D5 L3 L2 L4 3.0
11 Dan Wolf 2259 D9 L6 L8 L5 D7 L1 D4 D3 L2 2.0
12 Matthew Waller 2257 L8 L9 D6 L1 L5 L7 L2 D4 L3 1.0
Official results (with USCF ratings) are now up on MSA!
# Name Rtng Rd1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Tot
1 Mesgen Amanov 2524 W3 D2 D4 W12 D10 W11 W6 W8 W9 7.5
2 Adarsh Jayakumar 2197 W5 D1 W7 L6 D8 D9 W12 W10 W11 6.5
3 Gauri Shankar 2274 L1 D7 W5 W9 W6 D8 W10 D11 W12 6.5
4 Eric S Rosen 2305 L7 D5 D1 W8 W9 W6 D11 D12 W10 6.0
5 Angelo Young 2350 L2 D4 L3 W11 W12 D10 W8 D9 D6 5.0
6 Aung Thant Zin 2300 D10 W11 D12 W2 L3 L4 L1 W7 D5 4.5
7 Arjun Vishnuvardan 2308 W4 D3 L2 D10 D11 W12 D9 L6 D8 4.5
8 Nikhilesh Kumar 2249 W12 D10 W11 L4 D2 D3 L5 L1 D7 4.0
9 Trevor S Magness 2154 D11 W12 D10 L3 L4 D2 D7 D5 L1 3.5
10 Albert C Chow 2205 D6 D8 D9 D7 D1 D5 L3 L2 L4 3.0
11 Dan Wolf 2259 D9 L6 L8 L5 D7 L1 D4 D3 L2 2.0
12 Matthew Waller 2257 L8 L9 D6 L1 L5 L7 L2 D4 L3 1.0
No cigar
FM Albert Chow has beaten his share of grandmasters over the years. He can't quite reel in GM Mesgen Amanov in this game:
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