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History could well record 1990 as a vintage year for chess players: it was when Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin were born - and the two have become the strongest teenage players of all-time, and look set to be rivals for years to come. And we could have witnessed a portent of things to come at the Kings tournament, as both dominated the field.

The top two drew their last round game with a 3-fold repetition in 30 moves to be tied at the top unbeaten on 6.5/10, with defending champion Carlsen taking the bragging rights to the title with the better Sonneborn-Berger 3rd tiebreak score. However, both left the field standing in their wake by making sizable gains on the unofficiallive rating list- Carlsen regaining the #1 spot from world champion Vishy Anand, with Karjakin moving up to #4, and also in the process reaching a milestone by replacing Vladimir Kramnik as the new Russian #1.

Karjakin now also claims a spot in theGrand Slam Masters Finalto be held later this year that will be split between Sao Paulo (Brazil)/Bilbao (Spain). He will be joined in the final by Carlsen (winner of Nanjing last year), Hikaru Nakamura (Tata Steel winner) and world champion Anand. The two remaining spots will be filled by wildcard selections from the Grand Slam organizers (a good guess could be Kramnik as the 2010 Grand Slam winner and Levon Aronian, the world #3).

In the also-rans at the Kings tournament, Nakamura and Teimour Radjabov took 3rd-4th place a full two points behind the winners on 4.5/10, while Vassily Ivanchuk and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu took 5th-6th place place on 4/10 - Ivanchuk though managing to salvage a little dignity for his disappointing overall performance with a last round win over Nakamura, which features in GM Jan Gustafsson's selection below for our final Game of the Day from the Kings tournament.

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Game of the Day

Rd	Date	Commentator	Game	WATCH	FREE
10	Tue, 21 June	GM Jan Gustafsson	GM Vassily Ivanchuk GM Hikaru Nakamura
9	Mon, 20 June	GM Joel Benjamin	GM Sergey Karjakin GM Vassily Ivanchuk
8	Sun, 19 June	GM Alex Yermolinsky	GM Vassily Ivanchuk GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
7	Sat, 18 June	GM Alex Yermolinsky	GM Magnus Carlsen GM Vassily Ivanchuk
6	Fri, 17 June	GM Joel Benjamin	GM Sergey Karjakin GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
5	Wed, 15 June	GM Alex Yermolinsky	GM Vassily Ivanchuk GM Sergey Karjakin
4	Tue, 14 June	GM Larry Christiansen	GM Hikaru Nakamura GM Vassily Ivanchuk
3	Mon, 13 June	GM Larry Christiansen	GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu GM Vassily Ivanchuk
2	Sun, 12 June	GM Jon Ludvig Hammer	GM Hikaru Nakamura GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
1	Sat, 11 June	GM Jon Ludvig Hammer	GM Vassily Ivanchuk GM Teimour Radjabov

Final Standings

N	Title	Name	Rating	Country	3		4		5		Total	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	GM	Carlsen Magnus	2815	NOR	.	½ ½	1 ½	½ ½	½ 1	1 ½	6.5	3	1.0	29.75
2	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2776	RUS	½ ½	.	½ ½	½ ½	1 1	½ 1	6.5	3	1.0	29.50
3	GM	Nakamura Hikaru	2774	USA	0 ½	½ ½	.	½ ½	½ 0	1 ½	4.5	1	0.0	22.25
4	GM	Radjabov Teimour	2744	AZE	½ ½	½ ½	½ ½	.	0 ½	½ ½	4.5	0	0.0	23.50
5	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2776	UKR	½ 0	0 0	½ 1	1 ½	.	0 ½	4.0	2	0.0	18.75
6	GM	Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter	2662	ROU	0 ½	½ 0	0 ½	½ ½	1 ½	.	4.0	1	0.0	19.25

Dasher & Blitzin Upgrades

Here at ICC we always like to listen to member-feedback within our chess community - and this on-going listening process is invaluable when it comes to updating our client software such as Dasher and Blitzin. Both clients have recently been updated (21 June, 2011) to show country info - Blitzin 3.03 is now also bundled with top-rated free playing engine Stockfish 2.1.1; Dasher 1.5.2 now also shows notification of new chat messages hidden behind other windows.

These are just some of the highlights of the latest upgrades we've made to Dasher and Blitzin based on member feedback and suggestions - for all the changes and fixes, click on the relevant links below. Better still, just upgrade now and enjoy them! And once again, many thanks to all of our members for the suggested updates to Dasher and Blitzin - please keep passing your suggestions to us!

http://www.chessclub.com/helpcenter/interface/Dasher.html - release notes

http://www.chessclub.com/helpcenter/interface/blitzin_download.php - release notes

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