With Dortmund just finished, we're going to cover the 45th Biel Chess Festival, starting July the 23rd at 8am ICC time. Numero Uno Magnus Carlsen leads the group of amazingly strong players, that makes this event one of the most interesting of the year! American hero Hikaru Nakamura, Russian Alexander Morozevich , Chinese Wang Hao, French Etienne Bacrot and Dutchman Anish Giri will challenge the Norwegian chess genius in an amazing double round robin 10-rounds tournament. ICC will have Chess.FM on the air with its dream team of commentators, to share with YOU the thrill and the fun during the whole tournament! We will have the usual online trivia contests  where ICC members can win extension to their account, and the Game Of the Day main trivia contest, with one lucky ICC member who will win a 1-year subscription to the best Chess Magazine out there: New in Chess!

N	NAME	FED	FIDE	1		2		3		4		5		6		PTS	TPR
1	Carlsen	NOR	2837	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	-	-
2	Nakamura	USA	2778	.	.	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	-	-
3	Morozevich	RUS	2770	.	.	.	.	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	-	-
4	Wang Hao	CHN	2739	.	.	.	.	.	.	.		.	.	.	.	-	-
5	Bacrot	FRA	2713	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.		.	.	-	-
6	Giri	NED	2696	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.		-	-

Don't miss the fun. ICC is going to make your Summer full of entertaining chess!

Dortmund: King Caruana

 Fab Fabiano! The young American-Italian stud made it: he won the Sparkassen Chess Meeting super tournament in Dortmund, dethroning King Vlad . In a dramatic last round, Caruana, after the amazing win over Kramink in round 8, managed to beat GM Bartel, to take the trophy. Now Caruana is officially one of the elite players - his rating put him there already - and nobody will be able to affirm that he's getting rating points in "weaker events".  The peripatetic American-Italian boy, who's been playing frantically in every Open tournament in the last months, eventually grabs a super-event title, to enter the realm of Caissa. Sergey Karjakin - the other youngster in the lot - had a great tournament, and only the tiebreak criteria declared him be second. Vlad the King fought to retain his title for the 11th time, but the pack of young hungry wolves didn't allow the seasoned champion to fulfill his plans. Are we witnessing a generation change? We'll see!      

Round 9: GM Larry Christiansen Round Date Host Game Preview Members 8 July 21 GM Alex Yermolinsky Sweere GM Fabiano Caruana GM Vladimir Kramnik 7 July 20 GM Alex Yermolinsky Sweere GM Vladimir Kramnik GM Peter Leko 6 July 19 GM Var Akobian "SCORPION83" GM Jan Gustafsson GM Arkadij Naiditsch 5 July 17 GM Ronen Har-Zvi Indiana-Jones GM Sergey Karjakin GM Daniel Fridman 4 July 16 GM Joel Benjamin MrHat GM Peter Leko GM Fabiano Caruana 3 July 15 GM Alex Yermolinsky Sweere GM Georg Meier GM Ruslan Ponomariov 2 July 14 GM Var Akobian "SCORPION83" GM Jan Gustafsson GM Vladimir Kramnik 1 July 13 GM Gregory Kaidanov "Kaidanov" GM Fabiano Caruana GM Arkadij Naiditsch

Chess.FM calendar

July  2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Rook vs. Minor pieces - part 1	The Vienna Opening in the QGD - Part 4	Indian systems: Introduction #10	4th of July - Fireworks on the board!!	The Art of Defense #3	William Stewart vs. GM Ray Robson	Two 1900s on a Roller Coaster
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Rook vs. Minor pieces - part 2	The Vienna Opening in the QGD - Part 5	Indian systems: Introduction #11	A Capital Game at the 2012 World Open	The Art of Defense #4	GM David Navara vs. GM Peter Svidler	Identifying Candidate Moves
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Rook vs. Minor pieces - part 3	The Vienna Opening in the QGD - Part 6	Indian systems: Introduction #12	Not too Shabby at the World Open	The Art of Defense #5	GM David Navara vs. GM Peter Svidler	Immortal Coulda Traded Queens Game
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
Rook vs. Minor pieces - part 4

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