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Chess news: Carlsen and Radjabov Take the Lead of the Kings Chess Tournament -- Three decisive games in Round 4 of the 4th Kings Chess Tournament in Romania rejiggered the standings. Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania and Boris Gelfand of Israel, the co-leaders after Round 3, both lost, while Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan won his second game in a row and Magnus Carlsen of Norway won his first. They now lead with 2.5 points, a half point ahead of Nisipeanu, Gelfand and Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine. Wang Yue of China, the other competitor, sits alone in last place with one point. Two of Thursday’s games began with surprising chess opening choices. Nisipeanu, who was Black against Ponomariov, chose the Blumenfeld Counter Gambit, a chess opening that ... Timur Gareyev wins US National Open -- Timur Gareyev, an Uzbek chess grandmaster who attends the University of Texas in Brownsville, won the US National Open last weekend in Las Vegas. Gareyev yielded a first-round draw to IM Joe Bradford of Texas but won his next five games. He was particularly tough on Southern Californians, inflicting defeats on IM Andranik Matikozyan and, in the final round, GM Varuzhan Akobian. Tied for second at 5-1 were Akobian and GMs Arthur Kogan (Israel), Alex Lenderman (New York) and Alejandro Ramirez (Costa Rica). Matikozyan tied for sixth at 41/2-11/2. There were 19 GMs in the 105-player Open section. Two Southern Californians, Danyul Lawrence and 12-year-old Michael W. Brown, shared ... A Player Steps Up His Game and Wins the National Open -- Chess players often talk of the creative aspect of chess — the role of imagination in conceiving strategies. Sometimes the desire to execute an original plan can overwhelm even the desire to win. Mikhail Tal, a former world chess champion, wrote in his autobiography that he had lost more than a few games because he had chosen a “beautiful” combination, only to discover that he had miscalculated. To borrow a baseball metaphor, a grand slam for a chess player would be to play brilliantly, win the game and defeat a strong opponent when there is a lot riding on the outcome. That is what Timur Gareev of Uzbekistan did in the final round of the National Open in Las Vegas last Sunday. He trailed ... | |